[mythtv] Ticket #2335: LiveTV hangs when a recording is finished and a new on starts (no channel change)

[Bob Cottingham]

On 7/26/07, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> Another issue I have noticed is that when a completely recorded
> program transitions without freezing (the key problem), a new
> ringbuffer is not (always?) created and Myth does not start or even
> update the recording with details of the new program but carries on
> using the old recording file.
>
> When I entered LiveTV when a program was already underway, the next
> program transition was successful. In my testing I entered LiveTV at
> 0926, and LiveTV successfully transitioned to the next program at
> 0930, using a new ringbuffer and updating program details accordingly.
> However, when this show (0930-1000) finished, at 1000 the recording
> again continued without freezing, but continued to use the same
> ringbuffer file from the 0930-1000 show. When I backed out of this
> show at 1007 and looked at the recordings list, instead of showing one
> entry for 0930-1000 and another for 1000-1007 (the next program),
> there was only a single entry with duration 0930-1007 with the details
> relating to the 0930-1000 program.
>
> I'm sure this will probably cause some issues if a user decides to try
> and record the 'new' program when it is still using the old
> ringbuffer.

I've been seeing this problem as well as the freeze on transition
issue for the last month so. The freeze on transition is very
consistent, however the problem of not creating a new file on
transistion is very intermittant and has caused quite a problem as it
has created files over 30GB when LiveTV was left on over night,
resulting in the system running out of disk space and crashing myth.
There were a mix of non-expirable shows, expirable shows and LiveTV
plus the slave backend OS on a 120GB drive - so once the
auto-expirable shows were deleted it couldn't delete anything else.

So I don't think that the issue you found is due to Shane's patch
since I've been seeing it for a while as well. I hope to try his patch
this weekend as the entire family appreciation factor has gone down
with the LiveTV freezes.

Bob Cottingham