[mythtv-users] Struggling with MythArchive

[John Pilkington]

On 03/01/13 11:01, Alan Chandler wrote:
> On 01/01/13 11:26, Alan Chandler wrote:
>> 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?
>>
> Is nobody able to help me debug this issue?  I am being banged over the
> head to produce a dvd of a couple of programs I made for my parents in
> law over christmas, and at the moment I can't do it.
>
> My main puzzle is what is mythffmpeg, and why that doesn't do anything,
> when it appears that ffmpeg does.  I was sort of assuming its just a
> wrapper, but perhaps it isn't?
>
> Is there any other way (ie follow some wiki instructions somewhere) to
> manually create a dvd .iso file from the raw .mpg files from the program?
>


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