[mythtv-users] User job

Michael Watson michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au
Sun Aug 12 03:34:26 UTC 2012


Fixed formatting, Thunderbird embedded http links on the perl commands.

On 12/08/2012 1:24 PM, Michael Watson wrote:
> On 12/08/2012 1:14 PM, Chris Porter wrote:
>> Exit status before export command 0
>> /usr/local/bin/ipodexport.pl <http://ipodexport.pl> 
>> exportdir=/var/lib/mythtv/export starttime=20120811183000 
>> chanid=13888 size=720x480 aspect=
>> 16:9
>> exit status after attempted export 255
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Now if i take the command line "/usr/local/bin/ipodexport.pl 
>> <http://ipodexport.pl> exportdir=/var/lib/mythtv/export 
>> starttime=20120811183000 chanid=13888 size=720x480 aspect=16:9 
>> acodec=libaacplus" and run it manually it works fine.
>
> The command execute by your script is missing "acodec=libaacplus". 
> Maybe there is a size limit to the jobqueue command..
>
> You could change the command in the wrapper script to something like 
> this: (so you can see whats going on withing ipodexport.pl)
> /usr/local/bin/ipodexport.pl <http://ipodexport.pl> $* 1> 
> /tmp/ipodexport.log 2>&1
>
> Or you could also change to the following:
>
> *Myth Job Command*
> /usr/local/bin/ipod.sh starttime=%STARTTIME% chanid=%CHANID%
>
> */usr/local/bin/ipod.sh*
> #!/bin/bash
>
> echo "Environment variables:" > /tmp/export.log
> export >> /tmp/export.log
> echo "Exit status before export command $?" >> /tmp/export.log
> echo "/usr/local/bin/ipodexport.pl $*" >> /tmp/export.log
> /usr/local/bin/ipodexport.pl exportdir=/var/lib/mythtv/export $* 
> size=720x480 aspect=16:9
>
> ret=$?
>



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