[mythtv-users] mytharchive only burning a portion of show to dvd

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Tue Jan 21 11:39:42 UTC 2014


On 21/01/14 00:14, Bob Shanteau wrote:
> On 1/20/2014 12:19 PM, Tim wrote:
>> I use mytharchive to burn a recorded show to dvd, sometimes it works, burning
>> the full show to dvd, but sometimes it only burns a portion of the show to the
>> dvd... for example, only the first 9 mins are on the dvd instead of the full
>> 60 mins... it appears the largest file in the VIDEO_TS folder is 339MB (most
>> likely the 9 mins I have burnt).  In the progress.log I can see there was
>> around 1.5 GB worth of data, up until either Multiplex or the dvdauthor
>> step... Has anyone had any similar issues with mytharchive process not burning
>> the full show to dvd?
>
> Yes. This happened to me and it turned out to be a glitch in the recorded video
> file. To fix it I played the portion of the file created by MythArchive to find
> out as closely as I could where it ended, then edited the original to find the
> same place and, sure enough, there was a glitch in the original file. I edited
> out a fraction of a second around the glitch and then ran the original through
> MythArchive again. Sometimes it would get further but would stop at another
> glitch, so I had to repeat the process until I got the entire show.
>
I understand that some people do a run through Handbrake to 'clean up' the file 
before subsequent processing. You might want to consider something similar.

-- 

Mike Perkins



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