Failed recordings and cpu -> 100%

[sub]

However, I am still getting the odd 0byte recordings. GBPVR thinks it has recorded OK, but the file is 0bytes.

Do you have any idea why this happens Sub ? Seems to be a long running problem in the forums ....

People can have zero byte recordings happen for a variety of reaons - signal locking problems at the time the recording starts, mux problems, device problems, driver problems...the problem is working out which was the cause of your specific problem. When GB-PVR thinks the recording has completed successfully, then none of these components have indicated there was a problem, but one of them obviously didnt do their job. This can be really hard to track down.

[gingerneil]

Yep - I appreciate that.. its very frustrating from a users point of view though. I've lost trust in the GBPVR setup now - anything important is having to go on the DVD recorder. Its a shame really... I was planning on getting more MVPs and phasing out the DVDR, but that will be difficult with this problem.

[sub]

Yeah, I can imagine its a pain for users that have this problem. Most users dont have this problem though.

[sub]

He's getting the 'Recording is unusually small. Giving second chance' messages.

Will the next release allow this to be increased to 'infinite' chances?

No, not exactly, but there is something else that may help. There is some logic will try to re-lock the signal during the course of a recording if it a signal lock is lost, or never established in the first place. It is done at a configurable interval, but defaults to every thirty seconds.

gingerneils logs do indicate that that his device had not managed to lock a signal on those failed recordings. So its possible this might have helped him, but its also possible he would just have got a log full of a series of failed attempts to lock onto a channel.

[gingerneil]

Can these things be added in as a config option ? Maybe adding the option to try n times if a recording is too small?
I did a fair bit of testing last night, if I restart the recordingservice when a recording is ongoing but 0bytes, it kicks back in and the recording has started again fine every time... Also, if I cancel the recording and then watch the same channel on LiveTV, all is fine - the signal is not weak so it seems very strange that it cannot get a lock..

Annoying thing is that this just started to happen !

I'm using an HVR1300, anyone else have these problems and know how to improve things ?

[sub]

gingerneil, do you want to test a pre-release that includes the feature I mentioned above to see if it helps you problem?

[gingerneil]

I'd be more than happy to....
Although changing to the more recent 2022 mux has meant this has only happened about 10% of the time in the last few days rather than about 80%. Hopefully the new feature will take this to 0%!

[dljones8053]

Could someone tell me why my client PC get Recording Service Fails when I try to view Live TV, the Client works fine with all the other functions.


1/19/2006 12:39:33 PM.203 VERBOSE [1] installDirectory is C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\
11/19/2006 12:39:33 PM.203 VERBOSE [1] configurationFile is C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\config.xml
11/19/2006 12:39:33 PM.203 VERBOSE [1] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/DatabaseConnectionString
11/19/2006 12:39:33 PM.203 VERBOSE [1] getValue: /settings/DatabaseConnectionString : Data Source=".\gbpvr.db3";Version=3;New=True;
11/19/2006 12:39:33 PM.203 VERBOSE [1] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/DatabaseIdentityQuery
11/19/2006 12:39:33 PM.203 VERBOSE [1] getValue: /settings/DatabaseIdentityQuery : select last_insert_rowid()
11/19/2006 12:39:33 PM.203 VERBOSE [1] databaseConnectionString is Data Source="C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\\gbpvr.db3";Version=3;New=True;
11/19/2006 12:39:33 PM.203 VERBOSE [1] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/DatabaseProviderFactory
11/19/2006 12:39:33 PM.203 VERBOSE [1] getValue: /settings/DatabaseProviderFactory : System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteFactory
11/19/2006 12:39:33 PM.203 VERBOSE [1] ...using System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteFactory DB Provider Factory
11/19/2006 12:39:33 PM.203 VERBOSE [1] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/LoggingLevel
11/19/2006 12:39:33 PM.203 VERBOSE [1] getValue: /settings/LoggingLevel : Error
11/19/2006 12:39:34 PM.031 ERROR [1] Unable to find node: /settings/SpecialElements/SpecialElement[@name="ForegroundTransparency"]
11/19/2006 12:39:34 PM.078 ERROR [1] Unable to find node: /settings/SpecialElements/SpecialElement[@name="MenuType"]
11/19/2006 12:40:01 PM.390 ERROR [1] Unexpected exception activating .net remoting: System.UriFormatException: Invalid URI: The hostname could not be parsed.
at System.Uri.CreateThis(String uri, Boolean dontEscape, UriKind uriKind)
at System.Uri..ctor(String uriString)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp.TcpClientTransportSink..ctor(String channelURI, TcpClientChannel channel)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp.TcpClientTransportSinkProvider.CreateSink(IChannelSender channel, String url, Object remoteChannelData)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.BinaryClientFormatterSinkProvider.CreateSink(IChannelSender channel, String url, Object remoteChannelData)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp.TcpClientChannel.CreateMessageSink(String url, Object remoteChannelData, String& objectURI)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.ChannelServices.CreateMessageSink(String url, Object data, String& objectURI)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingServices.CreateChannelSink(String url, Object data, IMessageSink& chnlSink)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.RemotingServices.Unmarshal(Type classToProxy, String url, Object data)
at System.Activator.GetObject(Type type, String url, Object state)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.x396614b3dae3b1da..ctor(Boolean instanceIsRecordingService)
11/19/2006 12:40:02 PM.421 ERROR [1] Unable to find node: /settings/SpecialElements/SpecialElement[@name="MenuType"]
11/19/2006 12:40:05 PM.531 ERROR [1] StartRecordingLiveTV() failed: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.x396614b3dae3b1da.x06b549b1ade7b16c(Int32 x70cd72e44179c0c2, Boolean x69d720e971206ea6, Programme& x5d1dc8495c0908a9)

[sub]

Set your logging level back to debug, then reproduce the problem and repost the logs and I'll take a look.

[dljones8053]

Log set to debug I have captured all the log files and attached, thanks Sub