<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">I've had to do a new install of mythtv after a hard drive failure. I used to use 0.24 and used mythvidexport.py without any issues. I'm now running 0.26 and just cannot get mythvidexport working. I'm using the recent version of the script on the Mythtv web site but can't get it to work from command line or in Mythtv. I thought it may be a permissions problem but have tried various options with no luck. I'm a linux ignoramous and am at a loss as to how to figure this out. My log files don't even seem to get created. The best I can offer is this output from the terminal.</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Can anyone help steer me to a path to track and resolve the problem?</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Thanks</font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"
size="2"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">chris@Ion3D:~$ /usr/local/bin/mythvidexport.py --loglevel info--logfile=/home/mythvidexport --chanid=1022 --starttime=20130921024500</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Traceback (most recent call last):</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> File "/usr/local/bin/mythvidexport.py", line 435, in <module></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> main()</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> File "/usr/local/bin/mythvidexport.py", line 407, in main</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> export = VIDEO(opts)</font></div><div><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> File "/usr/local/bin/mythvidexport.py", line 58, in __init__</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> self.rec = Recorded((self.chanid,self.starttime), db=self.db)</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/dataheap.py", line 295, in __init__</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> DBDataWrite.__init__(self, data, db)</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/database.py", line 311, in __init__</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> DBData.__init__(self, data, db)</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/database.py", line 179, in
__init__</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> self._pull()</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/database.py", line 381, in _pull</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> DBData._pull(self)</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/database.py", line 197, in _pull</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> raise MythError('DBData() could not read from database')</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">MythTV.exceptions.MythError: DBData() could not read from database</font></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div></div></body></html>