[SOLVED] NBC nightly news bad when recording another show

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mathog
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Re: NBC nightly news bad when recording another show

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Looking around in the mythdbstorage directories, there do appear to be some png files which have been orphaned. Some long, long ago. For instance:

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-rw-rw-rw- 1 syslog syslog       93850 Oct 23  2013 1583_20131023093000.mpg.png
-rw-rw-rw- 1 syslog syslog      100757 Sep  3  2013 1071_20130903100000.mpg.png
-rw-rw-rw- 1 syslog syslog       63018 Sep  2  2013 1071_20130902093800.mpg.png
-rw-rw-rw- 1 syslog syslog       85498 Aug 29  2013 1071_20130829100000.mpg.png
-rw-rw-rw- 1 syslog syslog       53765 Jun 25  2013 1041_20130625183000.mpg.png
-rw-rw-rw- 1 syslog syslog       72164 Apr 10  2013 1041_20130410183000.mpg.png
I don't think these are taking up very much disk space though, considering how much larger the video files are.

Is there a script somewhere which looks at all the .png files and removes them if there is no corresponding .mpg or .ts?

Thanks.
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Re: NBC nightly news bad when recording another show

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Re: NBC nightly news bad when recording another show

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find_orphans.py found (and was able to remove) a bunch of snapshots. It found but could not remove two orphan recordings. Removed those as root, some sort of ownership or file protection issue. There were some zero length ts files, which it removed. Finally it found 5 or so recordings for which there was no video. (Perhaps these were the same as the zero length files, I did not check.) It did not have a way of removing those so they were removed from within MythTV. Except for one "football night in america", which had no entry that I could find in the list of watchable recorded shows. Is there some other way to find out, other than through "watch recordings"? Maybe it is liveTV - we don't use that intentionally but might have triggered it once by accident.

The power supply has been replaced. We will see if it makes any difference. I also opened up the case to clean it out. Except it wasn't at all dirty. Just a tiny film of dust near the back vents on the bottom of the case. The circuit board was clean. The tuners were pretty toasty though. Nothing was being recorded, nothing had been recorded in at least the preceding ten minutes. Does the HDHomeRun have a way of turning off the tuners when they are not active, and if so, does MythTV do that?
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Re: NBC nightly news bad when recording another show

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Been a week with the new power supply and no bad recordings other than from weather. So apparently that was it. Now I just have to remember how to mark a thread as "solved".
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