[mythtv-users] log files too big

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

Mary Strimel wrote:
> hi,
> I have a smallish root filesystem (7 GB or so), and the mythbackend.log
> files are quickly filling my disk.

Before I start, if there a proper doco that explains what events are
logged by which option?

I have the same problem. The bulk of my log is clogged with messages
like this:

2005-03-20 10:57:54.404 DVB#1 WARNING - Transport Stream Continuity Error. PID = 161
2005-03-20 10:57:54.404 DVB#1 PID 161 _continuity_count 1 cc 4
2005-03-20 10:57:54.405 DVB#1 WARNING - Transport Stream Continuity Error. PID = 81
2005-03-20 10:57:54.405 DVB#1 PID 81 _continuity_count 1 cc 3
2005-03-20 10:57:54.623 DVB#1 WARNING - Transport Stream Continuity Error. PID = 512
2005-03-20 10:57:54.623 DVB#1 PID 512 _continuity_count 2 cc 3
2005-03-20 10:58:24.178 DVB#1 WARNING - Transport Stream Continuity Error. PID = 512
2005-03-20 10:58:24.186 DVB#1 PID 512 _continuity_count 4 cc 1
2005-03-20 10:58:24.186 DVB#1 WARNING - Transport Stream Continuity Error. PID = 660
2005-03-20 10:58:24.187 DVB#1 PID 660 _continuity_count 8 cc 9
2005-03-20 10:58:24.187 DVB#1 WARNING - Transport Stream Continuity Error. PID = 650
2005-03-20 10:58:24.187 DVB#1 PID 650 _continuity_count 9 cc 10
2005-03-20 10:58:24.195 DVB#1 WARNING - Transport Stream Continuity Error. PID = 512
2005-03-20 10:58:24.196 DVB#1 PID 512 _continuity_count 12 cc 13
2005-03-20 10:58:25.045 DVB#1 WARNING - Transport Stream Continuity Error. PID = 512
2005-03-20 10:58:25.046 DVB#1 PID 512 _continuity_count 8 cc 9
2005-03-20 10:58:27.550 DVB#1 WARNING - Uncorrectable error in packet, dropped.
2005-03-20 10:58:27.550 DVB#1 WARNING - Transport Stream Continuity Error. PID = 512
2005-03-20 10:58:27.551 DVB#1 PID 512 _continuity_count 15 cc 0
2005-03-20 10:58:27.553 DVB#1 WARNING - Uncorrectable error in packet, dropped.
2005-03-20 10:58:27.553 DVB#1 WARNING - Uncorrectable error in packet, dropped.

This turns up even when I start the backend with no verbosity specified
(as Debian does). Many messages do not have a source prefix so one cannot
tell which verbosity option to turn off.

I notice that there are two verbosity options turned on internally
	important general
and both are rejected is specified explicitly. I do not see a syntax
to turn off a specific option. I now use ('playback,jobqueue' removed):
	none,record,channel,osd,file,schedule,commflag,audio
and wonder if I will miss something that 'important,general' had.

I still get these:

2005-03-20 11:17:42.812 DVB#1 PID 512 _continuity_count 4 cc 7
2005-03-20 11:17:42.812 DVB#1 PID 512 _continuity_count 8 cc 9
2005-03-20 11:17:42.812 DVB#1 PID 512 _continuity_count 14 cc 15
2005-03-20 11:17:42.815 DVB#1 PID 512 _continuity_count 8 cc 9


And while on the subject of logging, how do I get information about
the streams which was in 0.16:

Audiostream: Layer: 2  BRate: 384 kb/s  Freq: 48.0 kHz
Videostream: ASPECT: 16:9  Size = 704x576  FRate: 25 fps  BRate: 6.90 Mbit/s

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Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal at eyal.emu.id.au) <http://samba.org/eyal/>
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