[mythtv-users] LiveTV works - recording doesn't

[Michael T. Dean]

Simon Levitt wrote:

>I've hit a wall in the building of my MythTV box that I'd like some help with.
>
>Everything has been going Ok, and I've got my system displaying LiveTV without 
>any problems, however recording isn't going so smoothly and I'm out of 
>ideas...
>
>I'm using an SVN version from last Mon (early hours; haven't got revision and 
>have updated since then).
>
>Basically if I hit 'R' in liveTV then I get the Recording "xxx" message, and 
>then either I get bumped to another card (I've got 2 VStream DVB-T cards and 
>one PVR350), or the frontend crashes... My understanding should be that I 
>start watching the recording 'live', so I think this is the symptom rather 
>than the cause.
>
>The cause I suspect is the backend: it doesn't start recording - It does mark 
>the card in question as recording, but no files are created.
>
>If I bounce the backend, then the recording will start and from that point 
>everything is fine.
>
>I've got some 140Gb of free space for the recordings to go in, and they start 
>fine when the backend gets bounced, so permissions are presumably Ok.
>
>I've searched the archives, and can't find anything relevant (at least for the 
>keywords I've tried).
>
>Any clues?
>
>I've got some verbose logs from the backend with "-v 
>channel,record,playback,file,commflag,jobqueue,network" for just entering 
>liveTV and hitting 'R'. Its 96k, and I didn't want to burden the list with it 
>(I'll send it to anyone who'd like to see it).
>  
>
May not have been the best time to update to latest SVN if you actually 
use LiveTV.

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/501

Mike