Recording restarts every minute

[Mike Lub]

When I press Ctrl-K GBPVR starts recording in DVD-mode. When I stop the recording after 3 minutes after pressing ESC or Ctrl-S, I notice that there are 3 files (*.mpg) created in my video directory. All these files apear to be 60 seconds long, and apx. 40MB in size.

What I try to figure out is why GBPVR is splitting the video files in chunks of 60 seconds. Why does it not create 1 big file of 120MB? :confused:

I'm using Windows XP Pro (Clean install, .NET 1.1, DirectX 9.0c), Hauppauge 150 MCE, using the latest drivers from Hauppauge, and I use 2 harddiscs with each more than 150GB free space.

I saw other threads dealing the same issue, but without any solution.

Any help would be very welcome.

cheers, Mike

[sub]

Email your logs to me at support@devnz.com and I'll take a look.

I assume youre running the most recent version of GB-PVR?

[Mike Lub]

Hello again,

Thanks for your very quick reply.

Attached you find 4 logfiles after recording 90 seconds. After 60 seconds, the TV signal freezes for a few seconds because it restarts the recording.

Also very strange is - after making a recording of 10 minutes - that when I watch the chunks that were created, chunk 2 (from 60 to 120 seconds), chunk 3 (120 to 180 seconds) and all other later chunks (4 and up) are dissappearing spontainiously within a few seconds from my filesystem !? :eek: :confused:
Only the first chunk stays on my filesystem after watching it.

Is Microsoft Windows XP fooling arround again?

I'm using the GBPVR that I downloaded last saturday (version v0.92.11). I installed my Hauppauge PVR-150 MCE tuner last thursday and downloaded the drivers and patches from the Hauppauge site.

cheers, Mike

[sub]

You forgot to attach the logs.

[Mike Lub]

Here are the log files.

Cheers, Mike

[sub]

Nothing obvious in those logs.

[Mike Lub]

Here are 4 new log files. In all those logfiles I see clearly that the recording is restarted every minute: each apx. minute (64 seconds) a pattern in the logfiles is repeated.

In the GBPVR.exe-native.log
06:47:03.218 INFO DirectShowPlayerBase::playFile() done
06:48:14.453 INFO DirectShowPlayerBase::playVideoFile(D:\My Documents\My Videos\TV-1-420050701_0648.mpg)
06:48:14.468 INFO DirectShowPlayerBase::playFile() done
06:49:18.546 INFO DirectShowPlayerBase::playVideoFile(D:\My Documents\My Videos\TV-1-420050701_0649.mpg)

In the gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log
6:48:05 AM.078 VERBOSE (232) Stopping recording oid:1
6:48:05 AM.578 VERBOSE (138) SourceConfigurationContainer.LoadAll()
6:48:05 AM.843 VERBOSE (232) recording started
6:49:07 AM.078 VERBOSE (138) Stopping recording oid:1
6:49:07 AM.578 VERBOSE (267) SourceConfigurationContainer.LoadAll()
6:49:07 AM.812 VERBOSE (138) recording started

And here is the logging of deleting the chunks 2, 3 and up (also in the gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log):
6:53:29 AM.515 VERBOSE (26) Checking if GB-PVR can remove: D:\My Documents\My Videos\TV-1-420050701_0648.mpg
6:53:29 AM.515 VERBOSE (26) LiveTV file removed: D:\My Documents\My Videos\TV-1-420050701_0648.mpg
6:53:30 AM.531 VERBOSE (26) LiveTV file removed: D:\My Documents\My Videos\TV-1-420050701_0649.mpg
6:53:31 AM.531 VERBOSE (26) LiveTV file removed: D:\My Documents\My Videos\TV-1-420050701_0650.mpg

So, any idea what is happening?

I didn't install Hauppauge's WinTV before installing GBPVR: could this be the problem?
I overrided the TV channels/frequencies in the Windows registry: I can't believe this is causing this problem.

I hope you will take another look to the logfiles.

Cheers, Mike

[sub]

Unfortunately there is still nothing obvious in the logs that could be causing this. (no unexpected messages or errors)

[sub]

What EPG source are you using? The only thing I can think of is you somehow have overlapping show listing in your EPG, or multiple shows listing for the same show at the same time.

[Mike Lub]

Hello Sub,

I'm not using any EPG software. I have no recordings scheduled so there is no overlapping of recordings. I start recording manualy by pressing Ctrl-K and stop it with ESC or Ctrl-S.

15 minutes ago I restored my Image (DriveImage) of my systemdrive (C-drive), installed my PVR-150 using different drivers from the shspvr.com site, installed Win2000 and other Hauppauge software, did a channel/frequency overide, installed GBPVR, and checked if things were getting better.

It didn't...

cheers, Mike