<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 12:32 PM HP-mini <<a href="mailto:blm-ubunet@slingshot.co.nz">blm-ubunet@slingshot.co.nz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Wed, 2016-03-16 at 21:02 -0400, eric wrote:<br>
> Hey I am trying to setup a external recorder in mythtv 0.28 and am<br>
> having some issues getting it setup<br>
> I have setup a new external recorder in mythtv-setup and added<br>
> /usr/bin/mythfilerecorder --infile test.mpg<br>
> as the recorder. I connect it to my no grab video source with a channel<br>
> changing command of "echo"<br>
><br>
> When switching the source to the external recorder in the frontend<br>
> causes nothing to happen. Any idea what I'm doing wrong here?<br>
><br>
> This is the error in the log file<br>
> mythtv mythbackend: mythbackend[8069]: E CoreContext<br>
> recorders/dtvchannel.cpp:343 (SetChannelByString)<br>
> DTVChan[26](/usr/bin/mythfilerecorder --infile<br>
> /home/eric/pvr2/test.mpg): SetChannelByString(998): PID cache is empty<br>
><br>
> I can provide the whole log file if it helps<br>
> regards<br>
> Eric<br>
><br>
<br>
I would suspect it's possible that the file "test.mpg" is required to be<br>
mpeg transport stream.<br>
mediainfo or (myth)ffprobe the file to check.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It does need to be a TS. I am working on a new version which will allow it to be a PS instead, but I have not had time to finish it.<br><br></div><div>John <br></div></div></div>