Exception leads to completed/deleted recording.

[billranton]

Hello,

My Twinhan got itself in an odd state and needed a reboot. However this wasn't picked up properly by GB-PVR, which carried on as if it had just finished recording, deleting the recording entries straight afterwards (probably because the file was 'gone'). I didn't get any 'Failed' entries in the guide, so I didn't pick up the problem for at least a week.

Here's some telling log:

2008-07-04 10:57:00.168 INFO [5] Found new programme requiring recording: In the Night Garden (1659)
2008-07-04 10:57:00.183 VERBOSE [5] Changing to channel (GBPVR.Backend.Common.NullTunerController): 1
2008-07-04 10:57:00.183 VERBOSE [5] Requesting IRecordingSource to start recording: D:\Platter\Video\TV\In the Night Garden_20080704_11001130.mpg
2008-07-04 10:57:00.199 VERBOSE [5] BDARecordingSource about to start recording oid:1 channel:T:10773,H,22000,56~NID:0~ONID:0~TSID:2045~P:6302~V:5100~A:5101~L:eng~PMT:263~TXT:5103~PCR:5100~N:>BBC 2 England
2008-07-04 10:57:01.621 ERROR [5] Error starting recording: GBPVR.Backend.Common.GbpvrException: Failed to locate configured BDA capture device
at NativeUtilities.BDARecorder.StartRecording(String cardType, Int32 board, String filename, IntPtr hwnd, ChannelTuning channelTuning, Int32 lnbLOF1, Int32 lnbSwitch, Int32 lnbLOF2, Int32 diseqc, Boolean powered, Boolean previewMode)
at NativeUtilities.BDARecorder.StartRecording(String cardType, Int32 board, String filename, IntPtr hwnd, ChannelTuning channelTuning, Int32 lnbLOF1, Int32 lnbSwitch, Int32 lnbLOF2, Int32 diseqc, Boolean powered)
at GBPVR.Backend.Common.BDARecordingSource.startRecording(IRecordingSourceConfiguration config, Int32 qualitySetting, String filename, ChannelTuning channelTuning, Int32 minutes, Boolean useStreamingEngineIfAvailable)
at GBPVR.RecordingService.x93f60a55016d55c4.xcba1f05fb5a46d5f()
2008-07-04 10:57:01.621 VERBOSE [5] RecordingFactory.getExtrasForGroup(136)
2008-07-04 10:57:01.824 VERBOSE [5] RecordingStatus is now RecordingStatus.RECORDING_COMPETED
2008-07-04 10:57:01.824 VERBOSE [5] RecordingFactory.save()

[martint123]

My Twinhan got itself in an odd state and needed a reboot.
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Failed to locate configured BDA capture device

My nova-t-500 sometimes gets it's knickers in a twist and can't be detected.

If I do a reboot, I get much as you did above - gbpvr starts re-recording the pending recording, but fails - but keeps saying pending, so there is no external indication it has failed.

I find I have to power right off and back on rather than a reboot to ensure the tuner is properly reset.

An extra batch file called by gbpvr might be a handy thing to have. Maybe called "on_error.bat" with some error return codes for mild, medium or fatal where an email, siren or something could be fired off to warn us.

Martin

[billranton]

I wouldn't mind the standard bright yellow 'Failed' in the Manage Recordings list - it's the fact it goes through as successful that I think should be fixed.