needs update

[Brian J. Murrell]

Binary package hint: nuvexport

This package is in dire need of an update. The packaged version is no longer compatible with the ffmpeg that's in Karmic:

First pass...
Waiting for mythtranscode to set up the fifos.
Waiting for mythtranscode to set up the fifos.
Waiting for mythtranscode to set up the fifos.
Waiting for mythtranscode to set up the fifos.
Starting ffmpeg.
processed: 0 of 53884 frames at 0 fps (~%, eta: unknown)

ffmpeg had critical errors:

ffmpeg: unrecognized option '-title'

Cleaning up temp files.
Cleaning up child processes.

[Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx)]

nuvexport-0.5-0.20090413.svn.tar.bz2 at http://forevermore.net/files/nuvexport/nuvexport-0.5-0.20090413.svn.tar.bz2 seems to work with this patch added:

--- export/ffmpeg.pm 2009-04-12 23:40:46.000000000 -0400
+++ /usr/share/nuvexport/export/ffmpeg.pm 2009-12-12 13:17:10.000000000 -0500
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
     # Check the ffmpeg version
         if (!defined $self->{'ffmpeg_vers'}) {
             $data = `$ffmpeg -version 2>&1`;
- if ($data =~ m/ffmpeg\sversion\s0.5-/si) {
+ if ($data =~ m/ffmpeg\sversion\s(SVN-r\d+-4:)?0.5(-|\+svn)/si) {
                 $self->{'ffmpeg_vers'} = '0.5';
             }
             # Disabled unti I need the formatting again to detect wacky ffmpeg

to detect the ffmpeg version in Karmic.

[MarcRandolph (mrand)]

After further research, unless someone steps forward to maintain this package, it appears that it is now abandoned. If no-one volunteers, it should probably be removed from the Ubuntu repo since having an outdated (and now broken) package simply causes users confusion.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Per bug 520564, we won't be fixing this bug in the Ubuntu archive. If you would like to continue to use nuvexport, you will have to obtain it from svn.mythtv.org as upstream doesn't normally do regular nuvexport releases.

[Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx)]

On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 03:02 +0000, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> Per bug 520564, we won't be fixing this bug in the Ubuntu archive. If
> you would like to continue to use nuvexport, you will have to obtain it
> from svn.mythtv.org as upstream doesn't normally do regular nuvexport
> releases.

I guess it's a sad day for people who want to take their recordings "on
the road" with them. :-( I guess it's a good thing I have been
maintaining my own build here then.

[MarcRandolph (mrand)]

http://www.mythbuntu.org/wiki/MythExport may address some of the same use cases.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

We just don't have the resources to be able to maintain this package among
all the others; especially without upstream doing "releases" of nuvexport.

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 21:14, Brian J. Murrell <email address hidden>wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 03:02 +0000, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > Per bug 520564, we won't be fixing this bug in the Ubuntu archive. If
> > you would like to continue to use nuvexport, you will have to obtain it
> > from svn.mythtv.org as upstream doesn't normally do regular nuvexport
> > releases.
>
> I guess it's a sad day for people who want to take their recordings "on
> the road" with them. :-( I guess it's a good thing I have been
> maintaining my own build here then.
>
> --
> needs update
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/495953
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mythbuntu
> Bug Team, which is subscribed to nuvexport in ubuntu.
>
> Status in “nuvexport” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: nuvexport
>
> This package is in dire need of an update. The packaged version is no
> longer compatible with the ffmpeg that's in Karmic:
>
> First pass...
> Waiting for mythtranscode to set up the fifos.
> Waiting for mythtranscode to set up the fifos.
> Waiting for mythtranscode to set up the fifos.
> Waiting for mythtranscode to set up the fifos.
> Starting ffmpeg.
> processed: 0 of 53884 frames at 0 fps (~%, eta: unknown)
>
> ffmpeg had critical errors:
>
> ffmpeg: unrecognized option '-title'
>
> Cleaning up temp files.
> Cleaning up child processes.
>
>
>
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[Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx)]

On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 03:23 +0000, MarcRandolph wrote:
> http://www.mythbuntu.org/wiki/MythExport may address some of the same
> use cases.

Not really. I've looked at it. It's just to big and clumsy for wanting
to just transcode a bunch of shows to a PMP.

Thanx for the pointer though. Maybe it will suit somebody else's needs.

[Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx)]

On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 03:30 +0000, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> We just don't have the resources to be able to maintain this package among
> all the others; especially without upstream doing "releases" of nuvexport.

Yeah. I do understand. Doesn't make it any less sad (as in emotionally
only -- no judgement intended) though.

[Chris Ingram (cingram)]

I'm sorry, but I don't understand the logic here. Nuvexport is part of mythtv, so the latest nuvexport is version 0.22 just like the rest of mythtv. But the version of nuvexport in the current release of Ubuntu is version 0.21. Presumably, someone builds the latest mythtv binaries from source to include in Ubuntu and could just as easily build the latest version of nuvexport the same way. Based on that assumption, I don't understand this statement:

We just don't have the resources to be able to maintain this package among all the others; especially without upstream doing "releases" of nuvexport.

What else is involved in maintaining the nuvexport package other than running "make" from the nuvexport directory in the source tree?

[Bill Yikes (yik3s)]

I've installed Mythbuntu, which was pre-packaged with `libmythtv-perl` -- which supports nuvexport, but apparently doesn't include all of nuvexport. `sudo aptitude search ~dnuvexport` only finds `libmythtv-perl`.

I wouldn't call nuvexport absolutely "essential", but it's probably the most useful of all the addons. Without it, users have to dig up the cryptic filename for a show (1234_20200805...ts), run `ffmpeg -i 1234_20200805100000.ts -vcodec h264 -acodec aac newfile.mp4`, and after all that manual effort they have get something with no metadata, and it's not shared on the network. To preserve the metadata, they have to keep around the large *.ts files, so in the end a lot of drive space is wasted.

If a device can't handle the MythTV mpeg2 files over DLNA (e.g. my Vizio can't handle most of them), users have to install `rygel` to share the manual transcodings on the network.

Overall it's a labor intensive and low quality UX.

The separate install of nuvexport is a disaster. The MythTV wiki has a few different links to that project and they're all bad.

* svn.forevermore.net/nuvexport (dead/unreachable, at least to Tor users)
* http://www.mythbuntu.org/wiki/MythExport (404)
* http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_MythTV_to_iPod (nuvexport derivitive project CloudFlared)

Possible workaround:

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythbrake or https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Handbrake_userjob

Looks like they use some metadata, but the output probably doesn't replace the input file in the catalog.