[mythtv-users] Mythburn not working

[John Pilkington]

On 29/04/14 22:31, HP-mini wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 16:29 -0400, Joseph DeGraw wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have finally got some free time (and the wife yelling at me) to start
>> tackling my problem with making DVD's from recorded shows. Seems this
>> has been an on going issue for some time. So, Here we go:
>>
>> Burning a DVD stalls out with no error messages in any of the logs. Some
>> tv shows do actually burn to dvd. The only thing that I have figured out
>> is that the shows that do burn to DVD thru Mythtv are somewhat small in
>> size i.e. about 1 gig or less - Seems to be a non HD recording. HD
>> recordings usually fail. There is no error message in the logs or on the
>> display. They just sit there with no activity.
>>
>> I would sit down and troubleshoot this but I dont even know where to
>> start since I get no errors that I can find in any of the logs. The
>> script for resizing the dvd runs and then after a bit it seems to freeze
>> and never get to the point of burning the dvd. At one point I thought I
>> had this fixed but --- nope. So, Im completely at a loss on this. There
>> are some HD movies - about 2 hours long that fail. I was hoping that
>> these movies/shows which are probably 4 gigs in size should burn to a
>> dvd no problem.
>>
>> Well, Any input on this is welcome. Im running Mythbuntu 12.04  / Mythtv
>> .27-fixes, 64bit.
>
>
> mytharchive/mythburn.py creates log files in the same place it creates
> temp & final output files etc
> This location is configured in FE setup for mytharchive.
> I get sub-folders named work/logs/config.
>
> I have found extracting failed cmds from the log file (& executing
> directly) is a good way to find (& fix?) problems.
>
> Creating your own dvd profiles (in users /home/.mythtv/MythArchive/)
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythArchive#How_do_I_add_my_own_encoding_parameters_to_the_encoding_profiles.3F
> allows you to easily try alt. settings & short test runs (first to an
> ISO file) by adding:
> <parameter name="-t"  value="00:01:30"/>
>

We've been here before.  Th encoding profile includes -copyts and HD 
re-encoding runs but makes no progress.  This link points to the end of 
a long and fairly repetitive thread.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/561992#561992

John P