On 04/01/2011 09:07, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 16:36:57 +1100 > Elizabeth Dodd<ed...@billiau.net> wrote: > >> On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:17:19 +1100 >> Elizabeth Dodd<ed...@billiau.net> wrote: >> >>> I upgraded packages on my freevo box to Debian testing. I didn't >>> upgrade the python or the freevo. From about then, with changes in >>> hal and udev, I've had weird things happen with my drive space, >>> like it filling at a fast rate. >>> To make sure that the tv would record for the next show we were >>> unplugging the tv stick and then plugging it back in >>> >>> Today I managed to get closer to the trouble, as one of the half >>> hour tv shows which ran to 102GB turned out to have about 14 hours >>> of SD video recorded, 1.6M frames. >>> A bit of work with a video editor and I can have this show on the >>> drive without filling the whole drive, but I'm not sure why the >>> recordserver isn't shutting off the record. I did have logging >>> enabled earlier, and it didn't help me sort out this trouble. >>> I was making a new kernel because something hangs - and it might be >>> the tv card driver. >>> >>> >> getting somewhere >> 1. check firmware for card is latest Y >> 2. latest driver from v4l installed Y >> 3. analyse problem further >> 4. freevo opens a shell which spawns mplayer to record (VCR_CMD) >> 4a this shell exits but mplayer does not >> 5 the mplayer update must have broken the system >> > so we had two problems > a driver for the tv card was not good > and the dash shell problem > http://doc.freevo.org/FAQ#head-0bad19ecee9b4a9d8680e8102751c2112309432a Interesting. Thanks for posting the update.
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