[mythtv-users] missing recordings from 2 DVB recorders (HVR-950Qs)

[Andrew Cagney]

>> 2010-02-05 16:11:56.602 Channel(/dev/video-HVR-950Q-F04BEC59): Device
>> name 'Hauppauge HVR950Q' driver 'au0828'.
>> 2010-02-05 16:11:56.605 MSqlQuery::exec() "SELECT cardinputid,
>> inputname,   startchan,        tunechan,    externalcommand,
>> sourceid FROM cardinput WHERE cardid = '6'"
>> 2010-02-05 16:11:56.605 ChannelBase(6) Error: InitializeInputs():
>>                        Could not get inputs for the capturecard.
>>                        Perhaps you have forgotten to bind video
>>                        sources to your card's inputs?
>
> Try removing them from the capture devices list in mythtv-setup.  You
> don't want to have any v4l entries associated with the 950Q devices.

Ah, analog isn't reliable?  My todo list was to get that working.

>> and marks them as broken.  I'm pretty sure I've also encountered the
>> problem when those analog devices weren't even listed.
>>
>>> Do you have both 950q devices plugged into the same USB bus?
>>
>> Hmm, does this:
>>
>> tv at tv-desktop:~$ udevadm info -q path -n /dev/dvb/adapterF04BEC59/frontend0
>> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.1/usb1/1-2/dvb/dvb0.frontend0
>> tv at tv-desktop:~$ udevadm info -q path -n /dev/dvb/adapterF0677017/frontend0
>> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.1/usb1/1-4/dvb/dvb1.frontend0
>>
>> answer your question  (yes I've been playing with udev names)? I guess
>> they are on the same bus, aong with the PVR-USB2 and the disk being
>> used to store recordings.
>
> Yeah, looks like they are on the same bus.

Poking around, it looks like all 7 ports are on the same bus, so
changing the bus isn't an option :-(

>>> In the scenario you described, do both recordings fail, or just one of them?
>>
>> Based on today's results, the second recording to start is the one
>> that fails.  But not always.
>
> I'm wondering at this point whether perhaps the problem has to do with
> the bus allocation - perhaps the driver is selecting an alternate
> which consumes too much bandwidth, and therefore both devices cannot
> capture at the same time on the same USB bus segment.

I guess having all three recorders running at the same time would just
make it worse than.
(I wish there was an option to cap the number of simultaneous
recordings, regardless of the card)

> I'll have to look at the code and see which alternate it's picking.

Just to be really sure we're on the same page.  The output file is
never created.  For instance:
   /var/lib/mythtv/default/1008_20091029210000.mpg
is simply missing (rather than empty).  All the logs I've looked at
suggest mythtv thinks it was created though.

To me this suggests that, even if the device driver side has a
problem, mythtv's backend has also dropped the ball since it hasn't
detected that things have failed.

If you need anything, let me know.