[mythtv-users] MythArchive dvdauthor error
Daniel A Segel
mythtv at archer-segel.com
Mon May 8 18:54:05 EDT 2006
Paul Harrison wrote:
> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I updated mytharchive to rev 9875 and tried again. This time the logs
>>>> end as shown below, and the dvdauthor process just disappears:
>>>>
>>>> *************************************
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You probably already know this but a quick way to test it is with xine
>>> like this :-
>>> xine dvd://video/temp/work/dvd/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> 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.
>>
>> If I try running dvdauthor manually with the dvdauthor.xml file it hangs
>> as well, at essentially the same place as the script:
>>
>> **************************
>> 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
>>
>> 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
>>
>> STAT: Processing /video/temp//work/details-1.mpg...
>>
>> STAT: Processing /video/temp//work/1/final.mpg...
>> ******************************
>>
>> Is the final.mpg file supposed to be 0 bytes?
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>>
> 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.
>
>
OK, I set it to False and tried again and it still failed, but this time
when I ran dvdauthor manually I got this:
***********************************
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
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
STAT: Processing /video/temp//work/details-1.mpg...
STAT: Processing /video/temp//work/1/final.mpg...
STAT: VOBU 7648 at 2649MB, 1 PGCS
INFO: Video pts = 0.178 .. 3834.675
INFO: Audio[8] pts = 0.244 .. 3834.580
STAT: VOBU 7662 at 2654MB, 1 PGCS
Segmentation fault
*****************************************
It crashed right near the end of the process. I'm going to recompile
dvdauthor and check my dependencies again.
Daniel
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