[mythtv] mythfilldatabase failed and also destroyed by schedule!

[Craig Rindy]

Just so others don't think they're going nuts (or just to point out that I'm doing so), DataDirect schedules from zap2it.com are still broken for me.  There's a thread on the users list -- http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/71626 -- that seems to describe the same problem.

When I run mythfilldatabase, every stream from zap2it is 4424 bytes long (length apparently dependent on the channels you've selected), and there is no schedule information.  I unfortunately lost today's and tomorrow's program data, so I'm stuck manually looking up what I want to record and scheduling manual recordings until they fix the error.  Oddly, I can't explain how this works for the lucky people who fixed it by "running it by hand" (I'm assuming that just means running "mythfilldatabase" from the command line).  Did anyone who got it working have to do something like "clean up the channel data"?  If so, could you explain?  I've got two channel "3"s (chanid 1003 and 3003), but they're on two different sources -- this is still okay to have in the database, isn't it?

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Yes, running it by hand fixed it... But I lost my newscast recording
> this morning because it was scheduled after mythfilldatabase ran (and
> destroyed my schedule) but before I woke up and noticed the problem.
> 
> -derek
> 
> "Scott Rowe" <mythgnomer at rowelab.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>I don't have duplicate channels, and noticed the same thing today..
>>Re-running mythfilldatabase fixed it, tho.. 
>>
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org 
>>>[mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Derek Atkins
>>>Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 2:23 PM
>>>To: Development of mythtv
>>>Subject: Re: [mythtv] mythfilldatabase failed and also 
>>>destroyed by schedule!
>>>
>>>"James L. Reese" <jim at hosemore.net> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I saw this symptom and found I had duplicate channel 
>>>
>>>entries in the database.  This was a result of my trying to 
>>>use the datadirect service with 0.14.  I cleaned up the 
>>>channel data and it's been working fine since.
>>>
>>>Well, I *do* have two channel lineups, so I probably do have 
>>>duplicate channel entries.  But they were all created with 
>>>0.15, not 0.14.  How did you "clean up the channel data"?
>>>
>>>-derek
>>>-- 
>>>       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>>>       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
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