Have had a strange thing happening with my once fully functional mythTV-box. Since it went down on a power outage, it's started to behave very strangely. And it shouldn't since it booted fine after that, with only a BIOS check and save and up she went.

Now I have a problem with shows being recorded, at least the Log seems to think so, but they don't show up in /myth/tv or /myth/pretty and they don't get assigned to the jobqueue to get myth2ipod-encoded, even though the checkbox for the job is filled in as it always has.

When I check in /myth/tv I see no .nuv files at all from after the date of the power surge (the box wasn't turned on for some weeks after that), only .mpg files, while there before were a mix of .nuv and .mpg files.

I have checked and double-checked the mysql database for errors and the logs for clues, but I find nothing out of the order. The box is located 350km from me, so I can only connect to it via MythWeb or SSH, so I really hope this problem can be fixed from afar.

Is there anything I can give you, information-wise, to help you understand what could cause this sudden problem? The only changes I've made (and they were made before the power outage) is I installed boinc_client.

I have the mythTV version previous to the latest one. I have a feeling that perhaps the shows are not recorded due to bad signal quality, and are being dropped even before they make it to the job queue. The thing is that _some_ shows are recorded, and they are usually on one channel. It only seems to work with shows that are already started...

Is there a CLI-way to check for signal quality of the different channels? Or, conversely, how do I connect remotely to the myth-box's X11 via VNC to set things in the GUI?

I get these messages in the mythbacked log repeatedly if they can be of any clue:

"15 2961 scheduler 6 0 2006-09-22 21:30:00 mythtv Scheduled items Scheduled 19 items in 0.0 = 0.01 match + 0.04 place"

"5 2971 scheduler 6 0 2006-09-23 09:12:29 mythtv Scheduled items Scheduled 20 items in 0.1 = 0.02 match + 0.04 place"