[mythtv-users] Struggling with MythArchive

[John Pilkington]

On 03/01/13 12:08, Alan Chandler wrote:
> On 03/01/13 12:01, John Pilkington wrote:
>> On 03/01/13 11:01, Alan Chandler wrote:
>>> On 01/01/13 11:26, Alan Chandler wrote:
>>>> Having recorded a couple of programs over christmas that my parents in
>>>> law would like to watch I have tried to install mytharchive.  But I
>>>> can't get it to work, and the error message isn't helping.
>>>>
>>>> My setup is ubuntu-server 12.04 with the mythubuntu packages running
>>>> in that environment.
>>>>
>>>> My normal frontend is debian sid with mythtv-frontend running on my
>>>> desktop

>>>> So where do I go from here?
>>>>
>>> Is nobody able to help me debug this issue?  I am being banged over the
>>> head to produce a dvd of a couple of programs I made for my parents in
>>> law over christmas, and at the moment I can't do it.
>>>
>>> My main puzzle is what is mythffmpeg, and why that doesn't do anything,
>>> when it appears that ffmpeg does.  I was sort of assuming its just a
>>> wrapper, but perhaps it isn't?
>>>
>>> Is there any other way (ie follow some wiki instructions somewhere) to
>>> manually create a dvd .iso file from the raw .mpg files from the
>>> program?
>>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/536131
>>
>
> Sorry didn't pick that up before.
>
> My recordings are taken from directly from DVB-T (Freeview) in HD.  I
> presume that means they will be mpeg4
>

They will be h264 and to get a real dvd you will need to re-encode.  I 
think that means you'll need to edit mythburn.py and/or the encoding 
profiles, or maybe do the re-encode separately as suggested above.  You 
might still need to edit mythburn.py to be able to use 'NONE', and 
attempts to use a cutlist will add more excitement.

Or maybe you could just copy the file, raw or re-encoded, to a dvd as 
data using eg K3B.  Your inlaws might be able to view it from that.

It's a moving target and people start from many different places.   Good 
luck.

John P