any episode of America's Got Talent automatically deleted after watching

[johnsonx42]

I tried a test this afternoon and the UI is really funny when new comskip points are added, basically it didn't work and it kept jumping backwards not forward.

I noticed that also, that as it adds the new skip points they're really not right.  On the recording I watched tonight that survived, the skip points were way off as I exited playback, which was well after comskip finished and put the finished skip points in the .edl file.  When I played the recording again, the skip points were totally different, and pretty much spot-on; one skip could've been a professional edit.

I hope sub will forgive me for saying, this all worked much better with the old nextpvr.  I remember when sub first added the code to periodically re-load the skip points during playback, including the finalized skips when comskip finished; the skip points would just magically switch to near-perfect a minute or so after the recording finished.

[johnsonx42]

Martin, give it a try with the recording service running as a user process. I'm going to do a couple more tests, but so far I've had 5 of 5 recordings deleted while running as a user process, and 1 of 1 NOT deleted while running as a service.

[johnsonx42]

ok, definitely has to do with running the recording service as a user process, and watching a recording in-progress.
I watched an episode of Seinfeld with the recording service running as a service; the recording was not deleted.
then I stopped the recording service and launched it as a user process, and then watched a 2nd episode of Seinfeld in-progress. when the recording ended, the .ts file was deleted and the recording disappeared from the database.

So I'm 6 for 6 on recordings being deleted with the recording service running as a user process, and 2 for 2 on recordings NOT being deleted with the recording service running as a system service.

I don't know why that makes a difference, but it does.

[sub]

I'll try adding some logging tomorrow, to see if we can get to the bottom of it.

[johnsonx42]

This may actually have become moot for me: I've determined that the AMD-accelerated video encoding doesn't work well enough to be usable, at least not with the A4-7400k I have, regardless of the profile chosen. It doesn't seem to tax the GPU much, even at 1080p it only shows about 40% GPU load, but quickly falls behind. At 480p, GPU load drops to around 20%, but the transcoding still can't keep up. Conversely the CPU encoding works fine up to about 720p, even though this chip has a lot more GPU power than CPU power.

So if I'm not going to be using the AMD encoding acceleration, then I'll have no further reason to run nrecord as a user process.

That said, I'm happy to help troubleshoot this file deletion issue if you wish.