[mythtv-users] MythArchive 0.21: How to select files to burn to DVD

[David Kramer]

John Pilkington wrote:
> David Kramer wrote:
>> OK, I feel really silly with this one, but...
>> When I want to burn a DVD, I figured out the new way to mark files to be 
>> archived, and after I tell it I want to burn a single-sided disk I get 
>> the "Select Archived Items" screen, but I can't figure out how to select 
>> the highlighted file.  There used to be a checkbox next to each file, 
>> and the spacebar or enter key would check the box to include that file. 
>>   But now there's no checkbox, and hitting the spacebar or enter key 
>> don't do anything.
>>
>> I tried changing my theme from MythCenter (widescreen) to GANTT to see 
>> if it was a theme thing, but that didn't help.  I know I must be missing 
>> something stupid because I can't be the first person to try this on 0.21.
>>
>> As always, thanks.
>> _______________________________________________
> The selection is done in the next screen, after 'Add recordings'.  Use 
> the same button to remove them if you select too many, or use M (Menu) 
> to remove instead.  

I found out the problem.  I celebrated the install of 0.21 by buying an 
additional 750GB drive and adding it to my spiffy new storage group.  I 
had all the directories in that tree as owned by mythtv.mythtv, but 
mytharchive needs its tree as writable by the user running the front end.

Since mytharchive couldn't create its temporary files, it didn't update 
the amount of DVD space used/left, so there was no indication on the 
screen that anything was changing as I added/deleted files  I would have 
expected some kind of error message if it couldn't write files, but 
there was none, not even in the log file.  Once I figured it out, I set 
that dir as 777 and then everything worked.

Is that worth reporting as a bug?

 > And look at the wiki: it's pretty comprehensive.

I'll take exception to this.  The MythArchive page merely states "Choose 
what files to burn to DVD.", with no clues how this completely new 
interface works.  If there's other documentation on the subject, I would 
love to see it.