Opened 14 years ago

Closed 14 years ago

#9309 closed Bug Report (Invalid)

fails to reduce filesize

Reported by: Larry Johnson <keepitsimpleengineer@…> Owned by: paulh
Priority: blocker Milestone: unknown
Component: Plugin - MythArchive Version: 0.23-fixes
Severity: high Keywords: mkisofs iso
Cc: Ticket locked: no

Description

Attempting to archive a three hour recording to dual-layer .iso file. Extract from progress log: 

2010-11-30 10:07:47.308 16 GB out of 16 GB (100%) completed
2010-11-30 10:07:47.308 Copy completed OK
2010-11-30 10:07:47.351 Copying preview image
2010-11-30 10:07:47.351 copying from /pvr/mythtv/recordings/1101_20101110200000.mpg.png
2010-11-30 10:07:47.351 to /home/mytharchive/temp/work/Three Hour Recording/1101_20101110200000.mpg.png
2010-11-30 10:07:47.374 86 KB out of 86 KB (100%) completed
2010-11-30 10:07:47.374 Copy completed OK
2010-11-30 10:07:47.374 Item Archived OK
2010-11-30 10:07:47.478 Creating ISO image
I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings)
File /home/mytharchive/temp/work/Three Hour Recording/1101_20101110200000.mpg is larger than 4GiB-1.
-allow-limited-size was not specified. There is no way do represent this file size. Aborting.
2010-11-30 10:07:47.672 ERROR: Failed while running mkisofs. Result: 1
2010-11-30 10:07:47.672 Native archive job failed to completed

Attached are the settings for myth archive.

Attachments (5)

MytharchiveSettings-1.png​ (450.6 KB) - added by Larry Johnson <keepitsimpleengineer@…> 14 years ago.
MytharchiveSettings-2.png​ (368.4 KB) - added by Larry Johnson <keepitsimpleengineer@…> 14 years ago.
Mytharchive Settings-3.png​ (283.4 KB) - added by Larry Johnson <keepitsimpleengineer@…> 14 years ago.
Mytharchive Settings-4.png​ (363.7 KB) - added by Larry Johnson <keepitsimpleengineer@…> 14 years ago.
Mytharchive Settings-5.png​ (327.5 KB) - added by Larry Johnson <keepitsimpleengineer@…> 14 years ago.

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Change History (6)

Changed 14 years ago by Larry Johnson <keepitsimpleengineer@…>

Attachment: MytharchiveSettings-1.png​ added

Changed 14 years ago by Larry Johnson <keepitsimpleengineer@…>

Attachment: MytharchiveSettings-2.png​ added

Changed 14 years ago by Larry Johnson <keepitsimpleengineer@…>

Attachment: Mytharchive Settings-3.png​ added

Changed 14 years ago by Larry Johnson <keepitsimpleengineer@…>

Attachment: Mytharchive Settings-4.png​ added

Changed 14 years ago by Larry Johnson <keepitsimpleengineer@…>

Attachment: Mytharchive Settings-5.png​ added

comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by paulh

Resolution: → Invalid
Status: new → closed

MythArchive? when creating an archive of a recording makes no attempt to reduce its size it just creates a copy along with the metadata. The purpose of the native archive is to allow you to backup or move a recording to another myth system. Maybe you wanted to create a DVD of the recording?

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