Bug #1266
Unable to write meta data
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Description
Since my tvheadend version was updated from 2.99-9~oneiric to 3.1.1~git201209182221.2099~0ubuntu1~ppa1~oneiric1 (following ppa:jabbors/hts-stable), I have the following problem.
When I make a recording I see this in the syslog at the start of the recording:
Sep 27 21:13:24 pchc tvheadend[11419]: dvr: Recording error: "/pchc_f/Recorded TV/La-grande-librairie/France-5-La-grande-librairie.2012-09-27.20-35.mkv": Unable to write meta data Sep 27 21:13:24 pchc tvheadend[11419]: dvr: Recording error: "/pchc_f/Recorded TV/Cloverfield/DirectStar-Cloverfield.2012-09-27.20-40.mkv": Unable to write meta data
The recordings work anyway but I did not have this problem before.
[Previously reported in the forum]
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History
Updated by Adam Sutton about 12 years ago
Updated by - Status changed from New to Accepted
- Assignee deleted (
Hein Rigolo)
This has been reported by various people (I've seen it myself once I think). I had a look at the code and couldn't for the life of me understand why this should happen.
Adam
Updated by Adam Sutton about 12 years ago
- Status changed from Accepted to Need feedback
Any further updates on this, I've not seen any further reports myself and I don't believe its actually causing a failure.
So unless there is an update on here, I will probably just close this. Some improvements to the MKV muxer have been made recently.
Adam
Updated by Sébastien Aubry about 12 years ago
Updated by Hello Adam,
Yes, please close it!
I am now back on version 2.x to avoid some other bugs but will soon test again version 3.x. I have seen that you now have set up a PPA. Thank you very much for that!
Updated by Adam Sutton about 12 years ago
- Status changed from Need feedback to Invalid
Closed at user request. Will re-open if this re-surfaces.
Updated by Steve Miller about 12 years ago
Updated by FYI, I am getting this messages and the effect is not benign. I am running 3.2.18 on an ARM processor. I get the message about unable to write meta data. However, TVH does write the file for a couple of minutes and then just quits. Below is a copy of the debug messages I received in the Web Interface. Then below that is a directory listing of where the file was being stored. You can see by the time stamps that it stopped writing to the disk after about 2 minutes.
While normal user "steve" is logged into the Web Interface, TVH is running under root. This was supposed to be a 20 minute test recording.
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Nov 13 21:34:29 dvr: "eyetst" on "KEYEDT" starting at 2012-11-13 21:35:00, scheduled for recording by "steve"
Nov 13 21:34:30 dvr: "eyetst" on "KEYEDT" recorder starting
Nov 13 21:34:30 subscription: "DVR: eyetst" subscribing on "KEYEDT", weight: 300, adapter: "HDHomeRun ATSC", network: "", mux: "219,000 kHz", provider: "", service: "", quality: 100
Nov 13 21:34:31 dvr: Recording error: "/mnt/myhd1/Pogo_stuff/Recordings/eyetst.mkv": Unable to write meta data
Nov 13 22:05:00 subscription: "DVR: eyetst" unsubscribing from "KEYEDT"
Nov 13 22:05:00 dvr: Recording completed: "/mnt/myhd1/Pogo_stuff/Recordings/eyetst.mkv"
Nov 13 22:05:00 dvr: "eyetst" on "KEYEDT": End of program: Completed OK
[root@alarm Recordings]# ls -l
total 220160
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 225425276 Nov 13 21:36 eyetst.mkv
[root@alarm Recordings]#
Updated by Adam Sutton about 12 years ago
- Status changed from Invalid to Accepted
- Affected Versions 3.2, 3.3 added
I think that John T may have some input on this one. Re-opening for further investigation.
Adam
Updated by John Törnblom about 12 years ago
Updated by - Status changed from Accepted to Need feedback
The error message is now suppressed if there is no metadata available (master only). However, it would be nice to know if there should be metadata present. If so, there is probably a bug somewhere in the epg code.
Updated by Adam Sutton about 12 years ago
John,
I have realised that it is indeed possible to create a timer only event with no EPG present (or at least it should be). In fact I was doing this myself (though I bodged HTSP to allow it) to record something from a rawts input for test purposes (which obviously had no EPG input).
Adam
Updated by Adam Sutton about 12 years ago
- Status changed from Need feedback to Resolved
- Target version set to 3.2
I think this has been fixed by commit:ed5d7e49 and John simply forgot to mark it as such. This will probably want back-porting to 3.2.
Adam
Updated by John Törnblom almost 12 years ago
- Status changed from Resolved to Fixed
Applied in changeset commit:897d243dbca8b07a25693e95f03481013b2c978d.