[mythtv-users] Recorded Programs Corrupted?

[George Galt]

J. Donavan Stanley wrote:

> George Galt wrote:
>
>> J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
>>
>>> ggalt at comcast.net wrote:
>>>
>>>> My wife and I sat down last night to watch a little prerecorded 
>>>> programming.  I navigated over to the "watch recordings" button and 
>>>> when the screen came up, it listed no recordings available.  I've 
>>>> checked the /video/recordings directory and the files are there.  
>>>> I've check the mythconverg database and the recorded table shows 
>>>> the recordings.
>>>>
>>>> Checking this list I only found two other reports of this 
>>>> behavior.  In one instance the recommended course was to run the 
>>>> /contrib/myth.repairdatabase.pl file to rebuild the recorded 
>>>> database, which I did (though it was unnecessary as the .nuv files 
>>>> were already associated with titles and descriptions).  The other 
>>>> course suggested was to check oldrecorded for excessive NULLs, 
>>>> which I did (there weren't any, but I deleted a lot of the old rows 
>>>> anyway).
>>>>  
>>>>
>>> There should have been SEVERAL mentions of this...
>>>
>>> Hit "MENU" and change the group you're viewing
>>>
>>>
>> I didn't try hitting the MENU and changing the group, but I did 
>> revert to using 127.0.0.1 as the address of the backend.  This seems 
>> to have cleared up the issue, however, it leaves me unable to run a 
>> separate frontend.  I may revert to the IP address of the machine and 
>> try the suggested change, but only after I convince my wife the I 
>> won't break the box again!.
>>
>> Thanks for the help.
>
>
>
> You didn't also change host names around did you?
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No, I didn't change them.  I've had a few other home network issues of 
late, it's possible that my netgear router is about to die, though I 
can't think of why that would affect the box talking to itself.

George