[mythtv-users] Struggling with MythArchive

[Alan Chandler]

On 03/01/13 12:01, John Pilkington wrote:
> 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?
>>
>
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/536131
>

Sorry didn't pick that up before.

My recordings are taken from directly from DVB-T (Freeview) in HD.  I 
presume that means they will be mpeg4


-- 
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk