problems with sceduled recording

[natty]

hi all

95% of the time GB-PVR works fine, i have a MVP unit and together they work a treat.

however, i have intermittantly been having problems with live TV.
i have a dual nova-500 digital card... afew times i have tried to watch Tv, i get the no more recorders free, 'dont watch tv' option and nothing else. this when i am watching or recording nothing at all.
today , whilst recording something and wanting to watch another program, i got the dont watch TV or watch what it was recording.
i didnt want to restart the recording service - which always sorts this problem - by remote desktopping onto the gbpvr server, so just decided to watch an mpeg that i had taped previously. which worked fine until, the remote stopped responding.. no buttons working at all - which is also an intermittant problem
also today the recording it was doing, seems to have stopped halfway through the hour it should have been on for.

i really do love this program and the flexibilty it allows, but this is very frustrating indeed, moreso for the mrs than for I..

i have attatched my logs in the hope of some solution i have had a look through but nothing leaps out.
not sure if it will help, but was recording scrapheap challenge today at about 6pm, and then starting watching the joy of nanny mcphee - ladies choice again
i have restarted the pc since then and grabbing the logs, not sure if that clears some stuff ..??

many thanks

nat

[sub]

Unfortunately those MVP logs dont seem to show the problem occurring. Only one instance of the MVP server will create logs. You've got it set to start two instances of the MVP server, so I can only guess its the non-logging one that had the problem, so nothing useful is shown in the logs that were created.

i have a dual nova-500 digital card... afew times i have tried to watch Tv, i get the no more recorders free, 'dont watch tv' option and nothing else. this when i am watching or recording nothing at all.

If you can set the 'auto start MVP servers' to '1', then next time this happens, post the logs and I'll take a look.

[natty]

hi sub

thanks again for you reply, i know i'm a pain.
didnt think it was specifically a MVP issue or would have posted on that forum

i have cut the servers down to 1, and if it does this again, ill be sure to post the logs

many thanks
nat

[sub]

didnt think it was specifically a MVP issue or would have posted on that forum

Even if it wasnt MVP specific, because you were doing these steps on the MVP then the MVP logs would have been the place to see the useful info.

[natty]

hi sub

its happened again

nothing else going on, and i pick an option from the TV Guide and am greeted with the Dont watch TV option

not sure if i dreamt this, but maybe the other day when i had the same problem, it refused to work by picking the channel with the play button on my remote, but doing the ok and then watch > ok again worked ok
as i say, that may not actually have happened

nonetheless, logs attached for todays problem

thanks

[sub]

2008-05-07 17:18:33.468 ERROR [7] Error starting live tv recording: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.

I think its something to do with this occurring when you tried to watch live tv. Its not clear to me what the cause is though. Maybe try running with <BDAUsePsiParser>false</BDAUsePsiParser> in config.xml for a few days to see if it recurs (in case its something in the stream that GB-PVR hasnt liked, and somehow mishandled). Note though, you'll need to set that back to true if you need to scan for channels.

[natty]

ill give that a try

thanks very much

[natty]

hi sub

it seems swapping that hasnt resolved the problem

logs attached again.. most odd it is

.. just restarted the service so i could watch and it threw and error..
that 'memory could not be "read"' one..

is maybe my hdd dying?

[sub]

To be honest, I'm not really sure. It doesnt seem to be the GB-PVR PsiParser then. Maybe its the Cyberlink mux causing this?

[natty]

hi sub

il try changing the mux and see how i get on

thanks again