MYTHARCHIVEHELPER(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, meet mytharchivehelper — the MythTV Archive helper. she's the little sidekick that does the heavy lifting for your MythTV archives 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like, here's the whole vibe check. you're running mytharchivehelper version: fixes/36, specifically v36.0+fixes.20260401.1385cbfc60-0ubuntu3, straight from www.mythtv.org. and then she's got a whole bag of misc. options, which we're about to go through one by one because we do NOT skip 💖

🎀 Misc. Options 🎀

• -b, --burndvd — burn a DVD you already created onto a blank disc 🔥 optional lil friends you can bring along: --mediatype, --erasedvdrw, --nativeformat
• --chanid — the Channel ID she uses when inserting records in the DB. used with: --importarchive
• -t, --createthumbnail — make one or more thumbnails ✨ requires: --infile, --thumblist, --outfile. optional: --framecount
• --delay — delay in ms added to subtitles (default 0). used with: --sup2dast
• --erasedvdrw — force an erase of DVD-R/W media 💀 used with: --burndvd (optional)
• --framecount — how many frames to grab (default 1). used with: --createthumbnail
• -p, --getdbparameters — write the mysql database parameters to outfile. requires: --outfile
• -i, --getfileinfo — write file info about infile to outfile. requires: --infile, --outfile, --method
• --ifofile — filename of ifo file. used with: --sup2dast
• -f, --importarchive — import an archived file. requires: --infile, --chanid
• --infile — input file name. used with: --createthumbnail, --getfileinfo, --isremote, --sup2dast, --importarchive
• -r, --isremote — check if infile is on a remote filesystem. requires: --infile. returns:
  • 0 on error or file not found
  • 1 file is on a local filesystem
  • 2 file is on a remote filesystem
• --mediatype — type of media to burn. used with: --burndvd
  • 0 = single layer DVD (default)
  • 1 = dual layer DVD
  • 2 = rewritable DVD
• --method — method of file duration calculation. used with: --getfileinfo
  • 0 = use av_estimate_timings() (quick but not very accurate - default)
  • 1 = read all frames (most accurate but slow)
  • 2 = use position map in DB (quick, only works for MythTV recordings)
• -n, --nativearchive — archive files to a native archive format. requires: --outfile
• --nativeformat — archive is a native archive format. used with: --burndvd (optional)
• --outfile — output file name. used with: --createthumbnail, --getfileinfo, --getdbparameters, --nativearchive. when used with --createthumbnail: eg 'thumb%1-%2.jpg' 👑
  • %1 will be replaced with the no. of the thumb
  • %2 will be replaced with the frame no.
• -h, --help, --usage — display this help printout, or give detailed information of selected option. she's helpful like that 🫶
• --version — display version information.
• -s, --sup2dast — convert projectX subtitles to DVD subtitles. requires: --infile, --ifofile, --delay
• --thumblist — comma-separated list of required thumbs (in seconds). used with: --createthumbnail

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🦋 Logging Options 🦋

• --loglevel — set the logging level. all log messages at lower levels will be discarded. in descending order: emerg, alert, crit, err, warning, notice, info, debug, trace. defaults to info
• --loglong — use long log format for the console, i.e. show file, line number, etc. in the console log.
• --logpath — writes logging messages to a file in the directory logpath with filenames in the format: applicationName.date.pid.log. this is typically used in combination with --daemon, and if used in combination with --pidfile, this can be used with log rotators, using the HUP call to inform MythTV to reload the file
• -q, --quiet — don't log to the console (-q). don't log anywhere (-q -q) 🤫
• --syslog — set the syslog logging facility. set to "none" to disable, defaults to none.
• --systemd-journal — use systemd-journal instead of syslog.
• -v, --verbose — specify log filtering. use '-v help' for level info.

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ngl bestie, if you're ever confused, just hit -h. she literally tells you everything. no cap 💅

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and that's the whole thing, babes 💜 this page is mytharchivehelper 36.0+fixes.2..., dated August 2026, and it's the MYTHARCHIVEHELPER(1) manual — iconic behavior, fr fr 🎀✨