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

Dave Richardson mythtv at derdev.com
Fri Sep 3 19:12:16 UTC 2010


On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 13:10:00 -0600, Robert Johnston <anaerin at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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.

Hmmm, never had my HDHR fail to record, better watch that thing more
closely.  Thanks to both of you who responded!



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