Failed recording after 12/10

[Engineer_Ted]

Not sure what the heck is causing this. It was cooking along fine until 12/11, recordings are showing up as "failed" or "ready", but when I try to play one with "ready" status, it blinks back to the recorded list.

I'm stumped.

[sub]

GBPVR wasnt very good at reporting if/why a recording failed. It'd only give you a 'failed' if the recording service wasnt running at recording time. If it was running, but it failed to start the device, or numerous other problems, then it'd be marked as ready. So, check on disk and you'll probably find those marked as ready that blink back to the recording list are unplayable zero byte files.

NPVR is much better at reporting any problems encountered.

[johnsonx42]

The only recording showing in those logs looks like it didn't write anything to the disk. Either the tuner was delivering no data, or the the disk was full.

Code:

2010-12-13 23:59:25.303    INFO    [5]    Recording is unusually small. Giving second chance: C:\GBPVR files\recordings directory\The Simpsons\The Simpsons_20101214_00000030.ts  (0)
2010-12-13 23:59:25.303    VERBOSE    [5]    Trying to relock signal

[Engineer_Ted]

I checked the disk space, i have over 250G available.

So, I guess tuner wasn't delivering data.... Can't imagine why that would happen though.

I'll look to update to NPVR once sched direct and comm advance kick in. Oh, and I really need the client mode, can't remember if NPVR has that yet.

[sub]

I'll look to update to NPVR once sched direct and comm advance kick in.

schedules direct is in the next release. What is 'comm advance'?

Oh, and I really need the client mode, can't remember if NPVR has that yet.

Yes, there is a client mode.

[Engineer_Ted]

schedules direct is in the next release.

Any idea when that will be?

What is 'comm advance'?

Commercial advance/skip.

[sub]

Any idea when that will be?

Should be in a week or so.

Commercial advance/skip.

NPVR has always had the same comskip abilities as GBPVR.

[Engineer_Ted]

Should be in a week or so.

Thanks, looks like I'll just upgrade in a week or so.