Recorded tv contains "folder" without any recordings, and won't add new.. (1 Viewer)

[Al_Capone]

TV-Server Version: 1.0 RC2
MediaPortal Version: 1.0 RC2
MediaPortal Skin: Bluetwo Wide
Windows Version: XP SP2
CPU Type: Pentium Mobile 1,73Ghz
HDD: 160GB toshiba 2,5" SATA
Memory: 1GB
Motherboard: Aopen
Video Card: Nvidia 8400GS
Video Card Driver: 169.28
Sound Card: Realtek ALC880 (onboard)
Sound Card AC3: Realtek ALC880 (onboard)
Sound Card Driver: 5.10.00.5345
1. TV Card: Hauppauge WinPVR USB2 (hardware compression)
1. TV Card Type: Analog
1. TV Card Driver: 24023
2. TV Card: FireDTV S2, Firmware 1.4.0
2. TV Card Type: Sat
2. TV Card Driver: 4.4N
MPEG2 Video Codec: ffdshow tryouts 1723
MPEG2 Audio Codec: ffdshow tryouts 1723
h.264 Video Codec: ffdshow tryouts 1723
Satelite/CableTV Provider: canal digital
HTPC Case: XC Cube mini
Cooling: internal fan
Power Supply: XC Cube-mini's standard
Remote: FireFly
TV: Widescreen 26" monitor, DLP projector
TV - HTPC Connection: DVI


At some point, after working fine for a long time, this happened:

After recording another "home and away" episode, it was not added to the recorded-tv list in the "home and away" group.
We cleaned up, (manually) - by deleting all shows we did not need.

other groups, when left empty, were removed.
-we still have one "home and away" group that is empty, won't disappear, and new episodes are not added to it.
-other recordings are added just fine.

why ? /how to solve (remove that group) ?

Thank you.

(I suspect that %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\database\TVDatabaseV21.db3
contains the recorded TV list, and error - but how can this database be edited/fixed ?)

 

[Al_Capone]

did not get an answer.: - but solved it myself.
the episodes were stored in TVserver's database - when I cleaned up, removing some lines with long-time-ago removed episodes, everything works normally again.

 

[nschoot]

I had the same problem... Turns out this is caused by invalid channel ID's.

Let's say you made a recording of a channel and you remove that channel (or in my case, the channel was relocated by my cabletv provider), it will not display any recording anymore. Even new recordings don't show up.

This is still a "bug" in 1.0.1....

 

[lordarcane]

I can confirm this. All recordings is gone after update to 1.01. New recordings dont show up either. =(

 

[nschoot]

The "fix" is quite easy. Open the SQL Server database, go to the Recording table and fix/remove all records that have an invalid Channel Id.

The bug is though that MediaPortal should be able to handle recordings without a (valid) channel id.

 

[lordarcane]

However, does that fix the problem with new recordings dont show up? When I start tv-server config and checks the folder that contains the recording nothing shows up.

 

[nschoot]

Yes. When there is only 1 record in your database that has an invalid channel id, than NO records will show up AT ALL. That's my experience however. The records are fine, they just won't display. When you record a new series, it does create a folder for this series and all, but the folder will remain empty.

Check the Recording table. You'll notice that your new recordings are also there... Just fix or remove the recordings with an old channel id...

(Reading old bug reports, I think that setting channel id to -1 also would fix it -- didn't try this though)

 

[johns11]

Same here!

I don't see any of my previous recordings either after my upgrade to 1.0.1 and subsequent import of recordings via TV server config. Querying the TV Server database (select * from recording) shows I have 161 records. I have deleted these (delete from recording) and the files then re-appear in TV Server config and can be imported again. The import gives me back my 161 records in the database so I'd be surprised if it imported them with invalid Channel ids. I'll check the channel id's tonight

Also see thread below:

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...-showing-recorded-tv-screen-55109/#post389500

UPDATE: It turns out that in my case the recorded TV was working fine except when I use my default Xface (1.7) skin. Blue3 Wide and StreamedMP both work and I guess rather than spending more time on this it's time for a skin change anyway.

 

[rich110]

The "fix" is quite easy. Open the SQL Server database, go to the Recording table and fix/remove all records that have an invalid Channel Id.

The bug is though that MediaPortal should be able to handle recordings without a (valid) channel id.

I'm not very familiar with working with databases... can someone give a very brief rundown on how to do this using MySQL (I have the GUI tools package installed). I tried to edit the recordings table but it appeared to be locked and I couldn't delete any of the entries.

Much appreciated
Rich