[mythtv-users] 0.24 recording troubles

[Eloy Paris]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:16:37PM -0500, Eloy Paris wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Upgraded today to 0.24 and ran into issues with several shows that aired
> tonight:
> 
> 1. Grey's Anatomy: channel 11.1 from 9 to 10 PM. There are some weird
> problems with the length of this recording. The frontend thinks that
> only 30:51 minutes got recorded. Opening the recording with xine I can
> watch up to minute 51, but still not the entire episode.
> 
> It seems like my wife was trying to watch this show live so I see one
> "Started recording: "Grey's Anatomy":"Something's Gotta Give": channel
> 2111 on cardid 1, source id 2" message but several "Finished recording
> Grey's Anatomy "Something's Gotta Give": channel 2111" messages.
> 
> At the end I see:
> 
> 2010-11-11 22:03:00.077 TVRec(1): Changing from RecordingOnly to None
> 2010-11-11 22:03:00.090 Updating status for "Grey's Anatomy":"Something's Gotta Give" on cardid 1 (Recording => Recorded)
> 2010-11-11 22:03:00.093 Finished recording Grey's Anatomy "Something's Gotta Give": channel 2111
> 2010-11-11 22:03:00.111 Reschedule requested for id 0.
> 2010-11-11 22:03:00.222 MainServer, Error: PREVIEW_SUCCESS but no receivers.
> 2010-11-11 22:03:00.281 Finished recording Grey's Anatomy "Something's Gotta Give": channel 2111
> 
> Bottom line is that my wife can't watch this episode until the end.
> She's pretty upset at me right now because of this :-(
> 
> 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.
> 
> 3. Private Practice: channel 11.1 from 10:00 to 11 PM. Recording started:
> 
> 2010-11-11 22:01:02.960 Started recording: "Private Practice":"What Happens Next": channel 2111 on cardid 3, sourceid 2
> 
> However, for some reason the final size of the recording file is just
> 135 megs. It seems like my wife tried to watch this show while it was
> being recorded, probably using LiveTV at some point.
> 
> 
> I don't recall having problems like these with 0.23. Sorry I don't have
> more details, but am happy to provide full backend logs if anyone wants
> to dig more.

Just a follow up in case somebody is not watching my findings posted on
another thread -- I've tracked the three problems described above down
to an issue related to handling of simultaneous recordings when using
a HDHomeRun: if one tuner in the HDHomeRun is already in use and Myth
tries to use the other tuner in the HDHomeRun for a second recording
then the first recording will stop. Very nasty problem although I wonder
why it seems like I am the only HDHomeRun user that has noticed an issue
with this.

There was an upgrade of the HDHomeRun library in 0.24 so that may have
something to do with the issue.

A workaround that is working for me is to delete from the configuration
one of the two tuners in the HDHomeRun.

Cheers,

Eloy Paris.-