[mythtv-users] HD Homerun Recordings Randomly Breaking

[Kirk Bocek]

On 10/5/2010 9:40 PM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
> I just started having problems with my HD Homerun recordings. At seemingly
> random times, the frontend will report that recordings are in progress. But
> attempting to play the recording will report that the file cannot be found.
> Mythweb reports a zero sized recording. Last night, trying to record House,
> the backend log shows:
> 
> 2010-10-04 19:58:01.423 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' ->
> '2021_20101004195800.mpg'
> 2010-10-04 19:58:01.519 TVRec(11): Changing from None to RecordingOnly
> 2010-10-04 19:58:01.521 TVRec(11): HW Tuner: 11->11
> 2010-10-04 19:58:01.807 Started recording: House "Unwritten": channel 2021 on
> cardid 11, sourceid 2
> 2010-10-04 20:09:05.420 ProgramInfo(2021_20101004195800.mpg), Error:
> GetPlaybackURL: '2021_20101004195800.mpg' should be local, but it can not be
> found.
> 2010-10-04 20:09:06.014 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' ->
> '2021_20101004195800.mpg'
> 2010-10-04 20:09:06.041 ProgramInfo(2021_20101004195800.mpg), Error:
> GetPlaybackURL: '2021_20101004195800.mpg' should be local, but it can not be
> found.
> 
> And then tonight trying to record Glee:
> 
> 2010-10-05 19:58:05.234 Started recording: Glee "Grilled Cheesus": channel
> 2021 on cardid 11, sourceid 2
> 2010-10-05 19:58:05.370 ProgramInfo(2021_20101005195800.mpg), Error:
> GetPlaybackURL: '2021_20101005195800.mpg' should be local, but it can not be
> found.
> 2010-10-05 19:58:05.399 ProgramInfo(2021_20101005195800.mpg), Error:
> GetPlaybackURL: '2021_20101005195800.mpg' should be local, but it can not be
> found.
> 
> I have gone to Live TV and gone to each tuner and checked every configured HD
> channel. I setup test recordings using every tuner at the same time.
> Everything works fine. The channel frequencies and program IDs are configured
> correctly and have not been moved by Comcast.
> 
> I also have two DTAs connected to a PVR-500 and one HD-PVR doing component
> recording from an STB. They don't have any problems.
> 
> My two HD Homeruns have been solid and reliable for years. This seems to have
> started when I upgraded from 0.23 to 0.23.1 recently. I am running the latest
> -237 packages from ATrpms which are based on SVN 26437.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?

Well, I see Steve Smith's thread with a similar issue but no resolution:

http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2010-October/298746.html

And Peter Foulkes:

http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2010-October/298749.html

Peter received the suggestion of enabling quick tuning but doesn't say if it
worked. I don't think that applies to the HD Homerun anyway.

At this point I may regress back to the ATrpms 0.23 packages since those were
working for many, many months with no problems.

Kirk Bocek