Broken Files

[mpoling]

GB-PVR seems to be writing a single show into multiple files.
Sub, you wrote me that it won't do that, but I watched it record an hour long show and I now have 176 files which comprise the Saturday showing of the West Wing. Some are 18 kb long!
Any idea of what might be happening as GB-PVR is definitely doing it. I had the write directory open this time and watched it create the files.
Thanks
Mike

[sub]

Any idea of what might be happening as GB-PVR is definitely doing it.

No, I've got no idea. Sounds pretty strange to me. I've not seen any other reports of it.

You're definitely running the latest version (v0.91.12)?

[mpoling]

Yep, definitely the latest version.
Could it be something like disc access sharing? Like, I mean, if another program (say a disk defragger) used the hard drive, would the recorder stop writing to a file and then start another one, under the same filename (with a sequential number added on)?
The problem is that playback doesn't work with these. The program registers a successful recording and lists it for playback, but then only plays back one of the 176 files. If I want it to play, I have to load an MPEG joiner and piece them all together. Even that really doesn't work because there is a split second between files recordings, making it very ugly.
maybe I should reinstall?

[sub]

Yeah, uninstall, delete the "c:\program files\devnz" directory, then reinstall.

[kreyg]

Was there any resolution to this problem?

I'm getting the same thing on v0.92.08. I occasionally only get one file, but typically shows are broken up into two with filenames looking like <show>_<date>_<number>.mpg and <show>_<date>_<number>-1.mpg

Thanks,
Craig.

[sub]

Was there any resolution to this problem?

Nope.
I was never able to reproduce it. Have a look in your recording service logs, there may be an error listed that is causing this.

If you restart the recording service (or edit the config) during a recoridng then it'll give this behaviour.