[mythtv-users] nuvexport/mythtranscode failing because fifodir doesn't exist

Chris Petersen lists at forevermore.net
Tue Nov 2 17:57:30 UTC 2004


> This is using a recent version of nuvexport and
> Mythtv 0.15. nuvexport is failing because the fifodir_nnn
> directory is not getting created. Is this something that
> nuvexport does or should mythtranscode be creating it?

Looks more like you're running it by hand.  But yes, nuvexport normally 
creates the fifodir.  I need to echo that command in --debug mode, but 
keep forgetting to enable it.

-Chris

> [root at tvsrv tv]# nice -n 19 mythtranscode --showprogress -p autodetect
>                  -c 1040 -s 2004-10-27-22-29-00
>                  -f "/tmp/fifodir_16137/" 2>&1 > /dev/null
> Couldn't create fifo for file: /tmp/fifodir_16137//vidout
> No such file or directory
> Error initializing fifo writer.  Aborting
> 
> If I create fifodir_16137 everything works fine.
> 
> [mythtv at tvsrv mythtv]$ ls -ld /tmp
> drwxrwxrwt  20 root root 4096 Nov  2 05:25 /tmp
> [mythtv at tvsrv mythtv]$ 
> 
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