Orphaned Files and Channel Names

[ryspencer]

Hi all,

I've recently upgraded from v4 to v5 on a windows10 machine.  I'm running Kodi 18 on RPi4 as clients.  I have two strange issues...

1. Throughout the day of watching various channels, the temp videos successfully clear on a channel change.  However, the very small 8k map files remain.  These build up over time.  I can successfully clear them out manually, but NPVR seems to not be able to clear them - as if they are still open at the moment they are trying to delete.  Not sure if I am alone on this one, but I can't see anything in any posts.

2. I had a few channels that would lock up after exactly 6:38.  In watching the files, it was right at the point when a new file was being opened.  What I found was that the channel name contained an ampersand (&).  For example A&E.  Just for fun I decided to rename the channel to AE and test.  This fixed it and the issue was resolved.  I repeated this again for "HGTV - Home & Garden Television" which behaved exactly the same way.  Again - all other channels were fine - even "E! Entertainment" worked ok.  Once I renamed the channels the problem went away.

Again - not sure if others are seeing the same behavior or if this is something particular with my setup.

Thanks for the feedback.

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1. Throughout the day of watching various channels, the temp videos successfully clear on a channel change.  However, the very small 8k map files remain.  These build up over time.  I can successfully clear them out manually, but NPVR seems to not be able to clear them - as if they are still open at the moment they are trying to delete.  Not sure if I am alone on this one, but I can't see anything in any posts.

What type of tuner are you using? Reproduce the problem, then post the logs and I'll take a look. Let me know the name of a file that gets left behind.

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2. I had a few channels that would lock up after exactly 6:38.  In watching the files, it was right at the point when a new file was being opened.  What I found was that the channel name contained an ampersand (&).  For example A&E.  Just for fun I decided to rename the channel to AE and test.  This fixed it and the issue was resolved.  I repeated this again for "HGTV - Home & Garden Television" which behaved exactly the same way.  Again - all other channels were fine - even "E! Entertainment" worked ok.  Once I renamed the channels the problem went away.

Probably some question on this one - what type of tuner was this? (I know what the general cause is from your description, but the type of tuner will help me narrow down where to look)

[ryspencer]

2. Sorry for missing the tuner info - I am using 2 HDHomerun Prime with cablecards and Xfinity service.  Everything is working fine on the channel names once I renamed them.  FYI - I only renamed the channel name in Nextpvr and didn't rename the actual tuned channel in the HDHomerun.

[ryspencer]

1. Throughout the day of watching various channels, the temp videos successfully clear on a channel change.  However, the very small 8k map files remain.  These build up over time.  I can successfully clear them out manually, but NPVR seems to not be able to clear them - as if they are still open at the moment they are trying to delete.  Not sure if I am alone on this one, but I can't see anything in any posts.

What type of tuner are you using? Reproduce the problem, then post the logs and I'll take a look. Let me know the name of a file that gets left behind.

HDHomerun Prime with 2 cablecards from Xfinity.  The files are named - live-WXYZDT-119.ts.map       Its always the map files - all the ts files successfully get deleted.  I apologize but I don't know how to post the logs (sorry for the newbie)...

[mvallevand]

This is common problem for all my Windows tuners.

2020-03-03 09:17:21.696 [DEBUG][279] Unable to delete live file: C:\Users\Public\Videos\live-CBOTDT-11740-7.ts (The process cannot access the file 'C:\Users\Public\Videos\live-CBOTDT-11740-7.ts.map' because it is being used by another process.)

Martin

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This is common problem for all my Windows tuners.

2020-03-03 09:17:21.696      [DEBUG][279]    Unable to delete live file: C:\Users\Public\Videos\live-CBOTDT-11740-7.ts (The process cannot access the file 'C:\Users\Public\Videos\live-CBOTDT-11740-7.ts.map' because it is being used by another process.)

Martin

Like OP, is this when you're accessing from Kodi?

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1. Throughout the day of watching various channels, the temp videos successfully clear on a channel change.  However, the very small 8k map files remain.  These build up over time.  I can successfully clear them out manually, but NPVR seems to not be able to clear them - as if they are still open at the moment they are trying to delete.  Not sure if I am alone on this one, but I can't see anything in any posts.

What type of tuner are you using? Reproduce the problem, then post the logs and I'll take a look. Let me know the name of a file that gets left behind.

HDHomerun Prime with 2 cablecards from Xfinity.  The files are named - live-WXYZDT-119.ts.map       Its always the map files - all the ts files successfully get deleted.  I apologize but I don't know how to post the logs (sorry for the newbie)...

I'm pretty sure this is an issues I'd already fixed for the next release.

[mvallevand]

No I don't typically use Kodi on Windows, that would have been browser.

Martin

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No I don't typically use Kodi on Windows, that would have been browser.

What type of tuner were you using when you saw it? The behaviour will likely vary between tuner types.