[mythtv-users] Why do I have some recordings never end?

[Daryl McDonald]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Leo Butler <leo.butler at member.ams.org>
wrote:

> Rick <rbonafied at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Recently I switched TV providers.  During the switch I converted my
> > HDHomerun clear QAM tuner from an antenna to the provider's clear
> > offerings.   I have 5 tuners for my mythbackend.  3 are hdhomerun primes
> > with cablecard, 2 are hdhomerun clear qam.  These are the steps I did as
> > part of the switch:
> >
> > 1) Created a new listing entry in schedules direct.
> > 2) Using myth setup, I changed the lineup from the old provider to the
> > new for all 5 tuners.
> > 3) Using myth setup, I removed old lineup entries.
> > 4) I made the callsigns the same for the QAM clear channels to match the
> > prime supplied channels.
> > 5) I ran mythfilldatabase with dd-grab-all
> >
> > In general, things are recording fine.  Every now and then I have a
> > recording that starts on one of the prime tuners, but checking a day
> > later myth thinks it's still active and the tuner is one of the clear
> > qam tuners.  Weird.  In fact, right now, myth thinks New Girl is still
> > recording.  That recording started on Tuesday.
> >
> > Interesting, the recording isn't really doing anything.  The size of the
> > file is the same and it contains the full half-hour show.  Viewing isn't
> > a problem.
> >
> > Today, I'm going to remove all tuners and listings and re-add them again
> > from scratch.  It's a pain but it will probably be what most folks
> > suggest.  I'm still curious why it's happening.
>
>
> FWIW, I ran into this under similar conditions. It did not interfere
> with other recordings, but it was annoying. I restarted the backend,
> which seemed to fix the problem with that one recording and I haven't
> seen it happen again.
>
> Leo
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I saw this briefly a couple weeks ago and found exiting the watch TV screen
and re-entering corrected it. It hasn't happened recently though.
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