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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
