[mythtv-users] Two "recordings" of the same episode, one is zero bytes

[Klaas de Waal]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 at 23:58, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 5:36 p.m. Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hoi Ian,
>>
>> This means that for whatever reason at first the recording fails. Then
>> on restarting the recording one second later it succeeds. Check your
>> logs around that time for more info.
>>
>> Friday, February 21, 2025, 11:05:30 PM, you wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> >
>>
>
> Is this immediate retry/restart something new in the code? I've been
> running MythTV since 2011 and I've only seen this happening in the last
> month or so.
>
> No, this part of the code has not been changed as far as I know. On my
production backend I do not have any zero byte recording. The zero byte
recordings that are created by Live TV are automatically deleted real soon
and they never appear in the "Watch Recordings" list.
On my development system however there are many zero bytes recordings as
the result of recording failures.
My best guess is that Hika is right about the first recording failing and
that it succeeds on a restart.
This can mean that there is something going wrong with your tuner hardware.

Groetjes,
Klaas.
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