I've just started testing Mytharchive. My backend system doesn't have a DVD drive yet so I was going to create ISO's which I would copy to another computer which has a DVD drive to burn. It created the ISO, but Mytharchive seems to always use the same /work directory. It would appear that it would be a problem if you wanted to create more than one ISO prior to copying and burning them.

Am I missing something simple here? Can you can specify a name and/or directory for each ISO you create? As far as I can tell, it seems like the only way to keep more than one ISO is to go into MythArchive settings each time and specify a new directory for MythArchive to use for the next ISO?

Hi Don. You should be able to, at least, change the name of an ISO file, after it's created (rename function). You can certainly make a new directory and copy the ISO to it, after the ISO has been created.

I'm not familiar with creating a Mytharchive, but it is strange that you can't give each ISO a unique name, before it's created. You should be able to specify a path too (the Linux file & directory naming protocalls aren't that different from other OS).

I does depend on how you are making the Mytharchive - Command Line or GUI. If you are using the command line, you should be able to give it any name you want. Using the GUI approach shouldn't be that much different either.

I was using the GUI to create the ISO image.

After much searching the internet for an answer (and little info found regarding creating ISO images made with MythArchive), it seems that after you use mytharchive to create the ISO image file, you have to manually rename and move it to another directory after creation, otherwise the next myth archive process will erase and use the same work directory for the next ISO image created. (Work directory specified in the setup screen for myth archive.) I guess this is ok, but I'd be really mad if I forgot to move a created ISO file, and started another mytharchive job and lost a DL DVD iso file that took hours to create.

Unless I am totally oblivious, there seems to be no way to name the iso file that Myth Archive will output when using the GUI to create the DVD iso. It always uses the specified work directory and names the file something like "dvd.iso"

Since Myth Archive only works on combination FE/BE machines (and since most BE servers don't have or need a DVD drive) it seems like being able to specify a file name and location for the final DVD ISO image would be useful for those who will transfer and burn the ISO to DVD on another computer (a FE with a dvd drive or an home office computer for example)

I assume that you have read: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythArchive, especially the section on "How to use MythArchive".

If you run mythfrontend there should now be two extra menu items. In the Optical Disks menu, there is an Archive Files item that runs the MythArchive plugin. In the Utilities / Setup | Setup | Media Settings menu is the item Archive Files Settings to change MythArchives settings.You didn't say which distro you are using, but the MythArchive plug-in was written under the Gentoo distro (from what the linked wiki said). It really shouldn't make any difference though. There are new plug-in versions (see http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/media-plugins/mytharchive/). It was written using the Python programming language, and you should make sure that you have the latest version of that installed (check for your distro updates).

PS - I found these from http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mytharchive&btnG=Google+Search.