[mythtv-users] Major Issue All Of a Sudden - Recording Unavailable

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/01/2009 09:58 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Paulin wrote:
>   
>> Dear Myth Community,
>> I've been using Myth for just over a year and it's been working well.  All
>> of a sudden (Thursday Oct 29) everything that has recording won't play.
>>  When I try to play it on the front end I get a error message:
>>      Recording Unavailable (title of show), This recording is not yet
>> available.
>> Now I have done nothing on the box.  No upgrades.  Nothing.
>> My myth version was built using trunk (rev 19992).
>> So any suggestions or ways to fix it.  Not even sure where to begin.
>> Any help is appriciated.
>>     
> Backend logs around the time it should have recorded.
>
> mythweb "recorded programs" - does it say file size 'B' ?
>
> Mine just does this sometimes. Produces zero length or non existent files.
>
> backend logs should help.

And if it's truly "everything," check your DB:  
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:Periodic_Maintenance#Optimize_the_Database

Mike