[mythtv-users] HDHR suddenly not recording

[Brian Wood]

On Thursday 22 April 2010 09:52:03 am mythtv at derdev.com wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:32:39 -0400, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net>
> 
> wrote:
> > On 04/22/2010 09:42 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Harry Devine<lifter89 at comcast.net>
> >>
> >> wrote:
> >>> I noticed that a recording that should've been recorded on Friday, in
> >>> fact,
> >>> was not.  I didn't really think too much of it at the time.  However,
> >>> tonight I had the new episode of 24 set to record on one of my HDHR
> >>> tuners,
> >>> and it appears to not have gotten recorded, even though the logs seem
> 
> to
> 
> >>> indicate it tried.  I store my recordings on its own disk at
> >>> /storage/recordings (on Ubuntu 9.10 x64; myth version 23766 from the
> >>> weekly
> >>> auto-builds), and I see the following in my backend log:
> >>>
> >>> 2010-04-19 20:59:02.187 Started recording: 24 "Day 8: 9:00AM-10:00AM":
> >>> channel 3295 on cardid 3, sourceid 3
> >>> 2010-04-19 20:59:02.194 scheduler: Started recording: 24 "Day 8:
> >>> 9:00AM-10:00AM": channel 3295 on cardid 3, sourceid 3
> >>> 2010-04-19 22:02:00.949 TVRec(3): Changing from Watching RecordingOnly
> >>> to
> >>> None
> >>> 2010-04-19 22:02:00.993 Finished recording 24 "Day 8: 9:00AM-10:00AM":
> >>> channel 3295
> >>> 2010-04-19 22:02:00.999 scheduler: Finished recording: 24 "Day 8:
> >>> 9:00AM-10:00AM": channel 3295
> >>> 2010-04-19 22:02:01.016 Reschedule requested for id 0.
> >>> 2010-04-19 22:05:39.121 ProgramInfo, Error: GetPlaybackURL:
> >>> '3295_20100419205900.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
> >>> 2010-04-19 22:05:49.630 ProgramInfo, Error: GetPlaybackURL:
> >>> '3295_20100419205900.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
> >>> 2010-04-19 22:05:49.647 ProgramInfo, Error: GetPlaybackURL:
> >>> '3295_20100419205900.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
> >>> 2010-04-19 22:05:49.650 Preview Error: Run() file not local:
> >>> '3295_20100419205900.mpg'
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> What I can't seem to figure out is why the mpg file can't be found.  I
> >>> have
> >>> 2 other recordings happening at the same time (1 on the analog portion
> >>> of my
> >>> pcHDTV 5500 card, and 1 from my HD-PVR), and the video files are at
> >>> /storage/recordings.  Has anyone seen this before?  Are there any
> 
> other
> 
> >>> logs
> >>> or logging options that I can use to figure out what's going on here?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Harry
> >>
> >> Check the channels that didn't record with Live TV in Myth. Do they
> >> tune or do you see a message about good signal strength but you get no
> >> picture.
> >>
> >> Your messages are the same ones I got yesterday for the channels
> >> Comcast just encrypted and the HDHR can no longer record. For me it
> >> was everything above channel 33.
> >>
> >> - Mark
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> >
> > I installed the hdhomerun_config utility on my laptop and did a scan,
> > and most of the channels appear to have been moved around, so I'm
> > certain that's my issue.  What I'm not sure of is how to fix it.
> > Looking at the channel editor in Mythweb, I see that all of the HDHR
> > channels have a freqid of 80 and a finetune of 0.   However, these don't
> >
> > match what the hdhomerun_config is telling me.  For example, 1 channel
> > may have been 26.2 (what I had previously written down), but now it is
> > 27.4.  I don't see 26.2 in Mythweb anywhere.
> >
> > So, am I at the point where I have to rescan my HDHR inputs and sort it
> > out that way?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Harry
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> 
> I'll bet you that Comcast put you into their "privacy" mini-encryption
> mode.  Your DTAs will decode the programming, but HDHR cannot.
> Yes, they did move channels between multiplexes, but you're still screwed.
> This is happening all over, many different instances on this list alone.

Is that "private" mode fixed-key encryption? If so there's a possibility it can 
be defeated, but not for the cost of an HDHR.

Just wait 'till they buy NBC, if you think things are bad now.

My local cable tech just left, he doesn't understand why I am unhappy about 
"only" a 10% packet loss. He asked "well you can get web sites can't you?"

So many people seem to think that internet=web. It's sad.