[mythtv-users] Scheduled recording Fails, But I can record When watching live tv

[David Watkins]

On 13/07/07, Gregg <3gemail at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I schedule a recording on my pvr250  it fails, but if I am
> watching live tv and press record it works.  Can someone help me
> troubleshoot this problem?  Below is the error in the mythbackend.log
> 2007-07-12 22:00:02.576 TVRec(6): Changing from None to RecordingOnly
> 2007-07-12 22:00:02.584 TVRec(6): HW Tuner: 6->6
> 2007-07-12 22:00:02.716 Channel(/dev/video0): SetInputAndFormat() failed
> 2007-07-12 22:00:02.717 TVRec(6) Error: Failed to set channel to 26.
> Reverting to kState_None
> 2007-07-12 22:00:02.718 TVRec(6): Changing from RecordingOnly to None
> 2007-07-12 22:00:02.751 Canceled recording (Recorder Failed): Man vs.
> Wild "Australia": channel 2026 on cardid 6, sourceid 2
>
> Just a note I am running fc5 and mythtv .20.1.  And scheduled
> recodings work from my HD3000 and firewire sources.

The reference to different channel numbers (26 and 2026) looks odd,
but maybe that's a function of multiple input sources that I haven't
come across.

Regardless of that I'd suspect a problem with your channel and listing
configurations.