v0.93.10 (13 August - afternoon)

[Hugh]

Just a quick post. Yesterday I backed up my system then installed this latest version. Perfect. No problems. All runs well. Thanks!

[bgowland]

I get the same behavior for daily reoccuring recordings...the web interface shows a four-hour window for the scheduled recording, which seems to overlap with the intended recording time, but I'm not sure if always.

I don't use timeslot recording but I do know that the scheduler logic will search with a +/- tolerance for the slot. By default it is +/- 2hrs and is set in config.xml as...

<AllowableTimeslotVariance>120</AllowableTimeslotVariance>

This means that if you schedule a same day / same timeslot entry for a programme on Fri. night 6-7pm (for example), the scheduler will search for a programme with the same name scheduled to start anywhere between 4pm and 9pm just in case the TV company moves the programme slightly.

Cheers,
Brian

[sub]

Brian is correct with +/- 2hrs interpretation. In the Recording screen in GB-PVR I hide this information from the user to make it look a bit cleaner. The web admin obviously doesnt give it the same treatment, but it is still showing accurate information.

In addition to this discrepancy, it doesn't actually seem to be recording these weekly scheduled recordings at all.

The concept of allowing weekly scheduled recordings is great (and arguable a must-have)...does it work for anyone else, or exhibit this same behavior?

Recordings work fine for me here.

[Zod]

Ah, thanks Brian and sub, that behavior makes sense to me now. I'll try setting that <AllowableTimeslotVariance> value to 10 minutes or something, to see if it helps resolve my scheduling issues.

<AllowableTimeslotVariance> seems like a good idea that makes GBPVR more robust under real world conditions. Should you feel the desire to make it more configurable for end users, I wouldn't mind having an option that allows me to decide whether it records all matching programs found within that timespan, or only the single "best fit" match. A simple heuristic based on the program name, the starting time, and on the adjacent programs should be pretty easy to use to determine the "best fit" match for a scheduled recording.

[sean]

maybe this will help in the log GBPVRRecordingService.exe-1.log I get the error below. starting 1 min before the recording is to start repeating ever sec until I restarting the service at 8:33.



8/18/2005 7:59:00 PM.232 ERROR [35] Caught unexpected exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
8/18/2005 7:59:00 PM.262 ERROR [35] at ca.g()
8/18/2005 7:59:00 PM.462 ERROR [35] Caught unexpected exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
8/18/2005 7:59:00 PM.462 ERROR [35] at ca.g()
8/18/2005 8:33:09 PM.158 ERROR [35] Caught unexpected exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
8/18/2005 8:33:09 PM.158 ERROR [35] at ca.g()
8/18/2005 8:33:09 PM.188 INFO [974] GB-PVR Recording Service stopping
8/18/2005 8:33:09 PM.358 INFO [35] RecordingManager has been signalled to shutdown
8/18/2005 8:33:09 PM.358 INFO [35] RecordingManager has finished
8/18/2005 8:33:10 PM.500 INFO [974] GB-PVR Recording Service shutdown complete
8/18/2005 8:33:10 PM.520 INFO [912] Finalize called

I tried the new Xrecord priorityrecording by Jorm and all my recording are still failing. I posted my log error above. These errors I get every time a show does not record. can this help in leading to a solution. from the log it shows that it is can see that there is a show to record. could the data in the data base be corrupted? :confused: :confused: :confused:

[Ron22]

Sub,
The auto skip based on comskip is great. Makes my wife even more happy with GB-PVR.
There is one probelm on one show and chanel Comskip will be wrong on the last 5 minutes. The show goes to commercial and comes back for about 2 minutes. But comskip just sayes commercial to the end of recording.
I know comskip is not your area.

So is there a way to stop the auto skip?
What I had to do was restart the show and skip close to the end into the "commercial" area and press play.

[sub]

So is there a way to stop the auto skip?

You can disable auto skip in the config app.

[capone]

I could just try, but does it skip if you FF into the commercial? If you back up to just before, and use the short skip in to the commercial, it would be good if it was manual then.

A wishlist thing I wouldn't mind seeing along these lines is the ability to go to last 1min of a recording. Sometimes things like the above happen, and you reach the end and lose the resume. It would be nice to jump to the end and still have enough time left to react.

[sub]

If comskip is not reliable for you, you should disable autoskip.

[sub]

It'll only try to auto skip through a specific commercial once, so if you press the skip-back button it'll play the commercial without auto skipping.