[mythtv-users] Random recording failure

[Mike Carron]

On 05/12/2014 10:52 AM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2014 09:20:18 -0700, you wrote:
>
>> I've been seeing a random event where a scheduled recording will start
>> on time and show in Upcoming Recordings as Currently Recording, but no
>> recording is actually created. Also, it will remain as Currently
>> Recording until the BE is stopped and restarted. The BE is 0.27-fixes on
>> Mythbuntu 12.04. Here is what appears to be a relevant segment of the log:
>>
> [snip]
>
>> The program in question was Guy's Grocery Games, it was assigned to be
>> recorded on tuner CAEA-0. The recording did not exist despite the log
>> entry to the contrary. It had been deleted with permission to rerecord.
>>
>> Failures like this are not frequent but they do tend to occur with shows
>> that cause wife to become upset(Murphy's Law). Is there something I can
>> do to get rid of this problem?
> Looking at that log segment, it says that the recording that failed
> was "Bible Secrets Revealed":"The Promised Land", not "Guy's Grocery
> Games".  The transmission of the program appears to be encrypted
> ("DTVSigMon[1](1311CAB1-0): PMT says program 308 is encrypted"), and
> as a result no data was received from the tuner to be stored to disk.
> That caused a "damaged" message at the end of the recording, saying
> there was a huge gap in the recording (in fact a gap the same length
> as the recording length).
>
> This pattern of messages is what I see on my system if I do not have
> my satellite decryption daemon running for some reason and try to
> record from one of the encrypted channels.  So is it possible that
> some programs on that channel are encrypted for some reason?
>
***
All channels are encrypted. The Bible Secrets Revealed show recorded 
properly.

mike