[mythtv-users] Archive to DVD - time format error

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Sat Nov 16 23:24:24 UTC 2013


On 16/11/13 18:25, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 09:32:07AM +0000, John Pilkington wrote:
>> On 16/11/13 04:40, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
>>> I have been trying to create a DVD from a recording. The attempt always
>>> fails with a time format error. The tail of the log is something like this:
>>>
>>>     File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MythTV/utility/dt.py", line 435, in duck
>>>       raise TypeError("time data '%s' does not match supported formats"%t)
>>>         TypeError: type data '
>>>            2013-10-15T19:57:00-04:00
>>>         ' does not match supported formats
>
>>
>> The error message that you quote isn't familiar but I suspect you
>> have this UTC problem.
>>
>>   http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/11758#comment:5
>>
>> Try saving a backup of mythburn.py, then edit to change all
>> instances of rec.starttime.isoformat() to
>> rec.starttime.utcisoformat()
>
> Same complaint, only the complained-about time no longer has the "-04:00"
> timezone offset. That is, it is given as 2013-10-15T23:57:00
>
> mm

But the error report above looks as if the time string includes newlines 
or equivalent. There was a similar problem recently (11 Sep) in the 
generation of .iso image titles.  More of the progress.log might help; 
in the MythArchive temp directories, defined in  frontend > setup > 
media settings >  archive files settings.

John




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