On 11/30/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Malenfant</b> <<a href="mailto:smalenfant@gmail.com">smalenfant@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Just came back from vacation and I found out that all my recording failed...<br><br>Few problems that would be nice to be resolved :<br>1 - Don't record or mark the recording as bad when you can't open the<br>capture device (dvb here...)
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That would be nice if it knew that it failed...or if it fails, maybe even try a second time.<br>
I'd say have it try to fix itself, but it's anyones guess what is wrong. I can usually fix mine by<br>
killing the X-out on the 350, removing all the modules, and reloading them all (restarting the backend<br>
and frontend)<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">2 - I'm pretty the episode will not record again and will be marked as<br>duplicate the next time they appear in the schedule.
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To correct this, you'd have to manually delete the show from the "previously recorded" list. It's somewhere<br>
in the frontend.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">3 - The web interface tries to open the file on disk multiple times to<br>make the thumbnail (slow process), is there a need for that?
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I find that really irritating, too. It's worse in the frontend...you can't even scroll past the<br>
dead videos, since each time you select one it has to spin for awhile on the thumbnail failure.<br>
It takes forever to "delete" 5 bad recordings, because of how long it takes to not thumbnail.<br>
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I bet it would be a quick hack to have it look for filesize before looking for a thumbnail. All my bad<br>
recordings are 0-length, so there would obviously be no way to thumbnail.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">4 - DVB signal info in the backend status page, is this a non-working feature?<br>
5 - Could an e-mail be sent when something isn't right about the<br>capture card, a good example would be "2005-11-24 14:49:49.398 DVB#1<br>ERROR - Opening DVB frontend device failed. (2) No such file or<br>directory"
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log emailing is probably best done outside myth. It's probably difficult to determine when there is<br>
an explicit failure, but you can have it send all logs for a day to an email pretty easily, I bet.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">What happened here was my fault really... I updated with yum before<br>leaving and I a new kernel installed, disabling my 2 DVB cards.
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yeah, that would do it :-P<br>
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- Jeff<br>