[mythtv-users] MythArchive won't write to my DL DVD

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Sun Jan 14 02:39:39 UTC 2007


Here's the end of my mythburn.log:

> Finished  dvdauthor
> Burning ISO image to /dev/dvd
> Executing 'mkisofs -dvd-video -V MythTV BurnDVD /mythtv/tmp/work/dvd | builtin_dd of=/dev/dvd obs=32k seek=0'
> INFO:   ISO-8859-1 character encoding detected by locale settings.
>         Assuming ISO-8859-1 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
>         use -input-charset to override.
> :-( /dev/dvd: 4173824 blocks are free, 4391419 to be written!
> :-( write failed: No space left on device
> ERROR: Retrying to start growisofs after reload.
> mkisofs: Broken pipe. cannot fwrite 2048*2
> Executing 'mkisofs -dvd-video -V MythTV BurnDVD /mythtv/tmp/work/dvd | builtin_dd of=/dev/dvd obs=32k seek=0'
> INFO:   ISO-8859-1 character encoding detected by locale settings.
>         Assuming ISO-8859-1 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
>         use -input-charset to override.
> :-( /dev/dvd: 4173824 blocks are free, 4391419 to be written!
> :-( write failed: No space left on device
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> ERROR: Failed while running growisofs
> Result 39936, Command was: growisofs -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video -V 'MythTV BurnDVD' /mythtv/tmp/work/dvd
> Please check the troubleshooting section of the README for ways to fix this error
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> mkisofs: Broken pipe. cannot fwrite 2048*2
> Terminated
> c

Obviously mytharchive is trying to write too much information to my DVD.
 Shouldn't this have been caught during the "Create DVD" setup screens
when I selected my videos?

BTW, I recorded the first four Star Trek: Enterprise episodes from
SCI-FI, and I'm trying to burn them (albeit with commercials) without
re-encoding.  The setup screens lead me to believe that it will fit!
(The first 2 episodes *did* fit on a regular DVD, and my DVD players can
play *that* DVD just fine, but I'd like to write 4 episodes per DL DVD
if I can.)  [I'll bet that if I cut out the commercials, it'll fit, right?]

Recordings were made on my PVR-350 in 480x480 NTSC mode and are in the
2.1-2.2GB size range each.

I have a separate issue with trying to re-encode each video down to SP
mode as ffmpeg errors out (I'll file this in a seperate email).

Suggestions welcome (as well as someone pointing me to how I can change
my recording mode to 720x480)....

Oh, yeah, I'm running on FC5 with the atrpms packages (up-to-date)
without any other problems that I am aware of....

-- 
Kevin J. Cummings
kjchome at rcn.com
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us
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