Multiple tuners woes

[OTAjunkie]

If I schedule a recording on a digital channel and I'm watching another digital channel as it starts my live TV hangs. I have to use Ctrl+Alt+del to end program. The recording procceeds.
I wanted to see the status of my tuners so I set a schedule and watched live with the "status" window open. Well the recording began and live TV continued uninterupted. Thinking I had the problem licked I closed the status window. Live TV is now frozen. I'm gonna wait half an hour for the recording to finish.
I can record 3 digital programs no problem (ATI 650, Haup 2250). I've got 2.1.5 + patches.
What can I do?

[sub]

Reproduce the problem and post the logs and I'll see if anything stands out.

[mvallevand]

So little info, logs really help. XP? If so do you have the BDAHotfix http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/showthread.php?t=6344

As for digital in Ottawa, is that ON? I am hard pressed to find 2 shows worth recording at the same time let alone 3, but look forward to the end of the month.

Martin

[OTAjunkie]

I just tried to reproduce the problem but there was no issue!

Even stranger there is no NPVR icon in the taskbar after restart of sys. or recording service.

BTW: XP MCE

This is embarassing, I've had this issue for more than a week but only started chasing it the last two days. Thanks for now.

If it occurs again I'll be back with dem logs

[OTAjunkie]

Success! I still have the issue

This time it hung about the time the recording finished.

[sub]

Do you have the BDA hotfix mentioned above? Since you're running XP this is highly likely to fix dual tuner problems.

[johnsonx42]

So you started watching live tv at 22:21:36 on CBOT, Channel 25.10. Then at 22:29 it started recording The Office with a 1-minute pre-pad. All went fine until 23:01:05 when you decided to exit livetv (note that the logs do not say the recording of the Office ever finished - it says you willfully exited LiveTV at 23:01:05). At that point, it got stuck, NRecord died, and NextPVR hung, and the recording of The Office probably just kept going until 23:02:29 when you stopped NRecord altogether.

Code:

2011-08-02 23:00:54.203    [DEBUG][13]    Renew lease ok (0x180002)
2011-08-02 23:01:04.265    [DEBUG][13]    Renew lease ok (0x180002)
2011-08-02 23:01:05.250    [INFO][13]    DigitalRecorder.StopStream() handle: 2
2011-08-02 23:01:05.250    [INFO][13]    No more streams active. Stopping device.
2011-08-02 23:01:05.250    [DEBUG][13]    About to request async graph stop
2011-08-02 23:01:05.250    [DEBUG][3]    Graph stopping... (async)
2011-08-02 23:01:13.250    [DEBUG][13]    Async stop taking way too long
2011-08-02 23:01:13.250    [DEBUG][13]    Removing filter  MPEG-2 Sections and Tables
  [I]---at this point NRecord has pretty well crashed... it's not going to do anything else---[/I]
2011-08-02 23:02:27.421    [DEBUG][12]    OnStop()
2011-08-02 23:02:27.421    [DEBUG][12]    About to stop webserver
2011-08-02 23:02:27.656    [DEBUG][12]    webserver stopped
2011-08-02 23:02:27.656    [DEBUG][12]    About to stop MVP servers
2011-08-02 23:02:27.656    [DEBUG][12]    MVPManager shutdown initiated
2011-08-02 23:02:27.656    [DEBUG][12]    MVPManager shutdown complete
2011-08-02 23:02:27.656    [DEBUG][12]    MVP servers stopped
2011-08-02 23:02:27.656    [DEBUG][12]    About to stop recording service
2011-08-02 23:02:27.656    [INFO][12]    RecordingService.Shutdown()
2011-08-02 23:02:29.656    [INFO][12]    Recording Service hadnt stopped after 2000ms, continuing anyway
2011-08-02 23:02:29.859    [DEBUG][12]    recording service stopped
2011-08-02 23:02:29.859    [DEBUG][12]    OnStop() complete...

basically, this is the old 'graph won't stop' problem that has been plaguing many, including me, going all the way back to GB-PVR. the crash actually occurs outside of NRecord, in one of the windows network provider components. sub did post a patch attempting to work around the issue, you'll find it in the patch list at #24.

edit: but make sure you do have that BDA hotfix Martin posted; the graph stop problem could be just an after-effect of the XP BDA issue.

[OTAjunkie]

Re-installed DVBfix>> I can watch live TV uninterupted by scheduled recordings.

Many thanks!!!