[mythtv-users] autoexpire but the file isn't there?

Rich West Rich.West at wesmo.com
Thu Apr 26 20:31:59 UTC 2007


Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 04/26/2007 02:56 PM, aaron wrote:
>   
>> On 26/04/07, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> On 04/26/2007 02:30 PM, Rich West wrote:
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> Hrmm.. I just noticed that, over the course of the last two days, I'm
>>>> seeing a lot of the following error message:
>>>>
>>>> "ERROR when trying to autoexpire file:
>>>> /video/4294967295_20070423233053.mpg. File doesn't exist. Database
>>>> metadata will not be removed."
>>>>         
>>> It just means it's not going to remove the recording information from
>>> your database. 
>>>       
>> I've only got lowly analog cable, so maybe I don't see what I think I
>> see, but the filename looks funny to me....
>>
>> 4294967295 == 0xFFFFFFFF
>>
>> like an uninitialised variable or somesuch. Could that be why the file
>> doesn't exist? :)
>>     
>
> Oh, that...  Good catch.  :)  There's definitely something wrong there.
>
> Before looking at the code, it's probably good to look at the database 
> to see if there's an invalid chanid (and/or channel record) in there to 
> help narrow down which code caused the bad value...
>
> select chanid from channel;

Nothing odd in the channel table, but I did find a bogus entry in the
"recorded" table:
| 4294967295 | 2007-04-23 23:30:53 | 2007-04-23 23:33:00
|                                            
|                                        
|                                                                                                       
|          | mythtv1  |        0 |       0 |       0 |      10000
|           0 | LiveTV   |        0 |          |              |
2007-04-23 23:32:36 |  45735936 |     0 |               0 |
1900-01-01      |        0 |      0 |             0 |          0
|           1 |           0 | 4294967295_20070423233053.mpg | 2007-04-23
23:30:53 | 2007-04-24 00:30:53 | Default   | Default |         1
|          0 |       0 |


I'll just try removing that entry..

-Rich


More information about the mythtv-users mailing list