<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Mark Lord <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mythtv@rtr.ca">mythtv@rtr.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 12-04-11 01:22 AM, Marco Nelissen wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Michael T. Dean <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a><br>
</div><div class="im">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> On 04/11/2012 12:39 AM, Marco Nelissen wrote:<br>
><br>
> Last night a recording failed, which didn't give my wife much confidence that she'll<br>
> continue to be able to watch her shows now that we've cancelled our Directv service. The<br>
> "previously recorded" list shows "recorder failed" for this recording. The backend log shows:<br>
><br>
> 2012-04-09 21:58:29.312 TVRec(2): ASK_RECORDING 2 29 0 0<br>
> 2012-04-09 21:59:01.625 TVRec(2): Changing from None to RecordingOnly<br>
> 2012-04-09 21:59:01.715 TVRec(2): HW Tuner: 2->2<br>
> 2012-04-09 21:59:01.905 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 3.0 GB w/freq: 7 min<br>
> 2012-04-09 21:59:02.012 Started recording: Smash:Understudy: channel 1111 on cardid 2,<br>
> sourceid 1<br>
</div>> 2012-04-09 21:59:02.292 ProgramInfo(1111___20120409215900.mpg), Error: GetPlaybackURL:<br>
<div class="im">> '1111_20120409215900.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.<br>
</div>> 2012-04-09 21:59:02.591 ProgramInfo(1111___20120409215900.mpg), Error: GetPlaybackURL:<br>
<div class="im">> '1111_20120409215900.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.<br>
</div>> 2012-04-09 21:59:02.773 ProgramInfo(1111___20120409215900.mpg), Error: GetPlaybackURL:<br>
<div class="im">> '1111_20120409215900.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.<br>
><br>
> and then some time later, at the time the recording was scheduled to end:<br>
><br>
> 2012-04-09 23:10:00.280 TVRec(2): Changing from RecordingOnly to None<br>
> 2012-04-09 23:10:00.424 Updating status for Smash:Understudy on cardid 2 (Tuning => Recorder<br>
> Failed)<br>
><br>
> Is there any other place I can look to find out why it failed to record this show?<br>
><br>
><br>
> dmesg?<br>
><br>
><br>
> Unfortunately my wife restarted the machine in an attempt to get things to work, so I no longer have<br>
> the dmesg.<br>
<br>
</div>You probably do -- look in /var/log/* for whatever file your distro<br>
uses for saving kernel messages. Normally there are a few week's worth<br>
of messages in there.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ha! I didn't realize that /proc/kmsg was mirrored as /var/log/kern.log. and with human readable timestamps, even.</div><div>Unfortunately, it goes right from April 8 to April 10, so it looks like whatever the problem was on April 9, it wasn't anything kernel/driver related, or at least not something that the kernel or driver thought was worth logging.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">><br>
> I'm guessing the capture device failed to provide any data for the backend to write.<br>
</div><div class="im">..<br>
> Not sure what you mean by that.<br>
<br>
</div>One of two things happened.<br>
Either reception was poor for that channel and the card was unable to tune to it,<br>
or the device driver for the tuner has a bug and failed to tune to it.<br>
<br>
What kind of tuner device are you using, and what is your signal source<br>
(O.T.A. antenna for ATSC in the USA?)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have OTA ATSC via three PCI FusionHDTV cards, all connected via a powered splitter/amplifier to the antenna.</div><div>If I'm reading the backend log correctly, that same card (#2) successfully recorded 2 other shows earlier that day, on different channels. When I tried tuning to the failed recording's channel the day after, that worked too.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If it *was* a bad reception at the time, or a driver bug or something, is there any way to tell myth to try harder, or try again?</div><div><br></div></div>