[mythtv-users] Occasional zero length file from a scheduled recording?

[Rod Smith]

On Friday 07 March 2008 04:30:56 barbex wrote:
> >  Has anyone else had this happen?  I'm can't imagine how this can occur
> >  and show no errors or any sign that the backend is even aware
> >  anythings wrong.  It's as though it's mysteriously writing into
> >  nowhere or something.
>
> Exactly. Have that too occasionally, never found out why. The
> recording is in the database but the file does not created. Weird.

Sorry I missed the original post. I've seen something like this on my system 
occasionally, but only with a Hauppauge PVR-USB2, and usually (only?) when 
the system is under load because of a transcode operation underway or some 
other process. I suspect a driver bug and/or motherboard issues (I've got a 
motherboard with a VIA chipset; I read the warnings about them too late). 
Once the system has produced a 0-length recording, the video device always 
records 0-length files; I've got to manually unload and re-load the driver. 
There are no obvious error messages in the system logs or the kernel ring 
buffer.

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Rod Smith