[mythtv-users] Why I prefer to watch sport via "Live TV" vs. recorded

Phil Bridges gravityhammer at gmail.com
Mon Nov 12 02:03:45 UTC 2012


On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 11/10/2012 03:23 PM, Phil Bridges wrote:
>
>> I set my mythtv system to record today's football game at 12:30.  When I
>> arrived home at 3, I tried to watch the game.  I went to recorded shows,
>> and saw that the game was being recorded (the status was green in
>> MythCenter).  The size, however, was 0.0 GB.  Super.  The game didn't
>> record, but the status was "recording".
>>
>> To troubleshoot, I looked at my slave backend log.  Here's what it reads:
>>
>> 2012-11-10 12:30:00.293715 I [1550/1564] TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:1029
>> (HandleStateChange) - TVRec(3): Changing from None to RecordingOnly
>> 2012-11-10 12:30:00.295250 I [1550/1564] TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:3495
>> (TuningCheckForHWChange) - TVRec(3): HW Tuner: 3->3
>> 2012-11-10 12:30:24.910401 E [1550/1568] JobQueue programinfo.cpp:2278
>> (GetPlaybackURL) - ProgramInfo(1691_**20121110123000.mpg):
>> GetPlaybackURL: '1691_20121110123000.mpg' should be local, but it can not
>> be found.
>> 2012-11-10 12:30:24.913229 E [1550/1568] JobQueue programinfo.cpp:2278
>> (GetPlaybackURL) - ProgramInfo(1691_**20121110123000.mpg):
>> GetPlaybackURL: '1691_20121110123000.mpg' should be local, but it can not
>> be found.
>> 2012-11-10 12:30:24.917001 I [1550/19969] Metadata_9124 jobqueue.cpp:2151
>> (DoMetadataLookupThread) - JobQueue: Metadata Lookup Starting for "College
>> Football":"Georgia Tech at North Carolina" recorded from channel 1691 at
>> 2012-11-10T12:30:00
>> 2012-11-10 12:31:29.930111 E [1550/1568] JobQueue programinfo.cpp:2278
>> (GetPlaybackURL) - ProgramInfo(1691_**20121110123000.mpg):
>> GetPlaybackURL: '1691_20121110123000.mpg' should be local, but it can not
>> be found.
>> 2012-11-10 12:31:29.933059 E [1550/1568] JobQueue programinfo.cpp:2278
>> (GetPlaybackURL) - ProgramInfo(1691_**20121110123000.mpg):
>> GetPlaybackURL: '1691_20121110123000.mpg' should be local, but it can not
>> be found.
>> 2012-11-10 12:31:29.936114 I [1550/20007] Commflag_9125 jobqueue.cpp:2276
>> (DoFlagCommercialsThread) - JobQueue: Commercial Detection Starting for
>> "College Football":"Georgia Tech at North Carolina" recorded from channel
>> 1691 at 2012-11-10T12:30:00
>> 2012-11-10 12:31:30.384422 E [1550/20007] Commflag_9125
>> programinfo.cpp:2278 (GetPlaybackURL) - ProgramInfo(1691_**20121110123000.mpg):
>> GetPlaybackURL: '1691_20121110123000.mpg' should be local, but it can not
>> be found.
>> 2012-11-10 12:34:18.055609 I [1550/1567] HouseKeeping housekeeper.cpp:225
>> (RunHouseKeeping) - Running housekeeping thread
>> 2012-11-10 12:39:23.057187 I [1550/1567] HouseKeeping housekeeper.cpp:225
>> (RunHouseKeeping) - Running housekeeping thread
>>
>> Why in the world would it show as "recording"?  Why can't my MythTV
>> system realize that there's no recording, and try again?
>>
>
> It's still waiting for your capture device to send it some data.  MythTV
> assumes that a configured capture card actually works--especially when that
> configured capture card fails to provide any errors that indicate it's not
> working.  You should troubleshoot why your capture card isn't sending any
> video.
>
> FWIW, if you had watched it via Live TV, you would have arrived home at 3,
> turned on Live TV, and--been able to watch exactly as much as you were able
> to watch with a failed recording.  If, however, your capture card had
> actually provided some data for the recording, the recording would have let
> you watch the 2 1/2 hours that had already happened before you got home.
>
>
It's a HDHomeRun that that seems to work fine otherwise.  If I'd had an
inkling that my recording wasn't going to work, I would have stayed home
and watched the game live, "FWIW".  As it is, I watched the game starting
at the end of the third quarter.

So MythTV doesn't seem to recognize an error condition of no data?  That
seems... odd.
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