[mythtv-users] MythTV sometimes fails to tune in - annoying!

David Whyte david.whyte at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 14:38:18 UTC 2005


On 10/7/05, ffrr <ffrr at tpg.com.au> wrote:
> Every so often, too often in fact it's getting very annoying, mythtv
> fails to tune in a channel and misses the recording.  The log of such an
> event is below.  Is there any way to tell it to retry when this happens,
> and not just carry on, ignoring the error, and missing the show?
>
> If I restart the backend when I notice it has done this, but the show
> hasn't actually finished, then it tunes in and records what remains of
> the show.  So, all myth needs to do is see the error, and re-attempt the
> recording.
>
>
>
> 2005-10-07 22:00:02.395 Started recording "Airtight" on channel: 1012 on
> cardid: 1, sourceid 1
> 2005-10-07 22:00:02.544 scheduler: Last message repeated 2 times
> 2005-10-07 22:00:02.554 scheduler: Schedule Change
> 2005-10-07 22:00:04.501 DVB#0 DVB signal 6200 | snr 5000 | ber 817e7e8 |
> unc b7006848
> 2005-10-07 22:00:04.502 DVB#0 Status: LOCK.
> 2005-10-07 22:00:04.504 DVB#0 Multiplex Locked
> 2005-10-07 22:00:10.512 DVB#0 Timeout Getting PMT
> 2005-10-07 22:00:10.515 DVB#0 ERROR - Tuning for channel #1025 failed.
> 2005-10-07 22:00:10.653 Changing from None to RecordingOnly
> 2005-10-07 22:00:10.697 DVB#0 Recorder: Card opened successfully (using
> TS mode).
> 2005-10-07 22:00:10.700 DVB#0 ERROR - No PIDS set, please correct your
> channel setup.
> 2005-10-07 22:00:11.705 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
> 2005-10-07 22:00:12.716 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
> etc... etc... until the timeslot for the show is up.

This has been discussed before and is likely available in the archives
under the title 'zero byte recordings'.  I too suffer from the same
problem and have missed a couple of shows this week.

I think it was being looked at but haven't noticed any fixes come
through on the dev or commit lists.  Hopefully, I just missed the
email though :|

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