[mythtv] Re: [mythtv-commits] Re: Ticket #821: autoexpire doesn't

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 00:41 -0500, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> > 8468 didn't fix the issue for me:
> > select starttime, endtime, basename from recorded where recgroup =3D
> > "LiveTV"order by starttime;
> > +---------------------+---------------------+-------------------------+
> > | starttime           | endtime             | basename                |
> > +---------------------+---------------------+-------------------------+
> > | 2006-01-01 23:45:23 | 2006-01-02 00:00:00 | 4102_20060101234523.mpg |
> > | 2006-01-01 23:45:39 | 2006-01-01 23:46:00 | 4101_20060101234539.mpg |
> > | 2006-01-01 23:45:43 | 2006-01-01 23:47:00 | 4101_20060101234543.mpg |
> > +---------------------+---------------------+-------------------------+

> I don't know that code at all, so I think it might be better to defer
> to Daniel on this one if this code is working properly for the other
> recorders.

Some questions to get me started...

Q1. Is the backend complaining about not being able to auto-expire
recordings because the files do not exits?

It would look something like:
2006-01-04 01:26:47.939 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire
file: /video/mythtv/1012_20060103141008.nuv. File doesn't exist.
Database metadata will not be removed.
That might explain why recordings 2 & 3 didn't get deleted.

Q2. As for the first one, what is the size of 4102_20060101234523.mpg?

Q3. Is it a dummy recording? (mostly blank screen.)

Q4. Was it created by the first channel tuned to, or a later one?

Q5. Did the channel tune in fully, or was the dummy recorder still
running when you switched to the new channel?

-- Daniel