[mythtv-users] Mythvidexport problem
Mike Carron
jmcarron at starstream.net
Sun Jan 5 04:51:25 UTC 2014
On 1/4/2014 5:28 PM, Roger Siddons wrote:
>
> On Sat, 04 Jan 2014 23:57:15 -0000, Mike Carron
> <jmcarron at starstream.net> wrote:
>
>> 'Failure to overwrite' occurs because your video library already
>> contains a file with the same name and mythvidexport (sensibly)
>> won't overwrite it. You mention series so I'm guessing episode 1
>> exported ok but subsequent episodes were trying to overwrite it
>> because they were assigned the same filename. I don't export TV
>> series but I suspect the filenames can end up being very generic
>> when the metadata lookup fails (ie. no matches/multiple matches).
>> You may have to manually edit the filename before before
>> exporting more episodes of the same series.
> That explains why two different series behave so much differently.
> One, which apparently has good metadata, is putting episodes in
> sub-directories of /Television/Series/Season
> x/Intuitive-FileName.mpg while the other, which apparently has
> incomplete metadata, attempts to use /Videos/SeriesName.mpg.
>
>
> Yep. The TV lookup is failing so it falls back to considering each
> episode as a movie
>
>>
>>
>> The easiest solution for problem jobs is to run mythvidexport
>> from the command line. The backend log does show you the 4 digit
>> job id in the form of 'UserJob_<jobid>' so you should be able to
>> simply re-use that;
> I wish I could do that but for some strange reason mythvidexport
> runs fine as a UserJob but it won't run from the command line, I
> get 'command not found' whenever I try, regardless of whether I'm
> logged in as myself, as mythtv or as root.
>>
>
> 1. Ensure the script has execute permissions "chmod a+x mythvidexport.py"
> 2. I had assumed the script was located in a directory that was in
> your path "echo $PATH". For instance, mine is in /usr/local/bin. If
> not then cd to its containing directory and use "./mythvidexport.py
> <jobid>"
>
>
Thanks again. The permissions were correct but I didn't have it in my path.
After deleting the /Videos/SeriesName.mpg I still have a reference to it
when I go the Video Library. I'm assuming that will resolve itself when
I stop and restart the backend?
mike
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