[mythtv-users] Mythweb - Recorded Programs - shows file size is "B" bytes!?!?!

Robert Johnston anaerin at gmail.com
Fri Sep 3 19:10:00 UTC 2010


On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 13:06, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Dave Richardson <mythtv at derdev.com> wrote:
>> Please pop open the full scale image on this screen scrape.  The image
>> shows a Mythweb saying there's a recording with a file size of "B"?
>> YIKES!!!
>>
>> http://mymyttv.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=97497720
>>
>> My Myth is v0.23 and has been behaving itself for recordings for quite a
>> while.  I just noticed this from recordings taken overnight.
>>
>> BE has plenty of free space, so it's not an out of disk issue.
>>
>> Thoughts on how to track this down?  TIA!!
>
> I get that when myth is unsuccessful at recording a show.  Typically
> (and perhaps the only time) this happens is with failed firewire
> captures.  In any event, just delete the recording while choosing to
> re-record it.  If you want more details, you may need to look at
> backend logs and provide more details to the list as to what capture
> method you were using.

I get the same thing when an IPTV recording fails. There ends up being
a 0-byte file, and MythWeb reports the file size as "B", presumably
because the leading "0" gets trimmed off, so rather than saying 0B (As
in 0 bytes), it just says B.
-- 
Robert "Anaerin" Johnston


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