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marco.nelissen at gmail

Nov 5, 2009, 5:58 PM

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recordings disappeared from list, still exist on disk

Just now I sat down to catch up on some TV watching, and to my
surprise saw that most of my recordings had disappeared from the list.
They were still there yesterday, but now they're gone. As far as I can
tell, the recordings still exist on disk (at least some of them do).
Anyone know what might have caused them to disappear from the
recordings list, and if there's an easy way to get them to show up
there again?
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mtdean at thirdcontact

Nov 5, 2009, 6:02 PM

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Re: recordings disappeared from list, still exist on disk [In reply to]

On 11/05/2009 08:58 PM, Marco Nelissen wrote:
> Just now I sat down to catch up on some TV watching, and to my
> surprise saw that most of my recordings had disappeared from the list.
> They were still there yesterday, but now they're gone. As far as I can
> tell, the recordings still exist on disk (at least some of them do).
> Anyone know what might have caused them to disappear from the
> recordings list, and if there's an easy way to get them to show up
> there again?

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Why_aren.27t_my_new_recordings_showing_up_in_Watch_Recordings.3F
perhaps? Check both the Group Filters and the Group Views.

Mike
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marco.nelissen at gmail

Nov 5, 2009, 6:09 PM

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Re: recordings disappeared from list, still exist on disk [In reply to]

Thanks, that was exactly it! Somehow it got set to show only children's shows.
Would've been nice if there was some indication on screen that told me
that the list was filtered.

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean [at] thirdcontact> wrote:
> On 11/05/2009 08:58 PM, Marco Nelissen wrote:
>>
>> Just now I sat down to catch up on some TV watching, and to my
>> surprise saw that most of my recordings had disappeared from the list.
>> They were still there yesterday, but now they're gone. As far as I can
>> tell, the recordings still exist on disk (at least some of them do).
>> Anyone know what might have caused them to disappear from the
>> recordings list, and if there's an easy way to get them to show up
>> there again?
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Why_aren.27t_my_new_recordings_showing_up_in_Watch_Recordings.3F
> perhaps? Check both the Group Filters and the Group Views.
>
> Mike
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Nov 5, 2009, 6:14 PM

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Re: recordings disappeared from list, still exist on disk [In reply to]

On 11/05/2009 09:09 PM, Marco Nelissen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>> On 11/05/2009 08:58 PM, Marco Nelissen wrote:
>>
>>> Just now I sat down to catch up on some TV watching, and to my
>>> surprise saw that most of my recordings had disappeared from the list.
>>> They were still there yesterday, but now they're gone. As far as I can
>>> tell, the recordings still exist on disk (at least some of them do).
>>> Anyone know what might have caused them to disappear from the
>>> recordings list, and if there's an easy way to get them to show up
>>> there again?
>>>
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Why_aren.27t_my_new_recordings_showing_up_in_Watch_Recordings.3F
>> perhaps? Check both the Group Filters and the Group Views.
> Thanks, that was exactly it! Somehow it got set to show only children's shows.
> Would've been nice if there was some indication on screen that told me
> that the list was filtered.

There is a setting:

Show filter name instead of "All Programs"
Use the name of the display filter currently applied in place of the
term "All Programs" in the playback screen.

that defaults to false. Maybe that's another setting Robert McNamara
should put on the list to be removed--for exactly this reason. :)

Mike
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Nov 5, 2009, 6:50 PM

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Re: recordings disappeared from list, still exist on disk [In reply to]

On Thursday 05 November 2009 08:58:07 pm Marco Nelissen wrote:
> Just now I sat down to catch up on some TV watching, and to my
> surprise saw that most of my recordings had disappeared from the list.
> They were still there yesterday, but now they're gone. As far as I can
> tell, the recordings still exist on disk (at least some of them do).
> Anyone know what might have caused them to disappear from the
> recordings list, and if there's an easy way to get them to show up
> there again?

I realize you've already found your solution, but for the benefit of others
(who may be reading this in the archives in the future), I've found two other
situations that can cause similar problems:

- A full hard disk partition. Depending on the partition, different symptoms
can result; but I've learned that the first thing to check when MythTV acts
weirdly is free disk space. The most dangerous full-disk scenario is when
the recordings disk fills with non-recording data (MythArchive log files,
for instance -- I've now got those on their own dedicated partition), since
MythTV will start deleting recordings when it runs low on disk space in
the recordings directory.

- Database corruption. Running "mysqlcheck -r -umythtv -pyourpassword
mythconverg" (changing "yourpassword" to your actual password, and "mythtv"
to your MythTV SQL username, if necessary) should fix this problem. In
fact, I've got that command set up in a daily cron job to help head off
problems. As with full disks, symptoms can vary. I'm pretty sure I've seen
the "missing recordings" you describe at least a couple of times and
finding database corruption to be the cause.

Note that database corruption can result from a full database partition, so
these two problems sometimes occur together.

--
Rod Smith
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Nov 6, 2009, 12:57 AM

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Re: recordings disappeared from list, still exist on disk [In reply to]

On Thu Nov 05, 2009 at 09:50:49PM -0500, Rod Smith wrote:

> - Database corruption. Running "mysqlcheck -r -umythtv -pyourpassword
> mythconverg" (changing "yourpassword" to your actual password, and "mythtv"
> to your MythTV SQL username, if necessary) should fix this problem. In
> fact, I've got that command set up in a daily cron job to help head off
> problems. As with full disks, symptoms can vary. I'm pretty sure I've seen
> the "missing recordings" you describe at least a couple of times and
> finding database corruption to be the cause.
>
You'd be better off running the optimize_mythdb.pl script provided with
MythTV. This uses the MythTV bindings to connect to the database
(avoiding the need to hardcode the username/password elsewhere) and does
a repair, optimize, and analyze of all tables.

Cheers,
Robin
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