Recording service fails every second recording

[wtg]

Since upgrading to the most recent release I've been having every second recording fail. I have this error message pop-up on screen: Recording Service Error Message

I don't see any errors in the logs that would indicate anything of interest, but I have finally figured out what seems to be happening. Every second recording the recording fails to stop at the ending time but instead just keeps on going until the disk drive fills up. Once it fills up, the above error is displayed and the service fails. If I restart the service, it works fine for the 1st recording, but fails on the next.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Tim

[sub]

What recording device are you using?

Can you post you GBPVRRecordingService.exe.log and GBPVRRecordingService.exe-native.log?

[wtg]

Sure, the logs are below.

On further reflection, it may be a coincident that it's every second recording. It may just be recording from my composite inputs instead of the coax input. I may be wrong, but the last couple times that I can think of the first recording was a non-premium channel and the second recording was from my cable box, which would be the composite input instead of from coax. I'll find out tonight because I have another premium channel recording about to start at midnight this evening. I just restarted the service, so I should be able to confirm or refute my theory.

Also worth noting... the second recording does occur, it just doesn't stop. I can watch it afterwards, but of course have to cut hours off the end. =)

GBPVRRecordingService.exe.log

Code:

9/5/2005 9:12:28 PM.116    INFO    [4]    GB-PVR Recording Service starting
9/5/2005 9:12:28 PM.156    VERBOSE    [4]    installDirectory is D:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\
9/5/2005 9:12:28 PM.166    VERBOSE    [4]    configurationFile is D:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\config.xml
9/5/2005 9:12:28 PM.206    VERBOSE    [4]    getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/DatabaseConnectionString
9/5/2005 9:12:28 PM.206    VERBOSE    [4]    getValue: /settings/DatabaseConnectionString : Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=".\gbpvr.mdb";User Id=admin;Password=
9/5/2005 9:12:28 PM.206    VERBOSE    [4]    databaseConnectionString is Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source="D:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\\gbpvr.mdb";User Id=admin;Password=
9/5/2005 9:12:28 PM.206    VERBOSE    [4]    getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/DontAntiAlias
9/5/2005 9:12:28 PM.206    VERBOSE    [4]    getValue: /settings/DontAntiAlias : false
9/5/2005 9:12:28 PM.206    VERBOSE    [4]    getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/LoggingLevel
9/5/2005 9:12:28 PM.206    VERBOSE    [4]    getValue: /settings/LoggingLevel : Error

GBPVRRecordingService.exe-native.log
Note: You'll notice the last recording started at 12:00am. It was supposed to stop at 2:00, but kept going until around 8am when my disk filled up.

Code:

23:05:00.525    INFO    Log started
23:05:00.525    VERBOSE    ConexantRecorder::StartRecording(1, 1, 41, 0)
23:05:00.635    VERBOSE    Capture Device is based on BlackBird architecture
23:05:00.635    VERBOSE    Capture Device is using Conexant (derived) drivers
23:05:00.635    VERBOSE    Loading filter names
23:05:00.635    VERBOSE    Found names:
23:05:00.635    VERBOSE    Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Crossbar
23:05:00.665    VERBOSE    Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture
23:05:00.665    VERBOSE    Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II TvTuner
23:05:00.665    VERBOSE    Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II TvAudio
23:05:01.086    VERBOSE    ConnectPins: 'Analog Audio' to 'TVAudio In'
23:05:01.907    VERBOSE    ConnectPins: 'Audio Decoder Out' to 'Analog Audio In'
23:05:01.937    VERBOSE    Looking for encoder filter
23:05:01.987    VERBOSE     - Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Encoder
23:05:01.997    VERBOSE    GetMedium(pCapturePin) returns: {0F8ED065-F820-4A1F-9822-EAAE043A19AB}-00000001-00000000
23:05:02.007    VERBOSE    getSetting(AutoDetectEncoderMethod)
23:05:02.027    VERBOSE    About try all encoders until we find one that works...
23:05:02.027    VERBOSE    Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Encoder
23:05:02.057    VERBOSE    Encoder.GetMedium(p656Pin) returns: {0F8ED065-F820-4A1F-9822-EAAE043A19AB}-00000001-00000000
23:05:02.057    VERBOSE    Pin mediums match...
23:05:02.078    VERBOSE    using instance: 1
23:05:02.388    VERBOSE    put_Mode(AMTUNER_MODE_TV)
23:05:02.388    VERBOSE    put_CountryCode(1)
23:05:02.388    VERBOSE    put_TuningSpace(1)
23:05:02.388    VERBOSE    put_InputType(0, 0)
23:05:02.388    VERBOSE    put_ConnectInput(0)
23:05:02.388    VERBOSE    put_Channel(41, AMTUNER_SUBCHAN_DEFAULT, AMTUNER_SUBCHAN_DEFAULT)
23:05:02.568    VERBOSE    get_VideoFrequency() returns 325250000
23:05:02.568    VERBOSE    get_CountryCode() returns 1
23:05:02.568    VERBOSE    About to query available formats
23:05:02.588    VERBOSE    ConexantRecorder::SetConfigurationECP()
23:05:02.598    INFO    Firmware Version 2.5.32

