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jmcintyre at dfsoftware

May 24, 2008, 8:38 AM

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Myth can't find old recordings

I just recently noticed that MythTV can no longer find any of the
shows it recorded before February 16. The videos are there and
haven't changed, and Myth has them in it's playlist, but it says they
can't be found when you try to play them. Any ideas? I do use
mythrename, and had an issue with that at one point after upgrading
to 0.21, but I didn't think it was actually doing anything at that
point (wasn't able to run due to the new myth perl bindings not
installing properly).
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mtdean at thirdcontact

May 24, 2008, 9:06 AM

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Re: Myth can't find old recordings [In reply to]

On 05/24/2008 11:38 AM, Jared McIntyre wrote:
> I just recently noticed that MythTV can no longer find any of the
> shows it recorded before February 16. The videos are there and
> haven't changed, and Myth has them in it's playlist, but it says they
> can't be found when you try to play them.

Are you sure it's February 16, and--assuming you're in (most any part
of) the US--not March 9, i.e. the start of Daylight Saving Time? Sounds
a lot like a broken DST configuration.

> Any ideas? I do use
> mythrename, and had an issue with that at one point after upgrading
> to 0.21, but I didn't think it was actually doing anything at that
> point (wasn't able to run due to the new myth perl bindings not
> installing properly).

It never hurts to not use mythrename.pl--you should really always use
--link with it. You can fix it with:

mythrename.pl --format "%c_%Y%m%d%H%i%s"

See, also, http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/331410#331410

Mike
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jmcintyre at dfsoftware

May 24, 2008, 7:30 PM

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Re: Myth can't find old recordings [In reply to]

>On 05/24/2008 11:38 AM, Jared McIntyre wrote:
>> I just recently noticed that MythTV can no longer find any of the
>> shows it recorded before February 16. The videos are there and
>> haven't changed, and Myth has them in it's playlist, but it says they
>> can't be found when you try to play them.
>
>Are you sure it's February 16, and--assuming you're in (most any part
>of) the US--not March 9, i.e. the start of Daylight Saving Time? Sounds
>a lot like a broken DST configuration.

Might be, I picked the 16th as that was the first recording that it
finds. The 4th is the first it couldn't find (with none in between.

> > Any ideas? I do use
>> mythrename, and had an issue with that at one point after upgrading
>> to 0.21, but I didn't think it was actually doing anything at that
>> point (wasn't able to run due to the new myth perl bindings not
>> installing properly).
>
>It never hurts to not use mythrename.pl--you should really always use
>--link with it. You can fix it with:
>
>mythrename.pl --format "%c_%Y%m%d%H%i%s"

I'd never heard of that. Good to know. I ran through the process, and
it renamed everything back to what appears to be the original, but it
was still unable to find those videos. If it is daylight savings
time, is there something I can do to fix it?

Thanks,

Jared
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mtdean at thirdcontact

May 24, 2008, 9:49 PM

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Re: Myth can't find old recordings [In reply to]

On 05/24/2008 10:30 PM, Jared McIntyre, whose mail client doesn't know
how to properly attribute a quote, wrote:

> > On 05/24/2008 11:38 AM, Jared McIntyre wrote:
> >
> >> I just recently noticed that MythTV can no longer find any of the
> >> shows it recorded before February 16. The videos are there and
> >> haven't changed, and Myth has them in it's playlist, but it says
> >> they can't be found when you try to play them.
> >
> > Are you sure it's February 16, and--assuming you're in (most any
> > part of) the US--not March 9, i.e. the start of Daylight Saving
> > Time? Sounds a lot like a broken DST configuration.
>
> Might be, I picked the 16th as that was the first recording that it
> finds. The 4th is the first it couldn't find (with none in between.

If it can find a show from Feb 16th, it's not DST. Let me guess--you
upgraded to 0.21 sometime between Feb 4th and Feb 16th, right?

If so, you just have to fix your storage group configuration. The
directory that you used for 0.20 recordings needs to exist in the
Default storage group. You can add it in mythtv-setup.

Mike
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jmcintyre at dfsoftware

May 26, 2008, 8:44 PM

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Re: Myth can't find old recordings [In reply to]

>If it can find a show from Feb 16th, it's not DST. Let me guess--you
>upgraded to 0.21 sometime between Feb 4th and Feb 16th, right?
>
>If so, you just have to fix your storage group configuration. The
>directory that you used for 0.20 recordings needs to exist in the
>Default storage group. You can add it in mythtv-setup.

It is quite possible that is when I made the switch. I don't really
remember. However, the directory I'm recording into now, and the
directory where the missing videos are is the same. Shouldn't it know
to look there since it is finding newly recorded ones?

Jared
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jmcintyre at dfsoftware

May 28, 2008, 10:30 PM

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Re: Myth can't find old recordings [In reply to]

> >If it can find a show from Feb 16th, it's not DST. Let me guess--you
>>upgraded to 0.21 sometime between Feb 4th and Feb 16th, right?
>>
>>If so, you just have to fix your storage group configuration. The
>>directory that you used for 0.20 recordings needs to exist in the
>>Default storage group. You can add it in mythtv-setup.
>
>It is quite possible that is when I made the switch. I don't really
>remember. However, the directory I'm recording into now, and the
>directory where the missing videos are is the same. Shouldn't it know
>to look there since it is finding newly recorded ones?

Turns out that my hostname changed at that time due to an OS upgrade,
and the old recordings were still set to localhost which no longer
exists as a setting on mythtv. So, I went in and changed all the
records in the recorded table to the new host, and everything works.

Jared
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