4.0.4 All Episodes, All Channels fails to record more than one an hour.

[GuruSR]

Yes the EPG I was looking at has the "new" flag in it, so perhaps I should look into giving that a try, it's a perl script (no big deal have had perl on all my PCs for years). And yes, CBS no less adds (Season Premier) and (Season Finale) to all their shows, fun isn't it... They're the only one that does that foolishness and even worse, they put in Marvel's Inhuman's (Season Premier) like the Season Premier was something special.

I have zap2xml working, wow that was a chore getting all those channels swapped over (minus 2, apparently they don't think I get those stations). Oddly, one show failed to record tonight due to it couldn't "lock a signal", not 100% sure what happened, Fox could have had a hiccup, happens from time to time, nothing to do with the quality of the signal, they drop off the air here and there like all stations do.

The current recordings, not 100% sure if this is workable, but I'll probably delete most of them and re-enter them again, as of current, the "New" flags are working, also seeing "(Series)" listed below shows as such.

A question about the failed to lock a signal, any log I can look at to see which tuner didn't get a lock, so I can ensure that the tuner *is* working and isn't near failure.

I updated to SAF 6.32, from 6.31, so hopefully the LAVs included are newer and won't cause the pause issue I was having.

I actually had a set of conflicts, which shouldn't have been. 8-9pm show on one channel had a 9-10pm recording right behind it, had 2 stations with that same situation (4 tuners). A total of 4 at 8pm and 4 at 9pm, but 2 conflicts happened at 9pm for shows that should have had a tuner, what I got was 4 recorded at 8pm and 2 at 9pm, all shows were listed 8:00-9:00pm and 9:00-10:00pm. No clue what happened, except the conflict said there were no tuners available.

GuruSR.

[Graham]

A question about the failed to lock a signal, any log I can look at to see which tuner didn't get a lock, so I can ensure that the tuner *is* working and isn't near failure.

The NextPVR Recording Service manages the recording process and instructs tuners to "start and stop recording". There is a Ndigitalhost process for each tuner that actually connects to the tuner (I suspect the name of this may be something else for network tuners such as Homerun). The Recording Service produces nrecord.log and the ndigitalhost produces ndigitalhostNN.log where NN is a different numeric for each tuner (this name may vary for digital tuners).

I updated to SAF 6.32, from 6.31, so hopefully the LAVs included are newer and won't cause the pause issue I was having.

The latest version of LAV is rather more recent than the version in SAF. I use SAF and I don't know of any reason not to update LAV directly from ... https://github.com/Nevcairiel/LAVFilters/releases

[GuruSR]

The NextPVR Recording Service manages the recording process and instructs tuners to "start and stop recording". There is a Ndigitalhost process for each tuner that actually connects to the tuner (I suspect the name of this may be something else for network tuners such as Homerun). The Recording Service produces nrecord.log and the ndigitalhost produces ndigitalhostNN.log where NN is a different numeric for each tuner (this name may vary for digital tuners).

I'll track the nrecord.log down, not sure how many days it'll have, but if it's not there, then next time I see that happen, I'll track it, to make sure my tuner cards are not going south, down side with having dual tuners on a card is when one fails.


The latest version of LAV is rather more recent than the version in SAF. I use SAF and I don't know of any reason not to update LAV directly from ... https://github.com/Nevcairiel/LAVFilters/releases

Well, I don't use that PC for web anything, since it is a Windows 7 machine and not a 6+ gen CPU (unlike the PC I am on which is), there are no more updates for it. So I have no reason to use the internet on it, so I'll see about updating it to the newest LAV, see if that makes any further differences.

GuruSR.