[mythtv-users] Recorded Programs Corrupted?

J. Donavan Stanley jdonavan at jdonavan.net
Thu Jun 17 05:15:40 EDT 2004


George Galt wrote:

> J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
>
>> ggalt at comcast.net wrote:
>>
>>> My wife and I sat down last night to watch a little prerecorded 
>>> programming.  I navigated over to the "watch recordings" button and 
>>> when the screen came up, it listed no recordings available.  I've 
>>> checked the /video/recordings directory and the files are there.  
>>> I've check the mythconverg database and the recorded table shows the 
>>> recordings.
>>>
>>> Checking this list I only found two other reports of this behavior.  
>>> In one instance the recommended course was to run the 
>>> /contrib/myth.repairdatabase.pl file to rebuild the recorded 
>>> database, which I did (though it was unnecessary as the .nuv files 
>>> were already associated with titles and descriptions).  The other 
>>> course suggested was to check oldrecorded for excessive NULLs, which 
>>> I did (there weren't any, but I deleted a lot of the old rows anyway).
>>>  
>>>
>> There should have been SEVERAL mentions of this...
>>
>> Hit "MENU" and change the group you're viewing
>>
>>
> I didn't try hitting the MENU and changing the group, but I did revert 
> to using 127.0.0.1 as the address of the backend.  This seems to have 
> cleared up the issue, however, it leaves me unable to run a separate 
> frontend.  I may revert to the IP address of the machine and try the 
> suggested change, but only after I convince my wife the I won't break 
> the box again!.
>
> Thanks for the help.


You didn't also change host names around did you?


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