[mythtv-users] mytharchive - is it supposed to work?

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Tue Jan 3 14:23:58 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Rich Wilson <richaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have tried numerous times to use mytharchive, and it has
> always failed. Here is my most recent tale.
>

It works for me for several years under gentoo. Well since mythburn
web interface quit working. When I have had problems I run

/usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/mythburn.py  from the shell and
looked at the error messages.

> This is a recent install of mythbuntu 11.10
> My first try died, something about a jpeg file. I never did
> figure out what was wrong. I tried a different theme.
>
> It died at mythburn.py:2593, complaining
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/dev/dvd'
> I don't understand. /dev/dvd is there, and permissions look good
> (assuming the script isn't running as nobody).
> I thought I would manually run the instruction, and
> was able to execute the next few instructions from a python prompt.
> However, I got into trouble at "pumount" (line 2593). This
> seems to be a helper program that isn't present on my system.
> I presume that's a mythbuntu problem. I gave up again.
>

Sorry, I can't help with this.

John


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