[mythtv-users] Scheduled recordings no longer working

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 01/28/2011 07:47 PM, andy jenkins wrote:
> No scheduled recordings work, they appear to record but playing back I
> just get "Recording Unavailable".
> Watching Live TV works, and hitting record at that point will record
> the rest of the show successfully.
> The machine is a combined front/backend running mythtv .23 with Mythbuntu 10.04.
> Two things may have caused it: moving interstate (and re-tuning) or
> replacing the disk with a clone after the old one reported it would
> fail soon.  They both happened around the same time.
>
> Here's the logs of a recording I just scheduled for 10:59:
>
> 2011-01-29 10:58:00.900 Reschedule requested for id 0.
> 2011-01-29 10:58:01.140 Scheduled 27 items in 0.2 = 0.02 match + 0.21 place
> 2011-01-29 10:58:29.673 TVRec(1): ASK_RECORDING 1 29 0 0
> 2011-01-29 10:58:29.675 TVRec(2): ASK_RECORDING 2 29 0 0
> 2011-01-29 10:59:02.762 TVRec(1): Changing from None to RecordingOnly
> 2011-01-29 10:59:02.775 TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1
> 2011-01-29 10:59:02.799 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' ->
> '1002_20110129105900.mpg'
> 2011-01-29 10:59:02.871 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free
> Space: 3.0 GB w/freq: 14 min
> 2011-01-29 10:59:02.886 Started recording: The Best in Australia "The
> Best Pie/The Best Pizza": channel 1002 on cardid 1, sourceid 1
> 2011-01-29 11:00:58.535 MainServer::ANN Monitor
> 2011-01-29 11:00:58.556 adding: quartz as a client (events: 2)
> ...then a tonne of errors like this:
> 2011-01-29 11:01:36.586 ProgramInfo(1002_20110129105900.mpg), Error:
> GetPlaybackURL: '1002_20110129105900.mpg' should be local, but it can
> not be found.

I'm guessing file system permissions.  Remember this includes both the 
recording files /and/ all the directories in the path leading up to 
those files.

> I was in a situation where some scheduled recordings would work and
> some wouldn't but I noticed that under System Status>  Schedule Status
> that it said something along the lines of:
> 12 Will Record on input 1 "Tuner 1"
> 5 Will Record on input 2 "Tuner 2"
> 2 Will Record on input 5 "Tuner 1"
>
> and input 5 didn't make sense (I have a dual tuner with each tuner set
> to a max of 2 recordings each, interleaved so I'd expect input 1
> "Tuner 1, input 2 "Tuner 2", input 3 "Tuner 1", input 4 "Tuner 2".)
> So I deleted the cards, inputs and source (and cleared those tables
> for good measure) and re-created them.  Schedule Status no longer has
> input 5 but no scheduled recording work.

You should really do at minimum the capture card portion of this 
procedure (but, it sounds like you need to do both the capture card and 
video sources portion):

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

Mike