[mythtv-users] Suddenly nearly every recording is short

[Mark Knecht]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:51 PM, myShade <myshade at bredband.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 19:11 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>> Starting last night at 9PM and except for a couple of recordings made
>>> mid-morning today every recording is coming up very short in time.
>>>
>>> Approximate times:
>>>
>>> Letterman - 7 minutes
>>> Conan - 15 minutes
>>> Ferguson - 10 minutes
>>> NCIS: LA - 15 minutes
>>> the forgotten - 20 minutes
>>> etc.
>>>
>>> However NCIS at 8PM recorded fine as well as Stewart and Colbert
>>> recorded this morning just fine. Again, this afternoon a cooking show
>>> my wife records quit after about 6 minutes.
>>>
>>> I've looked all the log files and see no problems. In fact everything
>>> looks very normal, like it thought it was recording right amount of
>>> time. Letterman commercial flagging started at 12:30 which would be
>>> about right for the program being completely recorded.
>>>
>>>
>>> I've not heard of a problem like this before. Has this been reported?
>>>
>>> If not then I'm leaning toward some weird hardware problem on my end
>>> which is easy to guess but hard to determine. I did have my recording
>>> drive go out a few weeks ago and I've been using an older 1394 drive
>>> since then. I don't know how it would cause this problem and not leave
>>> any messages anywhere but stranger things have happened I suppose.
>>>
>>> Anyway, I'd be very appreciative of inputs toward solving this issue.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mark
>>
>> Hi.
>> No resolution, but a me too...
>> I also have short recordings starting 13/10
>> Perhaps its time to switch trunk->.22-RC
>>
>> /Fredrik
>>
>
> No problems last night but we didn't record too much. (6 shows)
>
> I did a reboot yesterday afternoon in case some hardware thing got
> into a wrong state.
>
> Upgrading is not a good option as it means doing 4 machines and will
> likely finally break my old windows MythTV viewer which I really
> depend on. If the 0.21 frontend worked reliably with the newer backend
> I'd do it but I don't think that works.
>
> Sorry you're having these troubles also.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>

Turns out I was wrong. One of the 60 minute recordings last night came
up short at 45 minutes.

- Mark