[mythtv-users] Struggling with MythArchive

[Alan Chandler]

Having recorded a couple of programs over christmas that my parents in 
law would like to watch I have tried to install mytharchive.  But I 
can't get it to work, and the error message isn't helping.

My setup is ubuntu-server 12.04 with the mythubuntu packages running in 
that environment.

My normal frontend is debian sid with mythtv-frontend running on my desktop

My initial thought was to install mytharchive and run it from the front 
end - but despite no particular dependancy problems it soon became 
apparent that was a no go because it required file access to the backend 
recordings to work.

So I installed mytharchive on the backend machine, connect into it via 
ssh -X and attempt to run mythfrontend from this machine.

All works fine until I come to actually encode the video.

Mythburn.log says that an error occurs whilst running mythffmpeg and 
that I should look in mythburn.log (which of course I am doing).  There 
is no more information about the failure except the command used.

I tried running mythffmpeg manually with the command that fails, and it 
terminates immediately (silently).  I did try changing from mythffmpeg 
to ffmpeg and the command seemed to then work (ie it was encoding a 
video and seemed to be progressing through it).

Also I seem to have to run at root, because if I run as an ordinary 
user, and despite the /var/lib/mytharchive/temp directory having 777 
permissions, the code appears to be attempting a chmod when it is not 
allowed.

So where do I go from here?

-- 
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk