[mythtv-users] truncated recordings
Darren Richards
darren.richards at cox.net
Tue Feb 17 21:54:39 EST 2004
Dan,
Any luck yet with this issue? I'm having the exact same problems (both
truncated recording and losing points with the wife.) I'm suspecting that
everyone using ivtv drivers doesn't have this problem, so hopefully there's
a fix. I haven't found it, though.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kyle Kelly" <kyle at kylekelly.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] truncated recordings
> Dan Boger wrote:
>
> >Well, lost points with the wife today. Had mythtv running, and
> >everything working well. We sat down to watch the new simpsons that was
> >recorded earlier, and about half way through (19 minutes to be
> >exact), the recording ended. I checked the logs, and there was nothing
> >unusual - except that the backend though it recorded 30 minutes of the
> >show!
> >
> > 2004-02-15 20:00:02 Started recording "The Simpsons" on channel: 1013
on cardid: 1, sourceid 1
> > 2004-02-15 20:00:02 Changing from None to RecordingOnly
> > IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write()
> > IOBOUND - blocking in ThreadedFileWriter::Write()
> > Input #0, mpeg, from
'/media/mythtv/1013_20040215200000_20040215203000.nuv':
> > Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg2video, 480x480, 29.97 fps
> > Stream #0.1: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, 384 kb/s
> > 2004-02-15 20:30:00 Changing from RecordingOnly to None
> >
> >Any idea what happend? How can I find out? The little box during
> >playback does say that it recorded only 19:xx minutes - but why? Is it
> >related to the "blocking in threadedfilewriter" bit in the log?
> >
> >Not sure if this is related or not, but when I try to delete that same
> >show, I get the "backend has gone away for some reason" error, and the
> >logs say:
> >
> > 2004-02-15 21:40:29 ReadStringList timeout.
> > (frontend console) Connection to backend server lost
> > (hit ok at the popup on the frontend)
> > 2004-02-15 21:41:08 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.2.10:6543
(try 1 of 5)
> > 2004-02-15 21:41:08 Using protocol version 1
> > 2004-02-15 21:41:09 Using protocol version 1
> > 2004-02-15 21:41:08 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> > 2004-02-15 21:41:08 adding: murder.peeron.com as a client (events: 0)
> > 2004-02-15 21:41:09 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
> > 2004-02-15 21:41:09 adding: murder.peeron.com as a client (events: 1)
> >
> >Setup:
> >
> >Mythtv-0.14, installed via apt-get
> >FC1, PVR-350 (tuner and TV-out)
> >NFS partition of 0.5T, about 50% full.
> >
> >Any suggestions welcome!
> >
> >
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> This has been discussed a few times, as of yet there is no fix. I can
> usually reproduce the problem if I record two programs in a row. The
> second recording usually has this problem. It seems totally random.
> CSI last week stopped recording three times for me. Most likely its a
> ivtv issue and we'll just have to wait for a new version and hope for
> the best.
>
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