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mythtvusers at markgarland

Feb 4, 2010, 8:19 AM

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MythWeb - Recording Forever

Hi all,

Just wondered if anyone still experiences this one?

"While recording DVB programs (several cards, several recordings / card),
sometimes recording status is not updated correctly when recording ends and
thus recordings might be left for still recording status forever."
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5838

The ticket would suggest that this has been fixed, but I still get this.
Just wondered if I was alone here?

Thanks,

MG

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Feb 4, 2010, 8:42 AM

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Re: MythWeb - Recording Forever [In reply to]

On 4 February 2010 16:19, Mark Garland <mythtvusers [at] markgarland> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just wondered if anyone still experiences this one?
>
> "While recording DVB programs (several cards, several recordings / card),
> sometimes recording status is not updated correctly when recording ends and
> thus recordings might be left for still recording status forever."
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5838
>
> The ticket would suggest that this has been fixed, but I still get this.
> Just wondered if I was alone here?

How many cards and simultaneous recordings are you using? Does
mythfrontend's Watch Recordings screen show the correct status for
your recordings?

Are you running current trunk or 0.22-fixes?

Cheers,
Nick

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mythtvusers at markgarland

Feb 4, 2010, 9:04 AM

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Re: MythWeb - Recording Forever [In reply to]

> How many cards and simultaneous recordings are you using? Does
> mythfrontend's Watch Recordings screen show the correct status for
> your recordings?

Hi Nick,

Sorry - I should have provided *many* more details than in my last email.

I'm running 0.22.0+fixes22594-0ubuntu1 from the Ubuntu repositories. I have
3 DVB Freeview tuner cards in the UK, and they often record simultaneously
without issues.

As it stands right now, I have "The Politics Show" which was set to record
at midday last Sunday. If honest, I doubt too many things would have also
been recorded from that time (perhaps a little LiveTV).
MythWeb's Upcoming Recordings page still has the programme as "Currently
Recording".
The "Backend Status" page of MythWeb tells me that the tuner is idle.

On the Frontend, "Upcoming Recordings (Scheduled Recordings)" makes no
mention of this recording.
If I go into the "Watch Recordings" screen, the programme appears fully
recorded (i.e. not appearing a different colour like in-progress recordings
do) and I can watch the whole programme so I know that it finished recording
at the right time.
System Status also agrees with MythWeb that the tuner is idle.

The same tuner has since been used to record other programmes so I know that
the tuner isn't "stuck" and can be reused by Myth.

So, in short, the only place that this programme erroneously looks like it
is still recording is in MythWeb's "Upcoming Recording" page.
If I edit the programme through MythWeb to say "Don't Record" or back to
"Record anytime on channel BBC1", MythWeb crashes with
Fatal error: Call to undefined method stdClass::save() in
/usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/modules/tv/detail.php on line 241

Having seen this before, I'm pretty sure that a backend restart will simply
make this vanish.

If you need anything further let me know. I'll make sure I'll only restart
the backend if necessary so that I'll be in a position to try anything as
requested.

Thanks for your help,

MG

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Feb 4, 2010, 9:05 AM

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Re: MythWeb - Recording Forever [In reply to]

On 4 Feb 2010, at 16:19, Mark Garland wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Just wondered if anyone still experiences this one?
>
> "While recording DVB programs (several cards, several recordings / card),
> sometimes recording status is not updated correctly when recording ends and
> thus recordings might be left for still recording status forever."
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5838
>
> The ticket would suggest that this has been fixed, but I still get this.
> Just wondered if I was alone here?

I see it every now and then, maybe once a month on average.

Running 0.22-fixes23426 from JYA's repository.

5x multirec on a DVBS card 2x multirec on two DVBS2 cards and 5x multirec on a dual DVBT card, 19 virtual tuners in total.

Andre

>
> Thanks,
>
> MG
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Feb 6, 2010, 1:32 PM

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Re: MythWeb - Recording Forever [In reply to]

> I see it every now and then, maybe once a month on average.
> Andre

Hi Andre,

Thanks for your response - about the same frequency for me.

Looks like you are running a slightly later release than me and still see
the problem, so I believe there is a bug lurking there somewhere.
However, as this is such a minor bug, and as so few people (currently me and
one other) have responded to say that they have also got the same problem, I
suspect that this will be challenging one to find and so wont raise it as a
bug.

Thanks,

MG

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jan at horde

Feb 7, 2010, 4:47 AM

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Re: MythWeb - Recording Forever [In reply to]

Zitat von Mark Garland <mythtvusers [at] markgarland>:

>> I see it every now and then, maybe once a month on average.
>> Andre
>
> Hi Andre,
>
> Thanks for your response - about the same frequency for me.
>
> Looks like you are running a slightly later release than me and still see
> the problem, so I believe there is a bug lurking there somewhere.
> However, as this is such a minor bug, and as so few people (currently me and
> one other) have responded to say that they have also got the same problem, I
> suspect that this will be challenging one to find and so wont raise it as a
> bug.

I have seen this too a very few times, but only if the recording
failed (aka 0-byte-recording). Like for you it was fixed after a
reboot/backend restart.

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Feb 7, 2010, 5:15 AM

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Re: MythWeb - Recording Forever [In reply to]

On 02/07/2010 01:47 PM, Jan Schneider wrote:
> Zitat von Mark Garland <mythtvusers [at] markgarland>:
>> Looks like you are running a slightly later release than me and still see
>> the problem, so I believe there is a bug lurking there somewhere.
>> However, as this is such a minor bug, and as so few people (currently
>> me and
>> one other) have responded to say that they have also got the same
>> problem, I
>> suspect that this will be challenging one to find and so wont raise it
>> as a
>> bug.
>
> I have seen this too a very few times, but only if the recording failed
> (aka 0-byte-recording). Like for you it was fixed after a reboot/backend
> restart.
>

Happens to me as well. I'm not sure about the circumstances which lead
up to it, but when it happens, it's there until backend restart whatever
I do. Tried to check DB, but I found nothing relevant in tables
inuseprograms & tvchain.

When it happens again, I'll send other tables' info if anybody wants me to.

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Feb 7, 2010, 9:58 AM

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Re: MythWeb - Recording Forever [In reply to]

>
> Happens to me as well. I'm not sure about the circumstances which lead up
> to it, but when it happens, it's there until backend restart whatever I do.
>

+1 for this. Seen it but have no idea when or why it happens. Not sure I
have seen it since moving to 0.22-fixes though.

Paul

mythtvusers at markgarland

Feb 9, 2010, 10:22 AM

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Re: MythWeb - Recording Forever [In reply to]

Thanks to all that have responded.

As there are a few more of us seeing this bug, I've raised
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/8052 and have put a link to this thread in
the report.

At least now it is 'in the system' and stands a chance of being fixed.

Thanks all,

MG

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