[mythtv-users] Mythvidexport User Job Fails

[Raymond Wagner]

On 7/1/2014 1:05 AM, Mike Carron wrote:
>
> On 06/30/2014 12:58 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> On 6/30/2014 12:16 PM, Mike Carron wrote:
>>> If it is a regular show that does not have season/episode data,
>>> mythvidexport will fail. If it has a description that doesn't match
>>> what is in thetvdb.com then mythvidexport will fail. The failure mode
>>> is the External system call failed.
>>
>> If the description does not match, then it doesn't matter, because the
>> description is never used for matching anyway.  If the season and
>> episode is lacking, it will try to use the episode subtitle. If the
>> subtitle cannot be matched, it will revert to a generic export that
>> defaults to using just the title.  In none of these cases should it
>> crash, or report that the external grabber has crashed. Crashing
>> should always be considered abnormal behavior, and something to be fixed.
>>
>> If the external grabber is crashing, as indicated by "External system
>> call failed", then we need a traceback to figure out why.
>>
> ***
> I would be glad to generate a traceback if I had a clue how to do it,
> I'm not familiar with Python.

An unhandled exception generates one automatically. Just run the grabber 
manually from the terminal using the same arguments.