[mythtv-users] I hate when this happens

[Tako Schotanus]

Which still wouldn't help if the backend system crashes/reboots of
course.

Actually while making some changes to the handling of the recordings
yesterday I got by accident a situation which would have helped Naoyuki
Tai a bit at least: every time I restarted the backend when it was
recording it would start a fresh recording for the program that still
wasn't finished.

I might even have left it like that if it didn't generate a host of
other problems (like not being able to delete any of those
partly/duplicate recordings).

I guess the best way from a user's point of view would be to just start
adding to the existing file, but I don't know if that's wise or even
possible (you might end up with an illegal .nuv file).

Cheers,
 -Tako

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Chris Petersen
> Sent: dinsdag 16 september 2003 22:10
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] I hate when this happens
> 
> 
> > At this point, I'm completely annoyed by the lack of your
> > imagination that you can not extrapolate the real problem
> > from simple description of the problem, which is that, the
> > restarting of mythbackend kills ongoing recording without
> > any user intervention.
> 
> I think you missed the "tongue in cheek" portion of his message.
> 
> Anyway, I'd also like to see this problem resolved, especially if it
> would help to have recording spawned to a second thread 
> (which would be
> separated enough form the main backend thread so that restarting the
> main backend thread wouldn't kill the recording thread).  It 
> would help
> on multiproc/hyperthreaded machines, and also allow ps to show
> immediately if a recording is happening.
> 
> -Chris
> 
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