Opened 15 years ago
Closed 15 years ago
Last modified 15 years ago
#6617 closed defect (fixed)
MythVideo is not seeing dvds but Myth transcode Daemon Does
Reported by: | anonymous | Owned by: | Anduin Withers |
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Priority: | major | Milestone: | unknown |
Component: | Plugin - MythVideo | Version: | 0.21 |
Severity: | high | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Ticket locked: | no |
Description
When using Mytharchive to import dvds the mtd is launched in the background successfully and in mtd.log it confirms that it can see the dvd but in the mythfrontend portion it still says waiting for dvd.
mtd.log
17:45:49: Waiting for connections/jobs 17:45:49: mtd is listening on port 2442 17:45:49: a client socket has been opened 17:45:50: DVD inserted: Movie_DVD 17:45:50: : Title 1 is of type 4 (dvdinput table) 17:45:50: : Title 2 is of type 4 (dvdinput table) 17:45:50: : Title 3 is of type 4 (dvdinput table) 17:45:50: : Title 4 is of type 4 (dvdinput table) 17:46:23: a client socket has been closed
I have looked through messages, mythbackend.log and also mtd.log with no hint of a warning or error message making this very hard to figure out. I am not sure if this is gentoo related or if this is happening with other distributions as well.
Playing dvds and launching already backed up dvds work correctly. Also double checked the permissions of mytharchive which were fine but I gave it 777 anyways just to be sure but no luck.
mytharchive-0.21_p18355 mythvideo-0.21_p17595
USE="aac alsa dvb dvd mmx opengl perl python video_cards_nvidia" mythtv-0.21_p19961-r2
ARCH=amd64
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Change History (19)
comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by
comment:2 Changed 15 years ago by
I just wanted to give an update to the status of this ticket.
Out of frustration I backed up my recorded and scheduled tv shows and deleted the mythconverg database and recreated it.
This actually fixed the import dvd program, which is great, but then I had duplicate times for the same show under program finder which I knew was going to come back to haunt me.
So I bit the bullet and deleted all my saved tv shows I have ever recorded in a years time :(
I recreated the database again and everything is working perfectly.
The short story is mythtv seems to have some problems with restoring from backups. My example was from backing up from mythtv version .21 to version .21. Even though I faithfully backup everything in the just in case moments, I am not sure about mythtv.
I will continue to backup mythtv but if this problem occurs again I might have to start recommending to people to forgo the backups and start from scratch to fix any problem the user is having no matter how small.
comment:3 Changed 15 years ago by
anon, any chance of attaching the (non-working) backup, and a fresh backup of the minimal working setup? The former will be a little large, so removing the recordedmarkup, recordedseek and oldrecorded tables may be necessary.
I suspect this is something to do with the MediaMonitor?, but am not sure yet.
comment:4 Changed 15 years ago by
Status: | new → infoneeded_new |
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comment:5 Changed 15 years ago by
I tried to reduce the space of the mythtv database but I can't get it smaller than 2 megs and that's the new one installed the old mythtv backup is 3.8 megs it was 116 megs. To attach a file it has to be 256k not sure what more I can toss out.
comment:7 Changed 15 years ago by
Component: | Plugin - MythArchive → Plugin - MythVideo |
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Owner: | changed from paulh to Anduin Withers |
Status: | infoneeded_new → new |
Summary: | Mytharchive is not seeing dvds but Myth transcode Daemon Does → MythVideo is not seeing dvds but Myth transcode Daemon Does |
MythArchive? creates DVDs it's got nothing to do with importing them that would be MythDVD now part of MythVideo?.
comment:8 Changed 15 years ago by
Status: | new → infoneeded_new |
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comment:9 Changed 15 years ago by
I was wondering if someone would be able to give me a command to run in order to get just the settings table from mysql so I can attach it.
comment:10 Changed 15 years ago by
mysql -u root mythconverg -e 'select * from settings'
or, in a more compact form,
mysqldump -u root mythconverg settings
Changed 15 years ago by
Attachment: | new_mythtv_settings.bak added |
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The New MythTV Settings(Fresh Install)
comment:12 follow-up: 13 Changed 15 years ago by
Recreating a fresh mythconverg database solved this problem for me too. I also backup and restore regularly my database using Mysql Administrator, so it could explain why I also encountered this same problem; Something micght not get backed up correctly. Is there a way to restore the correct/initial settings of Mythvideo/MythDVD without recreating a new database from scratch ? Some kind of command I could run from the terminal after every restore.
comment:13 Changed 15 years ago by
problem solved: The target directory for the import needed to be created. Import went ok after the creation of the directory. Maybe the application should display an error message to warn the user of such an error.
Replying to satfan39:
Recreating a fresh mythconverg database solved this problem for me too. I also backup and restore regularly my database using Mysql Administrator, so it could explain why I also encountered this same problem; Something micght not get backed up correctly. Is there a way to restore the correct/initial settings of Mythvideo/MythDVD without recreating a new database from scratch ? Some kind of command I could run from the terminal after every restore.
comment:14 Changed 15 years ago by
From the settings backups, this is probably the relevant item:
% diff old_mythttv_settings.bak new_mythtv_settings.bak ... 80a66 > 'DVDDeviceLocation','/dev/dvd','Galactica' 82,83c68 < 'DVDDeviceLocation','/dev/dvd2','Galactica' < 'DVDDriveSpeed','2','Galactica' --- > 'DVDDriveSpeed','12','Galactica' 87c72 < 'DVDRipLocation','/backup/MythTV/mytharchive/temp','Galactica' --- > 'DVDRipLocation','/tmp','Galactica'
so if anon's problem is the same as satfan's, 'twas just the dir /backup/MythTV/mytharchive/temp that didn't exist?
comment:15 Changed 15 years ago by
comment:16 Changed 15 years ago by
Resolution: | → fixed |
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Status: | infoneeded_new → closed |
comment:17 Changed 15 years ago by
Hopefully, it was the missing dir, and this extra warning will remind users to create the rip directory. If not, please re-open and provide mythfrontend -v output
I have the same problem in my environment; I can watch DVDs but I can not import them.
My environment: Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 with kernel 2.6.28-12-server. I used ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-vdpau --dvb-path=... enable-xvmc-opengl --enable-opengl-vsync --disable-ssse3 --enable-proc-opt --disable-firewire
Replying to anonymous: