I'm running windows vista 32 bit, and when I watch a recording the operating system screen saver will come on and then if I wait the inactivity sleep timer will kick and and my machine goes to sleep.
I have been running GBPVR for years with no issue like this. Any ideas what to investigate?
I'm having another strange problem with recordings on the DCR2650. Two nights in a row I've seen this, where a recording did not start properly because the tuner was locked up (the other issue I'm trying to resolve) so I cancel the recording and delete it. I reboot the tuner, reschedule the same program to record and it starts to record, but the .ts file is bad, it's not 0 byte, but only grows very slowly by hundreds of bytes.
I can watch the program live, and a manual recording will record the channel fine. I recorded the next program with prepadding and it worked, but the recording stopped after about 5 minutes (NPVR showed it still recording, the tuner had locked up), and then that program would not record again.
Logs attached.
Edit: Also the tuner status information page shows exactly the same data for a good recording and a bad recording
I tried the schedule a number of selected recordings and noticed "Let the Right One In" failed even though there was nothing scheduled for it's timeframe. I then selected it alone, clicked Record and received the following error:
[h=2]Input string was not in a correct format.[/h] Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.
Source Error:
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Line 1043: { Line 1044: epgeventInfo = Recordings.Items[i].Value.Split('@'); Line 1045: if (!knownRecordings.Contains(System.Convert.ToInt32(epgeventInfo[0]))) Line 1046: { Line 1047: FailedRecordings.Items.Add(epgeventInfo[1]); [/TD]
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Today I accidentally deleted over a terabyte of recordings, thinking I had a subdirectory in my recordings folder highlighted when the window focus was actually on the entire recordings folder in the left-hand Explorer pane. Ugh.
So does anyone have experience with Win7 undelete utilities and large files? I know many utilities don't work with files larger than 4GB and so your experience undeleting videos would be helpful, as well as files with alternate data streams like our NextPVR recordings. It's been a number of years since I tried this myself and I don't recall which utility I found worked pretty well - many couldn't handle large videos at all - but I imagine there might be other programs available now that you might have had experience with.
I record Desperate Housewives every Monday at 8.30pm. Every time I have played it back for the last approx 6-10 weeks, I find it skips a massive chunk. During playback it literally appears to jump over 20 minutes or so and continues playing. What I found has happened is that the recording is missing this chunk of data. I checked the file size and it's smaller than other recordings of the same length. If I play the file in VLC I can find the point it goes wrong - it's recording ads then it just cuts to the program.
I'm a reasonably heavy user of recordings and multi recordings (well, I think I am) but this is the only time this happens - the same time every week. As far as I know, all other recordings are fine. Admittedly I don't get around to watching everything I record, but if it was affecting more than just this one program I would have posted before now!
The computer itself is fine. I can't see any evidence that some other software or system problem is causing it in the logs etc.
This week I set up a scheduled task to reboot the computer a few hours before the recording occurred in an effort to clean up the logs a bit. Sure enough, the problem occurred again last night. Would really appreciate it if someone could take a look?
I had several recordings tonight all get cut short. It may be due to the scripts I'm running, but I doubt it since the postprocessing stuff happens after the recording should complete.
2 Broke Girls
Two and a half men
Mike and Molly
Each were several mins long. They all happen to be on the same station, WBBM. The "Secret life..." recording appears to have recorded fine but is on ABC Family.
This is a wishlist item for plugin developers (I strongly suspect) as while sub has not come out & said he will not do something in the future, he also hasn't done anything after all the years I have seen requests for some form of Recordings groups/indicators etc.
(OK so recently these requests have been few & far between but I don't know why as not knowing who has watched what & left if for the other to watch/delete is often a "heated discussion" in our household)
This comment also seems to apply to Alibert & his TVListings/TVRecordings plugin
(even though it looks to me like the ideal candidate for it)
Ideally would be some sort of (database driven??) Recording Groups that recordings went into at recording time, with the option to manually change recording names etc. when setting the recording up & some way to move them from group to group from within the NextPVR GUI (Myth has had something along these lines for years)
Least ideal but simplest (& we could live with it type wish ) Would be some way on the press key/s & for it to display indicator/s in the Recordings view (skinning wise fairly simple to add something like different coloured portions/little horizontal flat boxs (like the current default Rec indicator but turned sideways & maybe thinner) at the top or bottom of the ListItem & the individual users decide which colours (combinations) mean what to/for them.
I am not sure what is going on, but NPVR never starts on boot so when I run START NPVR SERVICE, I get this message...
Code:
Unable to start service: System.ServiceProcess.TimeoutException: Time out has
expired and the operation has not been completed.
at
System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus
desiredStatus, TimeSpan timeout)
at NCtrl.Program.Main(String[] args)
Also, npvr.db3 cannot be opened with Notepad.
Is my database messed up? How do I repair it? I want to avoid losing recordings and data via reinstall.
It's been working very well with both recordings and live TV for some time. Recently it has stopped working. I can initiate a stream, but I just see a black screen in NPVR, both when trying to watch live TV, and when trying to watch a recording. I can see the live TV file growing, and can successfully watch it in other video players, including WMP (as I can with completed recordings).
I booted up my server from a full disk backup I took a month or so ago, with version 2.3.6, and everything worked fine. I'm fairly certain I haven't made any relevant changes since then, apart from updating NPVR.
I have patches 1-6 from Johnsonx42's sticky.
I've attached some logs where I attempt to play a recording, and here's a short recording that fails to play in NPVR: http://db.tt/ETJ38G7e
) Would be some way on the press key/s & for it to display indicator/s in the Recordings view (skinning wise fairly simple to add something like different coloured portions/little horizontal flat boxs (like the current default Rec indicator but turned sideways & maybe thinner) at the top or bottom of the ListItem & the individual users decide which colours (combinations) mean what to/for them.
