[mythtv-users] Mytharchive error on 0.26

Jos Hoekstra joshoekstra at gmx.net
Tue Oct 30 09:08:01 UTC 2012


Op 30-10-2012 0:12, Paul Harrison schreef:
> On 29/10/12 22:06, John Pilkington wrote:
>> On 29/10/12 20:52, Jos Hoekstra wrote:
>>>
>>> That's pretty much it, the only difference between your and my system
>>> seems to be the version.
>>> If anyone could post the first part of mythburn.log where it kicks off
>>> the downloading(from storage group) and subsequently
>>> cutting/transcoding, it might provide more insight.
>>> Thanks for your help anyway, it provided the insight that the updated
>>> version from mythbuntu seems to crap up the config.xml files.
>>>
>>> Jos
>>
>> I can do that: I do use SGs but new recordings usually go to just one 
>> folder. I rarely cut or transcode in MA.
>> -----------------------------------
>>
> <snip>
>> Pre-processing recording 1: '/mnt/sam1/recb/1002_20120908214300.mpg'
> <snip>
>
> MythArchive has never supported storage groups. The files need to be 
> available locally so the tools that MythArchive uses has access to 
> them. That usually means having to use NFS to mount the files on the 
> frontends in the same directory that the backend can find them. The 
> log snippet above clearly shows the file is available on the local 
> filesystem and not via an SG (it would start with myth::// if it was 
> only available via an SG). There is a setting to copy files from 
> remote file systems like those mounted using NFS to the local file 
> system that is just to speed up processing since accessing large files 
> via NFS can be slow but that doesn't work using storage groups yet. 
> Raymond Wagner did tell me how to use the the python bindings to copy 
> a file from a SG to a local file but I left the project before I fully 
> implemented it in the script.
>
> Paul H.

Was afraid of that ;)
So moving forward, NFS mount on same directory as it is on the backend 
is the way to go?
ie: backend: /RAID/video, frontend: /RAID/video?

Thanks :)

Jos


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