Services, System Tray, & Recording

[temporos]

Kind of a n00b question here...

Does the GB-PVR system tray service need to be active to execute a scheduled recording? I assume the recording service must be active, and the PVRX2 application does not need to be active.

I ask this, because the two services GBPVRRecordingService.exe and GBPVRTray.exe use 26 MB and 20 MB of RAM, respectively. A combined 46 MB is a rather large chunk of RAM to permanently sequester for the occasional scheduled recording. Yes, I could just start the services when I know I have a recording scheduled, but doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of scheduling it (I could just record it manually at that point)?

[whurlston]

Only the recording service needs to be active. The tray utility is really just a quick way of launching config, pvrx2, viewing tuner status and restarting the recording service. You can remove the tray icon from your Start Menu's startup folder if you don't want it autostarted.