[mythtv-users] Frontend/backend status shows pgm recording but it's not

[Ian Evans]

On Mon, Feb 3, 2025, 4:02 p.m. Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 2/3/25 14:14, Ian Evans wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> MythTV 34. Had an issue with the Grammys tonight that also happened with
>> one of the NFL playoff games a couple of weeks ago.
>>
>> Was recording the Grammys. Had extra time on the end. When I got back to
>> the MythTV just before midnight, both Leanfront and the web app status page
>> said the show was still recording as I had added extra time and it would
>> end at 1230am. I hit stop recording. I went to check the recording and it
>> was only 81 minutes long, far short of the 3+ hours it said it had been
>> recording. The recording drive had over 120 gigs of free space. It wasn't
>> showing up as damaged. Why would the backend status be saying it was still
>> recording if it had stopped 2 hours earlier?
>>
>> Heading to bed soon, so I can check logs in the morning, but anything
>> jump to mind?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
> Had some time to look at the logs. To reiterate/clarify: Recording was set
> from 19:59 to 00:30. As stated, when I went to hit "Stop Recording" in the
> PC frontend, the recording was showing as green and still recording. Web
> app and Leanfront both showed it was still recording at that point. I hit
> Stop Recording. The PC frontend now showed the show as Yellow (damaged).
>
> Instead of 3+ hours It had recorded only 1 hr and 21 minutes. Looking at
> the logs for around that time (21:15 to 21:30), the mythbackend log only
> shows the every 14 minute free space tester:
>
> 2025-02-02T21:15:18.784347-05:00 bhmf mythbackend: mythbackend[2571]: N
> Expire autoexpire.cpp:247 (CalcParams) AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max
> required Free Spa
> ce: 3.0 GB w/freq: 14 min
> 2025-02-02T21:29:18.763079-05:00 bhmf mythbackend: mythbackend[2571]: N
> Expire autoexpire.cpp:247 (CalcParams) AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max
> required Free Spa
> ce: 3.0 GB w/freq: 14 min
> 2025-02-02T21:43:18.792261-05:00 bhmf mythbackend: mythbackend[2571]: N
> Expire autoexpire.cpp:247 (CalcParams) AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max
> required Free Spa
> ce: 3.0 GB w/freq: 14 min
>
> The recording drive has 160GB free. The logs didn't show (is it supposed
> to show?) any info that the tuner had failed.
>
> This is the log after I hit Stop Recording:
>
> 2025-02-02T23:53:12.968495-05:00 bhmf mythbackend: mythbackend[2571]: N
> RecThread recorderbase.cpp:492 (FinishRecording) Finished Recording:
> Containe
>        │ r: MPEG2-TS Video Codec: mpeg2video (1920x1080 A/R: 3 29.97fps)
> Audio Codec: ac3
> 3236   │ 2025-02-02T23:53:12.968608-05:00 bhmf mythbackend:
> mythbackend[2571]: I TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:867 (FinishedRecording)
> TVRec[17]: FinishedRecording(20
>        │ 401_2025-02-03T00:59:00Z) damaged recq:#012<RecordingQuality
> overall_score="0" key="20401_2025-02-03T00:59:00Z"
> continuity_error_count="241" packet_c
>        │ ount="28706117">#012    <Gap start="2025-02-03T02:20:01Z"
> end="2025-02-03T04:30:00Z" duration="7798" />#012</RecordingQuality>
> 3237   │ 2025-02-02T23:53:12.968727-05:00 bhmf mythbackend:
> mythbackend[2571]: I CoreContext scheduler.cpp:674 (UpdateRecStatus)
> Updating status for "The 67th
>        │  Annual Grammy Awards" on cardid [17] (Recording => Recorded)
> 3238   │ 2025-02-02T23:53:12.968832-05:00 bhmf mythbackend:
> mythbackend[2571]: I Scheduler scheduler.cpp:2353 (HandleReschedule)
> Reschedule requested for CHEC
>        │ K -3 1200 0 UpdateRecStatus1 | The 67th Annual Grammy Awards |  |
> Trevor Noah hosts festivities at the Crypto.com arena in Los Angeles
> honoring excel
>        │ lence in the recording industry as voted on by the Recording
> Academy's membership body of music makers, who represent all genres and
> creative discipl
>        │ ines, including recording artists, songwriters, producers, mixers
> and engineers. Beyoncé leads the pack with 11 nominations -- including
> album of the
>        │  year -- bringing her up to a record career total of 99
> nominations, followed by Kendrick Lamar, Charli XCX and Billie Eilish with
> seven nods each. |
>        │  SH051450660000
>
> Hope that gives some additional info.
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> You can see there are two hours missing from the recording, a gap from
> 02:20 to 04:30, 7798 seconds. The tuner lost the signal or failed in some
> way. If you has not stopped the recording before the end it should have
> shown as damaged. I suspect that stopping the recording removes the damaged
> indicator.
>

On my system, it did show as damaged after it was stopped.

I guess I've been lucky with most recordings, but I was a little surprised
that there was no indication in the logs. I thought they'd show errors
about lost tuner or something.

>
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