[mythtv-users] 0.24 recording troubles

[Eloy Paris]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 01:11:35PM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:

>  On 11/11/2010 11:16 PM, Eloy Paris wrote:
> >2. The Office: channel 17.1 from 9 to 9:30 PM. The problem with this one
> >is that the backend apparently started to record:
> >
> >2010-11-11 21:00:03.176 Started recording: "The Office":"Viewing Party": channel 2171 on cardid 3, sourceid 2
> >
> >but it seems like it didn't store the recording anywhere. There is
> >no file associated with the recording and I see lots of these in the
> >backend log:
> >
> >2010-11-11 21:05:29.776 ProgramInfo(2171_20101111210000.mpg), Error: GetPlaybackURL: '2171_20101111210000.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
> >
> >Nobody was trying to watch this show while it was being recorded.
> 
> A 0-byte (or non-existent file) without any accompanying errors in
> the log happens when the capture device provides no data (and no
> errors) to MythTV.

Thanks Mike.

I think the hardware is fine (it's been stable for several months, and
I was able to watch something today using that capture device). Most
likely this was a problem caused by poor signal quality. I get my TV
signal over the air through an antenna in my attic, and lately I have
been having signal quality problems.

It was strange that I had problems with three recordings pretty much at
the same time, but I guess all these problems could be explained by bad
signal quality.

Cheers,

Eloy Paris.-