[mythtv-users] MythArchive dvdauthor error

[James Armstrong]

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>> There's two logs the progress.log and the mythburn.log. The idea  
>> is the
>> progress.log will give some user friendly messages about what is
>> happening which is what is shown in the log viewer. The other log  
>> just
>> catches everything sent to stdout and stderr which is useful when
>> debugging things.
>>
>> Does the mythburn.log give any extra clues why dvdauthor is failing?
>>
>>
> It pretty much says the same thing:
>
> Creating DVD XML file for dvd author (No Menus)
> Adding item 1
> Total size of video files, before multiplexing, is 3859 Mbytes,  
> audio is
> 219 MBytes, menus are 0 MBytes.
> Video will fit onto DVD. 218.05 MBytes of space remaining on  
> recordable DVD.
> Multiplexing MPEG stream to /video/temp/work/1/final.mpg
> Available streams - video and one audio stream
> Multiplex started PID=27463
> Starting dvdauthor
> ************************************************************
> ERROR: Failed while running dvdauthor
> *********************************************************
I had the exact same error.
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> I just noticed that both the details-1.mpg and final.mpg file are
> 0-bytes; I assume this is a problem and points to something upstream
> from dvdauthor itself.
>
The final.mpg seems to be a pipe created with mplex. I manually ran  
mplex using the command found in the mytharchive script then ran  
dvdauthor and every thing ran ok. It created the dvd image. mkisofs  
failed after that.

> Daniel
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