[mythtv-users] Incomplete Recordings: SOLVED (and bug found?)

[Scott Nicholson]

I've posted a couple of times over the last few weeks about a problem I 
was having with incomplete recordings (some, but not all, of my 
recordings would halt about 15 seconds in, but mythtv seemed unaware of 
this, as there was no indication of it in the logs and myth would report 
that the recording was completed at the time it was supposed to be 
completed). When a recording was prematurely aborted the backend would 
stop responding until it was restarted.

I tried ivtv updates and CVS updates to no avail, but then at one point 
I was watching the log (tail -f) when a recording started and watching 
the filesize (F5 in Windows Explorer) grow as the recording started.

The filesize stopped getting bigger at the precise moment that the 
backend log noted that it had scheduled x items in y seconds.

So I deduced that something in the scheduler was causing the recording 
to stop.

On a whim, I decided to remove the one "unique" recording schedule I had 
-- a custom recording that was to grab all shows with "torres" in the 
title (Jacques Torres baking/candymaking shows on FoodTV often have 
different titles)

voila!

I haven't had a problem with incomplete recordings since then (several 
days ago).

So... How do I go about reporting this (apparent) bug?


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