Scheduled Series Episode Stopped Recording Halfway Through.

[Chris4877]

Hi all,

I'm in Sydney, Australia, and I'm an NRL (National Rugby League) fan.

In order to record all available Free-to-Air games on Sydney Channel 9 HD, I have several series schedules configured.  The Nine Network normally broadcasts 3 games per week, on Thursday night, Friday night, and Sunday afternoon.  When the competition series commencement date is approaching, I will locate it in the programme guide, and set it to record the full series.  This gives me 3 dirrerent series, one for Thursday, one for Friday and one for Sunday.  Later in the year, the Nine Network also broadcasts the Saturday night game, and accordingly, I will configure a new series for Saturday nights.  When all 25 competition rounds have been played, I will then configure the NRL Finals, which the Nine Network broadcasts in its entirety.  I have also configured NextPVR to include 1 minute of "Pre-padding" and 30 minutes of "Post-padding," in an attempt to take into account games which run overtime for one reason or another.

The program titles have remained consistent over the last few years, and although most games were successfully recorded in their entirety, I have recently been having problems with recordings stopping early, and failing to record the end of a game.  For example, today, I have a game scheduled for recording to commence at 14:59 (15:00 actual start time), and to finish at 18:30, (17:59 actual finishing time).  This would result in a recording which would also include approximately the first half of the Nine Sunday Evening News, which starts at 18:00.  Unfortunately, this afternoon, the recording unaccountably stopped at 16:25, and in order to record the 2nd Half of the game, I had to record it manually.

I have no idea why this happened, and I'm attaching my log files, in the hope that somebody might be kind enough to look through them and provide me with an explanation for this apparent error.

I am running Windows 10 Pro v21H2, and NextPVR v6.0.0.220904.  (See screenshots attached).

Thanks in advance for your help.

Best regards to all
Christopher Souter
(Sydney, Australia0

[mvallevand]

We didn't need those images, we believe you.

Your first recording was stopped when it should. The guide duration set 3900 minutes with 20 minutes of post padding.

Code:

{
    "id": 1054,
    "name": "Live: NRL Finals Footy",
    "desc": "Roosters v RabbitohsWide World of Sports presents NRL Finals, Roosters v Rabbitohs live from Allianz Stadium. Join our expert commentary team for all the action right from the sidelines, kick off at 4:05PM AEST.",
    "subtitle": "",
    "group": "Live: NRL Finals Footy",
    "startTime": 1662872400,
    "duration": 3900,
    "firstrun": true,
    "epgEventId": 1241393,
    "status": "pending",
    "quality": "QUALITY_DEFAULT",
    "channel": "9HD Sydney",
    "channelId": 7163,
    "blue": false,
    "green": false,
    "yellow": false,
    "red": false,
    "prePadding": 1,
    "postPadding": 20,
    "genres": ["Sports"],
    "recurring": true,
    "recurringParent": 68
  },

3900 minutes is 1hr 5 minutes which is correctly show nand you seem to get your 20 minutes of padding

Code:

2022-09-11 14:59:00.137    [DEBUG][9]    About to start recording (1054 on 25): D:\Recorded TV\NextPVR\Live NRL Finals Footy\Live NRL Finals Footy_20220911_15001605.ts...
2022-09-11 14:59:00.137    [DEBUG][9]    (Recording is due to be stopped at 11/09/2022 4:05 PM)
...
2022-09-11 16:25:00.191    [DEBUG][9]    Stopping recording (1054 on 25). Past end time of recording. 7

Martin

[Chris4877]

We didn't need those images, we believe you.

Your first recording was stopped when it should.  The guide duration set 3900 minutes with 20 minutes of post padding.

Code:

  {
    "id": 1054,
    "name": "Live: NRL Finals Footy",
    "desc": "Roosters v RabbitohsWide World of Sports presents NRL Finals, Roosters v Rabbitohs live from Allianz Stadium. Join our expert commentary team for all the action right from the sidelines, kick off at 4:05PM AEST.",
    "subtitle": "",
    "group": "Live: NRL Finals Footy",
    "startTime": 1662872400,
    "duration": 3900,
    "firstrun": true,
    "epgEventId": 1241393,
    "status": "pending",
    "quality": "QUALITY_DEFAULT",
    "channel": "9HD Sydney",
    "channelId": 7163,
    "blue": false,
    "green": false,
    "yellow": false,
    "red": false,
    "prePadding": 1,
    "postPadding": 20,
    "genres": ["Sports"],
    "recurring": true,
    "recurringParent": 68
  },

3900 minutes is 1hr 5 minutes which is correctly show nand you seem to get your 20 minutes of padding

Code:

2022-09-11 14:59:00.137    [DEBUG][9]    About to start recording (1054 on 25): D:\Recorded TV\NextPVR\Live NRL Finals Footy\Live NRL Finals Footy_20220911_15001605.ts...
2022-09-11 14:59:00.137    [DEBUG][9]    (Recording is due to be stopped at 11/09/2022 4:05 PM)
...
2022-09-11 16:25:00.191    [DEBUG][9]    Stopping recording (1054 on 25). Past end time of recording. 7

Martin

Did you mean to type 3900 Minutes?

3900 minutes is actually equal to 65 hours.

3900 seconds is equal to 1 hour 5 minutes.

At any rate, the programme was scheduled for broadcast to start at 15:00 and to end at 17:59, which is 2 hours and 59 minutes. (179 minutes, or 10740 seconds).
Pre-padding was set to 1 minute, and Post-padding was set to 30 minutes, giving a total of 210 minutes or 12600 seconds.
Something caused an error with the scheduler.

[mvallevand]

Yes I did mean seconds. The 3900 seconds came from your guide data, I showed what NextPVR knew and the post padding was 20 minutes.

Martin

[Chris4877]

Yes I did mean seconds.  The 3900 seconds came from your guide data, I showed what NextPVR knew and the post padding was 20 minutes.

Martin

OK, maybe I changed the post-padding to 30 minutes later on.  I was under the impression that it was possible to set different pre- and post-padding duration times for individual series, without without altering the global defaults. IIRC,  I went back and changed the global default to 30 minutes, but it never occurred to me that I also had to make that same change in an individual episode.
Also, one other questions: is it possible to make such changes "on-the-fly," or must all settings be configured prior to starting the recording?

[mvallevand]

Yes you can have individual settings changing the global setting will only change new recordings.

You can change the post padding during a recording, most other setting changes don't make sense.

Martin

[Chris4877]

Thanks you very much for the info.