[mythtv-users] Recordings Don't Work, Live TV Does

[Michael Beardsley]

Hello All,

I can't seem to get recordings to work, however live TV, including
pause/rewind/etc works just fine.

I can schedule a recording and the schedule will run properly and an
MPEG file will be written to disk, but it's just black with no sound. It
seems as though Myth isn't able to connect to the video/audio source
from a scheduled recording like it is able to during live TV.

I have a CX23416 based MPEG-2 encoder branded as the Xtreme TV PVR560 by
Diamond Multimedia.

I'm on the US West coast with Comcast Digital cable. My set top box is
connected to the TV card via composite RCA video and stereo RCA audio.

I haven't gotten my Firefly Mini USB remote to work with LIRC yet, so
Myth can't change channels for me.

I'm running:
Fedora Core 6 kernel 2.6.20-1.2962.fc6
nVidia GeForce 7800 GS with nVidia drivers and OpenGL enabled
mythbackend version: 0.20.20060828-4 www.mythtv.org
mythfrontend version: 0.20.20060828-4 www.mythtv.org

Thanks for any help!

Mike

Here's some log entries for a recording:

2007-08-29 16:30:02.288 TVRec(1): Changing from None to RecordingOnly
2007-08-29 16:30:02.295 TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1
2007-08-29 16:30:04.135 Started recording: Test Versus five min (Manual
Record) "Wed Aug 29 16:30:00 2007": channel 1034 on cardid 1, sourceid 1
2007-08-29 16:35:00.945 TVRec(1): Changing from RecordingOnly to None
2007-08-29 16:35:00.958 Finished recording Test Versus five min (Manual
Record) "Wed Aug 29 16:30:00 2007": channel 1034
2007-08-29 16:35:00.960 Reschedule requested for id 0.
2007-08-29 16:35:00.972 Scheduled 0 items in 0.0 = 0.00 match + 0.01
place
2007-08-29 16:35:01.069 Finished recording Test Versus five min (Manual
Record) "Wed Aug 29 16:30:00 2007": channel 1034
[mpeg @ 0x2ba990]Parser not found for Codec Id: 94210 !
0: start_time: 0.036 duration: 24.402
1: start_time: 1321.598 duration: 26.555
2: start_time: 0.017 duration: 24.393
stream: start_time: 0.191 duration: 14979.285 bitrate=94 kb/s
2007-08-29 16:35:01.095 AFD: Opened codec 0x90ae4d0, id(MPEG2VIDEO)
type(Video)
2007-08-29 16:35:01.113 AFD: Opened codec 0x90aeb60, id(MP2) type(Audio)
2007-08-29 16:35:20.764 JobQueue: Commercial Flagging Starting for Test
Versus five min (Manual Record) "Wed Aug 29 16:30:00 2007" recorded from
channel 1034 at Wed Aug 29 16:30:00 2007
2007-08-29 16:35:20.922 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2007-08-29 16:35:20.973 New DB connection, total: 1
2007-08-29 16:35:20.982 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2007-08-29 16:35:20.988 New DB connection, total: 2
2007-08-29 16:35:20.989 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost
2007-08-29 16:35:21.004 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543
(try 1 of 5)
2007-08-29 16:35:21.007 Using protocol version 31
2007-08-29 16:35:21.008 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2007-08-29 16:35:21.010 adding: localhost.localdomain as a client
(events: 0)
2007-08-29 16:35:21.012 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2007-08-29 16:35:21.012 adding: localhost.localdomain as a client
(events: 1)
[mpeg @ 0x2ba990]Parser not found for Codec Id: 94210 !
0: start_time: 0.036 duration: 24.402
1: start_time: 1321.598 duration: 26.555
2: start_time: 0.017 duration: 24.393
stream: start_time: 0.191 duration: 14979.285 bitrate=94 kb/s
2007-08-29 16:35:21.038 AFD: Opened codec 0x9e22350, id(MPEG2VIDEO)
type(Video)
2007-08-29 16:35:21.057 AFD: Opened codec 0x9e22ae0, id(MP2) type(Audio)
2007-08-29 16:35:24.702
RingBuf(/var/lib/mythtv/1034_20070829163000.mpg): Waited 1.0 seconds for
data to become available...
2007-08-29 16:35:25.715
RingBuf(/var/lib/mythtv/1034_20070829163000.mpg): Waited 2.0 seconds for
data to become available...
2007-08-29 16:35:26.336 JobQueue: Commercial Flagging Finished, 0
break(s) found.
[mpeg @ 0x2ba990]Parser not found for Codec Id: 94210 !
0: start_time: 0.036 duration: 24.402
1: start_time: 1321.598 duration: 26.555
2: start_time: 0.017 duration: 24.393
stream: start_time: 0.191 duration: 14979.285 bitrate=94 kb/s
2007-08-29 16:35:26.351 AFD: Opened codec 0x90c4520, id(MPEG2VIDEO)
type(Video)
2007-08-29 16:35:26.352 AFD: Opened codec 0x90ab3e0, id(MP2) type(Audio)