Unable to delete a "failed" recording

[Pilot]

Spoke too soon. Now I'm having problems with recordings starting late and ending early (ignoring the 5-minute buffer I have set at either end). I am also getting the weird fast video during the last five minutes of some of the shows. I don't think anything can be more frustrating than the last five minutes of an hour show being unwatchably fast. The WAF is now at an all-time low, because it's only happened on her shows so far! EEK!

Any thoughts before I wiff this entire install and start over? I wasn't having either of these new problems prior to installing the patch. Unfortunately, the logs are now long gone as the show was recorded a couple of days ago and just watched this evening. Just when I thought I was saved because the same show re-aired at a strange early morning time, I just noticed that the recording barely started in time and ended about a minute too early. The recording is only 59 minutes long, when it should be just like all my hour shows at 70 minutes with the 5-minute buffer on either side. For both recordings of this same show, nothing else was recording at the same time and no one was on the computer.

I searched the forums, but didn't find anything relevant. This doesn't seem to be the PVR150 timestamp issue. C'mon guys, pull out a miracle for me! The wife was looking at the $0 Tivo2 special in the Sunday circular ads!

[sub]

Spoke too soon. Now I'm having problems with recordings starting late and ending early (ignoring the 5-minute buffer I have set at either end). I am also getting the weird fast video during the last five minutes of some of the shows. I don't think anything can be more frustrating than the last five minutes of an hour show being unwatchably fast. The WAF is now at an all-time low, because it's only happened on her shows so far! EEK!

This has nothing to do with this problem with deleting failed recordings, so I'm not sure why you've tacked it on to this thread. The patch fixed a very specific problem where the recording was unable to be deleted if a video file did not exist.

I am also getting the weird fast video during the last five minutes of some of the shows. I don't think anything can be more frustrating than the last five minutes of an hour show being unwatchably fast.

I searched the forums, but didn't find anything relevant. This doesn't seem to be the PVR150 timestamp issue. C'mon guys, pull out a miracle for me!

It sounds just like the timestamp issue to me, or something similar. In the past some users used videoredo or something similar to correct these files, and it would report these timestamp problems if they were present. Maybe worth checking.

[Pilot]

This has nothing to do with this problem with deleting failed recordings, so I'm not sure why you've tacked it on to this thread. The patch fixed a very specific problem where the recording was unable to be deleted if a video file did not exist.

Sorry if I shouldn't have posted it here, but this problem did not exist until I installed the patch so I felt it might be connected. I haven't touched my GBPVR system in any other way except for this patch. Plus, I remembered similar problems were mentioned by others earlier in this thread:

After using that .dll, I am getting periodic problems with the recording time in recordings. (e.g Family Guy 10:03 to 10:39) When this happens, the files can't be played.

same here but my files seem to play fine, the times are just off by a few minutes

I noticed this too that the Pending recording times were off, but everything seems to be recording and playing correctly.

This is very similar to what is happening to me.

It sounds just like the timestamp issue to me, or something similar. In the past some users used videoredo or something similar to correct these files, and it would report these timestamp problems if they were present. Maybe worth checking.

Okay, thanks -- I'll check it out. I didn't find anything like that in a search of the forums, but I'll try searching with different parameters to see if I can't sniff up something relevant.

Edit: Oops. Spoke too soon again -- didn't realize that VideoRedo was $50 and the trial is limited to 30 minute output. Oh, well. I tried re-encoding it through TMPGEnc (which I already own), but it didn't correct the fast speed of the last five minutes of the show.

I'm suspecting something ugly happened to my GBPVR install, but I'm not sure what or why because I haven't touched it other than the patch and it's been working pefectly without a hitch for weeks now (through two smooth and uneventful updates). I'll also try the PVR150 drivers that have reportedly corrected the timestamp issue (I have a PVR150 and a PVR500 installed). I did find that thread, but it didn't seem to be what was happening to me. My recordings aren't just saying they're starting and stopping wrong yet actually recording the whole show -- they really are starting late and stopping early, when they're supposed to have a 5-minute buffer on either side. The timestamp seems accurate for my recordings judging by the content of the video file.

I smell a reinstall...sigh...

[sub]

This is your specific comment that makes me think it is the timestamp bug:

I am also getting the weird fast video during the last five minutes of some of the shows. I don't think anything can be more frustrating than the last five minutes of an hour show being unwatchably fast.

The only thing that could cause this is incorrect timing info the MPEG file.

[Pilot]

Okay, since the same thing happened with a recording this evening (even worse though, as the high speed parts were randomly throughout the recording), I installed the timestamp drivers. I don't know if it solved my recording/timestamp problems, but it definitely made about 1/2 dozen other issues crop up. I now have audio coming out of only one channel just when I'm in GBPVR (every other app produces dual channel audio just fine), GBPVR takes FOREVER to load, when I'm playing a recording via GBPVR, the CPU utilization for GBPVR.EXE is between 80-98% at all times. That's WAY higher than it ever used to be. When I was doing a test recording, the recording doesn't show up as "recording" in the Pending screen. If I highlight the show being recorded in the TV Guide it does not give me the usual options of watching, etc -- just Exit, Cancel, and Update. The show status function shows it as recording, but that's the only way I would know.

