[mythtv-users] mytharchive problem

[George Mari]

John Pierce wrote:
> Hello list members.
> 
> I have recently installed mythtv on kubuntu 8.0.4 and have experienced
> the following problem.
> 
> I have recorded a program and want to make a dvd out of it, and
> mytharchive fails after starting
> mplex.
> 
> This is the output from mplex when I go to the work directory of
> mytharchive and enter the command
> manually.
> 
> mplex -o final.mpg stream.mv2 stream0.ac3
> 
>    INFO: [mplex] mplex version 1.8.0 (2.2.4 $Date: 2005/08/28 17:50:54 $)
> **ERROR: [mplex] File stream.mv2 unrecogniseable!
>    INFO: [mplex] File stream0.ac3 looks like an AC3 Audio stream.
> **ERROR: [mplex] Unrecogniseable file(s)... exiting.
> 
> I have a hophog pvr500 and when I ran mythtv-setup I chose mpeg ps in
> the settings, should I have made that
> a ts or some other setting?
> 
> This is a snippet from the tail end of the mytharchive log file from the run.
> 
> Statistics:
> - Processed 0 subtitles.
> - The longest display line had -1 characters.
> - The maximum number of displayed lines was 0.
> - The normal display height of the font arial.ttf was 0.
> - The bottom display height of the font arial.ttf was 0.
> - The biggest subtitle box had 296 bytes.
> Menu items per page 6
> Creating DVD XML file for dvd author
> Menu page 1
> aspect ratio is: 1.77778
> aspect ratio is: 1.77778
> Fixed length chapters:
> 00:00:00,00:05:00,00:10:00,00:15:00,00:20:00,00:25:00,00:30:00,00:35:00,00:40:00,00:45:00,00:50:00,00:55:00
> Total size of video files, before multiplexing, is 2769 Mbytes, audio
> is 75 MBytes, menus are 1 MBytes.
> Video will fit onto DVD. 1415.48 MBytes of space remaining on recordable DVD.
> Multiplexing MPEG stream to /music/tmp/work/1/final.mpg
> Adding sync offset of -72ms
> Available streams - video and one audio stream
> Multiplex started PID=8196
> Starting dvdauthor
> DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.14.
> Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype
> Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> 
> INFO: Locale=en_US.UTF-8
> INFO: Converting filenames to UTF-8
> INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
> STAT: Picking VTS 01
> 
> STAT: Processing /music/tmp/work/1/final.mpg...
> **ERROR: [mplex] File /music/tmp/work/1/stream.mv2 unrecogniseable!
> **ERROR: [mplex] Unrecogniseable file(s)... exiting.
> 
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, TIA
> 

Can you play /music/tmp/work/1/stream.mv2 using mplayer or vlc?  It 
won't have audio, but it might be helpful to know whether it is a valid 
video file.