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Author:  acronce [ Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:23 am ]
Post subject:  Bad recordings on some channels after migration to F5.5

Hi all,

I recently migrated from an older backend machine running R5E50 to new hardware running R5.5. My migration had a few rough spots, but I was able to work through them with the help of this forum.

In general, the new system seems to work. However I now have a show that consistently gets recorded badly. There's no preview image from MythWeb. And when I try to play any recording of this show, I get nothing but grey blobs. Often the front end (which I run on a Mac) hangs trying to play these recordings.

Prior to the update to R5.5, the same show recorded fine. Note that I didn't change anything in the recording schedule for this show after the migration.

The first thing I tried was recreating my tuner card definitions and doing a fresh channel scan. My tuner is an HDHomeRun, so I also updated to their latest firmware. But I still get the bad recordings.

I've tried manually going to the same channel via live TV and I don't see a problem. But I haven't tried this at the time of the problematic show because I'm not at home when it records. Note that the show is on sub-channel 1 of our PBS affiliate, which has something like 5 sub-channels.

There are definitely errors in the mythbackend.log that correspond to the recording problem:

Code:
2008-12-16 14:59:41.851 Started recording: The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer: channel 1091 on cardid 1, sourceid 1
2008-12-16 15:08:00.410 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2008-12-16 15:08:00.413 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2008-12-16 15:08:01.302 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2008-12-16 15:08:01.306 Empty LocalHostName.
2008-12-16 15:08:01.314 Using localhost value of mythtv
2008-12-16 15:08:01.357 New DB connection, total: 1
2008-12-16 15:08:01.367 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-12-16 15:08:01.383 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0'
2008-12-16 15:08:01.384 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-12-16 15:08:01.389 New DB connection, total: 2
2008-12-16 15:08:01.391 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-12-16 15:08:01.397 Current Schema Version: 1214
2008-12-16 15:08:01.491 Tuning to 'MPEG Program 1' pnum: 0x1 without CRC check on PMT
2008-12-16 15:08:01.508 mpegts_read_header: could not find any PMT's
2008-12-16 15:08:01.509 AFD Error: avformat err(-1) on av_open_input_file call.
2008-12-16 15:08:01.510 Couldn't open decoder for: /myth/tv/1091_20081216150000.mpg
2008-12-16 15:08:01.511 NVP, Error: Could not open file for preview.
2008-12-16 15:08:01.516 Preview Error: Run() file not local: '/myth/tv/1091_20081216150000.mpg'
2008-12-16 15:08:01.528 Preview Error: Preview process not ok.
         fileinfo(/myth/tv/1091_20081216150000.mpg.png) exists: 0 readable: 0 size: 0
2008-12-16 15:08:01.531 MainServer: Failed to make preview image.


For comparison, here are the log entries for a successful recording of a different show on a different channel:
Code:
2008-12-16 23:34:41.733 Started recording: Late Show With David Letterman: channel 1051 on cardid 1, sourceid 1
2008-12-16 23:48:11.587 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 3.0 GB w/freq: 15 min
2008-12-17 00:02:10.382 UPnpMedia: BuildMediaMap VIDEO scan starting in :/myth/video:
2008-12-17 00:02:10.544 UPnpMedia: BuildMediaMap Done. Found 7 objects
2008-12-17 00:03:11.860 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 3.0 GB w/freq: 15 min
2008-12-17 00:17:03.015 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2008-12-17 00:17:03.029 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2008-12-17 00:18:11.954 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 3.0 GB w/freq: 15 min
2008-12-17 00:32:13.596 UPnpMedia: BuildMediaMap VIDEO scan starting in :/myth/video:
2008-12-17 00:32:13.658 UPnpMedia: BuildMediaMap Done. Found 7 objects
2008-12-17 00:33:12.050 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 3.0 GB w/freq: 15 min
2008-12-17 00:37:20.576 TVRec(1): Changing from RecordingOnly to None
2008-12-17 00:37:20.620 Finished recording Late Show With David Letterman: channel 1051
2008-12-17 00:37:20.675 Reschedule requested for id 0.
2008-12-17 00:37:20.773 Finished recording Late Show With David Letterman: channel 1051


Any thoughts on how to resolve this problem?

Author:  acronce [ Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:08 pm ]
Post subject: 

I guess I should have done a broader search. Looks like this is a known problem:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/m ... its/346930

Sure enough, I'm also trying to record from KQED 9.1 when I see the problem.

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