[mythtv-users] Help with MythPodcaster

Anthony Giggins seven at seven.dorksville.net
Mon May 28 22:17:36 UTC 2018


On 29 May 2018 at 01:17, Dave Pearson (Lists) <lists at the-pearsons.co.uk>
wrote:

> HI,
>
>
> I've been having problems with MythPodcaster since upgrading to ubuntu
> 18.04, I'm hoping that someone here can help me.
>
>
> I've had to downgrade tomcat to tomcat 8.0.52 and I'm using oracle-java7.
>
>
> The web interface loads ok, but whenever MythPodcaster attempts to
> transcode a recording, I get this error message:2018-05-28
>
> 15:40:31,670 ERROR [MythPodcasterTranscodingThread-1]
> transcode.FeedFileAccessorImpl (FeedFileAccessorImpl.java:385) - Error
> while transcoding, setting link to null
> java.lang.ClassCastException: net.urlgrey.mythpodcaster.xml.
> GenericTranscoderConfigurationItem cannot be cast to
> net.urlgrey.mythpodcaster.xml.FFMpegTranscoderConfigurationItem
>         at net.urlgrey.mythpodcaster.transcode.FFMpegTranscoderImpl.
> transcode(FFMpegTranscoderImpl.java:56)
>         at net.urlgrey.mythpodcaster.transcode.TranscodingControllerImpl.
> encodeOnePass(TranscodingControllerImpl.java:172)
>         at net.urlgrey.mythpodcaster.transcode.TranscodingControllerImpl.
> transcode(TranscodingControllerImpl.java:55)
>         at net.urlgrey.mythpodcaster.transcode.FeedFileAccessorImpl.
> addProgramToFeed(FeedFileAccessorImpl.java:323)
>         at net.urlgrey.mythpodcaster.transcode.
> IndividualFeedTranscodeTaskImpl.run(IndividualFeedTranscodeTaskImpl.
> java:149)
>         at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(
> ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
>         at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(
> ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
>         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
>
>
> My first thought was that it is a file access error, but the .rss .html
> &.png files are all created ok, so MythPodcaster can definitely write to
> the output directory.
>
>
> I've also tried setting up mythpodcaster in docker, but I cannot get the
> web interface to work in docker. In many ways this would be my preferred
> option, since it would be unaffected by any OS upgrades.
>
>
> Any help, gratefully received.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave.
>

Sorry I cant comment on MythPodcaster but perhaps try Mythexport, seems to
work well and it's php so you don't need to additionally run tomcat.

https://launchpad.net/mythexport

Regards,

Anthony
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