Audio Firmware Version <<can't read now>>

Model 26032 Rev C182
Serial No: 2964406
Tuner: 82
Decoder: 28
AudioIC: 35
IR

Input Map: C= 0x000f, S= 0x0003

23:05:02.708    VERBOSE    getSetting(EnableTeleText)
23:05:02.799    VERBOSE    getSetting(ListGraphFilters)
23:05:02.799    VERBOSE    Graph contains the following filters:
23:05:02.799    VERBOSE     - GB-PVR Writer
23:05:02.799    VERBOSE     - Encoder
23:05:02.799    VERBOSE     - Capture
23:05:02.799    VERBOSE     - Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Crossbar
23:05:02.799    VERBOSE     - TV Audio
23:05:02.799    VERBOSE     - TV Tuner
23:05:02.799    VERBOSE    getSetting(SaveGraphFiles)
23:05:02.799    VERBOSE    ConexantRecorder::StartRecording() done
00:00:00.130    VERBOSE    ConexantRecorder::StopRecording()
00:00:05.548    VERBOSE    ConexantRecorder::StartRecording(1, 1, 278, 0)
00:00:05.568    VERBOSE    Capture Device is based on BlackBird architecture
00:00:05.568    VERBOSE    Capture Device is using Conexant (derived) drivers
00:00:05.568    VERBOSE    Loading filter names
00:00:05.568    VERBOSE    Found names:
00:00:05.568    VERBOSE    Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Crossbar
00:00:05.568    VERBOSE    Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture
00:00:05.568    VERBOSE    Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II TvTuner
00:00:05.578    VERBOSE    Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II TvAudio
00:00:06.028    VERBOSE    ConnectPins: 'Audio Decoder Out' to 'Analog Audio In'
00:00:06.108    VERBOSE    Looking for encoder filter
00:00:06.118    VERBOSE     - Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Encoder
00:00:06.129    VERBOSE    GetMedium(pCapturePin) returns: {0F8ED065-F820-4A1F-9822-EAAE043A19AB}-00000001-00000000
00:00:06.129    VERBOSE    getSetting(AutoDetectEncoderMethod)
00:00:06.129    VERBOSE    About try all encoders until we find one that works...
00:00:06.129    VERBOSE    Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Encoder
00:00:06.149    VERBOSE    Encoder.GetMedium(p656Pin) returns: {0F8ED065-F820-4A1F-9822-EAAE043A19AB}-00000001-00000000
00:00:06.149    VERBOSE    Pin mediums match...
00:00:06.179    VERBOSE    using instance: 1
00:00:06.459    VERBOSE    About to query available formats
00:00:06.459    VERBOSE    ConexantRecorder::SetConfigurationECP()
00:00:06.479    INFO    Firmware Version 2.5.32

Audio Firmware Version <<can't read now>>

Model 26032 Rev C182
Serial No: 2964406
Tuner: 82
Decoder: 28
AudioIC: 35
IR

Input Map: C= 0x000f, S= 0x0003

00:00:06.589    VERBOSE    getSetting(EnableTeleText)
00:00:06.689    VERBOSE    getSetting(ListGraphFilters)
00:00:06.689    VERBOSE    Graph contains the following filters:
00:00:06.689    VERBOSE     - GB-PVR Writer
00:00:06.689    VERBOSE     - Encoder
00:00:06.689    VERBOSE     - Capture
00:00:06.689    VERBOSE     - Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Crossbar
00:00:06.689    VERBOSE    getSetting(SaveGraphFiles)
00:00:06.689    VERBOSE    ConexantRecorder::StartRecording() done

[sub]

On further reflection, it may be a coincident that it's every second recording. It may just be recording from my composite inputs instead of the coax input. I may be wrong, but the last couple times that I can think of the first recording was a non-premium channel and the second recording was from my cable box, which would be the composite input instead of from coax. I'll find out tonight because I have another premium channel recording about to start at midnight this evening. I just restarted the service, so I should be able to confirm or refute my theory.

Ok, can you experiment with this a bit and let me know?

Also worth noting... the second recording does occur, it just doesn't stop. I can watch it afterwards, but of course have to cut hours off the end. =)

With an error message like the one you've shown, I'm not surprised the recording never stops. The process has effectively gone "belly up" and there is no intelligence left to tell the device to stop recording.

[wtg]

Ok, 12 am came, the recording started and I immediately got the same error message popping up. As long as I didn't hit ok, the recording service kept writing to disk but once I clicked Ok on the dialog, the service died.

So, it appears my real error is related to recording off the component video inputs. This is a new pvr150 card (my 250 died) that I installed just a few days before upgrading gbpvr to the latest, and I apparently hadn't tried recording component video since then.

I'm using the pvr150_22_22292 drivers which I downloaded from Hauppauge's website, but I suppose now I'll install the 23025 drivers from shspvr.com and see if that helps. Or should I use the 23123 beta drivers from Hauppauge's website? Any suggestions?

[sub]

I'd probably try these: http://www.shspvr.com/smf/index.php?topic=8708.0