[mythtv-users] Playback drops with news crawl

[Peter Bennett]

On 2/13/25 10:32, Barry Martin wrote:
>
> The original file on the Backend is 2.1GB. I tried to copy so I could 
> offer to send to someone to check for the problem but the copies are 
> only 786.1 MB – which is that first exit point at 13:44 in. Copying 
> methods included mget, then tried to copy to a Thumbdrive to 
> Sneakernet to this computer: cp, copy to, drag-and-drop (I know 
> probably all the same). All stopped at 786.1 MB. Drag-and-drop did 
> give me a progress bar of “786.1MB/2.1GB” and just then sits there, 
> finally erroring with “error splicing file”. (So the 786.1 MB point is 
> the same as the first exit I experienced,)
>
It sounds like a disk drive error if the file copy fails at that point.  
If the file copy fails there is not much chance that MythTV could read 
past that point. I recommend replacing the drive. Copy as much as you 
can from the old drive to the new drive.

Peter
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