I found a thread <a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/224344?page=last" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/224344?page=last
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where it was stated that mytharchive really only works on combo
frontend/backend machines. It went on to mention that you could monkey
with the 'recordfileprefix' in the database and maybe get it to work.
I'm one of those frontend/backend people who would like it to work. (Or
create an ncurses frontend so I can use from my backend server!)
<br><br>I did the following:<br><br>1. Exported via nfs /mnt/mythtv on my backend. This is where all the recordings are stored (ie /mnt/mythtv/1021_2006xxxxx)<br>2. Mounted the exported nfs share on my frontend with the same path. /mnt/mythtv.
<br><br>Python almost immediately errors out with the following error.<br><br>mythburn.py (0.1.20060910-1) starting up...<br>Obtaining MythTV settings from MySQL database for hostname myth-frontend<br>Obtaining date and time settings from MySQL database for hostname myth-frontend
<br>Processing Mythburn job number 1.<br>Options - mediatype = 3, doburn = 0, createiso = 1, erasedvdrw = 0<br> savefilename = 'bc'<br>Looking for: /usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive<div id="mb_0">/themes/Compact/theme.xml
<br>Loading font 0, /usr/share/mythtv/FreeSans.ttf size 19
<br>Loading font 1, /usr/share/mythtv/FreeSans.ttf size 15<br>Loading font 2, /usr/share/mythtv/FreeSans.ttf size 13<br>wantIntro: 1, wantMainMenu: 1, wantChapterMenu:0, wantDetailsPage: 0<br>Final DVD Video format will be ntsc
<br>There are 1 files to process<br>------------------------------------------------------------<br>Traceback (most recent call last):<br> File "/usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/mythburn.py", line 3393, in ?
<br> processJob(job)<br> File "/usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/mythburn.py", line 3149, in processJob<br> files=copyRemote(files,getTempPath())<br> File "/usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/mythburn.py", line 3052, in copyRemote
<br> tmpfile = string.split(os.path.join(recordingpath, node.attributes["filename"].value), '/')<br> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/posixpath.py", line 62, in join<br> elif path == '' or path.endswith
('/'):<br>AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'endswith'<br>------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>I'm
using mytharchive on gentoo (svn revision 11222). I'm mainly interested
in anyway I can run mytharchive from a frontend only machine. If
someone can expound on the 'recordfileprefix' hack I'd appreciate it
(mine is set to /mnt/mythtv). I was surprised my little nfs hack didn't
work. <br><br>Along the same lines I noticed that mytharchive generates an
xml file that presumably mythburn.py consumes. Is there anyway to feed
mytharchive the xml file from the command line and have it work?<br><br>Thanks<br>
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