[mythtv-users] hostname problem in MythArchive

[Anthony Giggins]

On 29 August 2012 19:48, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:

> On 28/08/12 23:58, Anthony Giggins wrote:
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>> On 29 August 2012 02:19, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net
>> <mailto:J.Pilk at tesco.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 27/08/12 23:53, John Pilkington wrote:
>>
>>         Since installing 0.25-fixes on my main box I've had problems with
>>         MythArchive.  I think this may be because the config settings are
>>         defined by the frontend but are being read using the hostname of
>> the
>>         backend.  The lines in the mythburn.py script read
>>
>>         DB = MythTV.MythDB()
>>         configHostname = DB.gethostname()
>>
>>         I've tried a direct hack in mythburn.py that looked hopeful.
>>           What would
>>         be the way of getting the frontend's 'Custom Identifier' from the
>> DB
>>         instead?
>>
>>
>>     OK, it works for me (in creation of a playable DVD) if the 'Custom
>>     identifier' from Frontend Setup > General > page 2 is used as
>>     configHostname.
>>
>>     If defined it's LocalHostName in ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt.  Isn't that
>>     the file that's being phased out?  config.xml doesn't have it and I
>>     haven't found it in the DB.
>>
>>     I suspect this is also the cause of the lack of a progress log in
>>     'Create an Archive' mode, Ticket #10505, but I don't think that's
>>     done through mythburn.py and my hack doesn't change it.  A usable
>>     Archive is created.
>>
>>     A warning: while I was investigating this, a chmod called within
>>     mythburn.py walked recursively all over my home directory.  I've
>>     commented that line out.  There are some multi-delete sections too...
>>
>>
>>     John P
>>
>>
>> Semi OT: is mytharchive 0.25-fixes Storage Group friendly?
>>
>> Tried using this for the first time since atleast 0.23 and it failed
>> saying it couldn't locate the file from either Videos or files.
>>
>> Can anyone confirm?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>>
> I've not used it before for anything other than recordings, now all from
> dvb-t, and it seems ok with Storage Groups there.  The problem above will
> affect you if you have the 'Custom identifier' defined and you haven't made
> the suggested edits in mythburn.py.  What will happen then depends on
> whatever ancient configuration it picks up.
>
> Now 'Files' shows me my full (single box) file system and seems to work on
> a short recording selected in that way; although when I selected a file
> from the mythlink output folder its reported size was several TB, mistaking
> Bytes for MBytes.
>
> 'Videos' doesn't show any directory structure, though.  Most of my videos
> are in iso format anyway.  Maybe the magic should work there, but I haven't
> tried.  Their names are shown.
>
> John
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