<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 2012-01-15, at 3:43 AM, Craig Treleaven wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">At 3:48 PM -0800 1/14/12, Joann Bessler wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">On 2012-01-11, at 10:46 AM, Craig Treleaven wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Hi:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I've upgraded to Myth 24.1 (frontend and backend) recently and there seems to be a problem with mythpreviewgen. The executable is present in the MythBackend.app bundle (at MythBackend.app/Contents/MacOS/mythpreviewgen) but I have hundreds of lines in my backend log like the following:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">2012-01-11 10:00:02.786 Preview Error: Remote Preview failed due to communications error.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">2012-01-11 10:00:02.787 PreviewQueue Error: Failed to find token 1571_2012-01-11T09:00:00:1837404194 in map.<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">2012-01-11 10:00:29.737 Using runtime prefix = /Applications/AudioVisualMusic/Myth/MythBackend.app/Contents/Resources<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">2012-01-11 10:17:29.430 Preview Error: Run() cannot generate preview locally for: '/Volumes/Theatre/Mythical/1091_20120111100000.mpg'<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">2012-01-11 11:30:35.367 Using runtime prefix = /Applications/AudioVisualMusic/Myth/MythBackend.app/Contents/Resources<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Is this working for others? If so, how do you start up the backend: launchd, startupitem, something else? I *think* this worked OK for me when I was testing the backend from Terminal but not since I set up launchd to start it automatically at boot.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I start the backend from the terminal, and don't have any issues with mythpreviewgen.<br></blockquote><br>So you issue the command after each time you login/restart the machine or do you have some automated start-up technique?<br><br>Craig<br></span></blockquote></div><br><div>Yes, whenever I restart the machine (infrequently) I open a terminal session and start mythbackend from the command line. Inelegant, but it works for me.</div></body></html>