Recording Stops - Interrupted Somehow?

[gabest]

I've had scheduled recordings stop after a few minutes 2 or 3 times in the past month. Each time, I have done 2 things: First, moved the mouse to bring the desktop out of screen saver mode. Second, d-clicked on the GBPVR tray icon to see the recording status. Of course, it says it's recording as scheduled. Then, I've gone to the recordings directory to check if the file is growing in size and it isn't, but it's > 0 (~75Mb this last time). The recording service still thinks it's recording however. If I restart the recording service, it picks up and starts recording again (new file) and goes to the scheduled end.

When I try to play the initial small file, I get a blocky, broken up picture. Totally unwatchable. Logs attached, but don't show any errors. The "-1" log files are from the bad recording. The restarted recording is good.

Any chance that the act of pinging the tray icon could somehow interrupt the recording service? Any other thoughts? Is it likely some glitch in the cable stream? No error is thrown anywhere, or is there somewhere I should look?

This is an XP SP3 system running 1.3.11. TS Mux and MultiRecord is false, and I think I have all the survival guide patches applied. Any thoughts?

[TonyXL]

Are there any errors in the XP Event Viewer?

[gabest]

Yes, actually there is. Good suggestion, but the error message is not very informative. Entry follows:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7034
Date: 4/1/2009
Time: 8:00:13 PM
User: N/A
Computer: GREGS-OFFICE
Description:
The GB-PVR Recording Service service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time(s).

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Explanation
The specified service could not continue. This service is configured to report the number of failures and, after a specific number of failures are reported, the Service Control Manager will perform the recovery action configured for the specified service.

Anyone seen this before or have any ideas on what might cause it?

[TonyXL]

I was getting the same message (HVR-1800, USA QAM). Here's what I did:

http://forums.gbpvr.com/showpost.php?p=3...ostcount=2

In addition to those steps, I've been using the DVR-MS mux instead of the TS Mux. I haven't had a single recording service crash since I did all the stuff in the post.

[gabest]

TonyXL - thanks for the info. A lot of what you did won't apply because I'm not using a Hauppauge card on this machine (I have another machine with an HVR-1800, but haven't had the problem over there).

The problem system (DVICO USB tuner) is limited on disk (~25GB free), but I defrag and move recordings off to a USB HD via post processing. From what you did, the most likely fixes are DVR-MS instead of TS Mux and/or I might move the recording directory to the USB HD (150 GB free). The current DVICO drivers are the most stable they've had, so I don't want to mess with them.

Thanks for the replies. If I discover anything interesting, I'll post again.