[mythtv-users] nuvexport beta available

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Tuesday 28 September 2004 04:47, Tomi Makinen wrote:
> This would be such a great tool, but sadly this is what I get.
>
>
> --- Without --debug ---
>
> Now encoding:  2 TV 2:  2004/09/12 22:00
> Encode started:  Tue Sep 28 11:36:08 2004
> Starting transcode.
>
> transcode finished.
>    INFO: [mplex] mplex version 1.6.2 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13
> 20:45:26 $) **ERROR: [mplex] Unable to open file /media/2 TV 2 -
> 2004/09/12 22-00.m2v for reading.
>
> Encode finished:  Tue Sep 28 11:37:53 2004
> Encode lasted: 1m 45s
>
> ---- with --debug ---
>
> Now encoding:  2 TV 2:  2004/09/12 22:00
> Encode started:  Tue Sep 28 11:40:25 2004
> Starting transcode.
>
> forking:
> nice -n 19 transcode -V -i
> /media/tv/2_20040912220000_20040912224500.nuv -x mpeg2 -j 12,14,12,14
> -J skip="0-7032 52057-82368" -J smartyuv -J yuvdenoise=mode=2  -y
> mpeg2enc,mp2enc -Z 720x576 -F 8,"-q 5 -Q 2 -V 230 -4 2 -2 1" -w 6000
> -E 48000 -b 384 -o "/media/2 TV 2 - 2004/09/12 22-00" 2>&1
>
> system call:
> nice -n 19 mplex -f 8 "/media/2 TV 2 - 2004/09/12 22-00".m2v
> "/media/2 TV 2 - 2004/09/12 22-00".mpa -o "/media/2 TV 2 - 2004/09/12
> 22-00".mpg
>
> Encode finished:  Tue Sep 28 11:40:25 2004
> Encode lasted: 0s
>

[snip]

>
> Seems odd, since I tried this as root too and there should be no
> restrictions why the file
> could not be created.

Just a guess, but I'd bet the '/' characters in the output filename are 
causing problems.  If so, you have 2 choices:

- fix nuvexport (or get someone else to) to handle them properly, unless 
of course it's mplex that has the problem (some of these transcode 
tools are shell scripts that paste together chains of lower-level tool 
commands).  From the debug output, it *looks* like nuvexport is quoting 
the filenames, but I'm not sure that simple quoting will correctly 
escape '/' characters that aren't directory path delimiters.

- edit your database and change the metadata for the program you're 
trying to export so that it doesn't contain '/' characters.  You could 
try exporting a show that already has none, just as a test.

-JAC