SUB: Recording show in two pieces. Found bug(?)

[lif]

This happened to my wife yesterday and she was at first very confused. So the senario:

Yesterday GBPVR was recording scheduled show. Accidentially I made a restart to gbpvr service during this. After a while she wanted to watch the recording from beginning, but to her (and mine) surprise GBPVR offered only watching from middle. So, what happened was this.

When recording a scheduled show from guide and somewhy restarting during recording gbpvr service. The recording service starts again/continues and if it founds recording with same name it adds -2 to name. Fine. But it also points in gbpvr.mdb recorded show to the last filename. So, actually there are all required mpg files for playing show from beginning to end, but when selecting from recordings it plays only the last file.

Solution should be: If recording service is started and it finds that it should start scheduled recording immediately and also find duplicate file name of recording show, before creating new one it should add current file to gbpvr.mdb and after finished recording the other file it should add also the second file to mdb to the same show. When playback of the show is requested, GBPVR should select all records with the same show recording name/id/etc and starts playback from the first file and continues also with next parts up to the end of last one. I hope it was clear

[mykeparker]

I had exactly the same problem, a week ago I tried recording programs on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I made sure my PC was on to record them (about 4 shows in total). To my dissapointment 3 of the 4 were broken into files as you have described, only available the last one from the GB-PVR menus.

*As far as I know the recording service was not restarted, although I cannot confirm as I was not at the pc when they were recording.

So I thought I would just open them all in media play to watch, not the best soluton but would do. But 2 of the 3 shows were recorded in what looked like fast forward, was dropping frames and was un-watchable.

I have been using GB-PVR for a year, with a few problems but none like this. I havent changed anything that I could see would cause this. I upgraded to latest version when that came out. Apart from those problems that weekend everything before, and after has recorded fine.

Unfortunatly I do not have any logs, this is more of an information post to say that I have had problems and see if anyone else has.

[sub]

This happened to my wife yesterday and she was at first very confused. So the senario:

Yesterday GBPVR was recording scheduled show. Accidentially I made a restart to gbpvr service during this. After a while she wanted to watch the recording from beginning, but to her (and mine) surprise GBPVR offered only watching from middle. So, what happened was this.

When recording a scheduled show from guide and somewhy restarting during recording gbpvr service. The recording service starts again/continues and if it founds recording with same name it adds -2 to name. Fine. But it also points in gbpvr.mdb recorded show to the last filename. So, actually there are all required mpg files for playing show from beginning to end, but when selecting from recordings it plays only the last file.

Solution should be: If recording service is started and it finds that it should start scheduled recording immediately and also find duplicate file name of recording show, before creating new one it should add current file to gbpvr.mdb and after finished recording the other file it should add also the second file to mdb to the same show. When playback of the show is requested, GBPVR should select all records with the same show recording name/id/etc and starts playback from the first file and continues also with next parts up to the end of last one. I hope it was clear

Sorry, I wont be changing this. Just dont restart the recording service whilst its recording.

I was in favour of just overwriting the original part of the recording if the user was dumb enough to restart the recording service, but as a compromise for this popular request, I decided to just rename the file.

[sub]

I had exactly the same problem, a week ago I tried recording programs on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I made sure my PC was on to record them (about 4 shows in total). To my dissapointment 3 of the 4 were broken into files as you have described, only available the last one from the GB-PVR menus.

*As far as I know the recording service was not restarted, although I cannot confirm as I was not at the pc when they were recording.

The only way this could have happened is if the recording service was restarted.

[lif]

Sorry, I wont be changing this. Just dont restart the recording service whilst its recording.

But I've also tried scenario where machine running GBPVR looses power during recording. Short power loss initiates computer to restart. After restart GBPVR service is going to continue recording (very good!) but when afterwards trying to watch recording inside GBPVR it plays only the last part. And if user is "dumb" enough and deletes recording, it also removes the first (unplayed) part of recording. I suppose the WSF (wife-satisfaction-factor would be greater if GBPVR could play recordings' all parts...

Sub, if you're not going to change this part of code, then I initiate public call to someone to write a tool which could be added to postrecording.bat which task is to check when recording ends, if there is any previously "left" parts then insert these also into gbpvr.mdb table.

[JonnyCam]

Hello,

Instead of a tool, you could put something in the post processing to check if any files have -2 (or whatever gets appended when it's a 2 part file) and if it finds them it can invoke the MpegImport tool (on the Wiki or Forum - cant remember where) to import the first part of the recording into the DB.
So you would still have to play both parts of the file - but seeing as this would only occurr if you restart the recoridng service - which I assume is not too often - it wouldnt be too much of an issue would it?

If the PVR is recording something for my partner, I dont do anything whihc I think could affect the recording service - less I feel the wrath of a women missing her programs.

If there is a power failure - well - what can you do! - if you are concerned about this get a cheap UPS device of some sort which will last for 5 minutes or so. If I have a power failure (or a satellite failure as we had in NZ last week) lasting longer than that - it's bad luck I guess.

I'm not sure how my idea about the post processign would work - but the batch commands would be simple enough. You may also invoke an MPEG joiner and join the 2 parts of the show together so when you select it from the recordings menu - you only see one entry which is the complete show (minus restart time etc) (then have the batch remove the 2 part files so you dont lose disk space)

Just an idea..

[lif]

I think that your idea is more accurate and greater than mine which affects messing with db. Sure, one line DOS command line script could do this. There in db is the pointer to latest file, so just copy latest part to the end of the first one and then rename file to same name as the latest part had and thats it. Sure, lots of disk activity, but I guess this is the fastest and easiest solution. Thanks!

[jksmurf]

I think that your idea is more accurate and greater than mine which affects messing with db. Sure, one line DOS command line script could do this. There in db is the pointer to latest file, so just copy latest part to the end of the first one and then rename file to same name as the latest part had and thats it. Sure, lots of disk activity, but I guess this is the fastest and easiest solution. Thanks!

Old thread I know, but as I aslo made a wishlist item for it here :

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...highlight=

I was wondering if some kind fellow could help with a postprocessing.bat script which would do this. My PC seems to restart every time a Windows Udpate goes on...

Ta!

k.

[griffy]

Just set up a folder under 'Video Library' that points to your 'TV Recordings' folder and you can see all the files in the event that this happens, that's what I do.

[bgowland]

My PC seems to restart every time a Windows Udpate goes on...

Urrrm, turn off automatic installation of Windows Updates perhaps?