[mythtv-users] Firewire stops working -- and how to record twice?

[Chris Niggel]

I'm experiencing the DCH3200 problem as well, sometimes the box will
fail to record.  It still changes channels, and seems to sometimes
recover from an encrypted channel, sometimes does not.

Bumping mythbackend brings back the ability to record from that tuner.
My solution so far has been to write a script that automatically
restarts mythbackend daily at 8am - thus I only lose a day of shows at
most.

I will check on my "reset firewire bus" option tonight.


On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Brad Templeton
<brad+myth at templetons.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:32:21AM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:47 AM, Brad Templeton
>> <brad+myth at templetons.com> wrote:
>> > Alas, this is not my problem.  Restart of mythbackend does not fix it.
>>
>> Hmm.  Interesting.  It seems that everyone with one of these boxes has
>> a slightly different experience.  I don't know what the variable is.
>>
>> Are you getting the behavior that the show appears to record, and is
>> available from the watch recordings menu, but when you try to play it
>> it says that the recording could not be found and the only thing you
>> can do is cancel or delete the entry?
>
> This is standard behaviour for Myth on a fully failed recording.  Myth
> does not yet robustly identify this happening, unfortunately.
> (ie. if a recording fails and produces no output, myth should consider
> it failed and try to re-record, but instead it thinks it got it.)
>
> I'm actually greedier, and I would even like myth to notice immediately
> that no data is coming, and start a re-record via another tuner (losing
> the first minute perhaps) and pick up the first minute later.   However,
> am I offering code?  No, so I get to shut up now.  :-)
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