[mythtv-users] Live TV channel lock issue

[Phill Edwards]

> You may have already tried this. In mythtv-setup set both capture card
> signal timeouts to a higher value. Doubling them usually works.

Unfortunately that didn't solve it. I'm back to it working on a couple
of channels again now, but it seems random which ones it will work on.

Couple of other things I've noticed:

- I'm starting to get a lot of zero size recordings and they're not
always the same channel. I had this problem a while back and re-tuned
and the problem went away. But I did a re-tune a few days ago so I
don't think that could be the cause this time.

- I've noticed lines like this in mythbackend.log which are around
when trying Live TV:
2009-07-15 23:17:34.209 Preview Error: Previewer file
'/video/livetv/1010_20090715231705.mpg' is not valid.
2009-07-15 23:17:34.211 Preview Error: Run() file not local:
'/video/livetv/1010_20090715231705.mpg'
2009-07-15 23:17:34.220 Preview Error: Preview process not ok.

fileinfo(/video/livetv/1010_20090715231705.mpg.png) exists: 0
readable: 0 size: 0


I'm wondering if the tuner cards are faulty. Do you think that could
be the cause? They've been pretty much fault-free for a few years, and
as DVB-T cards there's not really a lot to go wrong with them, is
there?

Regards,
Phill