[mythtv-users] 0.27 HDPVR cannot play in progress recording

[Steven Adeff]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Michael <mythtv at blandford.net> wrote:
>> On 11/12/2013 03:44 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>>
>>> I believe this was an issue discussed previously at one point, but
>>> can't find the thread if it was. I'm hoping the subject will attract
>>> the attention of someone that remembers...
>>>
>>> On my parents 0.27 system with two HDPVR tuners, recently they've been
>>> noticing that recordings in progress cannot be played back until the
>>> recording is finished.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> What happens when they try to watch a program that is being recorded?  What
>> happens on the screen and what do the logs say?
>>
>> I have a show recording right now with 0.27 on an HDPVR and I can watch it
>> without issues.
>>
>> Michael
>
> depends on the frontend. The local one just jumps back to the
> recordings listing. A remote one will just show a black screen. the
> frontend log of the remote one shows it creating the vdpau space to
> display, and if I hit "back" I get the standard menu for exiting a
> playback.
> It doesn't do this for all in progress recordings. and for the ones it
> does do, there is no image created for the recordings listing.
> I'm also now noticing that the backend is no longer logging for some
> reason. the command used to launch it is
> LANG=$LANG /usr/bin/mythbackend --syslog local7 --loglevel info --user mythtv
>
> which I don't see why it doesn't work? So that's whole other issue I
> need to figure out now...

and a little more digging and it looks like it may have just been one
of the cable boxen was turned off... sadly 6200ch always says the
boxes are on, even when they are not, so no way to verify they are on
before use.

-- 
Steve
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