[mythtv-users] export to DVD failing...

F Peeters (MythTV) francesco at fampeeters.com
Fri Jan 26 17:58:19 UTC 2007


On Wed, January 24, 2007 04:01, Go Hskrs wrote:
> On 1/20/07, F Peeters (MythTV) <francesco at fampeeters.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have 2 movies that have been recorded from TV with a PVR250.
>>
>> Now I want to put them on a DVD, so my DD can watch them on her DVD
>> player
>> and I can flush them off my drive. (No, she doesn't have a myth frontend
>> in her room!)
>>
>> So I selected the movies, went to export, selected DVD, selected the
>> myth
>> theme for the menu's and selected LP (4 hours on single layer DVD)
>> profile.
>>
>> Because it us my first try, I opted to make an ISO, rather than burning
>> directly to DVD, as my attempts with the mythburn tool on .19 were less
>> than satisfactory (it tried to put 5 GB on a single layer DVD!)
>>
>
> Try removing the .ICEauthority file in the home directory of the mythtv
> user, or whichever user is running mythfrontend/mytharchive.  (I usually
> run
> mythfrontend as root when creating DVDs, to ensure I have highest-priority
> access to my DVD drive and thus prevent buffer underruns and spoiled
> DVD-Rs.  Don't know if that's recommended, but it works for me.)
>
> Probably somewhere in your logs, you will see an error message that looks
> like this:
> ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 27674, errno = 32
>
> See
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?do=post_view;post=231079;list=mythtvfor
> my earlier experiences with this problem.  Good luck.

grep -i -R "ICE default" /var/log/* gives no results, so it looks like a
different issue...

-- 
F Peeters
  PC-Chips M863G Geode - NVidia 440 - Hauppauge PVR250
  Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) - XFCE - MythTV 0.20 - Xine
  Panasonic NV-VHD1 VCR/DVD player case modded to fit it all in...


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