[mythtv-users] Why would this happen?

[William Munson]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:54:46 +1000, Bruce Nordstrand wrote:
>
>   
>> Bit peeved at the moment. Myth has been running flawlessly for months 
>> then suddenly decided to do the dirty on my most important recordings.
>> I am recording the Tour de France every day. Last night, Myth showed
>> Stage 2 as recording and went on to flag commercials (I saw this in the
>> task list). Today when I went to watch Stage 2 Myth tells me the file
>> for this recording cannot be found? WTF!!! Where would it go? There was
>> 65Gb free at this stage, the recordings are approx 6.5Gb.
>>     
>
> I had something similar happen recently, while I was no holiday. I had
> set MythTV to auto-transcode all the recordings and got the same "no
> file" error. It turned pout all the recordings had been transcoded to
> zero length.
>
> I lost all the TT coverage, must be a bug that affects two-wheeled
> recordings :(
>
>
>   
I could be all wrong here but perhaps its related to the problem I had 
not being able to rip dvd's to anything other than perfect or iso. Turns 
out I needed to have mtd (myth transcode daemon) running in the background.