Timeshift Keeping Files

[onizuka]

Very interesting! When playing a channel for 2-3mins, then stopping the stream, the timeshift folder is empty!

From the second client, started the stream, stopped it, folder is empty. Started the same channel again, XBMC pops a msg that it's unavailable....strange....

Started a different channel, starts streaming, when back to the original channel, started streaming.
Stopped....timeshift folder empty.

Seems isolated to XBMC and NextPVR on same machine.

Logs from NextPVR and the remote client attached.

[sub]

Ok, that's good at least.

I'm not sure why you're getting this strange behaviour when they're on the same machine though. Very odd, and not the behaviour I get. The .NET framework should be telling me the connection is gone if I'm sending data and the other end has been closed. It sound like something is causing the client end of the connection to stay alive.

When you closed XBMC, did it actually disappear from the task list?

[onizuka]

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Yes it's gone from the task list. Here's a snap of the timeshift folder after closing XBMC, the file is growing...not sure why it has multiple files there....been only watching one channel for a long duration.

[sub]

NextPVR uses a rolling file scheme, which has up to four files. You'll notice if you leave it running it'll eventually create a new file and remove the oldest.

[onizuka]

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Got it thanks. That doesn't seem to be the case for me however. Files just keep increasing in the four segments filling up the hard drive quickly. Changing the channel starts the new file segment, the original segment stays it seems. I would expect the previous channel files to slowly be replaced, correct?

Logs attached. Thanks

[mvallevand]

When it fails after a lengthy session it typically the initial file and the last 3, ie martin.ts martin-20.ts martin-21.ts and martin-23.ts

Martin

[sub]

Got it thanks. That doesn't seem to be the case for me however. Files just keep increasing in the four segments filling up the hard drive quickly. Changing the channel starts the new file segment, the original segment stays it seems. I would expect the previous channel files to slowly be replaced, correct?

That's what I meant - it uses a maximum of four files per session. ie, if you just leave it watching a channel, it'll just cycle between those files, and when you eventually stop live tv it'll delete these four files. Unfortunately with the bug you're seeing, NextPVR can't see that XBMC has gone away, so the session keeps going and the files are never deleted. Still not sure what could be causing that.

[T800]

I got it to work properly.

On my main HTPC that I run NPVR on I had the I.P. address as 192.168.0.100 in the XBMC PVR addon settings.

I changed it to 127.0.0.1 and now it works as it should.

[sub]

It's odd you had to do that, but glad you found a workaround.

[onizuka]

For the record...mine is the default loopback.