[mythtv-users] one recording keeps failing

[blind Pete]

On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 00:18:49 +1000
Michael Watson <michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au> wrote:

> 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.
[snip]

On a single dual tuner card?  It is possible that one is broken, or
that the signal splitter is uneven.  If the antenna connections are
swapped does the unreliable tuner move?  


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