This has just gone from bad to worse, so I think I'm just going to roll back the Hauppauge drivers and also restore a backup of v97.09 or v96.12. The wife will tolerate a few quirks here and there, but a bombardment like this is going to result in a Tivo Series 2 sitting in my entertainment center, prepaid for three years.

[sub]

I now have audio coming out of only one channel just when I'm in GBPVR (every other app produces dual channel audio just fine), GBPVR takes FOREVER to load, when I'm playing a recording via GBPVR, the CPU utilization for GBPVR.EXE is between 80-98% at all times.That's WAY higher than it ever used to be. When I was doing a test recording, the recording doesn't show up as "recording" in the Pending screen.

These arnt typically things that would be affected by installing new Hauppauge drivers. The Hauppauge drivers arnt even loaded until you do a recording or watch live tv.

Your post reads as a long version of "I installed new drivers and everything went to shit". This gives me no detail to go on, so there is no useful advice I can provide. If you post a new support post with as much detail as you can provide, I can work through your issues.

This has just gone from bad to worse, so I think I'm just going to roll back the Hauppauge drivers and also restore a backup of v97.09 or v96.12. The wife will tolerate a few quirks here and there, but a bombardment like this is going to result in a Tivo Series 2 sitting in my entertainment center, prepaid for three years.

Ok, fair enough. If you do roll back though, dont go to v0.97.9, that had some serious bugs.

[Pilot]

These arnt typically things that would be affected by installing new Hauppauge drivers. The Hauppauge drivers arnt even loaded until you do a recording or watch live tv.

Your post reads as a long version of "I installed new drivers and everything went to shit". This gives me no detail to go on, so there is no useful advice I can provide. If you post a new support post with as much detail as you can provide, I can work through your issues.

Haha! I laughed out loud when I read the "long version of 'I installed new drivers and everything went to shit'" line! :p The problem is...well, it did go to shit, pretty much from when I installed the patch to correct the problem where a failed recording couldn't be deleted, and then the new drivers only made it worse by adding some more problems. Maybe I only noticed problems that existed from the patch once I was watching GBPVR with a more critical eye after installing the new drivers, but my GPPVR system had been working great for weeks and weeks before the patch. To be honest, if I started a new thread, I wouldn't even know what to title it -- "My GBPVR system is now generally busted"??? I've been posting it here only because it seems to be related to the patch, and others have had similiar (albeit, more mild) symptoms and posted it to this thread.

Ok, fair enough. If you do roll back though, dont go to v0.97.9, that had some serious bugs.

I tried to roll it back to v0.97.9 and then to v0.96.12. The v0.97.9 rollback was a nightmare -- I immediately ended up with about 40 failed recordings (that of course could not be deleted). Wiffed that and tried v0.96.12, but the first time I ran it I was stuck at a box that said something like Configuring GBPVR for Windows and it said 1 second was left in the process for about 30 minutes. Yeah, that didn't work out too well. So I simply gave up on my backups and reinstalled v0.97.13, reconfigured everything, rescheduled my usual recordings. And WHOOSH! Everything is just zinging along really fast and smooth now. Test recordings are working fine, no fast forward parts (at least not yet), and everything is significantly faster.

I'm starting to think that reinstalling when things get this bad isn't necessarily a thing to avoid. I spent far more time on trying to figure out what went wrong with my old install (days) than I did just reinstalling, reconfiguring, and rescheduling everything (less than an hour). I'm sure this doesn't help you out as a developer (if you wanted to know what happened to my system), but it will definitely get my WAF levels back up faster.

[sub]

From what I've read in this thread, and from what I know what was changed in that patch, and I'm convinced that it has not introduced those other problems you refer to. I'm not doubting the problems you encounted may exist, but I'm sure these were things that already existed, and you'd just not noticed them or something similar.

The feedback for this patch has been favourable from the vast majority of users that have tried it.

[bertros]

Just to report that I was having the same problems as described in the original post with v97.13. I installed the patch as directed, problem solved.

bertros

[Pilot]

Bertros is just rubbing it in now! LOL

On the serious side, Sub, I humbly bow to your direct and superior knowledge of this patch and GBPVR as a whole. I really do NOT mean that sarcastically, so please do not read anything into it. From my perspective as a GBPVR user, the timing of my noticing these issues pointed to the installation of the patch as the likely cause, but you are absolutely correct in that the need for installing the patch on my system could have just been one of many symptoms to whatever problems coincidentally reared the head in this same time window.

Whatever the problem was, things seem to be going nice and smooth with the fresh install. This GBPVR system has been through several updates without a fresh reinstall, so maybe something ended up corrupted a long the way.

Sorry to have sidetracked/hijacked the thread!