[mythtv-users] Loads of failed / empty recordings.

[Peter Foulkes]

I've spent months trying to solve this and I'm getting nowhere so I am 
looking for help!

Very frequently I go to play a recording and although the recording appears 
on the list, when I select it I get the error message
"Recording Unavailable. The file for this recording can not be found"

If I view the recodings via mythweb these missing recordings are listed but 
show as being 0 bytes in size.

Looking in the mythbackend.log I cannot see any errors at the time the 
recordings are made.
The error given when trying to play a missing file back is:
010-10-03 13:22:18.401 ProgramInfo(1004_20101001072400.mpg), Error: 
GetPlaybackURL: '1004_20101001072400.mpg' should be local, but it can not be 
found.

The problem happens in bursts. Once one program has failed to record in this 
manner, generally all subsequent programs will do the same until I reboot 
the backend machine.

I have tried raising the PCI and IDE latency settings but this did not 
appear to have any effect.
I have always suffered from this fault over the last 4 years of using 
MythTV, changes of kernel and updates to Ubuntu do not seem to have changed 
the problem. Neither has going from MythTV 0.19 through to 0.22. I am 
currently running mythbackend version: branches/release-0-23-fixes

The capture card is a Hauppauge WinTV Nova-TD 500 Dual digital DVB-T PCI TV 
Tuner card. I am using the drivers from the restricted package.

Any help greatly appreciated. I feel like I am going around in circles with 
this problem and not getting anywhere at all.

Thank you,
Peter