Now everything seems to go fine with generating the file to burn to the dvd, then it gags. Here is the log.

2006-09-24 08:25:04 mythburn.py (0.1.20060910-1) starting up...
2006-09-24 08:25:04 Obtaining MythTV settings from MySQL database for hostname mythtv
2006-09-24 08:25:04 Obtaining date and time settings from MySQL database for hostname mythtv
2006-09-24 08:25:04 Processing Mythburn job number 1.
2006-09-24 08:25:04 Options - mediatype = 2, doburn = 1, createiso = 0, erasedvdrw = 0
2006-09-24 08:25:04 savefilename = ''
2006-09-24 08:25:04 Looking for: /usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/themes/Compact/theme.xml
2006-09-24 08:25:04 Loading font 0, /usr/share/mythtv/FreeSans.ttf size 19
2006-09-24 08:25:04 Loading font 1, /usr/share/mythtv/FreeSans.ttf size 15
2006-09-24 08:25:04 Loading font 2, /usr/share/mythtv/FreeSans.ttf size 13
2006-09-24 08:25:04 wantIntro: 1, wantMainMenu: 1, wantChapterMenu:0, wantDetailsPage: 0
2006-09-24 08:25:04 Final DVD Video format will be ntsc
2006-09-24 08:25:05 There are 2 files to process
2006-09-24 08:25:12 Pre-processing file '1006_20060918150000.mpg' of type 'recording'
2006-09-24 08:25:12 Rachael Ray
2006-09-24 08:25:13 Video resolution is 480 by 480
2006-09-24 08:25:13 Pre-processing file '1076_20060917150000.mpg' of type 'recording'
2006-09-24 08:25:13 Star Trek: The Next Generation
2006-09-24 08:25:13 Video resolution is 480 by 480
2006-09-24 08:25:13 *************************************************************
2006-09-24 08:25:13 Processing file 1006_20060918150000.mpg of type recording
2006-09-24 08:25:13 *************************************************************
2006-09-24 08:25:13 File type is 'mpeg'
2006-09-24 08:25:13 Video codec is 'mpeg2video'
2006-09-24 08:25:13 Running mythtranscode --mpeg2 to fix any errors
2006-09-24 08:25:29 File will be re-encoded using profile SP
2006-09-24 08:25:30 Preferred audio languages eng and eng
2006-09-24 08:25:30 Video id: 0x1e0, Audio1: [1] 0x1c0 (MP2, N/A), Audio2: [-1] - 0xffffffff (N/A, N/A)
2006-09-24 08:25:30 Aspect ratio is 4:3
2006-09-24 08:25:30 Re-encoding audio and video
2006-09-24 08:25:30 Encoding profile (SP) found
2006-09-24 08:25:30 ffmpeg -v 1 -i "/myth/tmp/work/1/newfile.mpg" -r ntsc -target dvd -b 4771 -s 720x480 -acodec ac3 -ab 192 -ac 2 -copyts -aspect 4:3 "/myth/tmp/work/1/newfile2.mpg" -map 0:0 -map 0:1
2006-09-24 08:31:31 Preferred audio languages eng and eng
2006-09-24 08:31:31 Video id: 0x1e0, Audio1: [1] 0x80 (AC3, N/A), Audio2: [-1] - 0xffffffff (N/A, N/A)
2006-09-24 08:31:31 Splitting MPEG stream into audio and video parts
2006-09-24 08:31:31 Running: mythreplex --demux --fix_sync -o /myth/tmp/work/1/stream -v 224 -c 128 "/myth/tmp/work/1/newfile2.mpg"
2006-09-24 08:32:15 Audio is already in ac3 format
2006-09-24 08:32:15 Extracting thumbnail image from /myth/tmp/work/1/stream.mv2 at position 0
2006-09-24 08:32:15 Destination file /myth/tmp/work/1/thumbnail.jpg
2006-09-24 08:32:16 *************************************************************
2006-09-24 08:32:16 Finished processing file 1006_20060918150000.mpg
2006-09-24 08:32:16 *************************************************************
2006-09-24 08:32:16 *************************************************************
2006-09-24 08:32:16 Processing file 1076_20060917150000.mpg of type recording
2006-09-24 08:32:16 *************************************************************
2006-09-24 08:32:16 File type is 'mpeg'
2006-09-24 08:32:16 Video codec is 'mpeg2video'
2006-09-24 08:32:16 Running mythtranscode --mpeg2 to fix any errors
2006-09-24 08:32:18 File will be re-encoded using profile SP
2006-09-24 08:32:18 Preferred audio languages eng and eng
2006-09-24 08:32:18 Video id: 0x1e0, Audio1: [1] 0x1c0 (MP2, N/A), Audio2: [-1] - 0xffffffff (N/A, N/A)
2006-09-24 08:32:18 Aspect ratio is 4:3
2006-09-24 08:32:18 Re-encoding audio and video
2006-09-24 08:32:18 Encoding profile (SP) found
2006-09-24 08:32:18 ffmpeg -v 1 -i "/myth/tmp/work/2/newfile.mpg" -r ntsc -target dvd -b 4771 -s 720x480 -acodec ac3 -ab 192 -ac 2 -copyts -aspect 4:3 "/myth/tmp/work/2/newfile2.mpg" -map 0:0 -map 0:1
2006-09-24 08:32:57 Preferred audio languages eng and eng
2006-09-24 08:32:57 Video id: 0x1e0, Audio1: [1] 0x80 (AC3, N/A), Audio2: [-1] - 0xffffffff (N/A, N/A)
2006-09-24 08:32:57 Splitting MPEG stream into audio and video parts
2006-09-24 08:32:57 Running: mythreplex --demux --fix_sync -o /myth/tmp/work/2/stream -v 224 -c 128 "/myth/tmp/work/2/newfile2.mpg"
2006-09-24 08:33:00 Audio is already in ac3 format
2006-09-24 08:33:00 Extracting thumbnail image from /myth/tmp/work/2/stream.mv2 at position 0
2006-09-24 08:33:00 Destination file /myth/tmp/work/2/thumbnail.jpg
2006-09-24 08:33:01 *************************************************************
2006-09-24 08:33:01 Finished processing file 1076_20060917150000.mpg
2006-09-24 08:33:01 *************************************************************
2006-09-24 08:33:01 Menu items per page 6
2006-09-24 08:33:01 Background image file is /usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/themes/Compact/Compact-Background.png
2006-09-24 08:33:01 Music is menumusic.mp2, length is 15 seconds
2006-09-24 08:33:01 Creating DVD menus
2006-09-24 08:33:01 Menu page 1
2006-09-24 08:33:04 Encoding Menu Page 1 using aspect ratio '16:9'
2006-09-24 08:33:39 Menu items per page 6
2006-09-24 08:33:39 Creating DVD XML file for dvd author
2006-09-24 08:33:39 Menu page 1
2006-09-24 08:33:39 aspect ratio is: 1.33333
2006-09-24 08:33:39 aspect ratio is: 1.33333
2006-09-24 08:33:39 aspect ratio is: 1.33333
2006-09-24 08:33:39 aspect ratio is: 1.33333
2006-09-24 08:33:39 Total size of video files, before multiplexing, is 251 Mbytes, audio is 9 MBytes, menus are 1 MBytes.
2006-09-24 08:33:39 Video will fit onto DVD. 4208.45 MBytes of space remaining on recordable DVD.
2006-09-24 08:33:39 Multiplexing MPEG stream to /myth/tmp/work/1/final.mpg
2006-09-24 08:33:39 Available streams - video and one audio stream
2006-09-24 08:33:39 Multiplex started PID=7328
2006-09-24 08:33:39 Multiplexing MPEG stream to /myth/tmp/work/2/final.mpg
2006-09-24 08:33:39 Available streams - video and one audio stream
2006-09-24 08:33:39 Multiplex started PID=7329
2006-09-24 08:33:39 Starting dvdauthor
2006-09-24 08:33:48 Finished dvdauthor
2006-09-24 08:33:48 Burning ISO image to /dev/dvd
2006-09-24 08:34:03 ERROR: Retrying to start growisofs after reload.
2006-09-24 08:34:04 ------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/mythburn.py", line 3392, in ?
processJob(job)
File "/usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/mythburn.py", line 3232, in processJob
BurnDVDISO()
File "/usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/mythburn.py", line 1419, in BurnDVDISO
r = ioctl(f,CDROMEJECT, 0)
IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error
2006-09-24 08:34:04 ------------------------------------------------------------

