[mythtv-users] Uncool surprise... coming back from vacation, shows not recorded.

[Jeff Simpson]

On 11/30/05, Steve Malenfant <smalenfant at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just came back from vacation and I found out that all my recording
> failed...
>
> Few problems that would be nice to be resolved :
> 1 - Don't record or mark the recording as bad when you can't open the
> capture device (dvb here...)


That would be nice if it knew that it failed...or if it fails, maybe even
try a second time.
I'd say have it try to fix itself, but it's anyones guess what is wrong. I
can usually fix mine by
killing the X-out on the 350, removing all the modules, and reloading them
all (restarting the backend
and frontend)

2 - I'm pretty the episode will not record again and will be marked as
> duplicate the next time they appear in the schedule.


To correct this, you'd have to manually delete the show from the "previously
recorded" list. It's somewhere
in the frontend.

3 - The web interface tries to open the file on disk multiple times to
> make the thumbnail (slow process), is there a need for that?


I find that really irritating, too. It's worse in the frontend...you can't
even scroll past the
dead videos, since each time you select one it has to spin for awhile on the
thumbnail failure.
It takes forever to "delete" 5 bad recordings, because of how long it takes
to not thumbnail.

I bet it would be a quick hack to have it look for filesize before looking
for a thumbnail. All my bad
recordings are 0-length, so there would obviously be no way to thumbnail.

4 - DVB signal info in the backend status page, is this a non-working
> feature?
> 5 - Could an e-mail be sent when something isn't right about the
> capture card, a good example would be "2005-11-24 14:49:49.398 DVB#1
> ERROR - Opening DVB frontend device failed. (2) No such file or
> directory"


log emailing is probably best done outside myth. It's probably difficult to
determine when there is
an explicit failure, but you can have it send all logs for a day to an email
pretty easily, I bet.

What happened here was my fault really...  I updated with yum before
> leaving and I a new kernel installed, disabling my 2 DVB cards.
>

yeah, that would do it :-P

 - Jeff
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