[mythtv-users] Occasional zero length file from a scheduled recording?

[Tom Dexter]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Brad DerManouelian
<myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> On Mar 7, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Russ Van Winkle wrote:
>
>  >> Well I have the problem with the PVR350 with analog cable so for me
>  >> it
>  >> has nothing to do with reception!
>  >
>  > I've also seen this happen with a PVR-250, recording from the S-Video
>  > input fed by a DirecTV receiver.
>
>  I've had it happen on my PVR-350/150 and pcHDTV-5500 so I don't think
>  it's specific to the card.
>  I've tracked it to the point where I see the file being recorded and
>  file size increasing, then when it's done, the file is suddenly 0
>  bytes. It happens so infrequently that it wasn't worth my time to look
>  any further than that. Besides.. it's just TV. ;)
>
>
>
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That's definately not what's happening in my case.  I discovered it
last night 12 minutes into the show.  Mythtv thought it was recording
and there was no file there at all.

Tom