Recordings keep failing

[drdr6]

So far I've made about a dozen attempts to record, but only one has succeeded - and I can't tell what's different.

The first problem was with the machine not waking up reliably - this I fixed by removing Scheduled.exe, which was installed with the Kworld tuner software (seemed to be overriding gbpvr's wakeful requests)

Now I schedule a recording, the machine wakes up appears to do the recording; after the allotted time I go to the recordings section and my new recodng is usually "ready" (but sometimes "failed"), but clicking on the recording produces a couple of seconds of blank screen followed by the recordings menu again.

If I dig into the place where the files are being stored (in this case I've set d:\gbpvr and d:\gbpvr\live) I see the recording of the correct name and time, with a .TS file of zero length.

[SIZE="4"]Thomas and Friends_20091109_08300840.ts size 0 bytes[/SIZE]

there is nothing obvious in the logs. For example, this morning it should have recorded Thomas the Tank between 08:30 and 09:30 (nice short program for testing), but the recording service log showed

[SIZE="4"]2009-11-09 08:29:25.546 VERBOSE New tuning request submitted...
2009-11-09 08:29:25.546 VERBOSE Submit-DVBT@T5
2009-11-09 08:29:25.546 VERBOSE Getting current tuning request...
2009-11-09 08:29:26.046 VERBOSE Current CarrierFrequency=665834
2009-11-09 08:29:26.046 VERBOSE ServiceID: 8500, PMT PID: 289, VPID: 540, APID: 541
2009-11-09 08:29:26.046 VERBOSE SubmitTuningRequest() complete
2009-11-09 08:30:12.968 VERBOSE Asking Windows to be awake for EPG update at 2009-11-10 7:58:30 (UTC 2009-11-10 7:58:30)
2009-11-09 08:42:00.156 VERBOSE BDARecorder::StopRecording()
2009-11-09 08:42:00.156 VERBOSE StopRecording()@1
2009-11-09 08:42:00.421 VERBOSE StopRecording()@2
2009-11-09 08:42:00.421 VERBOSE StopRecording()@3
2009-11-09 08:42:00.421 VERBOSE StopRecording()@4
2009-11-09 08:42:00.421 VERBOSE StopRecording()@5
2009-11-09 08:42:00.421 VERBOSE StopRecording()@6
2009-11-09 08:42:00.421 VERBOSE StopRecording()@7
2009-11-09 08:42:00.421 VERBOSE StopRecording()@8
2009-11-09 08:42:00.531 VERBOSE BDARecorder::StopRecording() finished[/SIZE]

there was nothing in pvrx2.exe's or native's logs between 8:27 and 8:47 when I went back to look to see whether it had recorded or not.

Live TV is pausable and replays after pause, and there are traces of non-zero length .TS files around e.g.
[SIZE="4"]gbepg-TC46,674166,0,0,8.ts size 16.3 MBytes
[/SIZE]which suggests that the setup can record.

I noted at another time it should have been recording, there was zero cpu load with brief spikes to about 10% every 20 seconds or so.

I don't know whether it's significant, but there appear to be three entries in the pending log for each program, e.g.

[SIZE="4"]----09/11/2009 08:24:50
12 Thomas and Friends 09/11/2009 08:30:00 - 09/11/2009 08:40:00 capture-source:1 tuning:T:C45,665834,0,0,8~NID:12290~ONID:9018~TSID:8194~P:8500~V:540~A:541~L:eng~PMT:289~LCN:5~PCR:540~N:>FIVE


----09/11/2009 08:25:00
12 Thomas and Friends 09/11/2009 08:30:00 - 09/11/2009 08:40:00 capture-source:1 tuning:T:C45,665834,0,0,8~NID:12290~ONID:9018~TSID:8194~P:8500~V:540~A:541~L:eng~PMT:289~LCN:5~PCR:540~N:>FIVE


----09/11/2009 08:25:00
12 Thomas and Friends 09/11/2009 08:30:00 - 09/11/2009 08:40:00 capture-source:1 tuning:T:C45,665834,0,0,8~NID:12290~ONID:9018~TSID:8194~P:8500~V:540~A:541~L:eng~PMT:289~LCN:5~PCR:540~N:>FIVE[/SIZE]




Are there any other log files in other directories ?
Any ideas on what else to check ?

Thanks

[BigMoose]

Does it record from this channel when you do a manual recording or schedule one for a few mins time when you're sure the machine hasn't gone into standby? I had problems recording from Cbeebies which was related to my scan.cache entry being wrong for this channel, but since it was sharing with BBC4 and FIVE isn't part time, I assume your tuning entry is correct so this might not be relevant...

[johnsonx42]

the log entries you posted are from the recording-service log... what about the recordingservice-native log? That will have more details about what went on when the tuning request was submitted, the recording graph was built, etc. Better yet, just post both logs as a zip attachment.

[drdr6]

So I did try BigMoose's suggestion and I was able to make a recording when not allowing the machine to shut down / hibernate.

I shut everything down (inc recording service), cleared logs and powered off for a clean start

After the clean start, pvrx2.exe hung (not consuming much cpu). Logs attached. Key message seems to be

Error code : 88760868
D3DERR_DEVICELOST
Device lost

whatever that means


I repeated the procedure and the next time it started ok, so I just went in and asked it for a 3 minute manual recording. I then sent the system to hibernate via pvrx2's system command.

The system woke up a couple of minutes before the appointed time and looked like it might be doing something - blipping the disk every couple of seconds quite steadily. But at the end - no recording as usual.

Logs also attached