[mythtv-users] Some recordings do not appear in Watch Recordings but file is on hard drive and was in Upcoming Recordings?

[David Watkins]

On 09/12/2008, nospam312 <nospam312 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I manually add it to the database
> >
> > Have you tried the mythtv.find_orphans.pl script to add the recordings?
> >
> > If you're manually altering the database you're frimly in "no
> > guarantee of success" territory.
>
> Gone a bit off topic this is not the problem.
>
> I want to know why MythTV is not adding the record in the first place
> or at least what I need to do to try to track down this problem.

mythbackend -v help

will tell you what the logging options are.

I'd say the following would be a reasonable start.

mythbackend -v schedule, record -l /var/log/mythbackend.log

and look to see whether the recording ends cleanly and, if not, why not.