[mythtv-users] UK-Mendip DVB-T multiplex, post 11 January 2011

[Alex Butcher]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2011, nospam312 wrote:

>> I hesitate to speak too soon and jinx it, but I think replacing those auto
>> fields with vaguely intelligent guesses seems to have restored the
>> perfect recording robustness I had previously.
>> How about you, nospam312?
>
> I am still having problems.  After posting the last time I had a
> problem the same night after days of thinking it was back working.

Sorry to hear that!

> I do not think it is the Auto fields as it can work fine most of the
> time then suddenly it does not appear to work.

Have a look at my post to the linux-media list
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure/28366>
which might have some things that are applicable to your setup also. I'm
thinking particularly of USB autosuspend and active EIT scanning.

> I have problems with multiplexes where no Auto fields are specified.
>
> I have updated my Auto fields to see if it makes any difference but I
> think something else has changed.
>
> I did have a really reliable system but I am forever checking if
> recordings have happened now.
>
> I do not understand why Myth does not fail the recording if it can't
> tune saying it has recorded something it hasn't is a problem I think.
> I may see if changing the values in the dtv_multiplex table to wrong
> values will reproduce this problem at least it would allow a useful
> trac report.

Are you running your mythbackend daemon with '-v
important,record,channel,siparser' so that you get informative logs at least
now?

Best Regards,
Alex