[mythtv] Fwd: patch to increase mythmusic scanning output verbosity?

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Wed Dec 3 17:43:14 UTC 2008


On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 12/03/2008 10:19 AM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>> Well I spent the time to figure out which files it was getting hung up
>> on. Apparently there were some files with damages headers or something
>> that would play fine in all audio players, and for the most part you
>> could read the ID3 tags, but they were damaged enough where other
>> applications couldn't update the ID3 tags which is some sort of
>> verification of Myth's scanning issues. Some of the files I was able
>> to "save" by clearing the tags in The Godfather and re-writing them, a
>> few did not take to that and will have to be re-ripped.
>>
>> Now, it still sucks that MythMusic just "freezes" when it gets to
>> these tracks instead of just skipping past them and moving on, perhaps
>> even making a log of which files are "bad". But at least I was able to
>> move those files out of the music directory and get the scan to
>> finish.
>>
>> Oh and looked through that filescanner.cpp file and have no idea where
>> to even start, so that whole idea is not going to happen on this end.
>> Though I'd be happy to send a couple of the bad files to anyone
>> interested in seeing why Myth doesn't like them.
>
> Could you get a valid debug backtrace as described at
> http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.2 ?  Run mythfrontend
> under gdb and then hit Ctrl-C when it locks to output the backtrace,
> then upload the entire gdb.txt as an attachment to a ticket.
>
> Note that both Red-Hat-based and Ubuntu packagers make available debug
> packages for Myth, so you'd be able to install the debug package, get
> the backtrace, then uninstall the debug package to go back to normal.
> You can get help finding/installing the debug packages from your
> favorite distro-specific forum/IRC channel.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike

Will do, I'll throw the Mythbuntu debug packages on my bedroom
frontend. It'll take me a few days but I'll open a ticket with the
backtrace.

-- 
Steve
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