[mythtv-users] what does "recorder failed" mean?

[Marco Nelissen]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 04/11/2012 12:39 AM, Marco Nelissen wrote:
>
>> Last night a recording failed, which didn't give my wife much confidence
>> that she'll continue to be able to watch her shows now that we've cancelled
>> our Directv service. The "previously recorded" list shows "recorder failed"
>> for this recording. The backend log shows:
>>
>> 2012-04-09 21:58:29.312 TVRec(2): ASK_RECORDING 2 29 0 0
>> 2012-04-09 21:59:01.625 TVRec(2): Changing from None to RecordingOnly
>> 2012-04-09 21:59:01.715 TVRec(2): HW Tuner: 2->2
>> 2012-04-09 21:59:01.905 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free
>> Space: 3.0 GB w/freq: 7 min
>> 2012-04-09 21:59:02.012 Started recording: Smash:Understudy: channel 1111
>> on cardid 2, sourceid 1
>> 2012-04-09 21:59:02.292 ProgramInfo(1111_**20120409215900.mpg), Error:
>> GetPlaybackURL: '1111_20120409215900.mpg' should be local, but it can not
>> be found.
>> 2012-04-09 21:59:02.591 ProgramInfo(1111_**20120409215900.mpg), Error:
>> GetPlaybackURL: '1111_20120409215900.mpg' should be local, but it can not
>> be found.
>> 2012-04-09 21:59:02.773 ProgramInfo(1111_**20120409215900.mpg), Error:
>> GetPlaybackURL: '1111_20120409215900.mpg' should be local, but it can not
>> be found.
>>
>> and then some time later, at the time the recording was scheduled to end:
>>
>> 2012-04-09 23:10:00.280 TVRec(2): Changing from RecordingOnly to None
>> 2012-04-09 23:10:00.424 Updating status for Smash:Understudy on cardid 2
>> (Tuning => Recorder Failed)
>>
>> Is there any other place I can look to find out why it failed to record
>> this show?
>>
>
> dmesg?
>

Unfortunately my wife restarted the machine in an attempt to get things to
work, so I no longer have the dmesg.

I'm guessing the capture device failed to provide any data for the backend
> to write.
>
> Also, note that you have an orphaned Live TV recording shown above (the
> "should be local, but it can not be found" messages).
>

Not sure what you mean by that. Looking at the backend log, there are a ton
of those message, even for stuff that was successfully recorded. It looks
like every time a recording starts, something tries to access the recording
file a few times before it's actually ready.
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