[mythtv-users] mytharchive oddities...

[Paul Harrison]

hohenner at comcast.net wrote:
> having another odd error with MythArchive...
>
> I've double checked that I have all the dependancies installed,
> updated to latest SVN,
> running SUSE 10
>
> I changed the "Directory to hold temporary files:" to
>
> /myth/DVDburn
>
> but every time I try to rip a DVD I a couple of happenings,
>
> 1. /tmp/work fills up with the files that should go to the DVD, but it fills up to the limit of the drive (it's my OS drive, a 12 gig partion w/ 5 gig used). I'm only trying to burn 2 episodes to the DVD (3.5 gig inside of Myth). /myth/DVDburn remains empty...
>
>   

/tmp is the default value for the MythArchiveTempDir setting if it 
hasn't been changed. If you go back to the settings page what value is 
shown for the 'Myth Archive Temp Directory setting?

> 2. I get some errors in mtd:
> linux:/home/mythic # mtd
> 2006-06-25 13:43:14.747 Using runtime prefix = /usr/local
> 2006-06-25 13:43:14.764 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2006-06-25 13:43:14.770 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
> mtd started at Sun Jun 25 13:43:14 2006
> mtd is running on a host called linux
> 13:43:14: Waiting for connections/jobs
> 13:43:14: mtd is listening on port 2442
> libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
> libdvdread: Can't seek to block 256
> 2006-06-25 14:05:48.349 Error getting volume name, setting to"Unknown"
> libdvdread: Can't seek to block 256
> libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
> libdvdread: Can't seek to block 256
> libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
> libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
> libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
> 2006-06-25 15:08:38.675 Error getting volume name, setting to"Unknown"
> libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.IFO failed
> libdvdnav:DVDOpenFileUDF:UDFFindFile /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.BUP failed
> libdvdread: Can't open file VIDEO_TS.IFO.
>
> and I get the libdvd* errors whenever I restart mtd...
>
>   

MythArchive doesn't use the mtd. The only link I can think of is they 
both use the DVD drive? Was both mtd and mytharchive both running at the 
same time trying to access the DVD drive?

> any ideas?
>
> thanks,
>
> Andy
>
>   

Paul H.