[mythtv-users] Mytharchive always crashing on multiplex

Paul Harrison mythtv at dsl.pipex.com
Sun Mar 16 11:12:59 UTC 2008


Peter Andersson wrote:
> Hi,
> i have just updated to mythtv 0.21 and can't get mytharchive to work. 
> When multiplexing the video/audio files mytharchive always fails at 
> the same place with the error:
>
> Multiplexing MPEG stream to /home/mythtv/Temp/work/1/final.mpg
> Available streams - video and one audio stream
> Multiplex started PID=9660
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/mythburn.py", line 5400, 
> in main
>     processJob(job)
>   File "/usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/mythburn.py", line 5159, 
> in processJob
>     calcSyncOffset(filecount))
>   File "/usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/mythburn.py", line 666, 
> in calcSyncOffset
>     video_start = float(video.attributes["start_time"].value)
> ValueError: invalid literal for float(): 0.-3600
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> No matter which files i try to burn i always get the same error. Does 
> anyone have any fix/patch to this? If so please let me know.
> If it's of any interest i am using Python 2.5.1 and ubuntu 7.10.
>
> Thanks!
>
> /Peter
>

Can you attach a streaminfo.xml file for one of the files that fails it 
will be in one of the directories in the ARCHIVETEMP/work where 
ARCHIVETEMP is the directory you told MythArchive to use as a temporary 
work directory.

Paul H.


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