[mythtv-users] Recording of 0.00 GB in size

Jerry Rubinow jerrymr at gmail.com
Thu Sep 16 02:55:51 UTC 2010


On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Adam Jimerson <vendion at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jerry Rubinow wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Adam Jimerson <vendion at gmail.com
> > <mailto:vendion at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Phill Edwards wrote:
> >     >> From the information page the tuner status shows that it is
> >     >> recording but the video that it is recording has a size of 0.00 GB
> >     >> according to mythfrontend.  This is hard for me to track down
> >     >> because it
> >     >> does not happen for every recording only some of them.  Anyone
> >     >> have any
> >     >> clues or pointers as to where to look to see what is happening to
> my
> >     >> recordings?
> >     >
> >     > A similar thing happened to me. In my case I had 2 tuners and the
> >     > aerial had become disconnected from one of them. So some programmes
> >     > recorded OK, but if there were two recordings at the same time the
> 2nd
> >     > one ended up 0GB.
> >     >
> >     > Regards,
> >     > Phill
> >
> >     I only have the one tuner right now I know it is working because it
> >     would say it is recording one show (which the resulting file will be
> >     0GB) then turn around and record another show on the same channel and
> >     this one will actually be recorded so I don't know if this is a
> >     backend/transcoding issue.  If it helps I have no user jobs set up on
> >     the backend and as for the video/audio codec I am using the default
> for
> >     MythTv 0.23-fixes.
> >
> >
> > Are you changing channels on an external device?  Is it possible there
> > are intermittent channel change issues?  It might help to describe your
> > setup a little more.
> >
> > -Jerry
> >
>
> When you say "external device" are you talking about a cable or
> satellite box?  If so I am not I have the TV tuner connected to an
> analog cable connection.  Unless it is the backend changing the channels
> there should be no channel changing going on (other than the obvious
> channel change to get the the station airing the show), I have made it a
> point to exit out of the frontend before any recordings start to remove
> the possibility that it is something I am doing to cause this.  What
> kind of information are you needing about my setup?  As I said I have
> the one tuner installed, I am running the frontend and backend on the
> same system (but trying to not have the frontend open while a recording
> is in progres to reduce the chances of me causing the issue).  The
> system has a 2.8 AMD Athlon 64 dual core processer with 4 GB of RAM so
> it should be powerful enough to do what I am asking.  Storage wise I
> have MythTv setup to save everything onto a 2 TB hard drive so unless a
> 30 minute - 1 hour SD TV show is larger than 2 TB storage should not be
> a problem.  Any other information that may be of use here?
>

Yes, cable box or what have you is what I meant.  I'd follow Gabe's advice
of looking at the backend logs.

-Jerry
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