[mythtv-users] MythPodcaster: New Tool to automatically create Podcasts of MythTV Recordings

[Scott Kidder]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:11 AM, George Galt <george.galt at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to get started with MythPodCaster.  Do you know if I need
> to use the Sun Java SDK or can I use the open source version that
> comes with Fedora?
>

I must first apologize for the slow response; my first post to this thread
was in October 2009, and I stopped watching it quite a while ago.  I've
since moved the
project to a Google Code project (http://code.google.com/p/mythpodcaster/)
where you can find more documentation and file bugs & feature requests.

The OpenJDK JVM might work with the version of Google Web Toolkit that's
used in more recent releases of MythPodcaster, but I strongly recommend that
you use the Sun JVM instead.  Configuring Tomcat to use the Sun JVM is
pretty easy.  Just edit the file /etc/sysconfig/tomcat6 so that the variable
JAVA_HOME uses the location where the Sun JVM is installed.


> Also, on a first try, I got the following error message:
>
> 2010-07-20 11:05:32,425 ERROR [MythPodcasterTranscodingThread-1]
> transcode.FeedFileAccessorImpl (FeedFileAccessorImpl.java:309) - Error
> while transcoding, setting link to null
> java.io.IOException: Cannot create tmp dir
> [/var/cache/tomcat6/temp/-7f5c1896:129f0635b5e:-7fcc]
>
>
Do you know which user the Tomcat6 server is running as?  You can check this
by running 'ps' on your MythTV box:

[scott at mythtv mythpodcaster]$ ps -fC java

UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
tomcat    8073     1  0 Jul22 ?        00:39:25 /usr/bin/java
-Dmythpodcaster.pr

I've set the owner of /var/cache/tomcat6/temp to "tomcat".  Is there
> something I'm missing?
>
> Also, I cannot find the qt-faststart binary anywhere -- the link
> provided from http://multimedia.cx/eggs/improving-qt-faststart/  to
> the mplayer source no longer works, and qt-faststart is no longer
> contained in the svn repository of tools.  Is it needed?
>

The qt-faststart binary is not required.  You'll need it only if you use any
of the fast-start transcoding profiles (i.e. ONE_PASS_FAST_START,
TWO_PASS_FAST_START).  I recommend using qt-faststart because it leads to
fast start times when streaming the file.  I found the qt-faststart source
in the FFmpeg source code repository.

Any additional questions or issue you might have will be addressed more
quickly via the MythPodcaster project site.  I hope this helps,

--Scott Kidder
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