[mythtv-users] I can record from live tv but not from the schedule

greg greg12866 at nycap.rr.com
Wed May 6 13:55:10 UTC 2009


Lee McLaren wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a strange problem with all of the channels from only one
> television station. I am using dvb-t in Tasmania Australia. One of the
> local stations (SBS) is causing a few problems some tv's as well as
> mythtv systems but claim that their multiplexer is working correctly so
> they are not going to fix it.
>
> The symptoms are that I can watch the channels correctly with livetv and
> if I hit record I get a good recording. On the other hand, if I schedule
> a recording from the tv guide or web interface it records with a 0 byte
> file.
>
> I have run the back end with debugging turned on ( mythbackend -v
> channel,record,siparser) but there does not appear to be anything out of
> order in the logs, I can post if anyone thinks they may be able glean
> anything from them.
>
> It appears that the method of tuning for livetv and the recording from
> livetv is different to scheduled recordings.
>
> I have tried deleting all channels and rescanning as well as manually
> setting up the channel using information from "scan" (which agrees with
> the published details from the station"
>
> Can someone suggest the next step to debug this.
>
> thanks
>
> Lee
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Did you check and see if your database has any crashed tables???That's 
the first place i would check...


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