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

[Michael T. Dean]

<fixed top posting--hint, hint>

On 11/09/2009 08:26 PM, Paulin wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Paulin wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Paulin wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On 11/02/2009 06:04 PM, Paulin wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> 2. Yesterday I was able to watch live on both cards.  Today I can't get
>>>>> anything on either.  One card is an HD antenna.  the other is HD comcast.
>>>>>  I'm not able to get a signal lock.
>>>>>           
...
>>>>> 5. File recordings from last night are B (size 0 on the disk).  However
>>>>> something recording this morning at 8 fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any thoughts..I'm stumped and Heroes is on in 2 hours.  :(
>>>> Rescan channels?  Note that LiveTV may work when recordings don't
>>>> depending on the settings for Quick Tuning.
>>> I'm trying to reset everything...delete and re added cards...
>>> Doing a rescan now but not having luck yet...(mostly I don't remember the
>>> setting :)
>>>
>>> Hopefully the rescan will work.  fingers crossed.  1 hour a counting
>> Well 10 minutes before Heroes, I got it to work.  Not sure why but here is
>> some things I did in case it helps others.
> Well exactly 1 week later it happened again.   At 8 tonight it started
> recording the files and they are B length and the problem is back.
>
> WTF is going on.  1 Year it's been working and now I am having this issue.
>
> Anyone have any reasons for it and a way to permanently fix it.   Last time
> I had to rescan all the channels.  Don't want to have to do that every week
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

If the problem /is/ that broadcasters/re-broadcasters are changing the 
way they're sending your channels, there is no such thing as a 
"permanent fix."

If it's not that, then likely you have a misconfiguration in your Input 
Connections such that things work fine for a while then just break.  
This is exactly what happens when you have a card defined with no inputs 
connected or a video source defined that's not connected to any 
inputs--i.e. if you have "extra garbage" in your MythTV input 
connections configuration.

(Could Myth be fixed to handle this?  Yes.  Patches welcomed.  It's on 
my TODO list but is /way/ down at the bottom, because IMHO it's easier 
just to configure Myth properly and the issue doesn't crop up that 
frequently because most people do so--and those who don't do so after 
the first time they have/identify the problem.)

Mike