[mythtv-users] Export to videos on 0.28.2 (Myth-Rec-to-Vid.py)

[Steve Greene]

Does anyone have this working on 29?

Steve

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 3:25 PM, Preston Crow <pc-mythtv13 at crowcastle.net>
wrote:

> On 02/22/18 23:13, Preston Crow wrote:
>
> On 02/22/18 22:27, Bill Meek wrote:
>
> On 02/22/2018 06:53 PM, Preston Crow wrote:
>
> I've been using the Myth-Rec-to-Vid.py script for some time, and it has
> worked great for me.
>
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Myth-Rec-to-Vid.py
>
> I recently did a major upgrade on my system, including bumping from 0.28.1
> to 0.28.2, and now the script is failing.  I'm not a Python programmer, but
> added some log lines to track it down, and it's failing on the line:
>
>              results = grab.sortedSearch(self.rec.title,
> self.rec.subtitle)
>
> The message I get is:
>
>          Myth-Rec-to-Vid.py ERROR in Processing  -- Message was: External
> system call failed: code 126
>
> I can't say whether this is from the 0.28.1 -> 0.28.2 upgrade, or if it's
> due to upgrading everything else on my system.  I tried checking the 0.28.2
> release notes on the Wiki, but nobody has created that page yet.
>
> If it matters, I'm running Gentoo, with my own 0.28.2 ebuilds (
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/648564).
>
> I would like to get this resolved in 0.28.2 before upgrading to 29.1,
> unless there's good reason to suspect a bug only in 0.28.2.
>
> Any suggestions for what to try?
>
>
> I'd guess that the line above is where the failure happens. VideoGraber(),
> which appears
> twice in the script you mentioned (I don't use it.)
>
> Look in your Python bindings for the file dataheap.py. Note that it can be
> used for
> either TV or MOVIE data and ends up calling one of:
>
>         path = {'tv':'metadata/Television/ttvdb.py',
>                 'movie':'metadata/Movie/tmdb3.py'}
>
> Last year TTVDB moved to a new API. You might try running the
> grabber from command line to see if it's failing.
>
> See also: https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/TheTVDB_API_v2
>
>
> Yes, it looks like that's it.  Thanks.  This is also used for retrieving
> metadata in mythvideo, which is also failing.  The video export script
> works just fine for movies.
>
> What does work is the metadata lookup job within MythTV, which gets a
> background image for the series.  I'm guessing that doesn't use the same
> script, or at least not the same options.
>
> I tried the ttvdb.py script from 29.1, and had the same results.
>
> https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/13084
>
> Apparently a lot of work went in to getting this script adjusted for the
> new format.  Did something get missed where it's still broken for mythvideo
> and the export script?
>
> I found that if I comment out the entire else statement where the line is
> failing, it behaves as if it couldn't find a match in the lookup and
> exports the video just fine.  The only issue is that it doesn't fill in the
> cast and director data.
>
> So I can work around it for now, and once it's fixed, I can load the
> metadata inside mythvideo, but I would like to get it fixed.  Any ideas on
> that?
>
> I've solved the problem!
>
> I grabbed the command line from a failed run from the logs so that I could
> run it directly, and I ran it with strace to see the failure. When it's
> forking to run the grabber, the exec call is:
>   */bin/sh -c /usr/share/mythtv/* -l en -N ...
> Obviously it's missing the name of the grabber.
>
> Shortly before that in the trace, I see sendto() calls with "SELECT data
> from settings WHERE value='TelevisionGrabber' AND hostname=..."
>
> Looking in mythweb at the settings for MythTV, I see that the value for
> that field is blank.  I manually set it to "metadata/Television/ttvdb.py"
> (similar to how MovieGrabber is already set), and now everything works!
>
> I have no idea how the TelevisionGrabber setting got wiped.  I certainly
> wasn't playing with it.  But if anyone else sees error 126 from this
> script, that's what Bash returns if you try to execute a directory, so it
> is indicating a missing setting.
>
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