[mythtv-users] DVB failing to generate recordings - please help!

[Kevin Wentland]

Hello, My problems are somewhat similiar.....

I have a PVR350 connected to cable and a 150 connected to DirecTV and using
an irblaster to change channels.

Everything works flawlessly until it comes time for a scheduled
recording......   I just get empty files that won't delete very easy.

If I am watching a show and click "R" it records the program just fine.


Anybody have any ideas??




On 3/10/06, Neil Bird <neil at fnxweb.com> wrote:
>
> Around about 09/03/06 16:41, Nick typed ...
> > Planet Earth is fortunately repeated the following Saturday evening,
> > so if you haven't already, set up a recording for the first episode!
>
>   Yeah, I've set my alarm :-)  (another clash, so I'll either watch live
> or
> put it no LiveTV [which still always works through DVB] then hit 'R' to
> record
> it;  *that* also always works OK.  Course, I have to be there to trigger
> it.).
>
>
> > I haven't updated to 0.19 yet but would suggest trying to see whether
> > turning off DVB signal monitoring and using DVB on-demand make a
> > difference. Have you been able to use the DVB card outside of MythTV
> > i.e. using tzap or Kaffeine to record files successfully?
>
>   LiveTV always works flawlessly through the DVB.  It's only scheduled
> recordings which fail to generate an actual file (with no errors).
>
>   I tried the 'on-demand' setting last night, but it didn't help:  the
> next
> recoring disappeared as expected.  "Turn of signal monitoring" ... where
> is
> that?  I'll have a look & a try.  What side effects might I expect?
>
>
> > If you can watch TV and files are correctly created when using the DVB
> > card, but not when recording from a schedule, I'm not certain what the
> > problem could be.
>
>   Ditto :O, hence my exasperation.  Next stop is likely going to have to
> be
> adding my own debug to the code.
>
>
> > The card and channel definitions must be OK for
> > LiveTV to work, and if I understand things correctly, the new LiveTV
> > functionality is more integrated to allow in-progress LiveTV to be
> > saved as a regular recording.
>
>   I know, it makes no sense.
>
>
> > If nothing else works, I'd take a backup of the DB and then remove the
> > card and channel definitions, and see whether adding the DVB card
> > afresh makes any difference.
>
>   It may be worth a try, but it was quite laborious, so it'll definitely
> be
> the /last/ thing I try.  I already somehow ended up with sources 1 & 3 not
> 1 &
> 2 by not being sure what I was doing as I set up DVB for the first time.
>
>   I did notice that I have managed to get one of the transport frequencies
> in
> the transport list twice, but I'm not allowed to delete it [through the
> UI].
> Can't see that that should be a problem, though.
>
> --
> [neil at fnx ~]# rm -f .signature
> [neil at fnx ~]# ls -l .signature
> ls: .signature: No such file or directory
> [neil at fnx ~]# exit
>
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