[mythtv-users] one recording keeps failing

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

On 01/09/14 23:06, Vincent McIntyre wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 11:50:40PM +1000, blind Pete wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 23:08:00 +1000
>> Vincent McIntyre <vincent.mcintyre at gmail.com> 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.
>>
>> Our setups are similar.  I think that we are even having trouble with
>> the same program.
>>
>> 1)  Each physical tuner can handle five virtual tuners, so you should
>> be able to capture everything on the ABC and SBS including NITV.
>>
>> 2)  What if /The Seven Thirty Report/ had its name "7.30" interpreted
>> as a decimal number instead of a string?
>>
>> 3)  I bet that your four current virtual tuners are ordered oddly.
>> (Read that as wrongly.)  That seems to be catching lots of people.
>>
>> Can you fire up mysql with "mysql -u mythtv -p mythconverg",
>> <password>, and "select cardinputid, cardid, schedorder, livetvorder
>> from cardinput;"?  Get out of it with "quit".  The password is probably
>> in ~/.mythtv/* .
>>
>
> Here is what I have. I just added the adapters in with mythtv-setup
> and let it default to 2 virtual tuners (ie I did not try to influence
> the order at all).
>
> mysql> select cardinputid, cardid, schedorder, livetvorder
>      -> from cardinput;
> +-------------+--------+------------+-------------+
> | cardinputid | cardid | schedorder | livetvorder |
> +-------------+--------+------------+-------------+
> |           1 |      1 |          1 |           1 |
> |           2 |      2 |          1 |           1 |
> |           3 |      3 |          3 |           3 |
> |           4 |      4 |          3 |           3 |
> +-------------+--------+------------+-------------+
>
>
>> Then again, I could be completely wrong.
>>
>
> For my system I am starting to suspect the hardware,

What tuner card are you using? I have a "Leadtek WinFast DTV2000DS" and
regularly have such problems. I always suspected a card initialization
issue but never investigated it enough to complain.

> but there are other things at play.
>   * The network changed their callsign from 'ABC1' to 'ABC'
>     (on both subchannels of the multiplex, sigh)
>     So I deleted the recording rule and recreated it,
>     with the 'this channel' and 'this time' scheduling filters ticked.
>     That did not seem to make a difference.
>
>   * I told it to 'prefer tuner 3' in the 'ABC News' recording rule.
>     This has worked for me.
>
>   * Some other recordings trying to use tuner 1 have been failing too.
>
> I do think there is some kind of mythtv bug or misfeature lurking here.
> When the recording starts, it shows up in the 'watch recordings'
> view rendered in green (currently recording). But there is no file
> open in any of the recordings directories - the system is waiting for
> the tuner to settle.
> I think this is wrong - there should be an indication that there is
> no data hitting disk - but perhaps there is a good reason for it.
>
> I am starting to look around for a new dual-tuner card but motherboard
> constraints mean it has to be PCI (no time to rebuild entirely right now).
> I have one PCI-e card (dvico fusionhdtv) which I am going to try
> with a PCI-PCIe bridge but that card is oldish as well.
>
>
> Kind regards
> Vince

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Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)