Failed Recordings

[malcolm]

I started using GBPVR back in March and have run it reasonably sucessfully since then. Just recently I had a 'failed' recording when I was away from home. Nothing I could se in the logs helped me in working out the problem, so I guessed the PC just didn't power up as it should.

I recently upgraded to 0.92.11, found some skins that still work (!) and all has been well. The epg even started to upgarde itself properly, well done sub. But the PC has been turning itself on at strange times and not shutting down when it should. Oh well, at least it is quiet!

Then yesterday I had another failed recording! Am I right that gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log restarts itself each time the epg upgrades in the night? Should it roll back the previous logs as -1, -2, -3 etc?

After I found the failed recording (soon after it should have finished) I re-booted the PC. gbpvrrecordingservice.exe-1.log starts at this time.

The previous log is gbpvrrecordingservice.exe-2.log and contains the following:

20/07/2005 23:03:21.484 INFO [4] GB-PVR Recording Service starting
20/07/2005 23:03:21.500 VERBOSE [4] installDirectory is C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\
20/07/2005 23:03:21.500 VERBOSE [4] configurationFile is C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\config.xml
20/07/2005 23:03:21.515 VERBOSE [4] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/DatabaseConnectionString
20/07/2005 23:03:21.515 VERBOSE [4] getValue: /settings/DatabaseConnectionString : Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=".\gbpvr.mdb";User Id=admin;Password=
20/07/2005 23:03:21.515 VERBOSE [4] databaseConnectionString is Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source="C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\\gbpvr.mdb";User Id=admin;Password=
20/07/2005 23:03:21.515 VERBOSE [4] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/DontAntiAlias
20/07/2005 23:03:21.515 VERBOSE [4] getValue: /settings/DontAntiAlias : false
20/07/2005 23:03:21.515 VERBOSE [4] getValue() loading new key/value into cache: /settings/LoggingLevel
20/07/2005 23:03:21.515 VERBOSE [4] getValue: /settings/LoggingLevel : Info
20/07/2005 23:03:22.046 INFO [4] Starting remoting service
20/07/2005 23:03:22.140 INFO [4] Start GB-PVR web on: 7647
20/07/2005 23:03:22.250 INFO [51] LiveTV File Removal Thread Started

What is this last entry? I may have used Live TV at that time, not something I do very often I admit. Did that kill the service? Hence no more entries in the log. The system was still on standby yesterday morning, I remember checking around 8:30 a.m.

[sub]

Then yesterday I had another failed recording! Am I right that gbpvrrecordingservice.exe.log restarts itself each time the epg upgrades in the night? Should it roll back the previous logs as -1, -2, -3 etc?

No, its a new log is created each time the recording service is restarted.

20/07/2005 23:03:22.250 INFO [51] LiveTV File Removal Thread Started

What is this last entry? I may have used Live TV at that time, not something I do very often I admit. Did that kill the service? Hence no more entries in the log. The system was still on standby yesterday morning, I remember checking around 8:30 a.m.

The "LiveTV File Removal Thread" always runs in the background. Its started each time the recording service is run.

That section of log above just shows the first couple of seconds of recording service starting. Nothing interesting there.

[malcolm]

Thanks for the reply sb, taken me ages to get back to this!

Seems my problem is the system failing to come out of standby, I caught it doing it again today. It used to do it, now it sometimes fails.