[mythtv-commits] Ticket #10071: Bugfixes to mythburn.py

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#10071: Bugfixes to mythburn.py
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 Reporter:  t.brackertz@…         |          Owner:  paulh
     Type:  Patch - Bug Fix       |         Status:  new
 Priority:  minor                 |      Milestone:  0.25
Component:  Plugin - MythArchive  |        Version:  Unspecified
 Severity:  medium                |     Resolution:
 Keywords:                        |  Ticket locked:  0
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Comment (by J.Pilk@…):

 I'm attaching a unified diff, from the 0.24-fixes version of mythburn.py,
 that
 combines the patch submitted above with modifications that I have been
 using
 for some time.

 My changes are principally those from Tickets #8376 and #9389 that have
 not
 already been committed; mostly the remaining earlier ones are intended to
 allow
 processing to continue when a quite rare error has been signalled by mplex
 but experience has shown that no bad effects are likely to be noticeable,
 and
 the later one applies cutlists in the correct sense after the changes made
 between the 0.23 and 0.24 releases.  Others are intended to make the log
 files
 more informative and to reduce the effect of often intensive disc activity
 on
 other processes.

 I have not conducted an exploration of the effect of this combined
 patch on all possible pathways through the script, but with it my
 system now appears to behave during my normal mode of operation just as it
 did before the patches were merged.  I have however used it to make, from
 UK
 dvb-t recordings, iso images with subtitles and with more than one audio
 stream, using an active cutlist; these are not things that I had recently
 tried
 to do. Since I work with UK-targeted material I have not had to contend
 with
 'exotic' character sets and I have done no tests on this aspect of the new
 patch.

 A few specific points should be made:

 Most disc-intensive operations are done with the 'ionice -c3' prefix to
 reduce system impact. This may not be available for all OSes; I couldn't
 find
 it for CentOS5

 The location of the output iso file (isopath) has to be specified in the
 script.  Creation of the file is essentially a multi-GB file copy
 operation.
 Its impact should be less if the mytharchive temp directory and isopath
 are on
 different spindles.

 The mytharchive temp directory will change in size by several GB during
 operations.  This could affect auto-expire calculations if it shares a
 recordings partition.

 I use mp2 sound, but mytharchive default is ac3. The patched script will
 look
 for menumusic.mp2, which AFAIK is no longer distributed.  I converted it
 from
 menumusic.ac3 and it is selected by a hack that is not theme-aware.
 Disable
 by omitting chunks of the patch that mention menumusic.mp2


 The patch was created by
 diff -Nau mythburn_dist.py mythburn.py > ~/mythburn20111006.patch

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