Watching a recording and.... lost connection

[QuintZ]

I like this GB-PVR software and you've been all a tremendous help. I've been using my PVR150 +MVP for the last 2months or so and couldn't have got this far without the info on this forum! But this time I'm stuck and dont know how to proceed. Please help!

Yesterday when watching a previously recorded movie I got 'connecting to servers...' from my MVP (twice in one film). Just now I started the same film again and it stops even after a few minutes! I will be able to watch the rest of the movie when restarting the GB-Server and forward the movie to where we left it, but it did work before without the hassle.

What I did recently (that I can think of) is I upgraded to GB-PVR 91.11. Just before that I ran an upgrade of mediamvp_2.4.23088.exe.
The event-viewer doesn't show me anything strange and neither does the processor show a heavy utilisation.

Could anyone point me in the right direction on where to start troubleshooting?

Thx, Quint

The last thing I got from the GB-PVR.exe.log:
15-4-2005 19:12:47.738 INFO [24] playFile()
15-4-2005 19:18:55.186 ERROR [24] MVPWorkerThread - Connection lost, waiting a new one
15-4-2005 19:19:07.294 INFO [24] MVP Control thread got connection
15-4-2005 19:19:07.314 INFO [24] MVP mac address: 000DFE0017A8

Yesterday it ended like this:
14-4-2005 23:00:27.369 ERROR [2] MVP Timer Refresh error: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine
14-4-2005 23:00:27.369 ERROR [2] at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags)
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer)
at t.a(Boolean A_0)
at t.c(Object A_0, EventArgs A_1)
14-4-2005 23:00:28.260 VERBOSE [17] MVP data taking too long, connection must have been dropped!
14-4-2005 23:00:28.260 ERROR [17] MVPWorkerThread - Connection lost, waiting a new one
14-4-2005 23:00:28.260 VERBOSE [16] MVP media connection recycle requested
14-4-2005 23:00:28.771 VERBOSE [16] MVP Streaming thread waiting for connection
14-4-2005 23:00:28.831 VERBOSE [16] MVP Streaming thread got connection
14-4-2005 23:00:29.101 VERBOSE [17] MVP Control thread waiting connection

[sub]

Yesterday it ended like this:
14-4-2005 23:00:27.369 ERROR [2] MVP Timer Refresh error: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine
14-4-2005 23:00:27.369 ERROR [2] at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags)
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer)
at t.a(Boolean A_0)
at t.c(Object A_0, EventArgs A_1)

It probably depends what happened immediately before this. This error is saying that the MVP has disconnected. The question is what has caused the MVP to disconnect. You can often get a GB-PVR error just before this, which has ment GB-PVR stops sending data to the MVP, or sometimes the MVP has just decided to disconnect because it doesnt like something in the MPEG stream (not too much I can do about this one).

[QuintZ]

Could it have something to do with the recordings I scheduled? Just before this line you get lots of pages of the RecordingFactory:

14-4-2005 23:00:22.071 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
14-4-2005 23:00:22.081 VERBOSE [2] - loading: Lost status:4 start: 1-1-2001 0:00
14-4-2005 23:00:22.081 VERBOSE [2] - loading: Desperate housewives status:4 start: 1-1-2001 0:00
14-4-2005 23:00:22.081 VERBOSE [2] - loading: Crime Scene Investigation status:4 start: 1-1-2001 0:00
14-4-2005 23:00:22.081 VERBOSE [2] - loading: C:\MyVideos\Two and a half men\Two and a half men_20050408_20052030.mpg status:2 start: 8-4-2005 20:05
14-4-2005 23:00:22.091 VERBOSE [2] - loading: C:\MyVideos\CSI New York\CSI New York_20050410_20302125.mpg status:2 start: 10-4-2005 20:30
14-4-2005 23:00:22.091 VERBOSE [2] - loading: Lost status:0 start: 15-4-2005 21:25
14-4-2005 23:00:22.101 VERBOSE [2] - loading: Crime Scene Investigation status:0 start: 16-4-2005 22:00
14-4-2005 23:00:22.883 ERROR [2] MVP Timer Refresh error: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine
14-4-2005 23:00:22.883 ERROR [2] at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags)
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer)
at t.a(Boolean A_0)
at t.c(Object A_0, EventArgs A_1)
14-4-2005 23:00:27.089 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
14-4-2005 23:00:27.089 VERBOSE [2] - loading: Lost status:4 start: 1-1-2001 0:00
14-4-2005 23:00:27.089 VERBOSE [2] - loading: Desperate housewives status:4 start: 1-1-2001 0:00
14-4-2005 23:00:27.089 VERBOSE [2] - loading: Crime Scene Investigation status:4 start: 1-1-2001 0:00
14-4-2005 23:00:27.089 VERBOSE [2] - loading: C:\MyVideos\Two and a half men\Two and a half men_20050408_20052030.mpg status:2 start: 8-4-2005 20:05
14-4-2005 23:00:27.099 VERBOSE [2] - loading: C:\MyVideos\CSI New York\CSI New York_20050410_20302125.mpg status:2 start: 10-4-2005 20:30
14-4-2005 23:00:27.099 VERBOSE [2] - loading: Lost status:0 start: 15-4-2005 21:25
14-4-2005 23:00:27.099 VERBOSE [2] - loading: Crime Scene Investigation status:0 start: 16-4-2005 22:00
14-4-2005 23:00:27.369 ERROR [2] MVP Timer Refresh error: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine

[sub]

I would have thought so, but if your machine was bogged down for a few seconds and the MVP ran out of data, this could be possible cause.

[QuintZ]

Hi sub,
Looks like my machine was too busy logging things -> log file can easily grow to 15Mb in an hour.
I didn't solve the cause of why it was logging al those things to record but clearing the recordings table in the database did the trick I guess. I got to watch my favorite show tonight without crashing :-)

[QuintZ]

Oh, and I installed the latest 91.12b ofcourse.