[mythtv-users] Some recordings do not appear in Watch Recordings but file is on hard drive and was in Upcoming Recordings?
David Watkins
watkinshome at gmail.com
Tue Dec 9 14:58:36 UTC 2008
On 09/12/2008, nospam312 <nospam312 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I manually add it to the database
> >
> > Have you tried the mythtv.find_orphans.pl script to add the recordings?
> >
> > If you're manually altering the database you're frimly in "no
> > guarantee of success" territory.
>
> Gone a bit off topic this is not the problem.
>
> I want to know why MythTV is not adding the record in the first place
> or at least what I need to do to try to track down this problem.
mythbackend -v help
will tell you what the logging options are.
I'd say the following would be a reasonable start.
mythbackend -v schedule, record -l /var/log/mythbackend.log
and look to see whether the recording ends cleanly and, if not, why not.
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