[mythtv-users] Archiving TV shows to DVD

[Brian Stults]

Mike Schommer wrote:
> I get this output when doing step 2 below.  I don't know why I am having 
> such problems with audio.  Any ideas?  I have 100 GB of TV shows to put 
> on DVD and I'm running out of room fast.
> 
>> 1. Mark your commercials in Myth
>>
>> 2. Use the MPEG2->MPEG2 option of nuvexport. For me, this step usually 
>> takes
>> about 5-10 mins on my computer for a 30 minute show.
>> 3. Prepare a video DVD iso using the mpg2 file exported from step 2. I
>> use DVDStyler. Another app is Q DVD Author.
>>
>> 4. Burn the iso to dvd. I use k3b for this.
>>
> 
> bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/jre/bin)
> mpeg2cut v1.6
> Using mode X
> Filename "/mnt/store/1012_20050124200000_20050124210300.nuv"
> OutFile "./DVD/24 - Day 4- 12- 00 Noon- 1- 00PM.mpg"
> Last GOP index -48595
> Cutlist "57011-78324 90351-115502 121570-128198 129710-169227 
> 175000-179852 181962-204887 243902-"
> Finding the AV Offset to use with lvemux: 0 (not detected)
> Finding framerate:
> Last Frame -728925
> Indexing the file with avidemux2
> Cutting out commercials with avidemux2
> /usr/local/bin/mpeg2cut: line 178:  6609 Aborted                 nice -n 
> 19 avidemux2 --load-workbench
> ${BASENAME}.cut --audio-codec MP2 --save-raw-video ${BASENAME}.m2v 
> --save-raw-audio ${BASENAME}.mp2 --q
> uit 2>/dev/null >/dev/null
> Remultiplexing video
> GOP timestamps will be rebuild
> ERROR: opening A/V streams (0/1)
> Cleaning up
> rm: cannot remove `1012_20050124200000_20050124210300.mp2': No such file 
> or directory
> 
> Encode finished:  Tue Jan 25 20:49:10 2005
> 

How big is the file you are working with?  IIRC, I had a similar error 
when I was using a version of lvemux that wasn't compilied with large 
file support (> 2GB).  I got the source and compiled it with "gcc 
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64" and that solved my problem.

See this thread:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/97825