NRecord.log Errors

[jcole998]

I was examining the logs from recent activity and would like to know about several things that I noticed and thought it out of the ordinary.

In NRecord.log:

1) At 2020-06-18 12:09:52.265, numerous error messages accumulate there and several areas further into the log:
    At 2020-06-18 19:59:08.327
    At 2020-06-18 20:59:03.833
    At 2020-06-18 22:59:01.877

2) At 2020-06-18 22:59:00.177, the system appears to search for the recording folder with the largest amount of available storage. Will the system use the results of that search to set the recording folder? If so, I wish to disable this behavior and was able to do so in V4. What is the V5 equivalent?

3) At 2020-06-18 21:01:00.104, this message appears:
[ERROR][9] writer.Close() did not complete in a timely fashion.

Is this something that should be tracked or looked at?

There are other errors appearing and some of them are mine that I'm trying to fix.

Thanks for your help.

[mvallevand]

#1 you are probably seeing the output of your batch files. You need to redirect stdout and stderr to NUL as I told you here https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...#pid541241

#2 Sub inadvertently had the config.xml default set to spread in earlier releases it is now correctly. first.

<DefaultDirectoryChoice>first</DefaultDirectoryChoice>

Martin

[jcole998]

Thanks for how-to on <DefaultDirectoryChoice>first</DefaultDirectoryChoice>.

The scripts I use were obtained from the sample scripts offered in NPVR5_Windows_Script_Templates.zip found in https://github.com/sub3/nextpvr/wiki/scripts. I use two of them: ParallelProcessing.bat, for NextEnd, and PostProcessing.bat for transcoding certain recordings and .xml metadata deletion. PostProcessing.bat behaves perfectly but ParallelProcessing.bat is suspect. I don't know who wrote them but maybe they should be contacted about a possible issue. I see nothing in it to explain the log errors.

[mvallevand]

The wiki does tell you that output goes to the log. It is up to you to figure out the actual command line that meets your need.

Alternatively you can participate on the wiki and elaborate.

Martin