[mythtv] Can't use MythTV after svn Help

[Steve & Laurie Sanders]

I can wait on live tv, since I don't use it anyway. I am more worried that
my whold db seems to be wacked. Not only are all of my previous recordings
not displayed but all of my scheduled recording info seems gone too! I just
want to get back to where I was, and then if possible fix the freezing
during playback of recordings.

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Tom Lichti
Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 9:41 AM
To: Development of mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv] Can't use MythTV after svn Help


Steve & Laurie Sanders wrote:

>
> BUT I can not view live tv anymore and I can not see any of my
> recordings! The only thing I can find unusual is on the system info
> page I have some strange stuff:
> ****************
> myth 0.19.20051104-1
>
> SWAP: UNKNOWN
> Disk usage on UNKNOWN_COMMAND:
>                       UNKNOWN
> 0 minutes left, using recording profile "HDTV"
> 0 minutes left using your typical recording profile
> ********************
>
> I only have OTA std definition television. Is my database destroyed? I
> still have lots of nuv files in /video but when I try to watch
> recordings I see none available When I try to watch live tv clicking
> on the menu just blinks the watch tv link but does nothing, does not
> even leave the menu.
>
> If I should be posting somewhere else please let me know. I am dead in
> the water rigth now. Does anyone know how to get me back up again? I
> can do any kind of debugging with instructions provided.
>

You updated at exactly the wrong time, unfortunately! The head
developer, Isaac Richards, comitted some major changes to Live TV
yesterday which meant he actually completely disabled the function. I
know there were a bunch more commits last night/today, and it looks like
LiveTV is somewhat working again, but I'm going to waita few days to see
what comes out of it.

As for your recordings being gone, between your 18.1 version and current
SVN they changed the file naming schema to be a bit more informative.
However it's not backwards compatible in that it won't read the old
filenames (it can still read the files themselves, however). I believe
there is a utility in the mythtv/contrib directory that will rename the
files to be correct for the new version but I don't recall what it is.
You may have to do some searching int he mailing list archives to find it.

If you can live without Live TV, I'd wait it out, but since it's not
working anyway you could just update to latest SVN again and it may work
for you. You can always go into the guide and start a recording manually
and then go to the recordings screen to watch it. Kind of a pain, but it
will work.

HTH

Tom
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