[mythtv-users] Storage Group Database Disappearances

Michael Watson michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au
Mon Oct 27 10:00:05 UTC 2014


On 27/10/2014 7:52 PM, David B. LeGendre 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

Ive seen this too.  Dont think its your config, I think its myth getting 
tripped up with two recordings with same chanid, starttime (both primary 
keys for the recorded table).



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