[mythtv-users] what does "recorder failed" mean?

[Mark Lord]

On 12-04-11 10:42 AM, Marco Nelissen wrote:
>
> I have OTA ATSC via three PCI FusionHDTV cards, all connected via a powered splitter/amplifier to
> the antenna.
> If I'm reading the backend log correctly, that same card (#2) successfully recorded 2 other shows
> earlier that day, on different channels. When I tried tuning to the failed recording's channel the
> day after, that worked too.
> 
> If it *was* a bad reception at the time, or a driver bug or something, is there any way to tell myth
> to try harder, or try again?

Mythtv by itself doesn't seem to attempt any form of fault-tolerance or error-recovery,
so it's pretty much up to you to work around the issue somehow.

Other people here have the same issues from time to time, and some have worked out
ways to recover.  There was a thread on "zero byte files" or something similar
that ended up discussing some workarounds recently.

Cheers