[mythtv-users] 0.24 recording troubles

[Greg Oliver]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Eloy Paris <peloy at chapus.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:16:37PM -0500, Eloy Paris wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Upgraded today to 0.24 and ran into issues with several shows that aired
>> tonight:
>>
>> 1. Grey's Anatomy: channel 11.1 from 9 to 10 PM. There are some weird
>> problems with the length of this recording. The frontend thinks that
>> only 30:51 minutes got recorded. Opening the recording with xine I can
>> watch up to minute 51, but still not the entire episode.
>>
>> It seems like my wife was trying to watch this show live so I see one
>> "Started recording: "Grey's Anatomy":"Something's Gotta Give": channel
>> 2111 on cardid 1, source id 2" message but several "Finished recording
>> Grey's Anatomy "Something's Gotta Give": channel 2111" messages.
>>
>> At the end I see:
>>
>> 2010-11-11 22:03:00.077 TVRec(1): Changing from RecordingOnly to None
>> 2010-11-11 22:03:00.090 Updating status for "Grey's Anatomy":"Something's Gotta Give" on cardid 1 (Recording => Recorded)
>> 2010-11-11 22:03:00.093 Finished recording Grey's Anatomy "Something's Gotta Give": channel 2111
>> 2010-11-11 22:03:00.111 Reschedule requested for id 0.
>> 2010-11-11 22:03:00.222 MainServer, Error: PREVIEW_SUCCESS but no receivers.
>> 2010-11-11 22:03:00.281 Finished recording Grey's Anatomy "Something's Gotta Give": channel 2111
>>
>> Bottom line is that my wife can't watch this episode until the end.
>> She's pretty upset at me right now because of this :-(
>>
>> 2. The Office: channel 17.1 from 9 to 9:30 PM. The problem with this one
>> is that the backend apparently started to record:
>>
>> 2010-11-11 21:00:03.176 Started recording: "The Office":"Viewing Party": channel 2171 on cardid 3, sourceid 2
>>
>> but it seems like it didn't store the recording anywhere. There is
>> no file associated with the recording and I see lots of these in the
>> backend log:
>>
>> 2010-11-11 21:05:29.776 ProgramInfo(2171_20101111210000.mpg), Error: GetPlaybackURL: '2171_20101111210000.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
>>
>> Nobody was trying to watch this show while it was being recorded.
>>
>> 3. Private Practice: channel 11.1 from 10:00 to 11 PM. Recording started:
>>
>> 2010-11-11 22:01:02.960 Started recording: "Private Practice":"What Happens Next": channel 2111 on cardid 3, sourceid 2
>>
>> However, for some reason the final size of the recording file is just
>> 135 megs. It seems like my wife tried to watch this show while it was
>> being recorded, probably using LiveTV at some point.
>>
>>
>> I don't recall having problems like these with 0.23. Sorry I don't have
>> more details, but am happy to provide full backend logs if anyone wants
>> to dig more.
>
> Just a follow up in case somebody is not watching my findings posted on
> another thread -- I've tracked the three problems described above down
> to an issue related to handling of simultaneous recordings when using
> a HDHomeRun: if one tuner in the HDHomeRun is already in use and Myth
> tries to use the other tuner in the HDHomeRun for a second recording
> then the first recording will stop. Very nasty problem although I wonder
> why it seems like I am the only HDHomeRun user that has noticed an issue
> with this.
>
> There was an upgrade of the HDHomeRun library in 0.24 so that may have
> something to do with the issue.
>
> A workaround that is working for me is to delete from the configuration
> one of the two tuners in the HDHomeRun.

Can you tune both tuners with the hdhomerun gui program and watch them
both with vlc?