Comment 6 for bug 229797

I thought I had a work around by changing these settings under "Capture Card Setup" -> "Recording Options":

check -> "Open DVB card on demand"
un-check -> "Use DVB Card for active EIT scan"

Prior to these changes, I was seeing 3-5 failed recordings per week. But since, I haven't had a failed recording, until today, in 18 days. So, not a valid work around at all, but these setting changes do seem to have some impact on this issue.

The log from this latest failed recording is:

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2008-07-26 19:59:29.744 TVRec(6): ASK_RECORDING 6 29 0 0
2008-07-26 19:59:29.850 TVRec(4): ASK_RECORDING 4 29 0 0
2008-07-26 20:00:02.699 TVRec(4): Changing from None to RecordingOnly
2008-07-26 20:00:02.739 TVRec(4): HW Tuner: 4->4
2008-07-26 20:00:03.160 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 3.0 GB w/freq: 8 min
2008-07-26 20:00:03.166 Started recording: The Office "Branch Wars": channel 1021 on cardid 4, sourceid 1
2008-07-26 20:00:03.565 DTVSM(1) Error: Wrong PMT; pmt->pn(3) desired(1)
2008-07-26 20:00:03.568 Program #1 not found in PAT!
Program Association Table
 PSIP tableID(0x0) length(21) extension(0x857)
      version(2) current(1) section(0) last_section(0)
         tsid: 2135
 programCount: 3
  program number 2 has PID 0x 20 data 0x 0 0x 2 0xe0 0x20
  program number 3 has PID 0x 30 data 0x 0 0x 3 0xe0 0x30
  program number 4 has PID 0x 40 data 0x 0 0x 4 0xe0 0x40

2008-07-26 20:00:03.570 Could not find channel 2_1 in TVCT
2008-07-26 20:00:03.570
VCT Terra: channels(4) tsid(0x857) seclength(192)
Channel #0 name(WNED-HD) 17-1 mod(ATSC 8-VSB) cTSID(0x857)
 pnum(2) ETM_loc(0) access_ctrl(0) hidden(0) hide_guide(1) service_type(2) source_id(1)
 descriptors length(17) count(1)
  Service Location Descriptor (0xa1) length(15)

Channel #1 name(WNED-SD) 17-2 mod(ATSC 8-VSB) cTSID(0x857)
 pnum(3) ETM_loc(0) access_ctrl(0) hidden(0) hide_guide(1) service_type(2) source_id(2)
 descriptors length(17) count(1)
  Service Location Descriptor (0xa1) length(15)

Channel #2 name(WNED-Th) 17-3 mod(ATSC 8-VSB) cTSID(0x857)
 pnum(4) ETM_loc(0) access_ctrl(0) hidden(0) hide_guide(1) service_type(2) source_id(3)
 descriptors length(17) count(1)
  Service Location Descriptor (0xa1) length(15)

Channel #3 name(WNED-17) 17-0 mod(Analog) cTSID(0x856)
 pnum(65535) ETM_loc(0) access_ctrl(0) hidden(0) hide_guide(1) service_type(1) source_id(4)

2008-07-26 20:00:03.782 DVBRec(4:1) Warning: Recording will not commence until a PMT is set.
2008-07-26 20:00:03.878 DVBRec(4:1) Warning: Recording will not commence until a PMT is set.
2008-07-26 20:00:03.934 DVBRec(4:1) Warning: Recording will not commence until a PMT is set.
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