Mythburn appears to work as slick as a whistle, at least until it runs stuck. In my case with the transcode problem. I've been making the necessary changes, but even after a reboot, it thinks that it is still running. When you ask it to stop, it warns you that it will take a few seconds to respond, but nothing happens.

Is there a way to manually clear it so I can try again?

If you're sure that the processes are dead then remove the lock file. I don't remember the name but it's pretty obvious if you look in the mythburn directory.

Thanks, that did the trick.

However, I now run into another problem I've not seen anywhere. I get an ERR: Cannot jump to chapter 6 of title 1, only 5 exist
ERR: in VTSM pgc 1, button scene_1_6

Any clues on that one?

About every other try I get the message above. On the alternate attempts I get tc_memcpy: using mmxext for memcpy
(decode_mpeg2.c) video write failed.
(demuxer.c) write program stream packet: Broken pipe

Burnmyth seems to good to be true - and maybe it is - but if I can get it working it will definitely be a step up from trying to do all the work from the command prompt.

Start off with minimal functionality and get that working first.

- No animated menus
- No commercial cutting

Both of these are areas where it's a bit fragile. Here are some references:
http://knoppmythwiki.homelinux.org/index.php?page=MythTVBurn_Scripts_HowTo
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3848

I had come to the same conclusion earlier and turned off the animated menus, though it still seems to be trying to grap jpgs for menus. I could skip the menus altogether since I just want to be able to put an episode in and let it run. That doesn't appear to be an option, just whether or not to animate them.

Commercials I could live with as well, but there too I don't no where to turn the editing process off. There doesn't seem to be a check box for that, so I'm guessing it has to be done on the scripting level. Could you throw me a clue?

A couple of more error messages for you to chew on. I haven't had a chance to hunt them down yet, but since you appear to the driving force behind it, I thought they might help you make some permanent fixes. After I choose the show I want to burn and get moved to the page with the menus of pics, they both appear on the top.

The first says: Warning at /myth/mythburn/mythburn/mythwebburn/mythtvburndvd_confirm.php line 56: Invalid argurment supplied foreach[]

The second says: Warning at /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/themes/Default/theme.php line 16:Cannot modify header information -headers already sent by (output started at /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/includes/errors.php:68 )

I'm sure spit2k1 (the author) would be as startled to hear that as I am. I'm just a user who has managed to get it working and who answers an occasional question around here.

BTW - I almost never use the web interface myself. Instead I've got a little wrapper script which I run from the command line with the list of recordings I want:

Oops, sorry about that. All my googling brought me back to posts by you for any helpful information, though it looks like most of the earliest information was wiped out when the board was taken down.

Personally I like the web interface because it would allow me to do the burning from inside the frontend, if I can get it working. However, I'm still trying to figure out how to turn off the commercial cutting. Do one of the 'no's in your script do that? If so, which? You enter the parameters in a different order than I would have expected, based the web interface.

When you get them, of course. I'm having exactly the same grief as you've listed here... I'm sinking dozens and dozens of hours into figuring this out, and I really could use a hand!

Thanks.

Snoo (I'm guessing the answer to "What's Snoo?" is, 'Not Much, What's snoo with you?' )

Can you provide more detail on exactly what problem you're having and under what circumstances? It's a a bit hard to provide any helpful advice otherwise... (If you want unhelpful advice we've got a special on that today... Satisfaction guarenteed, or double your problems back!)

You win a year's supply of imported snoo!

I'm having almost exactly the same problems.

tc_memcpy: using mmxext for memcpy
(decode_mpeg2.c) video write failed.
(demuxer.c) write program stream packet: Broken pipe

and

ERR: Cannot jump to chapter 6 of title 1, only 5 exist
ERR: in VTSM pgc 1, button scene_1_6

Though the last one sometimes states "chapter 2, only 1 exist".

The surprising thing for me is that it looks like it's NOT my source videos (which I might be able to understand) but the thumbnails it's generating are corrupt , for some reason.

My simple workaround is here: http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... 3721#23721

For those looking for the linux version of DELETE. It is rm
rm {filename}

To abort a failed MythtvBurn. /myth/mythburn/temp

If you "don't speak Unix" see the LinuxTips page on the wiki.

I found a nice help guide at http://www.ss64.com/bash/