[mythtv-users] MythArchive totally screwed up after update to 0.21

[Ian Newby]

Hi Torsten,
I have exactly the same issue. I've not been able to identity a fix 
however. Are you any further getting it working?

Regards
Ian Newby



Torsten Crass wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> anybody else having trouble using MythArchive after updating to 0.21? 
> Currently, I am facing 3 different problems:
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1) Right after updating some weeks ago, mythburn *always* crashed with a 
> message like "source file does not exist". No wonder, I'd say -- in line 
> 1765 of mythburn.py it now says
>
> <code>
> if file.attributes["type"].value == "recording":
>          mediafile = file.attributes["filename"].value
>      elif file.attributes["type"].value == "video":
>          mediafile = os.path.join(videopath, 
> file.attributes["filename"].value)
>      elif file.attributes["type"].value == "file":
>          mediafile = file.attributes["filename"].value
>      else:
>          fatalError("Unknown type of video file it must be 'recording', 
> 'video'
>
>      if doesFileExist(mediafile) == False:
>          fatalError("Source file does not exist: " + mediafile)
> </code>
>
> as opposed to line 1116 in the old 0.20 script:
>
> <code>
> if file.attributes["type"].value == "recording":
>          mediafile = os.path.join(recordingpath, 
> file.attributes["filename"].val
>      elif file.attributes["type"].value == "video":
>          mediafile = os.path.join(videopath, 
> file.attributes["filename"].value)
>      elif file.attributes["type"].value == "file":
>          mediafile = file.attributes["filename"].value
>      else:
>          fatalError("Unknown type of video file it must be 'recording', 
> 'video'
>
>      if doesFileExist(mediafile) == False:
>          fatalError("Source file does not exist: " + mediafile)
> </code>
>
> Apparently the new script doesn't bother to prepend the recordings 
> directory path to the recordings file, hence missing it. (Or am *I* 
> missing something?)
>
> (Unfortunately, a quick attempt to fix this didn't lead to ultimate 
> success, either: in this case, the script just crashed a few processing 
> steps later...)
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> 2) After upgrading to revision, uhm, I think it was 17435 from 
> 0.21-fixes on June 1st I couldn't even get past the target media 
> selection screen (single / double layer DVD, plain file...). When 
> hitting "next", the frontend reproducibly crashes. (Any ideas where to 
> look for hints why it does so?)
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> 3) After repreatedly experiencing trouble with mplex (adding the "-M" 
> options in the corresponding calls did occasionally help since this 
> prevents mplex from trying to create multiple numbered output files when 
> encountering a sequence end marker, which it obviously frequently did in 
> German DVB-T streams...) I was really looking forward to the newly 
> introduced option of reverting to ProjectX, which did a really good job 
> in the old mythburn web interface. However, when I just tried to 
> manually call mythburn.py in the recordings directory (to circumvent 
> problem no 1), ProjectX eventually popped up its GUI, which it certainly 
> wasn't supposed to do. Dunno if this has something to do with the
>
> <code>
> ini load error: java.io.FileNotFoundException: 
> /var/mythtv/recordings/X.ini (No such file or directory)
> </code>
>
> reported a few lines after the initial call
>
> <code>
> projectx -id 0x1111,0x1112 -cut 
> /var/mythtv/media/dvd/iso/work/1/cutlist_x.txt -out 
> "/var/mythtv/media/dvd/iso/work/1" -name "1128_20080211205700" 
> "1128_20080211205700.mpg"
> </code>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> Since my drive is slowly running full of recordings I'd like to archive, 
> any helpful reply woud be greatly appreciated...
>
> Regards --
>
> 	tcrass
>
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