[mythtv-users] MythArchive dvdauthor error

[Daniel A Segel]

Brian Wood wrote:
> On May 5, 2006, at 3:50 PM, Daniel A Segel wrote:
>
>   
>> MythArchive fails with the following error in the log:
>>
>> 2006-05-05 14:35:17 Starting dvdauthor
>> 2006-05-05 14:43:05
>> ************************************************************
>> 2006-05-05 14:43:05 ERROR: Failed while running dvdauthor
>> 2006-05-05 14:43:05
>> ************************************************************
>> 2006-05-05 14:43:05
>> 2006-05-05 14:43:05 Terminated
>>
>> Is there any way to make it give a more descriptive error? Or any clue
>> on where I should look for the problem?
>>
>> This is on a Gentoo system running dvdauthor 0.6.11.
>>     
>
> Don't know the answer, but I haven't been able to get dvdauthor  
> 0.6.11 to work on my Gentoo box either, but I haven't worked too hard  
> at it because there are many other ways to make DVDs.
>
> I'd suggest that you try getting dvdauthor (perhaps via qdvdauthor)  
> to run by itself before trying to get MythArchive to work.
>   
I know dvdauthor works because mythburn uses it and that works just fine 
for me. It must be something in how MythArchive is calling it, or in the 
script that it's passing to it. I'll take a look when I get some time, 
but I'm hoping somebody else might come up with an answer before then.

Daniel