[mythtv-users] Mac OS X: Preview errors

Joann Bessler bessler at dccnet.com
Sun Jan 15 16:20:24 UTC 2012


On 2012-01-15, at 3:43 AM, Craig Treleaven wrote:
> At 3:48 PM -0800 1/14/12, Joann Bessler wrote:
>> On 2012-01-11, at 10:46 AM, Craig Treleaven wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi:
>>> 
>>> I've upgraded to Myth 24.1 (frontend and backend) recently and there seems to be a problem with mythpreviewgen.  The executable is present in the MythBackend.app bundle (at MythBackend.app/Contents/MacOS/mythpreviewgen) but I have hundreds of lines in my backend log like the following:
>>> 
>>>> 2012-01-11 10:00:02.786 Preview Error: Remote Preview failed due to communications error.
>>>> 
>>>> 2012-01-11 10:00:02.787 PreviewQueue Error: Failed to find token 1571_2012-01-11T09:00:00:1837404194 in map.
>>>> 
>>>> 2012-01-11 10:00:29.737 Using runtime prefix = /Applications/AudioVisualMusic/Myth/MythBackend.app/Contents/Resources
>>>> 
>>>> 2012-01-11 10:17:29.430 Preview Error: Run() cannot generate preview locally for: '/Volumes/Theatre/Mythical/1091_20120111100000.mpg'
>>>> 
>>>> 2012-01-11 11:30:35.367 Using runtime prefix = /Applications/AudioVisualMusic/Myth/MythBackend.app/Contents/Resources
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Is this working for others?  If so, how do you start up the backend: launchd, startupitem, something else?  I *think* this worked OK for me when I was testing the backend from Terminal but not since I set up launchd to start it automatically at boot.
>>> 
>> 
>> I start the backend from the terminal, and don't have any issues with mythpreviewgen.
> 
> So you issue the command after each time you login/restart the machine or do you have some automated start-up technique?
> 
> Craig

Yes, whenever I restart the machine (infrequently) I open a terminal session and start mythbackend from the command line. Inelegant, but it works for me.
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