[mythtv-users] MythArchive: what am I doing wrong?!

[Andrew Junev]

Hi All,

I want to transfer some of my recorded programs from an old backend to
a new one. I tried using MythArchive the way it is described in the
Wiki. Creating archive was fine, but importing the archive gave me a
strange error: "You need to select a valid archive XML file!"

In the mythfrontend log I see the error:

Couldn't find a 'channel' element in XML file
Couldn't find a 'channel' element in XML file
Couldn't find a 'channel' element in XML file
Couldn't find a 'channel' element in XML file


This is an .xml file from one of my archived videos:

<!DOCTYPE MYTHARCHIVEITEM>
<item type="recording" databaseversion="1160" >
    <recorded>
        <chanid>2009</chanid>
        <starttime>2007-08-30T01:35:00</starttime>
        <endtime>2007-08-30T03:50:00</endtime>
        <title>Die Insel (The Island)</title>
        <subtitle>Science-Fiction</subtitle>
        <description>Lincoln Six-Echo (Ewan McGregor) lebt mit tausenden anderen in einer futuristischen Wohneinheit. Angeblich darf man von hier irgendwann auf &quot;Die Insel&quot;. Aber Lincoln entdeckt, dass alles nur Lц¬б+ge ist: Die Bohner dienen als Ersatzteilspender fц¬б+r ihre menschlichen Originale. Mit der sц¬бІnen Jordan Two-Delta (Scarlett Johansson) wagt er die Flucht. - Mitreiц¬<9f>es Sci-Fi-Spektakel von Action-Groц¬<9f>meister Michael Bay.
USA 2005. 131 Min. Von Michael Bay, mit Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou.</description>
        <category>Movie</category>
        <hostname>host-192-168-2-163</hostname>
        <bookmark>0</bookmark>
        <editing>0</editing>
        <cutlist>0</cutlist>
        <autoexpire>0</autoexpire>
        <commflagged>0</commflagged>
        <recgroup>Default</recgroup>
        <recordid>19</recordid>
        <seriesid></seriesid>
        <programid></programid>
        <lastmodified>2007-08-30T03:50:05</lastmodified>
        <filesize>4844719768</filesize>
        <stars>0</stars>
        <previouslyshown>0</previouslyshown>
        <originalairdate>2007-08-30</originalairdate>
        <preserve>0</preserve>
        <findid>733282</findid>
        <deletepending>0</deletepending>
        <transcoder>27</transcoder>
        <timestretch>1</timestretch>
        <recpriority>0</recpriority>
        <basename>2009_20070830013500.mpg</basename>
        <progstart>2007-08-30T01:35:00</progstart>
        <progend>2007-08-30T03:50:00</progend>
        <playgroup>Default</playgroup>
        <profile>Default</profile>
        <duplicate>1</duplicate>
        <transcoded>0</transcoded>
    </recorded>
    <recordedseek>
        <mark offset="0" type="9" mark="0" />
        <mark offset="193640" type="9" mark="12" />
        <mark offset="399688" type="9" mark="24" />
        <mark offset="604796" type="9" mark="36" />
        <mark offset="832652" type="9" mark="48" />
(and so on...)


MythTV version I'm using on a new machine is:
# mythbackend --version
Library API version     : 0.20.20070821-1
Source code version     : 0.20.2-169.fc8
SVN Branch              : branches/release-0-20-fixes
Options compiled in     :
 linux release using_xvmcw using_lmsensors using_v4l using_oss
 using_alsa using_arts using_jack using_ivtv using_firewire
 using_dbox2 using_hdhr using_ip_rec using_freebox using_live
 using_lirc using_joystick_menu using_dvb using_x11 using_xv
 using_xrandr using_xvmc using_xvmc_vld using_opengl_vsync
 using_opengl using_frontend using_backend using_bindings_perl

My old backend runs the same MythTV version (I'm almost 100% sure).
Although the old machine runs Fedora Core 6.

So what am I doing wrong???


-- 
Best regards,
 Andrew