[mythtv-users] Recording Stops

MythTV mythtv at hribnak.com
Tue Mar 9 01:20:50 EST 2004


Those were the same symptoms I had but with multi recordings..

What Tuner/Capture Card do you have?



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Chip33AZ at netscape.net>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Recording Stops


> I only tried to record one TV show at a one specific time just to see how
it worked.  I went into the program guide and picked a 1/2 hour show at
random and told it to record once.  I get the little S in the listing and at
the time the show is supposed to begin, the recording starts.
>
> Unfortunately, at some point in time, it quits.  Once it worked for 14
seconds, another was over 9 minutes, one lasted over 22 minutes and the last
one was only about 5 minutes.
>
> After each freeze, I would have to stop the backend and restart it.  I am
thinking it might be due to the hardware, but not sure.
>
> "MythTV" <mythtv at hribnak.com> wrote:
>
> >I had this problem as well are you recording back to back shows? have you
> >changed start and end times? Are you doing record once or record everyday
> >in this time slot? I had changed start and end times as well as had back
to
> >back recordings, and they were set to record at the same time everyday.
> >
> >Right now I just blew away the DB and was testing with record once for 1
> >recording, I set this for the week (manually selected the show and said
> >record once), this week I have set that same show to record everyday in
that
> >timeslot Everything has been working GREAT. In a few days I will setup my
> >other recording which is at 9am (other show is 10am) and see what
happens.
> >
> >
> >Jim
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >From: <Chip33AZ at netscape.net>
> >To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> >Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 1:43 PM
> >Subject: [mythtv-users] Recording Stops
> >
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have just installed MythTV on a PC at home and am having a problem
with
> >recording.
> >>
> >> I set up Myth to record a show and it will run for a bit and then stop
> >recording. If I go into the frontend, I can't watch live TV because it
says
> >that there is an in-progress recording.
> >>
> >> I have a KT133 MB running Debian Testing with a 2.4.25 kernel with a
> >PVR250 card. I appended noapic on the kernel to stop it from loading (saw
> >this at ivtv website).
> >>
> >> Where would I look to see what could be causing this problem? Also,
would
> >it pay to get a SATA controller/drive and use that for recording? In
> >addition, how big of a file should a 1 hour show be?
> >>
> >> Thanks for any help you can give.
> >>
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