[mythtv-users] Truncated HDHR recordings

[Christopher Meredith]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Christopher Meredith
> <chmeredith at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Michael T. Dean
>> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>>> On 05/17/2009 11:28 AM, Harry Devine wrote:
>>>> I searched Gossamer Threads for this, but I didn't really see anything
>>>> on this subject, so I thought I'd check with the list.  I have been
>>>> seeing lately that some recordings that I schedule on my HDHR get
>>>> truncated. Let me give 2 examples:
>>>>
>>>> 1) I recorded 24 last Monday on Fox.  I got 31 seconds and that was it.
>>>> 2) I recorded WWE Smackdown on MyNetworkTV on Friday, and all I got
>>>> was 14:23.
>>>>
>>>> The odd thing is that I don't see any errors in my backend log
>>>> whatsoever.  Here's an except from my backend log for Friday.  Note
>>>> that my recording rule is setup to record from 7:59PM US Eastern to
>>>> 10:02PM US Eastern:
>>> ...
>>>> 2009-05-15 19:59:02.685 Started recording: WWE Friday Night
>>>> SmackDown!: channel 5260 on cardid 4, sourceid 5
>>> ...
>>>> 2009-05-15 22:02:00.327 Finished recording WWE Friday Night
>>>> SmackDown!: channel 5260
>>> ...
>>>> Any ideas on what else I should be looking for to diagnose this?
>>>> Could it be some sort of DB corruption issue and be taken care of by a
>>>> DB optimize?
>>>
>>> Generally if the recording just stops midway through and no errors are
>>> shown in the log, it just means that the capture device quit sending
>>> data (or, more precisely, that Myth was unable to receive data from the
>>> capture card).  So, after the 14min 23seconds of good day, Myth wrote
>>> the rest of what the card gave it--0 bytes of data to cover the next 2
>>> 3/4 hours.
>>
>> I've been experiencing the same thing with my HD-PVR. It only happens
>> sometimes, but I would still like to get to the bottom of it. I
>> haven't been around when it's happened to see what happens with the
>> HD-PVR itself, but I would like to see if it can't be prevented.
>>
>> Could it be driver instability or something?
>
> How long have you two owned your HDHRs?  Could they have bad power
> supplies, or have you already replaced them?

We're talking about the Hauppauge HD-PVR, not the HD Homerun. Thanks though!