[mythtv-users] Problem with record 'The Closer' SOLVED

[Greg]

  On 10/20/2010 08:12 AM, Jim Morton wrote:
>  On 10/19/2010 10:20 AM, Jim Morton wrote:
>> On 10/19/2010 10:04 AM, Greg wrote:
>>>  On 10/19/2010 08:24 AM, Jim Morton wrote:
>>>>  My system is having problems recording 'The Closer' on TBS. This 
>>>> has happened several days in a row despite rebooting everything.
>>>> The symptoms - the audio gets further out of sync as you watch the 
>>>> show. At about 35-40 minutes in, it starts stuttering and echoing 
>>>> for a couple minutes, getting progressively worse to the point that 
>>>> the audio is not even understandable and then it just stops recording.
>>>> It is being recorded from an HDPVR that is just 2 months old. (I 
>>>> did hook it up to a windows box and updated the firmware when I got 
>>>> it.)
>>>> Other recordings from the same tuner seem to be fine.
>>>>
>>>> I'm suspecting the HDPVR but would expect all recordings from it to 
>>>> be bad. Can anyone point to any other possible culprit?
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>> Post your computer stats:
>>>
>>> 2010-10-18 14:00:28.007 JobQueue: Commercial Flagging Starting for 
>>> Comedy Central Presents recorded from channel 2107 at Mon Oct 18 
>>> 14:00:00 2010
>>> 2010-10-18 13:59:57.211 Started recording: The Closer "Mom Duty": 
>>> channel 2138 on cardid 12, sourceid 2
>>> 2010-10-18 14:00:33.009 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' -> 
>>> '2138_20101018140000.mpg'
>>> 2010-10-18 14:00:33.011 JobQueue: Commercial Flagging Starting for 
>>> The Closer "Mom Duty" recorded from channel 2138 at Mon Oct 18 
>>> 14:00:00 2010
>>>
>>> I really  think you are overtaxing your computer..You are recording 
>>> The Closer plus Commerical flagging 2 recordings...  I would turn 
>>> off auto start commercial detection at the start of a recording and 
>>> see if that doesn't help solve your problem...
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Motherboard - Foxconn A7DA-S
>> CPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2 7750 Kuma 2.7Ghz dual core
>> Video - Asus silent GeForce 8400GS 64bit PCIe
>> Ram - Kingston 4GB PC2 8500
>>
>> All those shows are daily so you may be on to something here. It is 
>> set to do all the same things again today at 2pm. I will run top and 
>> watch it.
>>
>> On second thought, I think I'll just try your suggestion. My wife 
>> might kill me if it screws up The Closer again.
>>
>> Thanks for the pointer, I'll post my findings.
>>
>
> Turning off the Auto start comm detection on the backend seemed to do 
> the trick.
> It used to be able to run 2 comm detection jobs (in near real time) 
> and record at the same time. Although all recordings used to be done 
> from HD homeruns, mostly as HD. I guess recording from an HDPVR is a 
> bit more work for the server.
>
Glad you got it fixed... I believe the bit rate is much higher on the 
HD-PVR...