[mythtv-users] Failed recordings

[Steve Smith]

On 26 September 2010 21:28, Steve Smith <st3v3.sm1th at gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I suspect that this problem has been around for a while but I've
> noticed far more since I recently upgraded from 21-fixes (custom
> build) to 23-fixes (Ubuntu packages).
>
> I keep getting recordings that start (or pretend to start) but then
> fail after a few seconds.
> (The captures are from DVB-T devices)
>
> I suspect this is a general design problem with Myth, in that the
> backend has never been at all resilient to recording problems. In the
> past (0.21) I've seen the backend crash completely on flakey DVB-T
> signals.
>
> Anyway does anyone know of any solutions to improve the resilience of
> recordings? I'd really like to see the backend monitor recordings and
> restart them if the file isn't getting any bigger, maybe rescheduling
> for later recording after a few fails.
>
> I can see how I could write a recordings monitor fairly easily from
> the new Event system, but can't see how I can restart individual
> recordings. At present the best we can do is restart the whole backend
> which will interrupt any recordings that are currently going on,
> successful ones included. Has anyone written one of these already?
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
>

This problem is getting worse, particularly when there are multiple
recordings starting at the same time. Has anyone else noticed this? At
this rate I'll be going back to 0.21 soon....

I can't see anything in the logs (-v extra,record), and as far as myth
is concerned the recordings don't fail and don't complete...ever...

Any ideas anyone?