[mythtv-users] myth stops recording early

[Eric Lennon Bowman]

I've been having a few problems with my myth 0.15.1 installation, such 
as a hang when I try to watch a program while it's recording.  I've kind 
of worked around that by being careful, but this particular problem is 
rendering my myth virtually useless:  it stops recording several minutes 
early.

It's quite consistent...if it's a 30 minute program, it only records the 
first 23'58'.  If it's a 60 minute program, it only records the first 
54'xx''.

I turned up logging to "all" to see if I could see any clues, and 
recorded a 15 minute program.  Everything looks normal to my eye:

2004-08-25 09:19:01 Started recording "Watch My Chops" on channel: 1003 
on cardid: 1, sourceid 1
2004-08-25 09:19:01 45      BACKEND_MESSAGE[]:[]SCHEDULE_CHANGE[]:[]empty
2004-08-25 09:19:01 TuneToFrequency(3584)
2004-08-25 09:19:01 Changing from None to RecordingOnly
2004-08-25 09:19:01 51      
BACKEND_MESSAGE[]:[]RECORDING_LIST_CHANGE[]:[]e...
2004-08-25 09:19:01 Using profile 'Default' to record
2004-08-25 09:35:00 switching to overrecord for 60 more seconds
2004-08-25 09:36:00 Changing from RecordingOnly to None
2004-08-25 09:36:00 51      BACKEND_MESSAGE[]:[]DONE_RECORDING 1 
1016[]:[]e...

When I view it, though, it's not the expect 17 minute, but more like 13 
minutes and a few seconds.  In the frontend logs, I see, when I view it:

2004-08-25 09:41:40 All Programs
2004-08-25 09:41:41 21      QUERY_RECORDINGS Play
Error loading image file: 
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/1003_20040825091900_20040825093500.nuv.png
2004-08-25 09:41:41 415     QUERY_GENPIXMAP[]:[]Watch My Chops[]:[] 
[]:[] [...
2004-08-25 09:41:42 Interlaced: -1  video_height: 576  fps: 25
2004-08-25 09:41:42 Estimated bitrate = 384000
Input #0, mpeg, from 
'/mnt/video/recordings/1003_20040825091900_20040825093500.nuv':
  Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, 720x576, 25.00 fps
  Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s
2004-08-25 09:41:42 Commercial Detection initialized: width = 720, 
height = 576, fps = 25, method = 3
2004-08-25 09:41:42 Image size. dispxoff 0, dispyoff: 0, dispwoff: 0, 
disphoff: 0
2004-08-25 09:41:42 Image size. imgx 0, imgy: 0, imgw: 720, imgh: 576
2004-08-25 09:41:42 waiting for prebuffer...
2004-08-25 09:41:42 prebuffer wait timed out..

The error loading file seems weird, but that's probably not a big 
problem.  I don't quite understand why it's initializing "Commercial 
Detection", since I have all that turned off.  Could that be an issue?

Anyhow, I'm stumped, can anyone help?

Thanks to everyone for the help about x/y offsets and KDE...I ended up 
just using kdm so it would autologin, and xfce for running myth.

Thanks,
Eric

-- 
Eric Lennon Bowman
BoboCo Ltd
ebowman at boboco.ie
http://www.boboco.ie/ebowman/pubkey.pgp
+35317979094