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patterbt at yahoo

Jul 3, 2007, 11:22 PM

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Storage directory for MythDVD transcode?

I am trying to rip some of my DVDs using mythDVD, but I am having some problems. I am using an external USB drive for storage of my movies, so I have all of my directories in the mythtv configurations pointed to the USB drive.

But I can't seem to find the setting for changing the directory where myth stores the temporary VOB files before transcoding. I tried to set the directory under Setup->Media Settings->DVD Settings->Rip Settings->Directory to hold temporary files , but no matter what I put in there it doesn't seem to matter.

Every time I try to rip a DVD, it runs for about 3 minutes and then pukes out. It gives me this error text in the mtd.log file:

"01:57:58: launching job: job dvd 1 1 3 0 -1 /home/media/movies/LUTHER
01:57:59: transcode command will be: transcode -i /storage/videos/LUTHER/vob/ -g 720x480 -f 0,1 -M 2 -V -j 0,8,0,8 -y xvid -w 1618 -o /home/media/movies/LUTHER.avi --print_status 20 --color 0
01:57:59: job thread beginning to rip dvd title
02:01:08: Error: Couldn't write blocks during a rip. Filesystem size exceeded? Disc full?"

For some unknown reason, the transcode command keeps wanting to put its files in /storage/videos. I cannot do this, because the partition that I am using for myth doesn't have enough space for that. So I need to find a way to "remap" this directory, but it almost seems to be hard coded.

BTW, I am running Mythdora 4.0 in case that matters. Thanks!!

awithers at anduin

Jul 4, 2007, 3:47 AM

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Re: Storage directory for MythDVD transcode? [In reply to]

> I tried to set the directory under Setup->Media Settings->DVD Settings-
> >Rip Settings->Directory to hold temporary files , but no matter what I
> put in there it doesn't seem to matter.

The temp directory is exactly that, the final file is written to your video
directory.

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bpatterson at espec

Jul 5, 2007, 6:22 AM

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Re: Storage directory for MythDVD transcode? [In reply to]

Anduin Withers wrote:

I tried to set the directory under Setup->Media Settings->DVD Settings-
Rip Settings->Directory to hold temporary files , but no matter what I
put in there it doesn't seem to matter.
The temp directory is exactly that, the final file is written to your video directory.

I understand what the temp directory is for, I was just wondering if there is some way that I could specify where it is or remap the temp directory to a different partition (i.e one with more room). Perhaps this info can be modified in some deep down configuration file?

trgreer at gmail

Jul 5, 2007, 9:48 AM

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Re: Storage directory for MythDVD transcode? [In reply to]

On 7/5/07, Brad Patterson <bpatterson [at] espec> wrote:
>
> Anduin Withers wrote:
>
> I tried to set the directory under Setup->Media Settings->DVD Settings-
>
>
> Rip Settings->Directory to hold temporary files , but no matter what I
>
> put in there it doesn't seem to matter.
>
> The temp directory is exactly that, the final file is written to your video
> directory.
>
>
> I understand what the temp directory is for, I was just wondering if there
> is some way that I could specify where it is or remap the temp directory to
> a different partition (i.e one with more room). Perhaps this info can be
> modified in some deep down configuration file?
>

Setting the temp directory works fine for me. How do you know that
the specified temp directory is not being used?

BTW, you mentioned earlier that you were trying to save the files to a
USB drive. I purchased a USB drive a short time ago. I was having
intermittent problems writing to it. The only message that I received
was an IO error.

This was driving me nuts until I realized that the drive was
preformatted as FAT32 and that FAT32 has a 4 mb file size limitation.
Since I wanted to use a Windows laptop to view the files, I had to
reformat it as NTFS.

Perhaps you have a similar problem?
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bpatterson at espec

Jul 5, 2007, 10:23 AM

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Re: Storage directory for MythDVD transcode? [In reply to]

> Setting the temp directory works fine for me. How do you know that
> the specified temp directory is not being used?
>
> BTW, you mentioned earlier that you were trying to save the files to a
> USB drive. I purchased a USB drive a short time ago. I was having
> intermittent problems writing to it. The only message that I received
> was an IO error.
>
> This was driving me nuts until I realized that the drive was
> preformatted as FAT32 and that FAT32 has a 4 mb file size limitation.
> Since I wanted to use a Windows laptop to view the files, I had to
> reformat it as NTFS.
>
> Perhaps you have a similar problem?
>
Tom,

Thanks for the ideas, but unfortunately that didn't work for me. The one
thing that I haven't tried, though, is setting the temp directory to the
path that I want myth to use and then exiting myth and restarting
(perhaps even restarting the PC?). I am not sure if this would make a
difference or not. The way that I can tell that it is not using the
directory I am specifying is by the info written to the mtd.log file.
Here is a snippet of that file:

"01:57:58: launching job: job dvd 1 1 3 0 -1 /home/media/movies/LUTHER
01:57:59: transcode command will be: transcode -i
/storage/videos/LUTHER/vob/ -g 720x480 -f 0,1 -M 2 -V -j 0,8,0,8 -y xvid
-w 1618 -o /home/media/movies/LUTHER.avi --print_status 20 --color 0
01:57:59: job thread beginning to rip dvd title
02:01:08: Error: Couldn't write blocks during a rip. Filesystem size
exceeded? Disc full?"

You can see from the snippet that I pasted, the transcode command is
trying to use "/storage/videos/LUTHER/vob"; instead of the directory I
specified which is /home/media/movies (my USB drive mount point).

I know I am not having the Fat32 problem, as I also ran into that a
while ago, and then reformatted the USB drive as Ext3 to get around the
file size limitation. Thanks,

Brad
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awithers at anduin

Jul 5, 2007, 11:50 AM

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Re: Storage directory for MythDVD transcode? [In reply to]

> Thanks for the ideas, but unfortunately that didn't work for me. The one
> thing that I haven't tried, though, is setting the temp directory to the
> path that I want myth to use and then exiting myth and restarting
> (perhaps even restarting the PC?).

You just need to restart mtd, there is currently no way to make mtd reset
its settings cache.

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