[mythtv-users] Mytharchive on Mythbuntu fails with possible UTC problem (0.27)

[John Pilkington]

On 25/09/13 19:21, Zig wrote:
> Mytharchive calls mythtranscode (from mythburn.py) with incorrect
> starttime, resulting in mythtranscode not finding the recording and
> erroring out.
>
> The actual recording start time of this example is 13:36:00 local time,
> Chicago Time Zone (-5 hours from UTC)
> The mythconverge database entry is 18:36:00 (that's the UTC time)
>
>
> mythtranscode reports, via mythburn.log"
> ******************************************
> *"Couldn't find recording for chanid 1211 @ 2013-09-24T13:36:00Z"
> *"Failed while running mythtranscode to cut commercials and/or clean up
> an mpeg2 file."
> *"Result: 146, Command was mythtranscode --mpeg2 --chanid 1211
> --starttime 2013-09-24T13:36:00-05:00 --outfile
> "/var/lib/mytharchive/temp/work/1/newfile.mpg""
> *"Failed to run mythtranscode to fix any errors"
> ******************************************
> If I run mythtranscode from the command line this works:
> mythtranscode --mpeg2 --chanid 1211 --starttime
> 2013-09-24T18:36:00-05:00 --outfile
> "/var/lib/mytharchive/temp/work/1/newfile.mpg"
>
> and, oddly enough, this command line works too:
> mythtranscode --mpeg2 --chanid 1211 --starttime 2013-09-24T18:36:00
> --outfile "/var/lib/mytharchive/temp/work/1/newfile.mpg
>
> So there are two problems.
> 1)  The -05:00 at the end of --starttime seems to be ignored
> 2)   The command line that is passed to mythtranscode has the local
> --starttime in it, not the UTC starttime, which is what is in the
> database and what mythtranscode seems to like.
>
> This worked fine under 0.25, but fails consistently after upgrading
> 0.27.  I also tried a clean install of the latest Mythbuntu, upgraded it
> to 0.27, then installed mytharchive via the Mythbunutu control center
> and still get the same failure.  It is consistent and repeatable.
>
> Mythtv Revision: v.027-9-gb6a6574  branch: fixes/0.27
> Mythbuntu  12.04.3 LTS
>
> I have attached the complete mythburn.log
>
> Any advice on what I might be doing wrong or a fix would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Ziggy
>

There was a flurry of patches to MythArchive before 0.27 release but it 
looks as if this one didn't make it.  Raymond asked for test results :-)

http://code.mythtv.org/trac/attachment/ticket/11758/mythburn.patch

John P