[mythtv-users] MythArchive dvdauthor error

[Paul Harrison]

Daniel A Segel wrote:
> Paul Harrison wrote:
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>> Daniel A. Segel wrote:
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>>> Paul Harrison wrote:
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>>>> Try updating to latest svn. Some parts of the mythburn.log where being 
>>>> truncated. Hopefully there will now be some clues as to why its failing 
>>>> in the log.
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>>> I updated mytharchive to rev 9875 and tried again. This time the logs 
>>> end as shown below, and the dvdauthor process just disappears:
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>>> *************************************
>>> root at mythtv:/video/temp/logs 29>tail -f mythburn.log
>>> INFO: MPEG version: mpeg2
>>> INFO: TV standard: ntsc
>>> INFO: Aspect ratio: 16:9
>>> INFO: Resolution: 720x480
>>> INFO: Audio ch 0 format: mp2/2ch, 48khz 20bps
>>>
>>> STAT: Processing /video/temp//work/details-1.mpg...
>>>
>>> STAT: Processing /video/temp//work/1/final.mpg...
>>> STAT: VOBU 3216 at 1113MB, 1 PGCS
>>> **************************************
>>>
>>> It did create almost 2GB of files in the work/dvd/VIDEO_TS directory, 
>>> but I haven't checked to see what they look like.
>>>
>>> Daniel
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>> You probably already know this but a quick way to test it is with xine 
>> like this :-
>> xine dvd://video/temp/work/dvd/
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> There's no .IFO (or .BUP) file, so xine can't play it. I suppose I could 
> check to make sure the VOB files themselves contain valid content, but I 
> wouldn't know what to do next even if they did.
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> If I try running dvdauthor manually with the dvdauthor.xml file it hangs 
> as well, at essentially the same place as the script:
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> **************************
> DVDAuthor::dvdauthor, version 0.6.11.
> Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype fribidi
> Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>
> INFO: Locale=C
> INFO: Converting filenames to ANSI_X3.4-1968
> INFO: dvdauthor creating VTS
> STAT: Picking VTS 01
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> STAT: Processing /video/temp//work/chaptermenu-1.mpg...
> STAT: VOBU 16 at 1MB, 1 PGCS
> INFO: Video pts = 0.178 .. 15.159
> INFO: Audio[8] pts = 0.178 .. 30.226
> INFO: Audio[32] pts = 0.178 .. 0.178
> STAT: VOBU 30 at 2MB, 1 PGCS
> INFO: Generating VTSM with the following video attributes:
> INFO: MPEG version: mpeg2
> INFO: TV standard: ntsc
> INFO: Aspect ratio: 16:9
> INFO: Resolution: 720x480
> INFO: Audio ch 0 format: mp2/2ch, 48khz 20bps
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> STAT: Processing /video/temp//work/details-1.mpg...
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> STAT: Processing /video/temp//work/1/final.mpg...
> ******************************
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> Is the final.mpg file supposed to be 0 bytes?
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> Daniel
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That's actually normal final.mpg  is a fifo file that pipes the output 
of mplex into dvdauthor so it never grows. One thing you could try is at 
the top of the mythburn.py script there is a setting 'useFIFO' that 
turns on/off the use of these fifo files. Setting it to 'False' will do 
the multiplexing before running dvdauthor. It could be mplex that is 
failing.

Paul H.