[mythtv-users] Mytharchive failing to create iso

Chuck Peters cp at ccil.org
Mon Dec 11 21:16:07 UTC 2006


I am experimenting at archiving shows to DVD and having some trouble
creating iso images with mytharchive.  After failing on 3 separate
attempts I checked logs and the error is "mkisofs: File too large.
cannot fwrite 32768*1" and that was after writing a 2GB mythburn.iso
file.  Anyone know what is causing this and how I might fix it?

I did some googling and don't know why mkisofs is failing.  I then
tried using k3b to create the iso and it works.   This machine is
running kubuntu edgy with the standard .20 myth frontend packages.  It
would help to know what specific command mkisofs is running with
mytharchive since it fails that way and works ok with k3b.

k3b debug output

 99.99% done, estimate finish Mon Dec 11 03:46:45 2006
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 2783
Total directory bytes: 6144
Path table size(bytes): 42
Max brk space used 0
2299320 extents written (4490 MB)

mkisofs command:
-----------------------
/usr/bin/X11/mkisofs -gui -graft-points -volid SG1 -volset  -appid K3B
THE CD KREATOR (C) 1998-2005 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM
-publisher  -preparer  -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1
-sort /tmp/kde-cp/k3b80nEda.tmp -rational-rock -hide-list
/tmp/kde-cp/k3bXhIBjb.tmp -joliet -hide-joliet-list
/tmp/kde-cp/k3bcYuYXb.tmp -full-iso9660-filenames -iso-level 2
-path-list /tmp/kde-cp/k3b3siwtb.tmp -dvd-video -f
/tmp/kde-cp/k3bVideoDvd0


Mytharchive progress.log shows:

2006-12-10 08:05:34 Starting dvdauthor
2006-12-10 08:16:12 Finished  dvdauthor
2006-12-10 08:16:12 Creating ISO image
2006-12-10 08:18:13 ************************************************************
2006-12-10 08:18:13 ERROR: Failed while running mkisofs.
2006-12-10 08:18:13 ************************************************************
2006-12-10 08:18:13
2006-12-10 08:18:14 Terminated


Mytharchive mythburn.log

Finished  dvdauthor
Creating ISO image
INFO:   UTF-8 character encoding detected by locale settings.
        Assuming UTF-8 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
        use -input-charset to override.
  0.22% done, estimate finish Sun Dec 10 08:16:13 2006
...
 45.45% done, estimate finish Sun Dec 10 08:20:37 2006
mkisofs: File too large. cannot fwrite 32768*1
************************************************************
ERROR: Failed while running mkisofs.
************************************************************

chmod: changing permissions of `/300/tmp/prep/': Operation not permitted
Terminated


Thanks,
Chuck


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