AW: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

Martin Bene martin.bene at icomedias.com
Sun Aug 28 11:19:44 UTC 2005


> Actually, in this case I've only selected one file... The file to be
> demuxed exists in /video/recordings (myth's recordings directory), and
> for some reason, it's looking for it in the destination directory
> /incoming/mythburn... Looking at the file names in the log I'm pretty
> sure it's only trying to process one file.

Sorry you're right - I overlooked one "datestamp" statement; yes,
processing only one file.
The demux process should write to the temp directory and mplex should
save the remultiplexd file with the .nuv extension in the temp
directory; so the place tcdemux is looking at is correct.

Settings also look OK...

> >  - contents of the temp directory after mythburn stops with 
> > the error

> drwxrwxrwx  3 apache apache    87 Aug 28 01:59 .
> drwxrwxrwx  6 mythtv root      61 Aug 28 01:37 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 apache apache     0 Aug 28 01:59
1001_20050502200000_20050502213500.nuv.tcindex
> drwxrwxrwx  2 apache apache     6 Aug 27 19:51 FS
> -rwxrwxrwx  1 apache apache 18818 Aug 28 01:59 mythburn.log

Now that's definitely _NOT_ ok, there should have been a remultiplexed
file here... From the logs we can se that projectx worked OK; so the
problem is with mplex.

> watched the directory contents during this process). Second, the mplex
> command isnt added to my /bin directory or path, so I can't run it
> from the /incoming/mythburn directory. 

Which most likely is your problem. The scripts aren't paranoid enough
and don't realize they didn't find mplex. The scripts look for mplex in
standard locations which most probably are also in your path.

mplex is part of the mjpegtools package - do you actually have that
installed? If so: where is your mplex executable located? If not, please
install mjpegtools and retry.

OK, back to the scripts and add some more checks to make sure all the
stuff required for successfull DVD creation is available.

Bye, Martin


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