[mythtv-users] shows won't play - 20 second time out

scram69 scram69 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 26 05:07:40 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 5:27 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 07/24/2008 10:30 PM, scram69 wrote:
>> Whatever "Resyncing position map" is, it routinely takes between 12
>> and 20 seconds to do when I start a recorded show.  When it takes
>> longer (22 seconds in this case), I hit the timeout and get bounced
>> back to the menu.
>> From the log, it looks like it might be a database issue, but it
>> happens for _every_ recording.  I run the database optimization perl
>> script daily.
>>
>
> Have you tried running optimize_mythdb.pl from the command line to
> ensure it's actually working?  There were changes between 0.20 and 0.21
> that may mean your configuration no longer works.  For example, the Perl
> bindings now require additional modules for UPnP and use config.xml
> rather than mysql.txt.

Funny you should ask.  You see I always run optimize_mythdb.pl from
the command line.  Because cron refuses to run the script I put into
cron.daily to run it.  But I can cd to /etc/cron.daily and execute it
manually just fine.  Which I have to do every day...


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