[mythtv-users] Struggling with MythArchive

[John Drescher]

On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 6:26 AM, Alan Chandler
<alan at chandlerfamily.org.uk> 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 have the exact same problem on gentoo. 0.25.X worked fine I archived
20+ dvds with recordings before the switch to the 0.26 git now it
always fails as you describe.

John