[mythtv-users] RE: PVR250 and Empty Mpeg files

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Mon Dec 15 21:06:46 EST 2003


On Monday 15 December 2003 08:09 pm, Ryan wrote:
> Richie (et al),
> 	I am experiencing the same problem with my setup.  Mythbackend runs as 
> root, and all permissions are fine.  I say that because the problem is 
> intermittant.  Of three programs that were scheduled to record today, 
> one recorded fine, one recorded the correct duration but on the wrong 
> channel, and the third claims to have recorded (the program shows up in 
> the watch recorded file list) but there is only a 0kb file in the 
> directory.  Mythfrontend was not running during the time all three of 
> the programs were scheduled, so I think I can eliminate that from the 
> culprit list.  I have been running with a PVR250 since myth 11, and this 
> is the first release I have had this issue (at myth 13 currently).  I 
> did not compile with debugging options, but I can if the backtrace might 
> help.  If anyone has some idea, or Richie, if you fix it , please post 
> to the list, since you are not alone.  FWIW, I am running on an Athlon 
> 1G (no fancy shmancy XP or MP) with 512M RAM, 160G HDD, Nvidia FX5200 
> (again no fancy letters after), PVR-250, on Mandrake 9.1 with stock 
> Kernel.  HEEEELLLLLLPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!

It is an ivtv problem.  Discuss all ivtv related problems on the ivtv-devel 
list.

Isaac


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