[mythtvnz] MythTV upgrade, bleeding code, ready for tester

[Aaron Drysdale]

I have exactly the same symptoms. I can watch recorded tv fine on the HD tuner, but have problems watching live tv. 8 times out of 10 it will get the "encountered problem" message. If I persist it will usually eventually come up.

Fortunately I also have a Nova S, and I have no problems with this tuner. This is why I watch live tv off Satelite, and use the HD tuner for recording. Also note, my frontend also runs under a different user than my backend, all on the one machine, but I don't see how it can be permissions given my problems.

Aaron

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ross and Jemima Knudsen <ross.jemima at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, 28 June 2009 12:01 a.m.
To: MythTV in NZ <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] MythTV upgrade, bleeding code, ready for tester


> You have this error:
> /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/1004_20090627152851.mpg
>
> few possibilities here:
>
> mythbackend isn't running as the same user running mythfrontend and
> that user doesn't have the permissions to read mythtv recordings
>
> Your frontend machine is running on a different machine than the
> backend and you aren't streaming from the backend and the recordings
> directory isn't mounted on the frontend.
>
> I would put my bets on a permission problems.
>
>   
Frontend and backend are on different machines so that counts out your 
second option.  You are correct in the first instance that the backend 
and frontend are not running as the same user.  Backend is running as 
mythtv user while frontend is running as another.  This user belongs to 
the mythtv group and so should have read access to the recordings folder 
(new recordings seem to have read access for all anyway). 

What I do have is symlinks.  The default location for the recordings in 
myth is /var/lib/mythtv/recordings but I have that location symlinked to 
another location.  The ownership and group are both set to mythtv user 
with read/write/execute permissions for owner and group.  I didn't think 
that there was any problem with this set up as the backend is currently 
recording programs to this location happily and I can watch any existing 
recording from the same location.

I don't know maybe there is some subtle difference in the way the live 
tv recordings are handled...

Here is another output.  This time it went to the first channel under 
livetv but died on channel change.

http://openwrt.pastebay.org/24948

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