[mythtv-users] Nuvexport / mythtranscode fails because fifo directory isn't there

[Tony Maro]

Chris Petersen wrote:
>>Trying to create a WMV file, nuvexport will fail.  In debug, I got an 
>>output of what it's trying to do and on:
>>mythtranscode -p autodetect -c 1030 -s 2004-03-09-01-00-00 -f fifodir.15441
>>It fails because the directory "fifodir.15441" doesn't exist.
> 
> 
> --debug is your friend.  but you have to make sure that the fifodir
> exists (nuvexport does this for you automatically).  Make sure you have
> write permissions to whatever directory you're in.  maybe I should make
> it create the fifodir in /tmp instead of the current directory.  Any
> thoughts?
> 

Oh, and on the second part there... I did have write permission because 
I never changed users between running nuvexport and manually creating 
it.  I can't answer exactly why it didn't create it, unless it created 
the fifodir in one location and then looked in another for it...?

-Tony