<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 May 2018 at 01:17, Dave Pearson (Lists) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@the-pearsons.co.uk" target="_blank">lists@the-pearsons.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="gmail-h5"><u></u>
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<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">HI,<br></span></p>
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<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I've been having problems with MythPodcaster since upgrading to ubuntu 18.04, I'm hoping that someone here can help me.<br></span></p>
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<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I've had to downgrade tomcat to tomcat 8.0.52 and I'm using oracle-java7.<br></span></p>
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<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The web interface loads ok, but whenever MythPodcaster attempts to transcode a recording, I get this error <a title="message:2018-05-28
Click the link to open the URL in a new window." rel="noopener">message:2018-05-28</a><br><br> 15:40:31,670 ERROR [<wbr>MythPodcasterTranscodingThread<wbr>-1] transcode.FeedFileAccessorImpl (FeedFileAccessorImpl.<a title="java:385
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Click the link to open the URL in a new window." rel="noopener">java:56</a>)<br> at net.urlgrey.mythpodcaster.<wbr>transcode.<wbr>TranscodingControllerImpl.<wbr>encodeOnePass(<wbr>TranscodingControllerImpl.<a title="java:172
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Click the link to open the URL in a new window." rel="noopener">java<wbr>:55</a>)<br> at net.urlgrey.mythpodcaster.<wbr>transcode.<wbr>FeedFileAccessorImpl.<wbr>addProgramToFeed(<wbr>FeedFileAccessorImpl.<a title="java:323
Click the link to open the URL in a new window." rel="noopener">java:323</a>)<br> at net.urlgrey.mythpodcaster.<wbr>transcode.<wbr>IndividualFeedTranscodeTaskImp<wbr>l.run(<wbr>IndividualFeedTranscodeTaskImp<wbr>l.<a title="java:149
Click the link to open the URL in a new window." rel="noopener">java:149</a>)<br> at java.util.concurrent.<wbr>ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(<wbr>ThreadPoolExecutor.<a title="java:1145
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<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">My first thought was that it is a file access error, but the .rss .html &.png files are all created ok, so MythPodcaster can definitely write to the output directory.<br></span></p>
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<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I've also tried setting up mythpodcaster in docker, but I cannot get the web interface to work in docker. In many ways this would be my preferred option, since it would be unaffected by any OS upgrades.<br></span></p>
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<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Any help, gratefully received.<br></span></p>
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<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards,<br></span></p>
<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Dave.</span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sorry I cant comment on MythPodcaster but perhaps try Mythexport, seems to work well and it's php so you don't need to additionally run tomcat.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://launchpad.net/mythexport">https://launchpad.net/mythexport</a></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Anthony </div></div><br></div></div>