[mythtv-users] Can mythfilldatabase interrupt recordings in progress?

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Jan,

Monday, June 29, 2015, 9:02:25 AM, you wrote:

> Dear list,

> Due to where I'm based (Belgium) I need to grab metadata from multiple
> sources. Furthermore I have two video sources which have overlapping
> channels. In order to deal with all of this I run a nightly script that
> runs all of the metadata grabbers followed by mythfilldatabase --file
> (multiple times).

> Very occasionally I see interrupted recordings and I suspect that this
> might be due to mythfilldatabase being run while a recording is in
> progress. When this happens I end up with two files for the same
> recording: the second starts where the first ended (with a few seconds
> missing in between).

> Is this possible/plausible? Because if it is I need to detect the
> backend's status and defer the mythfilldatabase runs until after any
> recordings have finished.

> Otherwise I need to look for other causes (such as backend restarts; I
> know that these would produce the symptoms I'm seeing but I already only
> do that when no recordings are in progress).

> Thanks, Jan
> _______________________________________________

I have never noticed it and I regularly run mythfilldatabase when
recording is in progress while testing grabber updates.


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