[mythtv-users] Mytharchive errors

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote:

>>
>> as I said try the ffmpeg line from the command line and check the
>> output, which should give a better error message.
>>
>> midentify only identifies what codecs and formats the original file is in.
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> I did that last week, and it ran for 24 hours before I killed it.
> Should I let it run for 48 hours?  Maybe 72? ;-)

just looking at the command I see that part of it is "-i
/tmp/work/1/audout" - this means it is using the file
/tmp/work/1/audout as its input (-i) - I suspect that
/tmp/work/1/audout is a pipe or something [1] and there should be
another command filling it. If the (filling) other command isn't
running then the command you are running will sit around forever
waiting for input from /tmp/work/1/audout.

I'd need to have a look at the whole mytharchive script to debug
further, but I don't have it here.

The other option is to look at the file where mytharchive keeps its
logs - something like /var/lib/mytharchive/log. There are at least two
log files, a summary and a detailed. I think only the summary goes to
the screen, leaving a bigger and better log in the directory.