[mythtv-users] Mythburn not working
Joseph DeGraw
coffee412 at comcast.net
Tue Apr 29 23:09:28 UTC 2014
On 04/29/2014 05:41 PM, John Pilkington wrote:
> 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
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Yes, We have been here before. OK. So your saying I need to get rid of
the copyts ? This would be in the mythburn.pl file?
Sorry to drag you thru this again.....
Joseph
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