[mythtv-users] How to I "fix" a program that MythCommFlag bombs on?

[Phil Bridges]

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:46 AM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>> On 04/08/2012 11:24 PM, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 04/08/2012 11:03 PM, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm watching "Celebrity Apprentice" tonight as it's recording.  about
>>>>> 10 or 15 minutes in, the playback exited.  I tried again, and it did
>>>>> the same thing at the same spot.
>>>>>
>>>>> I realized, looking at the log, that mythcommflag was aborting the end
>>>>> of the program.  I got the following line in the log:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Seek(): Offset from end: -18641516
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried to re-flag it, but mythcommflag exited:
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>> How can I view the program past where mythcommflag exits?
>>>>>
>>>> mythcommflag --rebuild  ?
>>>>
>>> Hmm - well, I don't see the seek error anymore, but the recording
>>> still exits, and I can't skip past the point.
>>
>>
>> Ah, just realized that you said you were watching as it records.  There
>> was/is? an issue where playback exits recording in progress when you catch
>> up to the point it was recording when you entered playback.
>>
>> After it finishes recording it should play back fine as long as you exit and
>> re-enter playback.
>>
>> However, since I had you run a --rebuild while it was recording, you'll
>> likely have to do another --rebuild once it completes.
>>
>
> Also possible: the recording is simply broken at that point.

The program was over when I rebuilt the commflag table.  I wonder what
would make the recording "broken" to the point where I couldn't see
past that time?

Interesting - although the frontend listed the program as being
multiple G large, Mythweb lists it at 998 MB.

Argh - it looks like Mythweb is correct.  Apparently, this is a
function of my failing hard drive.  All I have to do is find time to
put the replacement in...