[mythtv-users] Bug in mythvidexport?

[Mike Perkins]

I've been trying to export some of the Christmas recordings to video and there 
seems to be a bug in mythvidexport.py. The data below is just a test sample.

I pulled this version off the wiki; there doesn't appear to be one offered by my 
distribution.

When I eventually discovered the log, it said this:

'Copying myth://Default@ruby.example.com/1001_20150101162000.mpg to 
myth://Videos@ruby/Videos/The Adventures of Tintin: the Secret of the Unicorn.mpg'

The problem is the two hostnames. The first is correct, the second is not.

Now, I have specified FQDNs in the "LocalHostName" fields for ALL my hosts which 
can access myth, due to varying and inconsistent results previously.

Looking at mythvidexport.py, I see this early in the process:

         self.vid = Video(db=self.db).create({'title':'', 'filename':'',
                                              'host':gethostname()})

...this is only going to provide "ruby", not "ruby.example.com", which is the 
identifier all storage groups are stored under in the database.

Am I correct in assuming that gethostname() should not have been used here, 
since it does not identify the host? I don't speak python so I have no idea how 
to change this to be something sensible (except perhaps to hard-code it!).

(Of course I could be wrong and the problem is elsewhere; as I said I don't 
speak python.)

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Mike Perkins