On 1/20/06, Lithion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I average about 8 recordings a day. I found that there was a pattern of > recordings that caused grief the most. For example I would overlap the
Not sure how many I do a day, although sometimes are not so busy, but then others are. I am still really testing it. The box is just as I stated previously sitting under my desk doing recordings and then letting me watch stuff back or convert it. Soon as I get my new Athlon X2 in april I will reinstall the system again (and do some custom changes to the system that I see will benefit the setup I am runnning). At the moment the box dual boots (as I have a small XP Pro install so I can still play Battlefield 2 online, although can only play it in the evenings I am not taping something or dont mind not taping X show in preference of playing a game or two). > Doctor Who recordings so the 6:00pm recording would end at 6:35 and the > 6:30 Doctor who would start early by 5 minutes. With this pattern I > would have a failure every second day, but not when the tv guide > grabber stopped working. I think there is a timing issue because the > log says that it cannot get any data from the capture card just after a > complicated scheduling cycle. I also found that the backend would not > record without the frontend starting up. I cant say I have found a pattern as to some recordings showing as filesize B in the mythweb frontend. It's only happened 3 times in over 4 weeks. It's not happened lately in over a week. *shrugs* > > To get around many of my problems I wrote a script that would > automatically restart mythbackend if it crashed and wrote another > script that monitors the mythbackend log so that if there is a problem > it will restart mythbackend. But, come to think of it if there is a > timer problem then the excessive logging could be causing problems. > > That feature you describe is really cool regarding the extending of the > recording. Channel 9 is worst regarding schedules! I think that the new > release will be comming out in a month or two looking at the bug > tracking website. However they did a rewrite of code I believe that is > related to DVB and there are new bugs that have been flowing from these > changes. Apparently changing channels in DVB is meant to be much faster > (and hopefully more reliable). Channel 9 is hopeless. I recorded something the other night late and it was a good 10mins out. So I missed the start. That makes me unhappy. Although it was just a repeat of something that sounded interesting. It would be nice if the channels would run as close to time as possible. > > Something to look forward to. My 0.18-1 setup is not too bad, I am guessing earlier versions would be alot more problematic, but I believe this setup is more an advantage to me then without it. As how else could I have my own personal recordings happening as required from an ever updating tv guide. It suits me well, as I hate confirming recordings each week incase the tv channels decide to program something on a different day and time. I am probably beginning to sound like a mythtv pimp, although I was very happy that I got it working and without much hassles in the end. These tuners I got work well for me. So glad about that. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
