Occasional red chunks in recordings

[ericscottf]

Hi all

Not sure if this is hardware or software, but here goes:

I'll occasionally pull up a show and see that a few minutes in the middle of the timeline are red instead of green.
I don't have any sage warnings (red i in the upper right)
What's going on?
I should have thought to actually watch through that part, but when i see it, i delete the show with "delete because it is the wrong recording".

Any ideas? (see sig for system setup)
thanks

[GKusnick]

Red chunks usually indicate signal dropouts or other forms of tuner failure. There's nothing to watch in those chunks because Sage wasn't receiving any data to record. This should be accompanied by a red system message documenting the failure.

The other possibility is that your computer crashed and rebooted in the middle of a recording, or restarted as part of an automatic update, or something along those lines. In that case Sage will stop the current recording before shutting down and then resume recording again on restart, so the recording will be in two pieces with a gap of a few minutes in between.

[ericscottf]

Hm

I've got no red i warnings, so it must have been a shutdown. I watch the logs pretty carefully, so i'll see if one correlates to a shutdown next time i see both.

Is there any other potential cause? Will a signal dropout always cause a red i?

[GKusnick]

Momentary dropouts cause an amber message. But if it persists it will escalate to red. If you're not seeing any dropout messages at all, I'd suspect a restart, either of the whole computer or of the SageTV Service.

[ericscottf]

Hm, never seen an amber message.

I suspect i have some bad ram in my system, but memtest86 says otherwise. I'm replacing it just for fun.

[QueOnda]

I had a bad harddrive (going bad) which gave me simalar red spaces (chucks of recordings missing)

[ericscottf]

My hard drives aren't going bad. at least, it is statistically improbable.