[mythtv-users] one recording keeps failing

[Michael Watson]

On 7/08/2014 11:07 PM, Vincent McIntyre wrote:
> Greetings mythizens,
>
> I have a strange issue that I wanted to report in case it is a bug.
> The system is mythbuntu 12.04 LTS with 0.27-fixes, all up to date.
> There is one tuner card with two tuners. myth is configured with
> one additional virtual tuner per physical tuner, so 'Tuner Status'
> lists four tuners.
>
> The symptom is that one particular program appears to start recording
> just fine but at the end of the scheduled recording time is marked as
> failed. I get a zero-length file displayed in the list of recordings.
> The show in question is a news broadcast, at the same time each day
> (1900-1935). More mysteriously, the recording sometimes 'works'.
Reception issue?  One tuner is possibly "better" than the other.

>
> Even more mysteriously, a recording that starts on the other tuner,
> at 1930, on the same channel in the same multiplex, works just fine.
> Further, a recording starting at 2000 on the first tuner, also on
> that same channel in the same multiplex, also works just fine.
> These events can all be seen in the log file linked below.
>
> I've turned on some debug logging, in /etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf:
>     /usr/bin/mythbackend --syslog local7 --user mythtv --daemon \
>     -v channel,chanscan,eit,record,schedule --loglevel debug
>
> A complete mythbackend.log, from system boot onward, is here.
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1Uoq3VrNrkRNjRfQm85dUpHOTQ/edit?usp=sharing
>
> Can anyone see what could be going wrong in that log file?
>
> I suspect I could fix this by just deleting the recording rule
> and recreating it but I wanted to give a bit of time for poking
> and prodding first.
>
> Vince
>
> $ mythbackend  --version
> Please attach all output as a file in bug reports.
> MythTV Version : v0.27.3-111-g5c76f33
> MythTV Branch : fixes/0.27
> Network Protocol : 77
> Library API : 0.27.20140718-1
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