[mythtv-users] unable to burn

norman norman at littletank.org
Mon Aug 6 18:39:54 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 18:13 +0100, Paul Harrison wrote:
> norman wrote:
> > For the first time in a long time I saved a broadcast that I was not
> > able to transfer to a DVD. When it reached the stage of being processed,
> > prior to the actual burn, the process stopped part way through and
> > blocked any further progress. It was explained to me that to remove the
> > block I needed to remove any files with a .lck extension. I did this and
> > all was well but I still could not transfer the broadcast to DVD. Each
> > time I tried the process was stopped and then blocked.
> >
> > Can any one suggest what could be the cause of this state of affairs and
> > whether or not it could be possible to find a way around the problem? I
> > would like to save the broadcast.
>    
> 
> Can you show us the last few lines from the progress.log so we can tell
> what it was doing when it crashed. You'll find it in the logs directory
> in the temp work directory you told MythArchive to uses.

I am sorry but that is not possible because the .lck files which I
removed were somehow connected with the log files. However, the first
time it was trying to process mythreplex and another time it was ffmpeg.
Hope this is helpful.

Norman




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