[mythtv-users] MythTV can't (safely) record UK Channel five

[Toby Smith]

On 05/11/06, Jerome Hettich <jerome at hettich.org.uk> wrote:
> I have two myth boxes both with Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-T USB2 tuners.
>
> Both run atrpms packaged versions of myth 0.20 but one running on FC3
> and one FC4.
>
> The one running on Fedora Core 4 records all channels perfectly but
> since upgrading from myth 0.19 to 0.20 the FC3 box will never record
> anything on channel 5, abc1, QVC or anything else on multiplex A.
>
> The recordings seem to fail with different symptoms to John describes
> though. Any scheduled recordings on the FC3 box just produce a zero byte
> file (or few 100 byte files) rather than mythbackend crashing.

I had a kind-of-similar problem with Channel 4 and variants on
Multiplex B. I got slightly differnet symptoms in that the recordings
worked fine, and didn't crash the backend, but attempting playback
(and liveTV as well for obvious reasons) crashed the frontend.

Retuning the channels pulled one back to working (which may have been
unrelated problem) and a recompile from source with debugging options
turned on cleared the rest before I could debug any furthur. I have a
nagging doubt the major difference might be not having done a 'make
distclean' before my first install of 0.20, but I don't really have
any way of prooving that.

You may also want to investigate the following ticket that relates to
issues recording Channel 4 - it may or may not be related...
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/2556

Good luck :-)

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