What useage scenarios could impact a scheduled recording working

[mixedup]

Hi,

BACKGROUND: I just had a scheduled recording that didn't work, however I was doing a few things like starting/stoping GB-PVR & watching AVIs at the time. I was doing this from a remote TV using the secondary monitor output too, as I've programed my remote (via girder) to be able to start and stop GB-PVR (i.e. not sure if there could have been a warning message that I didn't see). I did notice the log showed the recording service had restarted a few times that evening.

QUESTION: What useage scenarios could possible impact a recording not working (i.e. what should I be aware of to ensure a schedule recording won't be impacted) - for example:
- stopping starting GB-PVR remoting from a secondary monitor
- watching AVI files
- watching live TV at the time the recording is supposed to start (on a different channel)
- other activity on the PC
- others???

thanks

[Pioneer4x4]

- watching live TV at the time the recording is supposed to start (on a different channel)

If you only have 1 tuner card, this will do it.

[mixedup]

oh..is there a config option to override the LIVE TV? (or ideally prompt "do you want to keep watching LIVE TV or record your scheduled show?")

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VisionPlus Twinhan Tuner Card
2005 MCE Remote
Girder (for remote key remapping)
Shared PC/GB-PVR functions via secondary display
P4 1.6GHz, 512MB RAM, 2 x HDD (300GB HDD for video)

[wtg]

Actually, I've thought with later versions of gbpvr that if you were watching TV when a scheduled recording needed to start, it kicked you out. It has with me. Also, trying to watch live tv with a recording going results in an invalid object message (or something like that).

I don't think live tv should have caused you trouble because it shouldn't have worked for you if the recording was going.

[sub]

Actually, I've thought with later versions of gbpvr that if you were watching TV when a scheduled recording needed to start, it kicked you out. It has with me.

correct

Also, trying to watch live tv with a recording going results in an invalid object message (or something like that).

Not for me. Maybe its the skin you're using. I get a popup window that tells me the tuner(s) are in use, and asks me it I'd like to watch one of the shows which are recording.

[wtg]

Not for me. Maybe its the skin you're using. I get a popup window that tells me the tuner(s) are in use, and asks me it I'd like to watch one of the shows which are recording.

Of course I think you're right. I do have a memory of that happening in the past... maybe it was like that in an earlier release, or it may have been related to Live TV on the MVP when a recording was in-progress. Whatever the case, I do recall recently being told the tuners were in use.

[sub]

Preproduce the problem and post your gbpvr.exe.log and I'll take a look.

What skin are you using?

[mixedup]

hi sub

It's only happened once so far (and I was mucking around with GB-PVR a bit at the time) so the intent of the post was to understand what sorts of things could impact a recording being successful - e.g. can you do anything in gbpvr.exe without impacting a successful recording, but if you restarting the service then this could be a problem?

BTW - I've noted twice that recordings in the morning are a bit choppy, so I'm trying to test and work out re (a) why - whether various overnight jobs affect the recording service, like xp update, virus update, podcast downloads etc, and (b) whats the work around - whether restarting the gbpvr service each morning could assist this, which seemed to be the case potentiall. Are you aware whether a gbpvr recording service could give rise to choppy recordings such that a recording service restart would make things better? (I acknowledge I need to do more testing)

[sub]

It's only happened once so far (and I was mucking around with GB-PVR a bit at the time) so the intent of ...

I was actually asking about wtg's problem he mentioned above where he was getting an 'invalid object' message.

e.g. can you do anything in gbpvr.exe without impacting a successful recording, but if you restarting the service then this could be a problem?

Yeah, you should be able to pretty much anything without any problems, except restarting the recording service which will obviously restart your recording - overwriting whatever has been recorded so far.

Are you aware whether a gbpvr recording service could give rise to choppy recordings such that a recording service restart would make things better?

I'm not aware of any issues that would require regular restarts of the recording service. I leave my main HTPC running 24x7, and it usually run for a few weeks without restarts.

[mixedup]

hi sub - I actually had the problem a 2nd time where it didn't record a show that I'd scheduled. I'll send through the logs to support if thats ok. I was watching a previous recording at the time however that shouldn't matter. When I went to start watching the item that was seemingly being recorded (as the GBPVR UI indicated it was recording) I got an error message + afterwards in the video directory I see there is only a 6k *.dvr-ms file.

Interestly the next morning when I tried to schedule a recording I got a an error message "An error occured while processing a the request on the server: System.Net.Socket.SocketException: The established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine". After restarting the GBPVR recording service this fixed the problem. Hence I was wondering if the recording service had gotten itself into a funny state (just guessing).

I also note there are some WEATHER errors coming up regularly, e.g. "14/10/2005 6:53:54 AM.197 VERBOSE [25] Weather plugin Encountered unknown current weather type '<meta....etc"

I do run zone alarm.

Will send through logs if thats OK

Thanks