For 2nd Week in a Row One Recording Cut Short (or not really even started)

[BrettB]

For the 2nd week in a row, my recording of Smash tonight only recorded for about 40 seconds instead of the 1 hour + (1 min pre- & 5 min post-) padding. Looking at the log files, I'm not seeing any errors or reason for the problem. At record time, it did get "moved" to a different tuner.

Any ideas????

[johnsonx42]

your log shows a completely normal 1 hour recording with padding. Nothing at all happened to shorten the recording. All I can guess is that for reasons unknown your hdhomerun stopped delivering data during the recording.

[ttfitz]

For the 2nd week in a row, my recording of Smash tonight only recorded for about 40 seconds instead of the 1 hour + (1 min pre- & 5 min post-) padding. Looking at the log files, I'm not seeing any errors or reason for the problem. At record time, it did get "moved" to a different tuner.

Any ideas????

You have a DCR-2650, right? When this happens to me, usually it's because the USB connection has gotten "lost". There's a new firmware available, I haven't tried it yet but you might want to look at it.

I also have this problem a lot less with my system that I turn off every night than I did with the one that I was leaving on continuously, for what that's worth.

[johnsonx42]

it doesn't look like that particular recording was made with a DCR-2650, but rather a regular non-cablecard 2-tuner HD Homerun.

[ttfitz]

it doesn't look like that particular recording was made with a DCR-2650, but rather a regular non-cablecard 2-tuner HD Homerun.

Oops, you are right. I saw the DCR-2650 in one of the logs, and missed that it wasn't used for that recording.

As Emily Litella might say, never mind.

(Yes, I am an old man)

[BrettB]

it doesn't look like that particular recording was made with a DCR-2650, but rather a regular non-cablecard 2-tuner HD Homerun.

Yes, Johnson is correct these were recorded with the HDHR Dual. The fact that the exact same problem (Smash only recording about 40 seconds) occurred twice in a row leads me to believe that it wasn't just some random glitch.

I'm guessing that the problem is somehow related to the HDHR Firmware upgrade to version 20130328 that I did on 4/24 because the same recording schedule worked OK before then (4/13, 4/20) but has "failed" in the same way both times since then (4/27 & 5/4).

[whurlston]

What is the file size? Does the recording actually end early or do you just get to a point where you can't skip forward or back?

[BrettB]

What is the file size? Does the recording actually end early or do you just get to a point where you can't skip forward or back?

The 2 bad files are both about 151 MB. Good files are 6+ GB. So, yes, the recording stops early.

[whurlston]

Yeah, that's definitely ending early so it blows the theory I had. Off the top of my head, what do you have set as the application in the HDHomeRun Setup and is the dynamic tuner allocation enabled (I recommend turning this off)?