[mythtv-users] Can mythfilldatabase interrupt recordings in progress?

[Jan Ceuleers]

Dear list,

Due to where I'm based (Belgium) I need to grab metadata from multiple
sources. Furthermore I have two video sources which have overlapping
channels. In order to deal with all of this I run a nightly script that
runs all of the metadata grabbers followed by mythfilldatabase --file
(multiple times).

Very occasionally I see interrupted recordings and I suspect that this
might be due to mythfilldatabase being run while a recording is in
progress. When this happens I end up with two files for the same
recording: the second starts where the first ended (with a few seconds
missing in between).

Is this possible/plausible? Because if it is I need to detect the
backend's status and defer the mythfilldatabase runs until after any
recordings have finished.

Otherwise I need to look for other causes (such as backend restarts; I
know that these would produce the symptoms I'm seeing but I already only
do that when no recordings are in progress).

Thanks, Jan