Mytharchive.

[Steve Goodey]

Hello,

I noticed a fixes/35 commit dated the 1st March this year for mytharchive, Commit 70cb82b.

I was under the impression that mytharchive was no longer maintained?

Since a new install of Ubuntu 24.04/Mythbuntu V35 with a restored database I have been unable get mytharchive to work, creating a DVD or ISO. mythburn.log shows "AttributeError: 'ImageDraw' object has no attribute 'textsize'" this is because 'textsize is deprecated.

Previous versions of MythTV/mytharchive I have been able to get working by finding fixes on forum searches and poke and hope.

Does anyone archive recordings creating DVD/ISO using mytharchive or some other tools external to MythTV?

Thanks.

[pgbennett]

I use ffmpeg to encode in the correct format, devedeng to create the DVD image, xfburn or k3b to burn the disk.

[white_haired_uncle]

Pretty sure last time I burned a DVD I just used k3b to create the image and burn.

Or maybe it was nuvexport.

Oh, and handbrake to transcode. You can use a GUI to set up all your options and maybe transcode a recording or two, or use the CLI with those settings if you're doing a batch. And it'll use more than one core for a single transcode (I use taskset to restrict it because it'll use all available cores) - I don't know how to do that with ffmpeg.

[dnalorernst]

Steve,
the fix in `mythburn.py` could be easy.
See line 1039 of https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/blob/4 ... n.py#L1039
Replace

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             if drawer.textsize(' '.join(thistext),font.getFont())[0] > containerWidth:

with

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             if drawer.textlength(' '.join(thistext),font.getFont()) > containerWidth:

Take care on the indentation and insert spaces correctly.
Could you please check this ?
Thank you,
Roland
P.S: This error only pops up in python pillow > 10.0, which is in Ubuntu Noble (24.04).
Are you really observing this on Ubuntu 22.04 as stated above?

[Steve Goodey]

Are you really observing this on Ubuntu 22.04 as stated above?

Well spotted, I meant 24.04. I've now corrected that post.

I'll give your suggestion a try tomorrow, thanks very much.

[Steve Goodey]

Thanks Roland

if drawer.textlength(' '.join(thistext),font.getFont()) > containerWidth:

fixed it... until the next error

File "/usr/share/mythtv/mytharchive/scripts/mythburn.py", line 283, in drawText
textwidth, textheight = self.font.getsize(text)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'FreeTypeFont' object has no attribute 'getsize'

Doing a search in mythburn.py shows a load of 'getsize' used and, sure enough, 'getsize' has also been deprecated.

So that's a lot of work for me who's not a coder

It seems a workaround is

pip uninstall pillow
pip install Pillow==9.5.0

I haven't tried this. Thanks very much for your suggested fix. Time to move on.

[dnalorernst]

Steve,
thank you very much for your effort in analysing that bug.
I created an issue on github https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/issues/1072
for further steps.
Roland