Cannot stop recordings.

[GaryD]

I am new here. I just installed the program and it seemed to work okay. I watched TV for a bit. I then started playing around with recording shows. I started a recording on a present show and now I cannot do anything in the program.

What I mean by "I cannot do anything" is that it is like the recording is never started. I get an error if I try to play the recording that I cannot watch it while I am recording it and if I try to look at the live TV I get an error:
"Error: Length cannot be less than zero. Parameter name: length" with an Okay button.

Anyone have a clue what it going on?

There is no recording happening. I cannot cancel the recording. Even rebooting does nothing. Afterwards it still has in the "Pending" that it is recording the show.

I ran "Show Status" and it says
Recording Status
Hauppauge 150
Sleeping

I can open the WinTV2000 program and it starts the playing of the TV on channel 4 which is different then the channel that the program is suppose to be recording.

There is something else I see. If I select the check box for the configuration utility to show me the detected cards in the system I get that my card is not detected.

The really wierd thing about all this is that I could watch TV from the program previous to trying to record the show.

Any clue?

[GaryD]

I found the problem but it was sort of by mistake.

I was playing around in the program with transcoding. When I loaded a file off of my network drive X: I got an error that C:\myshow.... could not be found.

I guessed that possibly there might be a problem with accessing another drive other then C: or possibly accessing a network drive directly. I went into the configuration utility and put down that recordings and buffers to be in c:\MyVideos instead of X:\.

Everything started working and the Recording Status now has that the show is recording and I can watch the show I am taping.

Go figure?

I guess my problem now is why can I not put the files on a network drive? I do this so that I can watch them from another computer.

Gary

[sub]

The recording service runs under another user account, so it cant see the drives you've got mapped.

You could try changing the service to run under you user account.