[mythtv-users] Struggling with MythArchive

[Alan Chandler]

On 03/01/13 12:01, Paul Harrison 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.
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>> 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?
>>
>
> mythffmpeg is the version of ffmpeg that is linked to our version the 
> ffmpeg libraries. It's done this way so we know that the version of 
> mythffmpeg is compatible with the version of MythTV that is installed 
> since they are built, linked and installed using the same version of 
> the libraries and in theory everything that uses mythffmeg should have 
> been updated to work with the installed version. This is particularly 
> important when using ffmpeg since they like to change the name of the 
> command line parameters with each version which breaks any scripts 
> that use it like mythburn.py and nuvexport etc.
Is it significant then, that copying the parameters provided to 
mythffmpeg to ffmpeg makes it do something, whereas mythffmpeg just 
exists immediately and silently

>
> As to what is happening here I'm afraid from you description it's hard 
> to tell :(

Is there any more info that I can provide that might help?

>
> Did you see the reply from John? 
> http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2013-January/344985.html
Only just now

>
> If the file is an mpeg you could try and force MythArchive to _not_ 
> re-encode it which will bypass this step altogether. The DVD created 
> wont be 100% DVD compatible but most players will still play it 
> without problems.

I'll give it a go - at least something to be trying

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