[mythtv-users] Mytharchive error on 0.26

[John Pilkington]

On 29/10/12 23:12, Paul Harrison wrote:
> On 29/10/12 22:06, John Pilkington wrote:
>> On 29/10/12 20:52, Jos Hoekstra wrote:
>>>
>>> That's pretty much it, the only difference between your and my system
>>> seems to be the version.
>>> If anyone could post the first part of mythburn.log where it kicks off
>>> the downloading(from storage group) and subsequently
>>> cutting/transcoding, it might provide more insight.
>>> Thanks for your help anyway, it provided the insight that the updated
>>> version from mythbuntu seems to crap up the config.xml files.
>>>
>>> Jos
>>
>> I can do that: I do use SGs but new recordings usually go to just one
>> folder. I rarely cut or transcode in MA.
>> -----------------------------------
>>
> <snip>
>> Pre-processing recording 1: '/mnt/sam1/recb/1002_20120908214300.mpg'
> <snip>
>
> MythArchive has never supported storage groups. The files need to be
> available locally so the tools that MythArchive uses has access to them.
> That usually means having to use NFS to mount the files on the frontends
> in the same directory that the backend can find them. The log snippet
> above clearly shows the file is available on the local filesystem and
> not via an SG (it would start with myth::// if it was only available via
> an SG). There is a setting to copy files from remote file systems like
> those mounted using NFS to the local file system that is just to speed
> up processing since accessing large files via NFS can be slow but that
> doesn't work using storage groups yet. Raymond Wagner did tell me how to
> use the the python bindings to copy a file from a SG to a local file but
> I left the project before I fully implemented it in the script.
>
> Paul H.
>

OK Paul:  thanks for clarifying that - and for the work that you did on 
MythArchive.  I think the reason that some people do have difficulty 
with it is that they expect it to cope with any conceivable input format 
and possibly less-than-perfect recordings as well; it can be difficult 
to know what to do if it fails.  This SG-related thread has exposed a 
'new' hazard.

Yes, my default Storage Group is two folders on separate mounted drives 
in the same FE/BE box.  MythArchive can use recordings from both those 
folders.  Jos's setup is more complicated.

John P