Second recording always fails

[brad911]

I have a dual tuner WinTV PVR-500 and every time I try to record using both tuners simultaneously I get a 0kb file.

It appears that the problem occurs both when I record during two different time slots and the shows over lap due to the pre and post padding but also occurs when I record two shows simultaneously on different channels.

The first recording always works but I get an error in the 'recordingservice' log that says the following:

27/09/2005 8:58:07 PM.576 VERBOSE [464] File does not yet exist (may fail): D:\GBPVR_Recordings\The Biggest Loser\The Biggest Loser_20050927_21002200.mpg

And as it says if you go to the appropriate directory the .mpg file has not yet been created. After the recording should have ended a 0kb recording shows up.

Anyone have any idea what happened.. I'm not winning too many points with the wife!

[sub]

When you created your two capture sources for your PVR500, did you set one to device #1, and the other to device #2?

[brad911]

I setup the first Capture source as:

Device 1 - PVR500 with FM Tuner

The second source is:

Device 1 - PVR500

I thought I had read elsewhere in the forum that a dual tuner card is the same board # (or device #) and that the distinction between them is made using the FM tuner and/or no fm tuner option.

[sub]

No, one needs to be set to device #1, the other to device #2. From a drivers point of view, a PVR500 looks like two PVR150s.

[brad911]

Does it matter which one is assigned to device 1? I would rather the tuner with FM abilites be kept free as much as possible so that I can use it for radio around the house.

Thanks for the fast replies!

BTW - So far everything looks good! If this solves my problems I'll probably be picking up another MediaMVP so that I can watch my recordings on any of my TVs.