[mythtv-users] Odd error messages when recording from OTA

Brad Fuller bradallenfuller at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 5 17:54:37 UTC 2006



Yeechang Lee wrote:
> Last night, I noticed that an hour-long over-the-air recording from
> the local PBS affiliate's HD channel came in a few minutes
> short. Here's what the log says:
>
> 2006-12-04 20:59:02.051 Started recording: JFK: Breaking the News:
> channel 2091 on cardid 3, sourceid 2
> 2006-12-04 20:59:02.232 Could not find channel 9_1 in TVCT
> 2006-12-04 20:59:02.356 scheduler: Started recording: JFK: Breaking
> the News: channel 2091 on cardid 3, sourceid 2
> 2006-12-04 20:59:02.379
> VCT Terra: channels(0) tsid(0x17f) seclength(13)
>
> 2006-12-04 20:59:02.652 Could not find channel 9_1 in TVCT
> 2006-12-04 20:59:02.652
> VCT Terra: channels(0) tsid(0x17f) seclength(13)
>
> [Last two lines repeat many times.]
>
> 2006-12-04 21:01:03.891 Program #0 not found in PAT!
> Program Association Table
>  PSIP tableID(0x0) length(25) extension(0x17f)
>       version(0) current(1) section(0) last_section(0)
>          tsid: 383
>  programCount: 4
>   program number 1 has PID 0x  30   data  0x0 0x1 0x224 0x48
>   program number 2 has PID 0x  40   data  0x0 0x2 0x224 0x64
>   program number 3 has PID 0x  50   data  0x0 0x3 0x224 0x80
>   program number 5 has PID 0x  70   data  0x0 0x5 0x224 0x112
>
> [This portion repeats a half-dozen times.]
>
> 2006-12-04 21:01:04.447 ProcessPAT: Program not found in PAT.
>                         Rescan your transports.
> 2006-12-04 21:01:04.449 Desired program #0 not found in PAT.
>                         Can Not create single program PAT.
>
> [The "Program #0" portion now again repeats many, many more times,
> until about 9:04pm, when the messages go away.]
>
> As mentioned, my recording was about five minutes short. I've been
> using ATSC OTA for months and have seen my share of flaky signals
> causing problems with recordings, but they have always recordings to
> come in short because portions of the transmissioncome in garbled. In
> this case, the recording played back with no garbling whatsoever, but
> just truncated; it's as if the backend decided to simply start the
> recording a few minutes late.
>
>   
It looks like from this:

2006-12-04 20:59:02.232 Could not find channel 9_1 in TVCT

that you haven't kept up with the Zap2It changes. Could that be it?



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