[mythtv] getting blocked recordings whenever two shows are in a row with latest svn

Joe Buckshin jbuckshin at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 21:16:50 UTC 2005


On 10/7/05, Adam Forsyth <agforsyth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds like this is also the same problem as reported in "Broken DVB
> for consecutive programs."
>
> On 10/7/05, Stuart Morgan <stuart at tase.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Fri 7 October 2005 12:10, Adam Forsyth wrote:
> > > With svn compiles tonight and two days ago, it two shows are scheduled
> > > to record one after another, the second one is getting blocked with a
> > > "tuner in use" error. I'm not exactly sure at what point this started
> > > happening, I know it was as of 10/4 - 10/5, but it may have been 10/1
> > > - 10/2.
> >
> > I saw this last night for the first time, at least I think it was the first
> > time but I've been so busy I wouldn't have noticed it missing other
> > schedules. For that reason I thought the problem was introduced in the last 3
> > days.
> >
> > It even affects LiveTV directly after a recording, as though it isn't freeing
> > up the card quickly enough.
> >
> > It's prompted me to think about a range of scheduling improvements - not least
> > that it should keep retrying a recording even after the start time. If it
> > fails for whatever reason to record one programme (channel off-air) then it
> > should re-adjust and record previously conflicting programmes instead.
> >
> > --
> > Stuart Morgan
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I'll just throw a 'me too' in here. Using SVN from 9/29.  Same
characteristics as Jack noted.  I got a zero length file out of it and
this ivtv error in /var/log/messages:

Oct  4 21:30:33 localhost kernel: ivtv: v4l2 ioctl: set format failed,
capture in progress

Joe


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