[mythtv-users] can't play old recordings
MarcT
myrdhn at gmail.com
Wed Jun 2 13:07:00 UTC 2010
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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Jack McGee
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 9:15 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] can't play old recordings
Looking further, it appears some of these recordings are damaged, likely
when the server was rebooting. But some recordings are before I had
that problem, and myth says it cannot find the file.
On 6/1/2010 7:28 PM, Jack McGee wrote:
> Long story but it was the weekend from hell, consumed by trying to
> rescue computers trying to anger me.
> started with a freenas server (hosting some of my recordings, all my
> music and videos) that lost power, did something bad to the raid, and
> went into random reboot mode. Course I did not immediately know this
> and left my combined FE/BE running, mad that it would keep hanging.
> I'll cut to the chase.
>
> I rescued some files from the recording directory on failed raid,
> copied them to another drive, mounted that, added it to storage
> groups. I would assume myth would find the recordings, but it has
> not. Says it cannot find the recording. If I hit "I" I find the file
> name, and it exists on that new drive.
>
> So I copied it to video directory, thinking I would watch it as a Video.
>
> I cannot skip forward or backwards at all. It will hang. I can play,
> pause, that is about it.
>
> #1) Why is myth not seeing the recordings,
> #2) Why does mythvideo not like to play them?
> this is trunk from JYA repository, Ubuntu 10.04.
>
> thanks.
>
> _______________________________________________
If you are savy enough with SQL you can update the recording record to look
at the correct location. Otherwise, you only option is myth.find_orphans.pl
MarcT
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