[mythtv-users] Incomplete recordings

[Scott Nicholson]

For several weeks now I have had problems with recordings aborting 
several seconds after they start (usually 15-20 seconds).

The problem cropped up suddenly, without me having made any changes to 
my system that I can recall.

Some programs record without any issues, but once a recording has 
aborted the backend doesn't do anything more until I restart it.

The log doesn't indicate any errors of any kind.

I've tried updating my ivtv drivers with no change.

For the last couple of days I've actually sat and watched the logs as 
recordings start (with "tail -f") to see if I could figure anything out 
and I've noticed something that may be pertinent:

I get:
2005-01-14 11:00:02 Started recording "Blue's Clues" on channel: 1120 on 
cardid: 1, sourceid 1
2005-01-14 11:00:03 Changing from None to RecordingOnly
2005-01-14 11:00:04 Found changes in the todo list.
120

(the "120" is output from my channel changing perl script)

The recording startsm abd a few seconds later I get:
2005-01-14 11:00:28 Scheduled 516 items in 23.0635 seconds.

and at that instant the recording stops.

Mythweb still reports it as recording, and the backend does report 30 
minutes later:
2005-01-14 11:30:00 Finished recording Blue's Clues on channel: 1120
2005-01-14 11:30:00 Changing from RecordingOnly to None
2005-01-14 11:30:00 Found changes in the todo list.
2005-01-14 11:30:22 Scheduled 516 items in 21.8944 seconds.

but the file itself is only 15-20 seconds long.

So it appears that something is happening when the scheduling routine 
runs (but only sometimes -- it works 60-70% of the time) that makes the 
recording stop.

Any ideas?


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