[mythtv-users] Mythbackend / PVR-250 hangs

[Keith C]

For the past week or so, I've had recordings get stuck part of the way
through.  Looking through the delete list, the most recently recorded
program will be obviously short size-wise.  Mythfrontend will not let me
watch Live TV, as it thinks the backend is still recording.  Stopping
and restarting the backend clears up this confusion.

I ran mythbackend --verbose last night and scheduled 2 back-to-back
Seinfelds (the problem seems to be more common when doing more than 30
mins of recording).  Here's the mythbackend output:


2003-09-10 00:06:02 Started recording "Seinfeld" on channel: 1010 on
cardid: 1, sourceid 1
Changing from None to RecordingOnly
Changing from RecordingOnly to None
2003-09-10 00:38:00 Found changes in the todo list.
Input #0, mpeg, from
'/var/lib/mythtv//1010_20030910000600_20030910003800.nuv':
  Stream #0.0: Video: mpegvideo, 720x480, 29.97 fps, 16000 kb/s
  Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s
Position map found
2003-09-10 00:38:02 Started recording "Seinfeld" on channel: 1010 on
cardid: 1, sourceid 1
Changing from None to RecordingOnly
Changing from RecordingOnly to None
2003-09-10 01:08:00 Found changes in the todo list.

At this point, the backend locked up.  It looks like it thought the
recording had worked all the way through, while the file on disk was a
pathetic little 33 MB stub of video.

Has anyone seen anything like this before?  I'm a little nervous that
the PVR-250 card might be getting a little warm, but wanted to see if
this had happened to anyone else before I order replacement and extra
fans for my case.

Keith C