[mythtv-users] Error on mythrename.pl since adding .avi's to Recordings

[Raymond Wagner]

Bobby Gill wrote:
> Not sure if this is important or not, mythrename went fine as normal 
> except for these 2 lines at the end:
>
> DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Column 'starttime' cannot be null at 
> /usr/share/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/MythTV/Recording.pm line 69.
> DBD::mysql::st fetchrow_array failed: fetch() without execute() at 
> /usr/share/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/MythTV/Recording.pm line 70.
The problem is exactly what it says it is.  You manually added files to 
the recordings improperly (without proper chanid and starttime).  MythTV 
uses those two values to index recorded content, and so if those are not 
available and distinct, bad things will happen.