Padding Issue

[jcole998]

I'm having an issue in which NextPVR is not recording some of the 1 minute pre-/post-padding intervals.

Here is the lineup(with tuner that was used), all on the same day(15-Nov), as shown in Pending Recordings sorted by priority. All recordings should be 01:02:00(within a few seconds) in duration except The Real and The View, both 00:47:00

11:15am. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1:00pm
WNYW - The Real(T1)
WABC - The View (T2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eyewitness News(T3)
WWOR - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Chicago PD(T2)
WPIX - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .True Crimes(T1)
USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NCIS(T2)

By observing device use, the following occurred:
T1(Tuner 1) was dropped after The Real recording.
T2 was not selected for Eyewitness News on the same channel and I believe it should have been which would have allowed Chicago PD to start early and not have to wait for The View to complete.

Using NextPVR playback,recordings Chicago PD and NCIS lost the one minute pre-padding. I looked in the log and saw that when "Eyewitness News" was to begin recording, the log shows

2018-11-15 11:59:00.324 [DEBUG][9] Recording due to start pre-padding, but tuner not available
2018-11-15 11:59:00.324 [DEBUG][9] Scheduled Recording about to start maybe a candidate for moving to another tuner (different locator than another recording on same device)

I use as Hauppauge DCR-3250 3-tuner device. Only two were in use at the time. Additionally, why didn't Chicago PD just "share" T2 which would have allowed Eyewitness News pre-padding? I've seen that happen countless times.

This is a repeatable error(?) which I can duplicate at will. Maybe you can in your test setup.

Am I missing something that would allow me to better control tuner allocation?

I hope someone can help me understand what happened.

This is the schedule.
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[mvallevand]

Does sub support multirec on your device? If you watch live TV on a channel that is recording is a new tuner used?

Martin

[jcole998]

Hello, Martin.

I tried what you suggested: From the guide, I did a quick record. NextPVR would not allow me to watch that channel...there was no watch menu item when I clicked on the show being recorded. If I switch to live TV, I can select the channel being recorded but a new tuner will be used. In the other situation, if I am watching live tv and press ctrl-k, the recording begins and uses the same tuner.

As another test I performed the other day, I programmed 3 consecutive hours simultaneously on 3 different channels. All were recorded without error.

I am not yet at the latest version of NextPVR. I'm running 4.2.2 (180623).

Any ideas?

[jcole998]

(nudge...nudge...wink...wink...)

[mvallevand]

Basically it is for sub now it seems multirec is partially working.

Martin