[mythtv-users] Storage Group Database Disappearances

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi David,

Monday, October 27, 2014, 9:52:39 AM, you wrote:

> I recently ran into an issue in which a couple of recordings were
> physically created but never made it into the "Watch Recordings"
> portion of the mythfrontend display.  After ruling out the
> possibility of a filtering oversight, I was able to at least
> determine what happened to create them, but I have no idea why the
> behavior is happening.  I am able to reliably reproduce the issue following these steps:

> 1. Schedule a recording.
> 2. Begin watching LiveTV on the same channel as the pending recording from step 1.
> 3. Continue watching LiveTV on that channel until after the
> scheduled recording begins on a new tuner.

> I have found that the second tuner for the recording will be
> initialized, everything will work normally and a file will be
> created via the backend in the filesystem.  The file, however, never
> shows up anywhere in the frontend.  It's as if the database has no
> idea it ever existed on account of the fact that it was already being watched via LiveTV.

> This problem is taking place on a machine which hosts both the
> master backend and frontend concurrently.  I'm running Myth v0.27 on
> LMDE and using an ATSC, dual tuner HDHomerun with the latest
> firmware.  I have a separate 'LiveTV' folder set up for the LiveTV
> storage group - all other recordings are in a 'recordings' folder as
> part of the Default group.  The resulting .mpg file is created in
> both folders (one from the LiveTV tuner and one from the Scheduled
> Recording tuner) and can be watched from either location with mplayer.

> I'm assuming the confusion probably stems from something in the way
> I have the storage groups / folders configured.  Has anyone else run into this?

> -Dave

If you look in the recorded table in the database, do you see a record
for that that recording?

Have you looked if it appears under the livetv heading?

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