[mythtv-users] Mythcommflag trying to flag a zero length file!

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Nov 12 18:01:43 UTC 2010


  On 11/12/2010 10:03 AM, George Poulson wrote:
> Just spotted this in my logs .. should be pretty self-explanatory I 
> think ...
>
>
> MythTV Commercial Flagger, started at Fri Nov 12 14:55:41 2010
> Flagging commercial breaks for:
> ALL Un-flagged programs
...
> 2010-11-12 14:55:44.040 
> RingBuf(/var/lib/mythtv/livetv/13070_20101108122636.mpg) Error: 
> OpenFile(): File too small (0B).
>

You get a 0-byte file with no errors in the MythTV logs when your 
capture device provides no data to MythTV.  MythTV writes whatever the 
capture device gives it, so if MythTV gets nothing...

Mike


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