priorityrecording

[KingArgyle]

Actually my time is limited at the moment, so I'm going to see if Ton can help you out on this one. I'm sure it is something simple that we are missing, but at the moment I'm not sure what it is. Maybe a new pair of eyes looking at it can see something that I'm missing.

[Ton]

So what happens from here? I will add though, no 2 systems are identical (i proved this in 1999, had to identical Compaq systems right down to BIOS firmware revision, dates, CPU stepping codes, the only difference was the serial number of the board and serial number of the CPU).

I'll see what I can do... Could you post the versions of the "RecordingUtils.dll", "PriorityRecording.Exe" and "PostProcessing.bat" you are using?

Also, have you tried running the "PriorityRecording.Exe" from the command-line? (I'm pretty sure the ">1" stuff is just because the batch-file gets run from the GBPVR Service)? I'd be interested to see if that makes any difference....

Like you said, I just want to make sure that we're running the same versions of this stuff....

Meanwhile, I'll look into making a more "debug" version of these files to send to you...

[SFX Group]

Actually my time is limited at the moment, so I'm going to see if Ton can help you out on this one.

Many Thanks

[SFX Group]

The fun begins.....

Could you post the versions of the "RecordingUtils.dll"

v1.0.2099.16689

"PriorityRecording.Exe"

v0.0.0.0

"PostProcessing.bat"

comskip %1
rectracker %1 > rectracker.log
rem recycler.exe

Also, have you tried running the "PriorityRecording.Exe" from the command-line?

RUNNING the PriorityRecording.EXE from Windows Explorer (which never happends normally as its run from a batch file) then i get the error shown in the image below.

(I'm pretty sure the ">1" stuff is just because the batch-file gets run from the GBPVR Service)? I'd be interested to see if that makes any difference....

This same error happends in the Batch file is run from Windows Explorer, also if its run from another machine (copied the Batch file to see if it made any difference). Even if the Machine is Windows NT4, SP6a, still the same problem.

Although, the "1>" might be the OUTPUT that is supposed to be put into the log file, it would seem to be the Priority Recording part thats crashing that then stops the log file being written...... Just an idea but it looks like it from what you have asked me to try (this is based on the EXE file crashing when trying to run from Windows Explorer).

I will add i notice i have a GBPVR Video Archive service installed but disabled, i tried somethign about a year ago and didnt like it so disabled in, the remove never removed it from working.....

I also do not have the XRecord plugin running in GBPVR either (as this kept crashing), will that have a problem?

[Ton]

Could you please try to run it from the command-line? (Actually start cmd, go to the "GBPVR" directory and run "PrioriyRecordings.Exe")?

The version of the exe that KingArgyle gave you contains debug-information that gets written to the console AFTER the exception has occured. Because you are running it from explorer, you'll never see the text because the console-window will close after.

When I do this (after having removed "PriorityRecordings.XML" from the GBPVR directory (the most common cause of this problem)), I get the following sort of information in the console window:

Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file "C:\Pr
ogram Files\devnz\gbpvr\PriorityRecordings.xml".
File name: "C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\PriorityRecordings.xml"
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String str)
at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access,
FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, Boolean useAsync, String msgPath, Boolean bFr
omProxy)

Alternatively, you could put a "pause" after the statement in the batch-file.....

Again (I think King has mentioned this already), the most common causes are:

- Program and/or DLL are not in the GBPVR directory
- PriorityRecordings.XML is missing
- PriorityRecordings.XSD is missing

Awaiting your response....

[KingArgyle]

Also in PriorityRecordings.XML make sure that the following line is pointing to the correct location:

Code:

d1p1:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\PriorityRecordings.xsd"

Make sure to point the location to where you have GBPVR installed, and have the XSD file in that location.

[SFX Group]

Could you please try to run it from the command-line? (Actually start cmd, go to the "GBPVR" directory and run "PrioriyRecordings.Exe")?

Run as requested, see below to DOS window results:::

D:\PROGRA~1\DEVNZ\GBPVR>priorityrecording.exe
CDK Priority Recording Scheduler.
Version 1.0.1

Unhandled Exception: System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaException: The
s not declared. An error occurred at file:///D:/Program Files/
tyRecordings.xml, (2, 2).
at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReader.InternalValidationCallbac
alidationEventArgs e)
at System.Xml.Schema.Validator.SendValidationEvent(XmlSchem
everityType severity)
at System.Xml.Schema.Validator.SendValidationEvent(String c
at System.Xml.Schema.Validator.PushElementDecl(String ns, S
2 depth)
at System.Xml.Schema.Validator.ProcessElement()
at System.Xml.Schema.Validator.Validate()
at System.Xml.Schema.Validator.Validate(ValidationType valT
at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReader.ReadWithCollectTextToken(
at System.Xml.XmlValidatingReader.Read()
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadCurrentNode()
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadDocSequence(XmlDocument parentD
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader rea
rveWhitespace)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader)
at RecordingUtils.RecordingUtils.getPriorityDOM()
at RecordingUtils.Scheduler.pAddPrograms(RecordingUtils rec
ist scheduleArray)
at RecordingUtils.Scheduler.schedulePrograms()
at PriorityRecording.RecordingManager.Main(String[] args)

- Program and/or DLL are not in the GBPVR directory
- PriorityRecordings.XML is missing
- PriorityRecordings.XSD is missing

Directory contains
PriorityRecording.exe
PriorityRecordings.xml
PriorityRecordings.XSD
RecordingUtils.dll

[SFX Group]

Also in PriorityRecordings.XML make sure that the following line is pointing to the correct location

My whole XML file contains

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<GBPVR d1p1:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="D\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\PriorityRecordings.xsd" xmlns:d1p1="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<Configuration>
<MissingRecordingPriority>0</MissingRecordingPriority>
<Conflicts>Delete</Conflicts>
<DuplicatesAllowed>Yes</DuplicatesAllowed>
</Configuration>
</GBPVR>

[SFX Group]

Ive just noticed something, i am sure i have checked this before, notice my directory name is "D\Program", i started to think about Long Filenames then i saw no ":", i have checked this before but i have just put this in so the directory name is correct and run the PostUpdateEPG.bat file and it didnt crash.

This is sooooooooooooooooo odd, i have deff. checked this before, hold on all fixes until 12 hours time, will tell you if it crashes again and if it does will check the XML file again to see if the directory location has altered (again?)

AND
to confirm when i run the PriorityRecording.exe from the command it doesnt crash either, this is veyr odd, will keep and eye on this for the next 24 hours.

[KingArgyle]

Yeah, I was just going to mention that little error in your PriorityRecordings.xml file. If you aren't getting the crashes after making that change, then you should be good to go.