[mythtv-users] 0 Byte recording files when starting live TV andchanging channels

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Mar 20 16:11:49 UTC 2012


On 03/17/2012 03:55 PM, Joe Nyland wrote:
>
> On 17 Mar 2012, at 19:47, Scott & Nicole Harris wrote:
>>
>> At least as of 0.24, LiveTV has been making 0 byte files when a 
>> LiveTV start
>> (or a program change in LiveTV occurs).  What's got me baffled is 
>> that in
>> 0.24.x, the 0 byte files were deleted shortly (5 - 10 minutes) after the
>> program got going.  That does not appear to be the case in 0.25.  I am
>> hoping that someone can confirm that they are no longer deleted until 
>> the 24
>> hour (or whatever you have set) cleanup for Live TV.
>>
>
> Yes, this is exactly what I am seeing - they must have been there in 
> 0.24, but were deleted before I knew about them.
>
> <moan>
>
> As I said before, my RSS feed from MythWeb on my backend server is 
> full of duplicate entries for live TV since switching to 0.25. 
> Futhermore, it looks very messy in MythFrontend/MythWeb when your view 
> includes live TV as there's tonnes of duplicated shows.
>
> </moan>

Out of curiosity, can you try increasing (a lot) your tuning and signal 
timeouts for your capture cards in mythtv-setup.  Set them way up 
high--like 7000/10000ms or more--and see if you still get a "lingering" 
0B file.  http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10097#comment:2

Mike


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