[mythtv-users] Recording stopped 1 hour early but log says it didn't?

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Allen Edwards <
allen.edwards at oldpaloalto.com> wrote:

> Recording 7am to 9:05.  Mythbackend.log shows recording started
> 6:59:31 and finished at 9:05.  Mythweb shows it as 2 hours 5 min.
> Problem is that it is only 1:06:35 long, which you can see when you
> pause the show, and which my wife kindly pointed out when the show
> quit on her.
>
> The filesize at 6.7GB and 6.1GB/hr agrees with a show of 1:05.
> Mythbackend.log shows the show started at 6:59:31 and stopped at 9:05,
> like it should but it actually had stopped being written to the disk
> an hour before.  Mythfrontend.log shows she started watching at 8:44
> so the damage was already done.  Nothing at all in the frontend log
> between the start of the show and 8:44.  mysql.log shows updates to
> the show length until it hit the 6.7GB final size that corresponds to
> 1:05 length.  Here are the last two log entries for this show in
> mysql.log
>                     40 Query       UPDATE recorded SET filesize =
> '7245844676' WHERE chanid = '1071' AND starttime =
> '2008-08-26T07:00:00'
> 080826  8:14:36      40 Query       DELETE FROM inuseprograms WHERE
> chanid = '1071' AND starttime = '2008-08-26T07:00:00' AND hostname =
> 'myth_desktop' AND r
> ecusage = 'recorder'
>
> I don't understand the inuseprograms entry but there are several as
> the show goes on so I take it it is not unusual.  The filesize is the
> final filesize for 1:05 length.
>
> Anyone have a clue what happened?   This on top of the KQED problem
> isn't going over very well.  If this kind of thing keeps happening, I
> may end up back with Dish Networks and no mythtv.


Anything in the backend log or /var/log/messages around that time?

Kevin
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