Recording terminated when PC is restarted during recording

[Lone_Stranger]

Scenario...

Actively recording a program, and system is restarted (for any reason) - I simply rebooted while recording.
Upon restart, the first clip is marked as service restarted, and is tucked away for playback.
The second (restarted) clip attempts to continue the recording, and is also marked as service restarted.
Everything looks right, but upon playing, only the first clip (before the restart) can be displayed (it is used for both clip1 and also clip2). Clip2 cannot be found, even while it is still reported as being recorded.

It appears that recording of the second clip has not actually started, even though NPVR indicates it has. The remainder of the recording is lost. In this case, I was recording Fox & Friends on 1214 which started at 6am today. I rebooted around 6:30am to correct another unrelated issue. When I restarted around 6:32am, NPVR indicated that it had restarted the recording, but it hadn't.

This has been going on consistently since I installed 3.6.6, but I don't know if it was also true in prior versions. I've asked about this previously, but was told I should pursue the reason for the reboot (lockups due to codecs), instead of this actual restart issue. Yes, I know that I shouldn't be rebooting during a recording. But, Murphy doesn't always follow the rules, and neither do I. I've been told that NPVR should recover and continue, but alas, it does not.

Thank you for the great support.

[mvallevand]

Looking at a your NCC logs it tried to create the -0 file on all your tuners but it fails. After that NRecord doesn't handle the error elegantly. My quess is that the system reboots before the Cetons and or DRI are not quite available. If you set the recording service for delayed start does it help?

Martin

[Lone_Stranger]

Nice call, Martin.

Delayed Start did indeed make a difference. I'll give it a few more tests to be sure.

Thanks...