[mythtv-users] Anyone gotten MythArchive running on SuSE 10.2/with wodim?

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Fri Nov 30 06:59:19 UTC 2007


On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 11:11:59PM -0600, David Shay wrote:
>    On 11/24/07, Jay R. Ashworth <[1]jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> 
>      SuSE has dropped cdrecord and it's annoying derivatives in favor of
>      wodim; I'm not wizard enough to know how that affects mytharchive, but
>      I suspect it can't be good.
>      If anyone who has the knowledge of MA to help me figure out what needs
>      to be done to adapt it also has the time, I'd be happy to write up the
>      results for the wiki, and my sister would thank you to the end of your
>      days...
> 
>    I'm not using SuSE, so I can't speak definitively, but a grep of the entire
>    mytharchive directory finds no reference of "cdrecord" at all, so I wouldn't
>    suspect an issue at all.  From a very brief reading of the code (
>    mythburn.py script, mainly), it looks like the reliance on cdrtools is
>    primarily for mkisofs, not cdrecord.  Burning of the DVD itself would be
>    done with growisofs from dvd+rw-tools.

Ok; I'll have to go dig back into it again.  I got hung on the prereqs,
which I thought included something SuSE 10 no longer bundled, but it's
been some months, so who knows.  Thanks, David.

Cheers,
-- jra
-- 
Jay R. Ashworth                   Baylink                      jra at baylink.com
Designer                     The Things I Think                       RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates     http://baylink.pitas.com                     '87 e24
St Petersburg FL USA      http://photo.imageinc.us             +1 727 647 1274

	     Witty slogan redacted until AMPTP stop screwing WGA


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list