[mythtv-users] Loads of failed / empty recordings.

Brent Bolin brent.bolin at gmail.com
Wed Nov 3 23:31:17 UTC 2010


On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Peter Foulkes
> <peter.foulkes at nilpanic.co.uk> wrote:
>> I've spent months trying to solve this and I'm getting nowhere so I am
>> looking for help!
>>
>> Very frequently I go to play a recording and although the recording appears
>> on the list, when I select it I get the error message
>> "Recording Unavailable. The file for this recording can not be found"
>>
>> If I view the recodings via mythweb these missing recordings are listed but
>> show as being 0 bytes in size.
>>
>> Looking in the mythbackend.log I cannot see any errors at the time the
>> recordings are made.
>> The error given when trying to play a missing file back is:
>> 010-10-03 13:22:18.401 ProgramInfo(1004_20101001072400.mpg), Error:
>> GetPlaybackURL: '1004_20101001072400.mpg' should be local, but it can not be
>> found.
>>
>> The problem happens in bursts. Once one program has failed to record in this
>> manner, generally all subsequent programs will do the same until I reboot
>> the backend machine.
>>
>> I have tried raising the PCI and IDE latency settings but this did not
>> appear to have any effect.
>> I have always suffered from this fault over the last 4 years of using
>> MythTV, changes of kernel and updates to Ubuntu do not seem to have changed
>> the problem. Neither has going from MythTV 0.19 through to 0.22. I am
>> currently running mythbackend version: branches/release-0-23-fixes
>>
>> The capture card is a Hauppauge WinTV Nova-TD 500 Dual digital DVB-T PCI TV
>> Tuner card. I am using the drivers from the restricted package.
>>
>> Any help greatly appreciated. I feel like I am going around in circles with
>> this problem and not getting anywhere at all.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Peter
>>
>
> I used to have that occur, and much like you described, it was in
> bursts where if it happened, it would happen on more than one show.
>
> At the advise of others I tried going into mythtv-setup and in the
> Input Connections settings I changed the "Use Quick Tuning" to
> "Always" for all the inputs.  In my case it seems to have all but
> totally stopped the issue.
>
> Tom
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What is this option?  I've never heard of it.  Rarely go into
mythtv-setup because it interrupts my busy back end.

Is this for analog or digital/HD?


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