[mythtv-users] MythTV doesn't record

Felix mythtv at rabinovich.org
Sat May 27 01:36:48 UTC 2006


Jonathan Black wrote:
> Felix,
>
> I had a similar problem to this at one point. (Though I never messed 
> with LiveTV, so I'm not sure if it was working or not) I think it came 
> from making some changes the card and then rescanning the channels. To 
> fix it I believe that I deleted all the cards from the MythTV setup and 
> readded them again.
>
> I'd suggest backing your database up before you make any large changes 
> to MythTV. From the prompt just type "mysqldump mythconverg > 
> mythconverg.sql".
>
> Jonathan
>   
Jonathan,
That did it... I deleted the card, and added the card - and it's 
recording now! Thank you very much. Now, if I could go back in time and 
record American Idol that I promised to my daughter... but at least I'll 
be ready for world cup soccer (football for most of us)
Felix
>> Update: I noticed an error in mythbackend log (sorry - don't know how I 
>> missed it earlier):
>>
>> 2006-05-25 23:30:02.242 TVRec(1) Error: Failed to set channel to 5. 
>> Reverting to kState_None
>> 2006-05-25 23:30:02.243 TVRec(1): Changing from RecordingOnly to None
>> 2006-05-25 23:30:02.246 Finished recording Friends "The One Where 
>> Chandler Can't Cry": channel 1004
>> 2006-05-25 23:30:02.249 scheduler: Finished recording: Friends "The One 
>> Where Chandler Can't Cry": channel 1004
>> 2006-05-25 23:30:02.252 Started recording: Friends "The One Where 
>> Chandler Can't Cry": channel 1004 on cardid 1, sourceid 1
>> 2006-05-25 23:30:02.256 scheduler: Started recording: Friends "The One 
>> Where Chandler Can't Cry": channel 1004 on cardid 1, sourceid 1
>> 2006-05-25 23:30:03.261 Reschedule requested for id 0.
>> 2006-05-25 23:30:03.273 Scheduled 1 items in 0.0 = 0.00 match + 0.01 place
>>
>> again - in LiveTV mode - I can easily switch to Channel 5; and I am not 
>> sure where the reference to channel 1004 comes from - XMLTV ID for 
>> channel 5 is 10724.
>>
>> Felix
>>
>> Felix wrote:
>>     
>>> I had MythTv for about a year now. The last time I (succesfully) tried 
>>> to record a show was some time in December. Since then I upgraded OS 
>>>       
>> >from FC4 to FC5, as well as generally kept up to date. Currently I have 
>>     
>>> mythtv-suite-0.19-57.at.
>>>
>>> LiveTV works fine, but when I try to record, it "pretends" that it's 
>>> recording, however, no files get generated. All UI (both in mythfrontend 
>>> and in mythweb) show that recording is going on; and I can't find any 
>>> errors.
>>>
>>> However, there is no recording going on. The only indication of a 
>>> problem is when I am going to play the recording - myth complains that 
>>> there is no file on the disk (there *is* an entry on the screen).
>>>
>>> What can cause that? what other troubleshooting I can undertake?
>>>
>>> TIA
>>> Felix


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