[mythtv-users] MythTV deciding to stop recording with Program "not found in PAT" error

[Mike Perkins]

On 23/11/12 10:37, Brett Randall wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I've been running MythTV (under Mythbuntu 12.04.1 LTS) as my media centre
> for the last year and, other than the occasional hiccup, it's been great
> and my family has loved it. I originally installed 0.24 but a few months
> ago upgraded to 0.25. It remained stable after doing so.
>
> However, this last couple of weeks, it has lost the plot. In typical Myth
> fashion, the more I try to fix it with software updates, firmware changes,
> etc, the worse it gets. The version I'm currently running (from a Ubuntu
> package) is 0.25.0+fixes.20120410.1f5962a-0ubuntu1.
>
> The last few days, as soon as a particular program comes on ("Finley the
> Fire Engine" - NO it is not for me ;-) ), Myth freaks out with a PAT error
> and no longer records anything until I restart the backend process
> (normally having to use "kill -9" to stop it). The exact log entries are:
>
>  ...
> Nov 23 06:25:48 myth mythbackend[11231]: E DVBRead dtvsignalmonitor.cpp:321
> (HandlePAT) DTVSM(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): Program #2370 not found in
> PAT!#012Program Association Section#012 PSIP tableID(0x0) length(41)
> extension(0x221)#012      version(16) current(1) section(0)
> last_section(0)#012      tsid(545) programCount(8)#012  program number
> 0 has PID 0x0010#012  program number   544 has PID 0x0102#012  program
> number   545 has PID 0x0100#012  program number   546 has PID 0x0101#012
> program number   547 has PID 0x0103#012  program number   548 has PID
> 0x0106#012  program number   550 has PID 0x0104#012  program number   551
> has PID 0x0105
>  ...
>
> Definitely value any advice in getting around this!
>
This generally means that since you last scanned, the contents of the transport 
stream have changed. Either a channel which was thought to exist no longer 
does[1] or something extra has now appeared.

Since the internal table of channels within the multiplex which mythtv builds 
now no longer corresponds to what it is receiving, it is telling you so. Of 
course, this also means that there may be errors trying to extract a stream from 
the multiplex, which is what you are observing.

The standard answer is to rescan, which may solve your problem. I'm not sure 
where in the world you are so it may mean you need to take other action, such as 
updating your SD lineup or editing your channel data in mythtv-setup.

[1] It /is/ possible to have part-time channels; mythtv does the right thing in 
this case.

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Mike Perkins