[mythtv-users] 0.00GB files...

[Grant Edwards]

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 11:25:06AM +0100, Stephen Tait wrote:

>>I've had this same problem....Like Nick said, only happens to _some_ of 
>>the recordings which is the wierdest part.  I hadn't edit or done anything 
>>else to the recordings/files.  However, I did have a power outage before 
>>this problem popped up, and even though I never found a solution or fully 
>>determined the problem, I assumed the power outage causing the machine to 
>>shutdown without a nice unmounting of the disk was the culprit.  I just 
>>ended up deleting the files and the recordings(from DB).  I'd be 
>>interested to hear if anyone has more insight on this.
> 
> Are you using a PVR-2/350? When I was first fiddling with ivtv, some 
> recordings would work fine, some would come out as zero size like you see 
> here. This was solved (I think) by tweaking my ivtv module loader with a 
> few different/extra parameters. 

I'm using a 350, and I've seen the empty-file error as well.
But, the file is that way from creation (the backgend reports
an i/o error when it tries to read the video stream). This must
be a different problem than the OP, since he says the file was
OK at one point in time.

-- 
Grant Edwards
grante at visi.com