Recording does not stop at end of show

[terencedactyl]

More logs for you sub,

At 23:44 yesterday I started a recording (the terrible film outbreak but please don't judge me on that it was in an attempt to recreate this problem :-)), I did this whilst watching live tv on my MVP by pressing the record button and then selecting record to the end of the current program.

This morning I checked and it was still recording, so I copied the logs folder before trying to stop the recording service which appeared not to work, but restarting it did stop the recording. I have the logs after that too if you are interested.

Regards

Terence

[Mr. Camaro]

I've seen this same problem. I've got it right now. I told it to record until the end of the program and it has never stopped. I also started this from the MVP. I'm about to upgrade to the newest version to see if this fixes it. However I can't get the recording to stop so I can upgrade....

[sub]

Yeah, its interesting you were both recording from live tv, both on an MVP.

[Mr. Camaro]

I finally got it to stop by killing everything with task manager. I'll see if upgrading happens to fix this.

[carpeVideo]

OK. Very interesting theory. I will pass this long to Carpe to see what he has to say. Carpe, I know this is a busy time, but when you have a few minutes could you please check the last few entries of this thread: http://forums.gbpvr.com/newreply.php?do=...y&p=319533

The quick summary is that simultaneous recordings are SOMETIMES not ending until I restart the recording service. I have only one tuner, so these have always involved Graphrecorder, which may be the culprit.

The logs to which Sub refers are attached.

Keith - I don't actually see a recording starting in the recordingService log posted in the quoted message? I checked another where the graph was unable to run due to a resource issue. It's very hard for me to recreate since I don't have vista and/or multiple tuners so I posted the source if you want to take a gander or add more messages for debug.

CV

[keith_leitch]

Keith - I don't actually see a recording starting in the recordingService log posted in the quoted message? I checked another where the graph was unable to run due to a resource issue. It's very hard for me to recreate since I don't have vista and/or multiple tuners so I posted the source if you want to take a gander or add more messages for debug.

CV

Thanks for your reply. Just to clarify, I am not running Vista either, but XP with Service Pack 3. I should have stated this.

I wonder if I posted you the wrong log. Having said that, Sub and I were looking at a problem where Graphrecorder seized control after an internal recording had started, and did not return control afterward. The external recorder never actually started.

I don't think that the problem has recurred since. I will look at your code, and post more logs if it ever happens again. I also only have one DVB tuner. The GraphRecorder setup provides another virtual tuner for streaming stations, and will provide more once I iron out these kinks.

[keith_leitch]

I've seen this same problem. I've got it right now. I told it to record until the end of the program and it has never stopped. I also started this from the MVP. I'm about to upgrade to the newest version to see if this fixes it. However I can't get the recording to stop so I can upgrade....

Restarting the recording service sorts out the system's brain in a situation like this. Once I solve all my standby problems (i.e. when I'm 80), I will be turning my attention to batching a patchwork solution to this very intermittent problem. My basic plan is:

1) Run a scheduled event, possibly even every minute, to:
1a) Use GBPVRcli to check for any negative values (e.g. recording stopping in -1 minute)
2) When a negative value has not occurred
2a) drop out of the task before too much resource is used
3) When a negative value has occurred
3a) Stop the recording service
3b) Slightly Rename any "In progress" recordings
3c) Use AddEpisode to put these in the recordings database
3d) Restart the recording service.

(Note that step 3d starts all simultaneous recordings with their original names, which currently overwrites the first part of the recording...thus, step 3b is very important).

This will have the side-effect of splitting any simultaneous recordings still in progress, and losing a few seconds of video at the point of the split. I see this annoyance as being quite minor compared to the effects of a recording running all night (especially in my case where some of them count against my download limit).

The problem (for me) is so intermittent and occasional, and so difficult to pin to a culprit (GBPVR, Graphrecorder, or some unidentified factor specific to our machines), that I don't think we can expect Sub or Carpe to spend a lot of time searching for it. If they ever find and fix a problem like this, then the "batch-patch" won't hurt, anyway.

However, it will be some time before I am 80, so don't anyone hold your breath waiting for this.

[Mr. Camaro]

Restarting the recording service sorts out the system's brain in a situation like this.

Actually in my case this didn't work. I would stop the recording service, and it would stop for a second (I could see the icon blink off of green for a second or two.) Then it would start back up and turn green again. The only way I could stop it was to kill the task, then start GBPVR again, then it did not try to record again.

[garypaulellis]

I get the same problem pretty often, But here I have managed to capture the show that went wrong, the relevant logs etc. The recording that went astray was Horizon - why are thin people not fat on BBC 1 Monday 26th 9.00 pm, it continued for several days until the machine got rebooted Thursday some time - total size 108GBytes of BBC1, another recording started at the same time and showed up as zero length (Hugh, tescos, and chicken too). I have zipped up the logs. The 108G file plays perfectly for days - nice.

I run a batch file every night to stop and start PVRX2 and the recording service at about 3.00 am (to try to get over this locking up problem) but it didn't seem to work this time.

EPG update is at 2.00am so lots of activity around then.

Only seems to go wrong when I am traveling on business so I didn't get to see what state the machine was in, except that it missed about 8 - 10 scheduled recordings over the next few days (dont think they even appear in the logs - Its not easy being green, grand designs, relocation relocation, neighbours 2 or 3 times). Grief from family etc. Usual behavour is recording service tray icon stays green and one of the two tuners gets locked, until rebooted.

Hope this helps - I'm running 1.2.13 and will try to upgrade this weekend to the latest.

All this was done from the main HTCP not from the MVP

If you need more - let me know

Cheers



PVRX2 - 1.2.13, GA-MA78GM mother board, Athlon X2 4850e, 2G Ram, 500G samsung spin point HDD, Vista 64bit ultimate OS (yuk yuk yuk - would never do it again) Antec super quiet HTPC case, 2 x Hauppagge Nova-T tuners, 1 x MVP, 1 x 1TB gigabit nas for offloading films to.

[sub]

Sorry, I'm not interested in looking at logs for old versions of GB-PVR. If you have the same problem with 1.3.11, post the logs again and I'll see if I can find the cause.