[mythtv-users] Frontend crash after 2-3 hours of live tv - Any suggestions?

[Chris Pinkham]

* On Wed Mar 22, 2006 at 09:13:36AM -0500, William wrote:
> I think I may have found the problem. It appears that myth tried to make a
> 0.004 second long recording and then bombed when mythcommflag tried to run
> on it.

Keep looking, your off-base in a couple places.

> Here is the output of my debug session.

Nothing useful here unfortunately.  If it crashed, you should include a backtrace.

> 2006-03-21 22:00:08.708 External Tuning program exited with no error
> 2006-03-21 22:00:08.729 scheduler: Finished recording: Fox First at Ten:
> channel 1031
> 2006-03-21 22:00:09.017 TVRec(1): RingBufferChanged()
> 0: start_time: 737.558 duration: 8589.932
> 1: start_time: 737.558 duration: 0.004
> stream: start_time: 8195.086 duration: 95443.685 bitrate=0 kb/s
> 2006-03-21 22:00:12.165 NVP: Recording does not have position map.
> 			Run 'mythcommflag --file 1031_20060321220002.mpg
> --rebuild' to fix
> 
> -------------------------------
> 
> As you can see, my #1 encoder tried to make a 0.004 long recording which is
> too short to have a position map.

The #1 "encoder" you are talking about is stream #1 in the recording file.  I
can't answer why it is only 0.004 long, but it has nothing to do with Myth's
tuner/card numbering.

It didn't "bomb" when mythcommflag tried to run, at least not according to
your logs.  The log says "Recording does not have position map. Run
'mythcommflag --file 1031_20060321220002.mpg --rebuild' to fix".  That is
telling you to run mythcommflag if you want, myth didn't try to run it itself.

I'd venture to say that the reason you're seeing the streams listed is because
that means the pixmap generator fired off.

If this did crash on you, then a backtrace may be the only thing that solves it,
because there's nothing useful that I see in the log you posted.

--
Chris