2005-11-21, 08:57 PM
I had a recent setback in my quest in promoting my PVR setup with the wife. I was recording a program while playing a different program through the TV Out of my PVR-350. At about the 45 minute mark of the program being recorded, I paused the playback for about a minute, then hit play. Usually, this results in the playback jumping back about 1/4 second and then resuming. I got the usual 1/4 second back jump, but this time it froze. It would not respond to any input from the remote. I was able to exit playback mode and GBPVR with the keyboard. I restarted GBPVR but then it wouldn't respond to anything except a close, which generated a Windows error. The bad part is that the recording in progress stopped. The systray GBPVR app reported that the program was still recording, but the file size was not increasing. I tried restarting the recording service, and that seemed to work. Unfortunately, it restarted the recording using the same file name, which overwrote the previous 45 minutes of the program. This didn't go over well with the wife (it was one of her shows). I would really like to be able to play a file while recording something else without risk of losing the program being recorded. What could cause the problem I encountered? BTW, this PC is the family computer and is usually running Outlook, Internet Explorer, and maybe a couple of more apps. The recording being played was recorded using WinTV2000, but I've not had trouble with other recordings from the same source, but this was the first time I've tried playback while recording. The recording and playback directories are on a secondary 250GB drive dedicated to videos. How do I need to go about troubleshooting this? Is there a tutorial somewhere explaining the error logs?
Thanks.
Thanks.