Recording came-up short

[4zm4r3d02]

I scheduled a recording to run from 7:00am-7:30am using the gbpvr TV Guide, with 2 minutes of padding at the beginning and end. However, when it was done, the recording was only 10:51 in length. Here is an excerpt of the GBPVRRecordingService.exe.log:

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12/3/2005 6:39:51 AM.741 VERBOSE [23] checking pending recordings
12/3/2005 6:39:51 AM.741 VERBOSE [23] - checking Dilbert
12/3/2005 6:39:51 AM.741 VERBOSE [23] pending: Dilbert
12/3/2005 6:58:00 AM.106 INFO [23] Found new programme requiring recording: Dilbert
12/3/2005 6:58:00 AM.126 VERBOSE [23] Changing to channel (GBPVR.Backend.Common.NullTunerController): 107
12/3/2005 6:58:00 AM.126 VERBOSE [23] Requesting IRecordingSource to start recording: D:\Video\Dilbert\Dilbert_20051203_07000730.mpg
12/3/2005 6:58:00 AM.146 VERBOSE [23] DirectRecordingSource about to start recording oid:1 channel:107
12/3/2005 6:58:03 AM.461 VERBOSE [23] recording started
12/3/2005 6:58:03 AM.461 VERBOSE [23] Programme is now recording
12/3/2005 6:58:03 AM.481 VERBOSE [23] RecordingFactory.save()
12/3/2005 6:58:03 AM.491 VERBOSE [23] Save(): Updated existing scheduled recording
12/3/2005 6:58:03 AM.571 VERBOSE [23] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/ProcessCommercialsDuringRecording
12/3/2005 6:58:03 AM.571 VERBOSE [23] getValue: /settings/ProcessCommercialsDuringRecording : false
12/3/2005 6:58:03 AM.571 VERBOSE [23] Adding D:\Video\Dilbert\Dilbert_20051203_07000730.mpg to parallel processing queue
12/3/2005 6:58:03 AM.701 VERBOSE [996] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/CommercialDetectionScheme
12/3/2005 6:58:03 AM.701 VERBOSE [996] getValue: /settings/CommercialDetectionScheme : 0
12/3/2005 6:58:03 AM.701 INFO [996] Parallel Processing thread starting...
12/3/2005 7:32:00 AM.029 VERBOSE [23] Recording has passed endtime+padding. Stopping.
12/3/2005 7:32:00 AM.029 VERBOSE [23] Stopping recording oid:1
12/3/2005 7:32:00 AM.590 VERBOSE [23] getValue cached value: /settings/ProcessCommercialsDuringRecording : false
12/3/2005 7:32:00 AM.590 VERBOSE [23] Adding D:\Video\Dilbert\Dilbert_20051203_07000730.mpg to commercial detection queue
12/3/2005 7:32:00 AM.600 VERBOSE [23] Not adding D:\Video\Dilbert\Dilbert_20051203_07000730.mpg to conversion detection queue. Conversions

are currently disabled.
12/3/2005 7:32:00 AM.600 VERBOSE [23] RecordingStatus is now RecordingStatus.RECORDING_COMPETED
12/3/2005 7:32:00 AM.600 VERBOSE [23] RecordingFactory.save()
12/3/2005 7:32:00 AM.610 VERBOSE [23] getDatabaseConnection() creating new connection
12/3/2005 7:32:00 AM.640 VERBOSE [23] Save(): Updated existing scheduled recording
12/3/2005 7:32:00 AM.650 VERBOSE [914] getValue cached value: /settings/CommercialDetectionScheme : 0
12/3/2005 7:32:00 AM.650 INFO [914] Post Processing thread starting...
12/3/2005 7:32:00 AM.670 VERBOSE [23] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
12/3/2005 7:32:00 AM.670 VERBOSE [23] getValue cached value: /settings/AutoRemoveMissingRecordings : true
12/3/2005 7:32:00 AM.670 VERBOSE [23] getDatabaseConnection() creating new connection
12/3/2005 7:32:00 AM.680 VERBOSE [23] checking pending recordings
12/3/2005 7:32:00 AM.680 VERBOSE [23] - checking D:\Video\Dilbert\Dilbert_20051203_07000730.mpg
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It looks to me as if the log shows that the recording was successful, even though it wasn't.
There was plenty of free space on the drive (over 18 gigs).
My computer's clock is and was correct. I checked the log from my clock synchronising program, and it shows a correction of .939 seconds about 20 minutes before the recording started.


Can anybody think of a reason why this recording came-up short? If I need to post any more log entries, let me know.

I was using gbpvr v0.95.11. I just now found out about the update to v0.95.14.
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ABIT KT-7A RAID
AMD Athlon, 1.2Ghz
512MB PC133 SDRAM
ATI All-in-wonder 128 PCI(using as display only, the on-board capture disabled in device manager)
Hauppauge Win-TV USB2
VIA USB2 PCI Adapter
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2

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As far as GB-PVR is concerned, the recording looked successful. There were no errors, but the device must have just stopped producing data mid recording. The few people that have reported this often find then have problems recording in other applications aswell.

GB-PVR doesnt actually do anything mid recording. It sets up the recording, and tells it starts, then steps out of the way until its time to tell it to stop.

Is this a common occurance for you, or is the first time you've seen it?

[4zm4r3d02]

As far as GB-PVR is concerned, the recording looked successful. There were no errors, but the device must have just stopped producing data mid recording. The few people that have reported this often find then have problems recording in other applications aswell.

GB-PVR doesnt actually do anything mid recording. It sets up the recording, and tells it starts, then steps out of the way until its time to tell it to stop.

Is this a common occurance for you, or is the first time you've seen it?

It's not a common occurance, but then I don't do a lot of recording, anyway (less than two hours per week, at most).

Now that I think of it, I do recall the same thing happening with a recording a few months ago, that was supposed to be one hour (plus padding), but only recorded about 45 minutes. Since the show repeated a few hours later, I just recorded it again (after rebooting) and then forgot about it.

I don't recall what version of gbpvr I was using, but is was probably whatever was the latest at that time, around July of 2005.

It may very likely be a problem with my machine. In addition to being quite old (at least four years, except for the Win-TV USB2 and the USB card), it is certainly overdue for a fresh re-install of XP. I hate to do that, however, because it is a pain to re-install and reconfigure everything the way I want it.

I actually tried installing another instance of XP on a different partition, "devoted" to GBPVR (with as few other programs and services as possible), to see if that worked any better. I hardly ever use it, though, since it doesn't seem to make a noticable difference in performance or reliability.

Thanks anyway for your attention and assistance.