[mythtv-users] Recording Cuts Off

mythtv at blandford.net mythtv at blandford.net
Thu Jul 17 00:01:43 UTC 2008


Kirk Bocek wrote:
> I'm having a problem recording one specific show. Every night I try to record 
> Nightly Business Report off of two different PBS channels. I am recording 
> digital channels off of my HDHomerun. *Every* night it either cuts off at 
> about 2:30 into the recording or mythbackend hangs with no error messages to 
> the log. This same server happily records six hours of HD programming without 
> a problem. But NBR consistently causes problems.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what is going on?

Do you have a cron job that runs mythfilldatabase, optimize_mythdb, or 
anything like that during that time frame?  One of those *might* lock 
the database and cause you problems.

Michael


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