[mythtv-users] Failure to record

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 01/11/2011 02:00 AM, dargllun wrote:
> On 10.01.2011 13:40, Steve Hill wrote:
>> I'm running mythbackend 0.24 on a SheevaPlug (very low power Arm based
>> machine). Since I'm using DVB-S and doing no transcoding, the machine is
>> powerful enough, although rescheduling can take several minutes.
>
> Cool!
>
>> I've noticed that it frequently fails to record things. Afterwards,
>> Mythweb shows the recording, but with a blank file size and the mpeg
>> file doesn't exist in the recordings directory.
> ...
>> So it appears to claim to start recording, but doesn't actually do so...
>
> With your technical insight you're probably after more technical help, 
> and hopefully someone will be able to give it. I just wanted to share 
> that I had the exact same symptoms a while(! - not immediately) after 
> upgrading to 0.24-fixes and the issue got resolved by completely 
> wiping the video sources and set them up again. Perhaps its just a 
> database issue.

Great advice.  Details on the process:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/264034#264034

Mike