[mythtv-users] Recordings Fail
MacNean Tyrrell
dardack at gmail.com
Fri Oct 14 09:15:07 EDT 2005
Ok, so if my system is up for a day or longer, the system fails. It doesn't
crash. I run mythbackend and frontend out of xterm windows. After a restart
it will record no problem forever, i mean i set it up to record like 10
hours on each pvr 250 (i have 2), with no problem. But if it sits for
awhile, than at times it fails. Like i'll check the watch recordings and the
last recording stopped at say like 41:00 into the show, and no more shows
scheduled for after that recording will record. If i try to go into the
schedule recordings program guide, it locks up. No errors are shown that i
can see. Next time it happens I'll try to write everything down, but i've
never really seen any error messages. It's almost like it fails to access
the database or something. It happens every couple days or every day even.
It's like i have to reboot the system every day at 5:00pm to make sure it
records my shows for the nite. It really sucks. I never had this problem
before with the same system. The only change is the new 300gig harddrive.
Now i don't know if perhaps one of the PVR-250 has failed, but it's not
always the same one that fails i think. I'll try to record at different
times to see if a certain one locks it up, but like lost records 1 minute
past 10: and i was recording law and order last nite, lost recorded fine on
the first encoder, but law and order failed at 41:33 into the show. Other
times there has been no other show recording so it was only the first
recorder recording and that's failed, so don't think its that. Could it
really be the harddrive? But why would it be able to start but not finish? I
used to have a problem before this harddrive, where if i transcoded
something, when it ended the same thing happened. Like if i accidently hit
the transcode button but than stopped it, it would do the thing where I
couldn't access the program guide, locks up mythtv, and would stop any
recordings in progress. I know it only happens at the end, because i
transcoded a DVD to XVID and it recorded all the shows while it was running,
a few hours, but as soon as it finished, it locked up like that. And it only
locks up the program guide, i can go to watch recordings and stuff like
that. Don't know about live tv, never use it so never checked. But now it
does it almost every day, if not every day. Can any one help?
New Hraddrive:
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB 3.5" IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive - OEM--
Video Card: SiS 315
Memory: PC 133, 2 128 sticks, 1 256 stick
2 pvr-250's, one recently RMA'd got a new one (recently, about 6 months)
KT133 mobo i believe,
AMD Athlon 850
Need anything else?
Sincerely,
MacNean C. Tyrrell
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Sincerely,
MacNean C. Tyrrell
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