[mythtv-users] Recording Functionality Breaks Regularly Since Upgrading to 0.25

[Brian and Lisa]

On 6/7/2012 11:21 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Brian and Lisa<brian.n.lisa at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Greetings (and apologies for original message which included html, I hope
>> this is better),
>>
>>
>> Ever since upgrading to 0.25 from 0.24 my system spontaneously fails to make
>> recordings.
>>
>> Generally 12 hours or so after the last reboot, after having made scheduled
>> recordings normally in the interim, the system will attempt to make
>> scheduled TV recording(s) but fail.  After a reboot, the system will resume
>> recording scheduled programs but once the backend breaks, it will remain
>> broken until the host is reboot (stopping/restarting the backend makes no
>> difference).  The recordings menu (Watch Recording-->All Programs) will
>> display normal menu entries for all recordings which were attempted
>> (successful or not), but no HDD recording will have been made once the
>> backend breaks and of course, no thumbnail image will be evident in the
>> menu.  Aside from the regular breaks in recording capability, the system
>> performs more or less identically to when it was running 0.24.
>>
>> Whether the recording functions are working or not, there is no issue with
>> playback of successful recordings (suggesting this is not a harddrive I/O
>> issue).
>>
>>
>> I followed Mike's advice to another user with a similar issue
>> (http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-May/333505.html):"'Delete
>> all capture cards' (not 'Delete all capture cards on<hostname>'), then
>> re-create cards and re-connect inputs" but this made no difference.  I've
>> also physically reseated my digitizer card after cleaning the contacts.
>>
>> Portions of my backend.log during a failure are attached.
> Sorry if I missed it, but what capture device?
Nick,

Sorry I left this out - it's a tried and true Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150.