[mythtv-users] 0.25, zero-size recordings caused by DST?

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Robert M. Riches Jr. <
rm.riches at jacob21819.net> wrote:

> With the version 0.25-20120418.3.mga2 packages on Mageia 2, all
> three items that were supposed to record Friday evening (March 8)
> were basically zero length--effectively failed to record.  Two
> were based on the off-the-air program guide, and one was a manual
> entry.  Also, the red light on the Hauppauge USB tuner was off,
> and live TV was not working.  After a restart of mythbackend,
> live TV worked, and yesterday evening's two recordings appear to
> have been recorded.  I was not able to find a needle in the
> haystack of logs that appeared to indicate the cause.
>
> With other/past experiences with MythTV not correctly handling
> the transition to DST (recordings off by an hour), I'm wondering
> whether the switch to DST last night (just over 24 hours after
> the missed/empty recordings) might have been the trigger.  It
> seems a little unlikely that a temporary USB tuner outage would
> happen so close to a DST transition.
>
> Has anyone else noticed a correlation between DST transitions
> and missed/empty recordings?
>

My understanding is that 0.26 is the only version of Myth that current is
DST "proper" in how it handles the change.  I could be wrong but I believe
that is the case.
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