I looks to me as if it is bombing out before doing any recording at all. Python seems to be trying to open a file for writing (mode 'w'), and the O/S is reporting that that particular mode is not allowed on the file.
Looks like a python/linux-fat32 driver problem, rather than freevo. John Snowdon - IT Support Specialist -==========================================- Faculty of Medical Sciences Computing Dept School of Medical Education Development University of Newcastle >-----Original Message----- >From: Oliver Welter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 06 February 2004 14:19 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] unable to record on fat32 partition > > >Hi Lucian, > >AFIAK there is a limit of 2GB for files on fat32 - perhaps this is the >thing... > >Oli > >Zoolook wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I want to use a fat32 partiotion for the recordings folder, >because I >> occasionaly record from windows on that folder, too (the >machine still >> has a multi-boot desktop role, I hope we'll soon find >another appartment >> to move in, then this will be our real HTPC and I think >Freevo is what >> I'll be running for that purpose in the end). That fails. First I >> thought there must be a ivtv.record-plugin problem, but >after finding >> this error in the recordserver log... >> >> 2004/02/06 10:08 CET [*RecordServer*] Recorder::Record: >2004-02-06 10:03 >> to 2004-02-06 13:00 zdf.de ZDF Sport extra >> 2004/02/06 10:08 CET [*RecordServer*] Record_Thread::run: mode=record >> 2004/02/06 10:08 CET [*RecordServer*] Record_Thread::run: >started recording >> 2004/02/06 10:08 CET [*RecordServer*] Video Opened at /dev/video0 >> 2004/02/06 10:08 CET [*RecordServer*] Setting Channel to E4 >> 2004/02/06 10:08 CET [*RecordServer*] Exception in thread Thread-1: >> 2004/02/06 10:08 CET [*RecordServer*] Traceback (most recent >call last): >> 2004/02/06 10:08 CET [*RecordServer*] File >> "/usr/lib/python2.3/threading.py", line 436, in __bootstrap >> 2004/02/06 10:08 CET [*RecordServer*] self.run() >> 2004/02/06 10:08 CET [*RecordServer*] File >> "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/freevo/tv/plugins/ivtv_record.py", >> line 157, in run >> 2004/02/06 10:08 CET [*RecordServer*] v_out = >open(video_save_file, >> 'w') >> 2004/02/06 10:08 CET [*RecordServer*] IOError: invalid mode: w >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> ... I tried the whole thing with the recording folder set >somewhere on >> my root partition, which is ext3, and everything worked!!! >> >> As you may see in the log, I'm using Python 2.3. Further package >> versions are freevo-1.4.1, mmpython-1.6, ivtv-0.1.9. >> >> I then tried to manually move the recorded shows to the >fat32 folder I >> initially wanted to record to, and mc failed! But I can >create folders, >> delete files there as root or as ordinary user, because I'm mounting >> that partition in fstab like this: >> /dev/discs/disc0/part8 /mnt/other/E vfat >defaults,noexec,umask=000 0 0 >> >> which make me think the problem shouldn't be really >freevo-related, but >> I thought other people running freevo might have encountered this. >> >> So, what could it be? Could the file name of the recorded >mpeg file be >> the problem? Something related with NLS, code page on that >file system? >> I remeber I had such problems in the past on fat32 and ntfs, >with files >> I created with non-latin1 characters in the file name while >the regional >> settings of windows wher for example set to let's say >romanian, which >> allowed me to use some latin2 characters, and then, after >some time the >> regional settings where english or german, don'nt remember, >I couldn't >> access those files anymore, in any way (delete, listen to >mp3 or things >> like that, nothing worked). >> >> What other information should I provide? >> >> Cheers, >> Lucian >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 >> Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration >> See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. >> http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn >> _______________________________________________ >> Freevo-users mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > >-- >Diese Nachricht wurde digital unterschrieben >oliwel's public key: http://www.oliwel.de/oliwel.crt >Basiszertifikat: http://www.ldv.ei.tum.de/page72 > ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
