I can't get mytharchive to work on one of my combined FE/BE's. It works fine on the one I have set up at girlfriend's house (at least the part that blows at my house), so I am using mytharchive correctly.

I do:
optical disks -> archive files -> find files to archive -> select recordings
and select a recording (I have tried several, both mpg and nuv) and press OK. That part seems to work.

I then do:
.. -> export video files -> create native archive
and it says "You don't have any items to archive! Click OK"
same problem with
.. -> export video files -> create dvd

I have searched the forums to no avail. I have gone over the mytharchive setup settings per several posts:
temp directory: /myth/tmp
share directory: /usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/
file selector filter: *.mpg *.mov *.avi *.mpeg *.nuv
location of dvd: /dev/dvd

/dev/dvd does exist and I tried /dev/cdrom too. They are both symlinks to (/dev/) hdc. (/dev/) hdc has access a+rw. I tried directories with trailing slash and without. I verified ownership on everything in /usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive /myth/tmp /myth/tv /myth/vidoe and /myth. I tried chown -R mythtv:mythtv * and chmod -R a+rw * in /usr/share/mythtv /myth/archive and /myth/tmp

My system seems to work fine other than this (it serves mulitple FE's and records simultaneously) and I have watched DVD's and used growisofs to burn DVD's.

Help!: I only have 100gig free and need to burn some recordings off!

My system:
R5E50 on Dual Core Intel @3.0 ghz (x2) - 512meg ram - 5gig root - 900gig across 3 drives on LVM for /myth - pchdtv3500 capture card
upgraded from R5C7 430mhz PII with PVR-350
I have a mix of mpg's (from the PVR-350) and nuv's and have no
luck with either when trying mytharchive but they play fine.

GF system:
R5E50 on 1.4ghz Athlon - 512meg ram - 500 gig single drive setup - PVR-350
upgraded from the same R5C7 430mhz PII with PVR-350

Hi,

I have only started to play in that sand box, but the first path you select items to archive then when you go into export you have to select which item specificly that you wish to do. Use arrow keys to navigate and space bar to select.

Mike

I _do_ select items to export first. After that I try to get in to "create native archive" or "create dvd" but it won't let me in. It gives me the error message and won't let me in.

I believe I am using it right because I _can_ get into "create native archive" or "create dvd" on the FE/BE at my girlfriend's house.

Did you make sure you have the working directory configured and pointing to a directory that actually exists?

See this thread: http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=14032

I saw that thread.

I tried to indicate that I have checked all that.

From original post:
>>temp directory: /myth/tmp
>>share directory: /usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/

and:
>>I verified ownership on everything in /usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive /myth/tmp ...

Hi,

That looks about right for settings.. The only other trick I have to do is after building an iso, usually before I can build the second one I have to do $ rm -rf /myth/tmp/* and then when I select something to "burn" it will show a value in the gauge.

I usually build the iso first and have a link to mythburn.iso in my video folder. After the first scan to add it, it will always be handy for a quick check that the edits came out as expected before making a coaster

Good luck.
Mike

Did you make sure that the named directory exists hand has the right ownerships and permissions?

In my original post, I tried to indicate that I had checked that:

I had also tried deleting all the files in /myth/tmp (it did not help).

Just for grins, I even tried backing off on the chmod a+rw to exactly the ownerships that you specified. It did not help.

After much additional time, including upgrading to R5F1 (which did not help) I finally have found the cause. There are files missing in /var/lib/mysql/mythconverg:

archiveitems.MYD
archiveitems.MYI
archiveitems.frm

I copied them from a working system and now I can get into "Export Video Files". I am burning a (native) DVD right now on R5F1. It seems to be stuck after the burn finished. It's late will tackle that later.

I suspect now that this is an upgrade issue because R5C7 (the original installation) did not have MythArchive in it.

I've gotten the same errors on R5E50. I've tried the R5F1 edition, but it's given me nothing but troubles with my nVidia/PVR-350 setup, whereas the previous edition just works fine.

However, I don't have an archiveitems table in the mythconverg database. If someone could post the schema for that table then that would help.

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KnoppMyth R5F27
ECS nForce3-A
Sempron 1800+
Hauppauge PVR-350

/myth: 1.4 Tb using LVM

Just want to document that I had this same problem and copying the three mysql tables (archiveitems.*) from one of my slave backends to my master backend (and then modifying the owner/rights) seemed to fix the problem.

It seems that both my master backend and one of my slave backends that were auto-upgraded from R4 to R5C7 to R5F1 didn't have these archive tables. My one other slave backend that was installed clean as R5C7 and then upgraded to R5F1 did have the tables. So that is where I was able to get them.

You should also be able to snarf the SQL to create that table (the three files are all parts of it) from /usr/local/share/knoppmyth/KnoppMyth.sql

I had a similar problem. REPAIR TABLE archiveitems in mysql fixed it for me.