[mythtv-users] one recording keeps failing

[Mark Perkins]

> On 2 Sep 2014, at 10:44 pm, "Eyal Lebedinsky" <eyal at eyal.emu.id.au> wrote:
> 
>> 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.

Have you seen the notes here http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Leadtek_WinFast_DTV2000DS on your card? They are a bit dated and may be no longer relevant but might help.

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