my permissions on the drive are:

mythtv@mythtv:/myth/tmp/logs$ ls -l /dev/dvd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root cdrom 8 Sep 14 12:52 /dev/dvd -> /dev/hdd

Any ideas on what is wrong and how to solve it?

Look at the permissions on the real device (/dev/dvd is just a symbolic link), in your case:

Also, is there really a DVD burner attached as your IDE secondary slave? Check in you BIOS. The scripts that automatically set these links up are only so clever and can be fooled by multiple optical drives.

OK. I did the following. Removed 2nd optical disk (CD), made DVDRW primary and only drive. Drive shows up in BIOS as Plextor PX750 DVDR.


after dvdauthoring finishes I get this error now.


Looks like it is trying to open the drive as read only... not good. Any suggestions?

Well, it sounds like you rearranged your hardware but left the symlink pointing off to nowhere. Try rerunning the cd_link.sh script as root with your new hardware configuration.

I am new to this, so I appreciate your help...

I ran the cd_link.sh script and it ran ok.

I am getting a new error, so I must be getting closer to the correct answer.



Is this permission a problem?

Retrying this daunting task...

The .iso file was created correctly, but when trying to write to the DVD this is what I got.



How can I fix this access to the DVD..?

I am having exactly the same problem as you.

Did you manage to find a solution?

unfortunately, not yet

I did a clean autoinstall of R5F1 and get the ERROR below when trying to burn a dual-layer DVD. I can burn a single layer OK.

Notice that it failed after 1 second. I have 200GB as HDA, DVD burner as HDC and 500GB SDA. I do admit that the project is a very full DVD.


I am going to try to burn a dual layer with less than 80% in use, compact dvd menu and see if that works. Maybe the project just GROWS to big beyond my selected recordings.

I've had a very similar problem for several days, that left many forehead prints on my screen - one of those old CRT monitors (think Bang Bang Bang).

My situation was that MythArchive would build the DVD structure, but fail whenever it tried to write the DVD. The Error message looked like it didn't have write access to the DVD drive.

The error is actually a configuration problem. In "Utilities/Setup | Setup | Media Settings | Archive Files Settings | Location of DVD" it was listed at "/dev/dvd/" instead of "/dev/dvd" - The trailing slash is was caused the error.

Hope this helps someone else prevent bruises above the eyebrows.