[mythtv-users] My Dad keeps missing Emmerdale & Coronation Street? (Could not connect to server "" @ port -1)

Mike Dent mcdent at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 12:55:57 UTC 2010


Hi,
I built a MythTV box for my dad, 82 years young, about 1 year ago.
It's based on myth 0.21. and contains 2 x Nova-T cards.
Mostly it has worked fine and he has been very pleased with it. He is
able to record his favourite programs like Emmerdale and Coronation
Street whilst he visits
my mum in her care home.

Recently he has been noticing that some programs have been listed as
recorded but when he goes to watch them it says something like
"unable to find the recording".
This problem has been intermittent. So I got him to do some tests to
try and see if it was one particular channel or perhaps one of the
tuner cards had a bad aerial or something
but we could not find any pattern.
Today I called round to see if I could see what had been happening,
unfortunately I did not have much time but I was able to fix the
remote SSH and VNC access. So I have
had a look at his mythtv logs and the only errors I can see which seem
to be happening about the time I set the recordings this morning are:-

2010-01-15 11:06:11.015 Finished recording Nature's Calendar "Autumn:
Freshwater": channel 5287
2010-01-15 11:06:11.129 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free
Space: 3.0 GB w/freq: 15 min
2010-01-15 11:06:11.607 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2010-01-15 11:06:11.680 Empty LocalHostName.
2010-01-15 11:06:11.720 Using localhost value of colin-mythtv
2010-01-15 11:06:11.779 New DB connection, total: 1
2010-01-15 11:06:11.836 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2010-01-15 11:06:11.880 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2010-01-15 11:06:11.922 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2010-01-15 11:06:11.964 New DB connection, total: 2
2010-01-15 11:06:12.004 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2010-01-15 11:06:12.050 Current Schema Version: 1214
2010-01-15 11:06:12.142 Preview Error: Previewer file
'/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/5287_20100115110607.mpg' is not valid.
2010-01-15 11:06:12.189 Preview Error: Run() file not local:
'/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/5287_20100115110607.mpg'
2010-01-15 11:06:12.245 Preview Error: Preview process not ok.

fileinfo(/var/lib/mythtv/recordings/5287_20100115110607.mpg.png)
exists: 0 readable: 0 size: 0
2010-01-15 11:06:12.795 AFD: Opened codec 0x888b020, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2010-01-15 11:06:12.836 AFD: codec MP3 has 2 channels
2010-01-15 11:06:12.878 AFD: Opened codec 0x888b610, id(MP3) type(Audio)
2010-01-15 11:06:12.920 AFD: codec MP3 has 1 channels


And a lot of these:-


2010-01-15 11:30:19.134 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2010-01-15 11:30:19.177 adding: colin-mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2010-01-15 11:30:19.220 MainServer::HandleAnnounce FileTransfer
2010-01-15 11:30:19.260 adding: colin-mythtv as a remote file transfer
2010-01-15 11:30:19.304 RemoteFile::openSocket(control socket):
                        Could not connect to server "" @ port -1
2010-01-15 11:30:19.344 RemoteFile::openSocket(file data socket):
                        Could not connect to server "" @ port -1
2010-01-15 11:30:19.385 RingBuffer::RingBuffer(): Failed to open remote file ()
2010-01-15 11:30:19.533 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2010-01-15 11:30:19.579 adding: colin-mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2010-01-15 11:30:19.620 MainServer::HandleAnnounce FileTransfer
2010-01-15 11:30:19.660 adding: colin-mythtv as a remote file transfer
2010-01-15 11:30:19.703 RemoteFile::openSocket(control socket):
                        Could not connect to server "" @ port -1


One tuner is set to max of 2 recordings and the other is set to max of
2 recordings.

If you have any ideas which might help track down the problem he (and
I!) would be very pleased.

Thanks

Mike


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