[mythtv-users] Struggling with MythArchive
Alan Chandler
alan at chandlerfamily.org.uk
Tue Jan 1 11:26:53 UTC 2013
Having recorded a couple of programs over christmas that my parents in
law would like to watch I have tried to install mytharchive. But I
can't get it to work, and the error message isn't helping.
My setup is ubuntu-server 12.04 with the mythubuntu packages running in
that environment.
My normal frontend is debian sid with mythtv-frontend running on my desktop
My initial thought was to install mytharchive and run it from the front
end - but despite no particular dependancy problems it soon became
apparent that was a no go because it required file access to the backend
recordings to work.
So I installed mytharchive on the backend machine, connect into it via
ssh -X and attempt to run mythfrontend from this machine.
All works fine until I come to actually encode the video.
Mythburn.log says that an error occurs whilst running mythffmpeg and
that I should look in mythburn.log (which of course I am doing). There
is no more information about the failure except the command used.
I tried running mythffmpeg manually with the command that fails, and it
terminates immediately (silently). I did try changing from mythffmpeg
to ffmpeg and the command seemed to then work (ie it was encoding a
video and seemed to be progressing through it).
Also I seem to have to run at root, because if I run as an ordinary
user, and despite the /var/lib/mytharchive/temp directory having 777
permissions, the code appears to be attempting a chmod when it is not
allowed.
So where do I go from here?
--
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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