I installed the mythburn script that had been modified by mabene. I have this working but I also have the title error. Makes DVDs but the titles are all "@/myth/mythburn/temp/titlewrapped....". How compatable is the mabene version of the scripts with the CVS scripts?

The CVS version fixes this problem.


I had two problems with the cvs setup. First I did not run the install script and just copied my old config. This is good and bad. Good that I did not have to retype all the params bad that there was a new param. So after running install.sh from the installed folder I was up and running. Then there was a problem with the intro which is now fixed in the cvs version. After that I have burned several dvds with no problems at all.

John

Thanks John,

I installed the CVS and all works well now.

The reason that I used the mabene scripts is that that is what the wiki recommended giving the impression that the cvs scripts were out of date. Shouldn't this be updated to help others that might make the same decision I did?


Just out of curiosity, it looks from this thread that mabene and spit2k1 are working together but there are 2 locations to download the scripts from and they are not the same script.

Paul

I just updated to the cvs version this morning and everything looks like it went ok with ProjectX, but when it was done, the script complained about a problem with projectx because it did not create a log file. I looked and the log file was there:

-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 166843392 Nov 21 09:14 1000_20051120220200.ac3
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 6360145962 Nov 21 09:14 1000_20051120220200.m2v
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 10863 Nov 21 09:14 1000_20051120220200_X.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 4096 Nov 21 08:58 DVD
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 25038 Nov 21 09:14 mythburn.log

The script is checking to see if the ${base}_X.log file is created and if not, it errors out.

I am able to update the mythburn directory by typing "cvs update" as root, but when I then use the "Burn DVD" function within mythweb, none of the new features seem to be working. I can tell the "cvs update" command has done something since the dates on many things with the mythburn directory and subdirectories have the most recent cvs dates, but the automatic compression feature doesn't seem to be working, i.e. - my 6.6GB show which was app. a 5.1GB iso file before the update is still 5.1GB and won't fit on a 4.7GB DVD.

Forgive me for being such a linux newbie, but what do I need to do to get the updates to work?

Thanks.

Problem solved. I remembered after searching around my directories that I had originally installed the mythburn scripts in /usr/share/mythburn as per the instructions on Knoppmythwiki. Consequently, all my attempts at "cvs update" in the /myth/mythburn/mythburn subdirectory were for naught. Don't ask me how all the files got into /myth/mythburn/mythburn in the first place.

After doing a "cvs update" in /usr/share/mythburn, lots of error messages were generated, but I attempted to create a DVD anyway from the "Burn DVD" page in the webbrowser. I naturally got lots of error messages and the process halted due to an error. In desparation, I went back to /usr/share/mythburn and, as root, re-ran the installation script (by typing ./install.sh), and answered all the prompts again. When I went back to the webbrowser and tried the "Burn DVD" page, everything worked including the new automatic compression to fit my 5.1GB show onto a 4.7GB DVD-R.

Does anyone have a simple procedure for me to clean up the mess of at least two mythburn installations, and move the working one to where it's "supposed" to be: /myth/mythburn/mythburn

Thanks.

I solved it by: ln -s conf mythconf

Hi all,

First of all thanks a lot for the very nice piece of work.
Downloaded from CVS yesterday, applied the above mentioned patches and some.
I do have to change mythwebburn/mythtvburndvd_confirm.php on line 27 which is
$file = "mythburnconf/mythtvburnconfig.xml";
to
$file = "conf/mythtvburnconfig.xml";
otherwise I get an error being
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: xml_parser_create() in
on line 42 which is
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
After changing it, it gets me further but with following error
Warning at /var/www/html/mythweb/themes/Default/theme.php, line 16:
which reads:
header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8");
Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /data/mythburn/mythwebburn/themes/Default/mythtvburndvd_confirm.php:220)
Everything works then. What is possibly wrong in my configuration.
Any hints grealy appreciated.

Henk Schoneveld
The Netherlands

BTW I had to change several {projectx} -o to {projectx} -out in the following files
mpeg2cut-px.sh and remplex.sh
and
_X.log to _log.txt in the same files

Hi all,

Tried to write to a DVD-RW but then I get a read-only error, as follows:
unable to open64("/dev/dvd",O_RDONLY): Permission denied
changed the growisofs line to:
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd -V "MythTV BurnDVD" -dvd-video ${dvddir}
but still the same error, but repeating from shell
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd -V "MythTV BurnDVD" -dvd-video directory/of/DVD
it perfectly writes the disc
What to do ?

Do burns from the webbrowser fail, but initiated from a shell work? Are you logged in as root on the shell? Then it seems like a permission problem. From the webbrowser the user www-data (or whatever user owns the webserver processes on your system) tries to write to the burner. Make sure that user has permissions to write to /dev/dvd.

I made /dev/dvd and from where it's linked rw to all, now I get:
FATAL: /dev/dvd already carries isofs!
Repeating as mythtv from command-line I get:
WARNING: /dev/dvd already carries isofs!
About to execute 'mkisofs -V MythTV BurnDVD -dvd-video /data/mythburn/temp/DVD | builtin_dd of=/dev/dvd obs=32k seek=0'
/dev/dvd: restarting DVD+RW format...

So it looks like there is a check if the DVD-RW medium is blank or not. Any idea ??

Growisofs cannot be used from a script to overwrite an RW disk that already has information on it. The authors did this as there would be no-one present to abort in the 5 sec countdown given in interactive mode.

There is however an undocumented switch that can be used, with the obvious need for caution. I edited the growisofs line in mythtvburn.sh to read:


growisofs -use-the-force-luke -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video -V "MythTV BurnDVD" ${dvddir}

to get around this problem.

DISCLAIMER!!: If you record over your wifes favorite disk you may find the information contained in this post fatal!

Hi all,

Tried the force-luke option but to no avail. What could I try more, I know it can be done, nuv2disc does it. But my understanding of the scripts is not enough to understand what I do have to change.

What version of the scripts are you using? I'm using CVS as of NOV 16.

Post the entire growisofs line from mythtvburn.sh and the last part of the log file with the error information.

Also it looks like the -dvd-compat and -dvd-video may be redundant, just the -dvd-video should be sufficient.

I could send you a copy of my script but not sure if this is such a good idea with the different versions floating around.

I changed permissions on /dev/hd? and it works now.
Thanks for all suggestions

ok, first off, the author's email address is nowhere to be found in the source code.
secondly, the first hit in google for mythburn is a page that does nothing.

now that that's out of the way:)

how do i fix this warning, and what files can i delete from the extracted oct source after getting install.sh up and proper?

Warning at /usr/local/mythburn/mythwebburn/mythtvburndvd_confirm.php, line 74:
Invalid argument supplied for foreach()