On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Michael T. Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com" target="_blank">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 11/11/2012 06:02 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 11/11/12 22:33, Michael T. Dean wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 11/10/2012 03:23 PM, Phil Bridges wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I set my mythtv system to record today's football game at 12:30. When I<br>
arrived home at 3, I tried to watch the game. I went to recorded shows, and<br>
saw that the game was being recorded (the status was green in MythCenter).<br>
The size, however, was 0.0 GB. Super. The game didn't record, but the status<br>
was "recording".<br>
<br>
To troubleshoot, I looked at my slave backend log. Here's what it reads:<br>
<br>
2012-11-10 12:30:00.293715 I [1550/1564] TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:1029<br>
(HandleStateChange) - TVRec(3): Changing from None to RecordingOnly<br>
2012-11-10 12:30:00.295250 I [1550/1564] TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:3495<br>
(TuningCheckForHWChange) - TVRec(3): HW Tuner: 3->3<br>
2012-11-10 12:30:24.910401 E [1550/1568] JobQueue programinfo.cpp:2278<br>
(GetPlaybackURL) - ProgramInfo(1691_<u></u>20121110123000.mpg): GetPlaybackURL:<br>
'1691_20121110123000.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.<br>
2012-11-10 12:30:24.913229 E [1550/1568] JobQueue programinfo.cpp:2278<br>
(GetPlaybackURL) - ProgramInfo(1691_<u></u>20121110123000.mpg): GetPlaybackURL:<br>
'1691_20121110123000.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.<br>
2012-11-10 12:30:24.917001 I [1550/19969] Metadata_9124 jobqueue.cpp:2151<br>
(DoMetadataLookupThread) - JobQueue: Metadata Lookup Starting for "College<br>
Football":"Georgia Tech at North Carolina" recorded from channel 1691 at<br>
2012-11-10T12:30:00<br>
2012-11-10 12:31:29.930111 E [1550/1568] JobQueue programinfo.cpp:2278<br>
(GetPlaybackURL) - ProgramInfo(1691_<u></u>20121110123000.mpg): GetPlaybackURL:<br>
'1691_20121110123000.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.<br>
2012-11-10 12:31:29.933059 E [1550/1568] JobQueue programinfo.cpp:2278<br>
(GetPlaybackURL) - ProgramInfo(1691_<u></u>20121110123000.mpg): GetPlaybackURL:<br>
'1691_20121110123000.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.<br>
2012-11-10 12:31:29.936114 I [1550/20007] Commflag_9125 jobqueue.cpp:2276<br>
(DoFlagCommercialsThread) - JobQueue: Commercial Detection Starting for<br>
"College Football":"Georgia Tech at North Carolina" recorded from channel 1691<br>
at 2012-11-10T12:30:00<br>
2012-11-10 12:31:30.384422 E [1550/20007] Commflag_9125 programinfo.cpp:2278<br>
(GetPlaybackURL) - ProgramInfo(1691_<u></u>20121110123000.mpg): GetPlaybackURL:<br>
'1691_20121110123000.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.<br>
2012-11-10 12:34:18.055609 I [1550/1567] HouseKeeping housekeeper.cpp:225<br>
(RunHouseKeeping) - Running housekeeping thread<br>
2012-11-10 12:39:23.057187 I [1550/1567] HouseKeeping housekeeper.cpp:225<br>
(RunHouseKeeping) - Running housekeeping thread<br>
<br>
Why in the world would it show as "recording"? Why can't my MythTV system<br>
realize that there's no recording, and try again?<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
It's still waiting for your capture device to send it some data. MythTV assumes<br>
that a configured capture card actually works--especially when that configured<br>
capture card fails to provide any errors that indicate it's not working. You<br>
should troubleshoot why your capture card isn't sending any video.<br>
<br>
FWIW, if you had watched it via Live TV, you would have arrived home at 3,<br>
turned on Live TV, and--been able to watch exactly as much as you were able to<br>
watch with a failed recording. If, however, your capture card had actually<br>
provided some data for the recording, the recording would have let you watch the<br>
2 1/2 hours that had already happened before you got home.<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
Personally, I would have considered that the fact that the status is still 'recording' but the file cannot be found is prime evidence that something has failed. Why does the recording not fail immediately when the file is missing?<br>
</blockquote>
<br></div></div>
The file is missing because MythTV hasn't written it because the capture card hasn't provided any data /and/ hasn't said there's an error, so MythTV is waiting until the card either tells us that it's not going to work or sends some data for us to write.<br>
<br><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So there's no internal sanity check for > zero data?</div></div><br></div>