[mythtv-users] Incomplete Recordings: SOLVED (and bug found?)

[Mark Gardner]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 08:14:50 -0700, Scott Nicholson <mythtv at scottnic.com> wrote:
> I've posted a couple of times over the last few weeks about a problem I
> was having with incomplete recordings (some, but not all, of my
> recordings would halt about 15 seconds in, but mythtv seemed unaware of
> this, as there was no indication of it in the logs and myth would report
> that the recording was completed at the time it was supposed to be
> completed). When a recording was prematurely aborted the backend would
> stop responding until it was restarted.
> 
> I tried ivtv updates and CVS updates to no avail, but then at one point
> I was watching the log (tail -f) when a recording started and watching
> the filesize (F5 in Windows Explorer) grow as the recording started.
> 
> The filesize stopped getting bigger at the precise moment that the
> backend log noted that it had scheduled x items in y seconds.
> 
> So I deduced that something in the scheduler was causing the recording
> to stop.
> 
> On a whim, I decided to remove the one "unique" recording schedule I had
> -- a custom recording that was to grab all shows with "torres" in the
> title (Jacques Torres baking/candymaking shows on FoodTV often have
> different titles)
> 
> voila!
> 
> So... How do I go about reporting this (apparent) bug?

More importantly is can you replicate the but.   If you put torres
back into the scheduler will you get the same output?
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