Recording is in black and white

[mrayle]

Hello all!

I programmed GBPVR to record a football (American) game over the weekend and while the game was on I wanted to watch while recording. To my surprise the game was in black and white! It was a bit fuzzy also. It reminded me of the old TV I grew up with.

I know the problem was not with ESPN because I could switch to the TV tuner and it was nice and clear.

I have been able to record and playback many other programs. However, most of those are 30 min or 1 hour programs. This was the first program that was long (I even extended the post recording approx 1 hour). Is there a file-size issue with super long recordings? Does the program automatically switch to a lower quality recording for long recordings like this?

What would cause the recording to be black and white???

When the game was over, I went to the PC running GBPVR and verified that the issue was with the recording, not my MVP.

I would like to be able to record these programs this season, so any help would be appreciated greatly!

Thanks!!
Mike

[Ted the Penguin]

did you try tuning the channel on livetv after the recording? was it in B&W?

when you set up a recording, you set the quality, this wont change automatically.

do you have any logs that you can post from when the issue happened?

[mrayle]

I did view the channel on livetv after the recording was complete and it came through in color.

The default recording quality on my setup is "medium" and I didn't change it for this recording.

I don't have ccess to the system from here, but I would venture to guess that there isn't a log from that recording session. I'll have to check on that tonight.

Mike

[Ted the Penguin]

is the system dedicated? unless you have restarted the frontend and recording service multiple times, the logs should still be around