[mythtv-users] Mythbackend recording glitches

[Jay Foster]

On 10/17/2018 9:04 AM, Allen Edwards wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 8:50 AM Jay Foster <jayf0ster at roadrunner.com 
> <mailto:jayf0ster at roadrunner.com>> wrote:
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>     On 10/17/2018 7:41 AM, Allen Edwards wrote:
>>     <SNIP>
>>
>>     Yesterday I found a loose connector on tuner 0. HDHomerun config
>>     showed yellow signal quality that went away when it was
>>     tightened.  Fixed it.  Still glitches, no improvement this morning.
>>
>>     Small screen shots in Mytyweb sometimes there, sometimes not. 
>>     Progress bar still missing. The missing screenshots are in the
>>     Recordings folder but the link to them on Mythweb is to a
>>     different folder and file name.
>>
>>     Is there a way to reinstall myth without losing my programs?  I
>>     wish I could go back to Mythbuntu 8.
>>
>>     Allen
>>
>>
>     I haven't followed this thread much.  I am running mythbuntu 14.04
>     (3.13 kernel) with 0.28.  My system started out life as mythbuntu
>     8.10 with 0.21.  Back then, I followed the (then) recommendations
>     of using a separate disk drive (spindle) for the recordings and
>     OS/database. Is your system configured that way?  I also used the
>     XFS file system for the recording drive.  Which FS are you using. 
>     EXT4 may take a bit more for journal updates (I am out of my depth
>     here).  I also configured the backend to not do any comm flagging
>     or transcoding jobs during my primetime recording hours (7:00PM ->
>     3:00AM).  I also have slow deletes turned on (might be the
>     default).  I can reliably record 4 to 5 shows (OTA) at the same
>     time while watching another, using three HDHR tuners on a separate
>     dedicated gigabit NIC.
>
>     Jay
>
>
> What hardware are you running? Mine is AMD 5400 and I installed the 
> i386 version of Mythbuntu 14.  I used the default setup and only one 
> disk.  The old system had two disks but both had recordings on them. 
> Not sure of the file system on the old system but I will see if I can 
> get it running long enough to check. Looks like everything is on ext4 
> single partition except for the swap partition.
>
> That is a good lead, thanks.
>
> Allen
>
>
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The original hardware was an Intel Core2 Duo.  This was upgraded with 
the mythbuntu 14.04 to an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz 
system.  The video card was also upgraded at the same time to an Nvidia 
GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2.  Both running the 64-bit flavor of linux with 8GB 
RAM.
Jay
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