Recordings that don't release source when complete?

Channels DVR Server Troubleshooting
#1

For a while now, I've had the occasional recording never actually 'complete'. It will continue to be shown as 'Recording' well after the end of the period, often for days until I periodically go manually fix the issue(s). This has been a nuisance, but since I have plenty of tuners, and TVE as backup, I haven't missed recordings.

Fast-forward to today, and add in an M3U provider that allows two streams. Now I'm missing most of my recordings from the M3U source, because fairly quickly both streams will end up in the 'recording' state, and thus Channels DVR (correctly) gives an error:

2021/05/02 04:50:25.647732 [DVR] Waiting 1h9m34.352271268s until next job 1619935200-103 Crown for Christmas (2015)
2021/05/02 04:50:25.647811 [ERR] Failed to start stream on channel 9535 via M3U-MyM3U: M3U: stream limit reached
2021/05/02 04:50:25.647818 [ERR] Failed to start stream on channel 9534 via M3U-MyM3U: M3U: stream limit reached

I have page after page of logs repeating similar information, repeating roughly every second. If there was useful information recorded in the log at the time, it's long gone.

Appreciate any help,

Paul

#2

Hmm... may be a false alarm. Looking through the times/durations of the recordings, my passes are be scheduling more than two overlapping recordings, so it's a legitimate shortage of streams.

I'm not sure why I have a show from Friday @ 9am apparently stuck in the 'recording' state, but that's more in keeping with the relatively infrequent 'recordings not ending properly' issue I've been seeing since long before M3U support was added.

Though logging the same error every second still isn't the most helpful behavior, in my opinion. Just sayin' :slight_smile: