[mythtv-users] mythbackend missing recordings.

[Glenn Sommer]

If MythTV does not get any respond from the card, will it then try
again a bit later? (If it for example was a CAM error or something)

2009/5/25 Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>:
> On 05/25/2009 10:21 AM, Glenn Sommer wrote:
>>
>> Yes, all permissions are correct.
>> btw, I was wrong in my statement about 0byte files, actually it
>> doesn't even create the files at all.
>>
>> Anyway, I've tried raising the tuning timeouts for both DVB-C cards...
>> Maybe that will make a difference...
>> Though, if the backend timeouts when tuning - doesn't it retry later then?
>
> If you get no file at all (and no reported errors in the backend log file),
> that generally means that the capture card did not provide /any/ data at all
> for MythTV to write.  (Note that this is assuming you have permission to
> write to the recordings directories--if you don't, there should be an error
> in the logs and it should show that it stopped trying to record early rather
> than showing a message saying it's stopping the recording at the proper
> time.)
>
> So, sounds like a capture card/driver/configuration issue.
>
> Mike
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>