Recording Service stalling after one recorded show

[tilllt]

Hello,

after trying out several PVR solutions (Cyberlink PowerCinema, Terratec HomeCinema) i ended up with GBPVR because the others ... dont work for me ... to make it short.

I bought a Terratec Cinergy Hybrid T XS USB, Card which is (like the name says) a Hybrid DVB-T / Analog Receiver USB Stick.

I still have some problems using gbpvr with the Cinergy hardware, some of them solved themselves by installing the latest updates (like german "umlaut" characters were missing in the program guide but are there now - great!).

One error which took me some time to figure out but is easy to fix if you know the problem, is that the filter names for the Terratec in BDA.INI are wrong, at least for the newest updates of the drivers for the Card. Using Graphedit, i figured out that these are the correct names for the filters:

[TerraTec Cinergy HT USB XS DVB-T]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER=Cinergy HT USB XS Digital Tuner
FILTER_CAPTURE=Cinergy HT USB XS Digital Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

But the main problem i have is still unsolved: The Recording Service seems to stall quite often, especially when trying to record the second scheduled show since startup. It happens quite often that the first show is recorded fine, but the second time the tray icon is switches to green the file stays at 0 KB, and CPU usage is as high as IF it was recording, but nothing is written to the capture file.

Occasionally also the recording service seems to stall without recording anything. Tray Icon is white, but opening the context menu by right click takes a lot of time. If you manage to Toggle the "Restart Recording Service" usually everything is fine afterwards... Is there anything i can do to make things more reliable with that ? I am not saying it is GBPVR to blame, it could also be the BDA Driver but i dont know how to figure this out.

Another thing which is not a bug, rather a question: The DVB-T EPG behaves strange i have (short) but complete data for some channels and nothing for others... Also compared to what the Terratec Software shows in the EPG the Infos in GBPVR are very brief as if it only reads the synopsis but discards all the additional data which must be available somehow...

Perhaps anyone can give me some hints?

cheers,
till

[sub]

Hello,

after trying out several PVR solutions (Cyberlink PowerCinema, Terratec HomeCinema) i ended up with GBPVR because the others ... dont work for me ... to make it short.

I bought a Terratec Cinergy Hybrid T XS USB, Card which is (like the name says) a Hybrid DVB-T / Analog Receiver USB Stick.

I still have some problems using gbpvr with the Cinergy hardware, some of them solved themselves by installing the latest updates (like german "umlaut" characters were missing in the program guide but are there now - great!).

One error which took me some time to figure out but is easy to fix if you know the problem, is that the filter names for the Terratec in BDA.INI are wrong, at least for the newest updates of the drivers for the Card. Using Graphedit, i figured out that these are the correct names for the filters:

[TerraTec Cinergy HT USB XS DVB-T]
TUNING_TYPE=DVB-T
FILTER_TUNER=Cinergy HT USB XS Digital Tuner
FILTER_CAPTURE=Cinergy HT USB XS Digital Capture
PIN_TUNER_IN=Input0
PIN_TUNER_OUT=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_IN=MPEG2 Transport
PIN_CAPTURE_OUT=MPEG2 Transport

But the main problem i have is still unsolved: The Recording Service seems to stall quite often, especially when trying to record the second scheduled show since startup. It happens quite often that the first show is recorded fine, but the second time the tray icon is switches to green the file stays at 0 KB, and CPU usage is as high as IF it was recording, but nothing is written to the capture file.

Occasionally also the recording service seems to stall without recording anything. Tray Icon is white, but opening the context menu by right click takes a lot of time. If you manage to Toggle the "Restart Recording Service" usually everything is fine afterwards... Is there anything i can do to make things more reliable with that ? I am not saying it is GBPVR to blame, it could also be the BDA Driver but i dont know how to figure this out.

This isnt a common problem, so I'm guessing this is either something to do with the mux filter you're using, or the BDA drivers for this device. What mux are you using?

If you zip and attach the logs next time it happens, I'll see if I can see anything else going wrong.

Another thing which is not a bug, rather a question: The DVB-T EPG behaves strange i have (short) but complete data for some channels and nothing for others

See on going discussion in http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=20123

Also compared to what the Terratec Software shows in the EPG the Infos in GBPVR are very brief as if it only reads the synopsis but discards all the additional data which must be available somehow...

In the new v0.98.13 release, I capture both the Short Description and Extended Description. Are you using this current release? In previous releases I only captured Short Description, since Extended Description was not used here.

[tilllt]

Hi,

thanks for taking the time!

So, about the incomplete or rather sort descriptions of the DVB-T EPG: I have the most recent installed, even from a fresh install - as i had some problems with stations appearing in the tuning list (but with scrambled names) and no actual tuning information which made the live TV app crash when trying to watch those.

and about the stalling recording service:

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GB-PVR has detected the following multiplex filters on your machine:

Found: CyberLink MPEG Muxer
FILE: C:\WINDOWS\system32\MpgMux.ax
VERSION: 5.0.0727
---

i use the cyberlink muxer (as provided by the OEM bundled Power Cinema application that came with the Cinergy - is there a way to keep the libraries like mpeg2 coded and muxer but delete the rest of the app?).

*.dvr-ms worked fine, even a bit more stable (less dropouts while recording) but the additional step of converting the dvr-ms to mpg etc. was not very handy so i chose to have *.mpg instead, dont mind occasional dropouts (it is still recorded tv and not a DVD).

as you can see in the log files, usually when i started recording something, figured out that it stalled and restarted the recording service, the files where named XYZ-2 or XYZ-3... i think the original files which actually crashed the service dont even appear in the log.

There is one other question that i would like to ask, i have two stations (one is CNN) where the sound is playing fine while in the config app, tuning the stations. Once entering LiveTV in the real GBPVR App, the sound is playing chopped and especially high pitched, making it quite entertaining as everyone sounds like mickey mouse but the actual content is not quite understandable anymore. this only occurs with one channel which is transmitting CNN and TerraNova...

thanks,
till

[sub]

Found: CyberLink MPEG Muxer
FILE: C:\WINDOWS\system32\MpgMux.ax
VERSION: 5.0.0727

*.dvr-ms worked fine, even a bit more stable (less dropouts while recording) but the additional step of converting the dvr-ms to mpg etc. was not very handy so i chose to have *.mpg instead, dont mind occasional dropouts (it is still recorded tv and not a DVD).

as you can see in the log files, usually when i started recording something, figured out that it stalled and restarted the recording service, the files where named XYZ-2 or XYZ-3... i think the original files which actually crashed the service dont even appear in the log.

This version of the Cyberlink mux is known to cause these problems some time. If you prefer to stay away from the DVR-MS mux, then you'll need to track down a newer version of the Cyberlink mux. The forum search feature should hopefully set you on the right path. v5.0.0.1307 seems to the best in my experience.

There is one other question that i would like to ask, i have two stations (one is CNN) where the sound is playing fine while in the config app, tuning the stations. Once entering LiveTV in the real GBPVR App, the sound is playing chopped and especially high pitched, making it quite entertaining as everyone sounds like mickey mouse but the actual content is not quite understandable anymore. this only occurs with one channel which is transmitting CNN and TerraNova...

This is usually solved by selecting to use a different audio decoder. I think it happends because the decoder you're using doesnt support the supplied audio bitrate.