[mythtv-users] appologies and hopefully and explination of my issue
and thinking
Dennis Gilmore
dennis at dgilmore.net
Thu Dec 15 21:32:07 EST 2005
Firstly to the person i was speaking with in irc last night i apologize i was
tired and cranky and shouldn't have started trying to sort out my problem at
that point.
Though as a note to all developers you need to be patient and not jump down
somebodys throat at the first chance you get.
My sytsem is as follows
Athlon64 3200+
160gb sata hdd
512mb ram
Nvidia video card doing tvout
PVR-350
audigy2 sound card
So to explain my issue. about a month ago i updated my system that was
working to the latest atrpms packages. after the upgrade schueduled
recordings stopped happening. the backend would lock up the input saying it
was in use the show would show in the list of recodings but the file would
be 0 bytes. i made no configuration changes. so i figured it was a bug
introduced by Axel unfortunately i had cleaned my yum cache out the version
i had been running was no longer available so i couldn't do a simple
downgrade.
So i figured why not update to svn and check out how the new things are
going. so off i went and checked out the svn tree and built it. The current
svn feature that records every show while annoying i think has been
somewhat beneficial. (this was a bone of contention with whoever it was
helping me) So let me state my reasoning's here for why i said its the same
as scheduled recordings. so live tv uses different profiles yes. i have
checked and all my profiles are exactly the same. so live tv gets recorded
and the mpg file ends up in /home/shared along with my old scheduled
recordings. I haven't looked at the code. but to me the classes that
record to disk, change channels, do transcoding etc should be the same for
both options in grabbing a tv show. the only difference being when not
watching a scheduled recording you don't need the osd menus or to output
the video.
I like to watch and record some shows (SG1 and atlantis) while i watch them.
so to me its the same thing it does the same thing i expect the same
result. so while in the past the code was different between "recording and
watching" and watching in that it used to buffer the show and delete it
when watching tv and put to hdd whien recording. it now acts the same. i
had assumed that the majority of the code was shared between the two
application functions as the do such similar things, and to an end user they
are almost identical.
I did make one change to my configs since it stopped working Last night i
turned off transcoding shows after recording. So i will see if this does
anything.
and when it all boils down maybe i have had something messed up from the
start and was just lucky that things worked. and a bug fix exposed my screw
up.
Dennis
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Regards
Dennis Gilmore RHCE
Network Manager
Royal Publishing
(309)693-3171 x299
7620 N. Harker Drive
Peoria IL 61615
Fedora Core release 4 (Rawhide)
10:53:16 up 8 days, 23:19, 8 users, load average: 3.39, 4.19, 4.79
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