[mythtv-users] Recording Started But Missing

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/13/2010 03:21 PM, John Welch wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>    
>> On 03/13/2010 02:24 PM, John Welch wrote:
>>      
>>> I apologize in advance if I'm missing something obvious, but I'm kind
>>> of in a bind here.  I have a MythTV system that has been working fine.
>>>   I'm currently running version 0.22 packages from ATrpms, and the
>>> latest version says "svn fixes (23323).".  I have a HDHR as my primary
>>> recorder, plus a pcHD3000 tuner card.  I also have a HD-PVR and a
>>> PVR-150, which really shouldn't be coming into play with what I am
>>> experiencing.  Today I scheduled several recordings (overlapping) to
>>> try to catch many of the College Basketball games that are on.  All of
>>> these recordings "should" be going on the HDHR and pcHD3000.
>>> Unfortunately the one time I really just need this system to "just
>>> work" I am having problems.
>>>
>>> Some of the recording I've scheduled have already started.  When I go
>>> into one of my front-end systems the recordings show in the "Watch
>>> Recordings" list, but when I try to select one I get a message saying
>>> "Recording Unavailable.... This recording is not yet available".  When
>>> I run the front-end from a command prompt and look back at the
>>> Terminal screen after I get this message I see an error message saying
>>> "<file name>    should be local, but it cannot be found".  When I look at
>>> the mythbackend.log as far as I can tell everything looks OK when the
>>> recording starts... I'm seeing messages like "Started recording:
>>> College Basketball "SEC Tournament, First Semifinal: Teams TBA":
>>> channel 9750 on cardid 13, sourceid 9" with no errors immediately
>>> following.  The lights on the front of the HDHR are showing like the
>>> device is recording on both tuners.
>>>
>>> After several reboots of the back-end and HDHR, plus deleting and
>>> re-adding the HDHR tuners from MythTV I finally got one recording to
>>> start (I think on the HDHR).  However, I should now have at least
>>> three recording currently going.  I'm totally stumped.  If I was
>>> getting some error messages on the back-end I would at least have
>>> something to go after.  I kind of afraid to blindly troubleshoot for
>>> fear of making things worse, both with the one recording I have going
>>> and with for future regular recordings.
>>>
>>> If anyone has any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated.  I
>>> still have about six more games left to (hopefully) record.
>>>        
>> When MythTV thinks it's recording (and the backend--ignoring preview
>> generator error messages--shows no errors related to starting the recording
>> and shows the recording ending at the proper time) but there's no file
>> created, this is almost always (or, just plain always?) due to an error with
>> the capture device (occurring below MythTV level).  It means that MythTV
>> started recording and wrote all of the data that the capture device gave it
>> to a file, but since the capture device never gave it any data, there's no
>> file.
>>
>> So, the problem is with your capture device, drivers, or your channel
>> configuration (i.e. you need a rescan).  Check dmesg and test the capture
>> device yourself (with that and other channels) and find out which is the
>> problem.
>>      
> Thanks Mike.  It looks like sometime between Thursday night, when I
> know I got good recordings from my HDHR, and this morning, when I
> tried starting my recordings, Comcast changed all the channel
> "transport numbers" -- not sure if I'm using the right term here, but
> for example where my ABC-HD channel used to be 84#1, it's not any
> more.  Even the one "good" recording I thought I was getting was not
> recording the program I had actually intended.
>
> Looks like I won't be getting my College Basketball recordings today.
> It's been so long since I've had to setup the channels on HDHR within
> Myth I've forgotten all the steps, so I've got a little re-learning to
> do.  Oh well, what's the old saying.. "The best laid plans of mice and
> men...."
>    

I'd recommend Delete all video sources and--since you're 
Comcast--scte65scan ( 
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Comcast_Users_And_scte65scan ) will likely 
make scanning/creating channels trivial.

Mike