[mythtv-users] 0.25 lookup metadata as part of jobqueue?

Scott & Nicole Harris snharris99 at live.com
Sat Mar 17 01:43:03 UTC 2012


>>>>> Ah, OK.  Using --logfile is correct with 0.24.  However, 0.24 doesn't
>>>>> pass logging options through to child processes.  I don't know of any
>>>>> way to get 0.24 to actually tell mythtranscode to log messages when 
>>>>> it's
>>>>> called from the backend.  When you change the script (make a copy of 
>>>>> the
>>>>> original before editing it) to start mythjobqueue, instead, and to use
>>>>> --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythjobqueue.log do you get mythjobqueue
>>>>> logs?  I'm guessing they--like mythbackend logs--wouldn't show much 
>>>>> more
>>>>> than start/stop, but since the transcode is failing under 
>>>>> mythjobqueue,
>>>>> seeing the failure might give us enough information to find out why
>>>>> mythtranscode is failing.  If not, you may need to try just running
>>>>> mythtranscode to see if it fails, and why.
>>>> OK, just to make sure I understand.  I can start mythjobqueue
>>>> with --logfile
>>>> /var/log/mythtv/mythjobqueue.log.  That should give me logging for what
>>>> mythjobqueue is doing?  I have a bunch of recordings going tonight that
>>>> I'll
>>>> be transcoding so if that's correct, I'll shutdown mythbackend and fire
>>>> up
>>>> mythjobqueue and see what I get for you guys.
>>> Exactly.  Thanks.
>> Thanks, I only asked because there's no mention of the --logfile fag in 
>> the
>> wiki entry for mythjobqueue.  Anyways, I tried it last night and 3 of 5
>> transcodes failed.  However, mythtranscode.log and mythjobqueue.log are 
>> both
>> completely blank, even with using the -- logfile flag.

>That's likely permissions problems or something.  Try logging somewhere
>that anyone could write a file--such as /tmp/mythtranscode.log

>Mike

OK, I've attached the logs of two transcodes I just tried that both failed. 
I then ran killed mythjobqueue and started mythbackend on the slave and 
re-queued the jobs and both went through fine. 
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