[mythtv] Very long recordings

[David Hampton]

On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 15:46 -0500, David Hampton wrote:
> On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 19:40 +0000, John Pilkington wrote:
> > On 08/02/2021 19:21, Klaas de Waal wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 8 Feb 2021 at 19:27, John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com 
> > > <mailto:jppoet at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > > 
> > >     On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 11:09 AM Klaas de Waal
> > >     <klaas.de.waal at gmail.com <mailto:klaas.de.waal at gmail.com>>
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > >         Hi,
> > > 
> > >         Yesterday I updated my backend to the latest master and
> > > since
> > >         then some recordings are extended way beyond their
> > > scheduled end
> > >         time, one of them extended to 21 hours (115GB). Guide
> > > data
> > > looks
> > >         OK so I guess it is the recording. Could this be another
> > >         "std:chrono" induced bug?
> > > 
> > > 
> > >     I recently saw this behavior as well. In my case it seemed to
> > > be
> > >     doubling the length of the recording. Since this was my
> > > production
> > >     machine, I reverted to 8e14fe7ceba96f and everything seems
> > > okay
> > >     again. My development machine is not really usable right now.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Looks here like recordings now extend until the start of the next
> > > recording on the same tuner. This is with master of Sunday on
> > > Fedora 31.
> > > 
> > >   Klaas.
> > 
> > Both my boxes are on e3cafbc of Friday 5th and are as normal.  F32
> > and el7.
> 
> I must say I'm happy to hear that as it rules out the std::chrono
> changes.  If that turns out to be wrong and you do think its
> std::chrono, let me know and I'll look into it.  I have a couple of
> overlapping series recordings (every weeknight) on my dev system that
> haven't shown any problems with recording times.  I record off a
> HDHomerun box, but that shouldn't matter if the problem is in the
> scheduler.

I should note that I've been running a copy of master slightly older
than last Friday. I've update to the latest and will see what happens
with tonight's recordings.

David