0-byte recordings

[Paul Mason <latepaul gmail com>]

Hi,

I've just installed Linux Mint 13 on a machine with a Hauppauge Nova-T
 500 DVB TV card. The machine itself was previously a Mythtv server and 
worked well for years but now I'm re-purposing it as a desktop. I'd 
still like to play and record TV programs from it occasionally and I'm 
trying to use gnome-dvb-daemon for this.

I've set up the device 
itself and am able to scan the channels successfully. I can use the 
device with mplayer and vlc without any problems. However when I try to 
use gnome-dvb-control to schedule a recording, I can see the channels 
and the EPG, I can add a schedule and at the correct time it creates a 
subdirectory under $HOME/Videos/Recordings/{CHANNEL}/{DATE-TIME} and it 
appears to be recording but there's just a 0-byte file:

paul@pmdesk ~/Videos/Recordings/ITV1/2012-5-26_11-26 $ ls -l
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul   0 May 26 11:26 001.mpeg
-rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul 228 May 26 11:32 info.rec

Similarly when I try to use totem with the gnome-dvb plugin to view TV it gives me an error "location not found".

It looks like some sort of permissions issue but I have all the permissions I need when running vlc or mplayer. 

The version is 0.27-2.

Any ideas?

Thanks

-- 
Paul Mason