Stuck failed recording

[glassvial]

I have a recording that failed, in fact it seems most of my recordings after midnight fail anyway (gremlins, perhaps). Anyway, I was supposed to record this show at 3:30AM. It didn't record, and now it's stuck in the recordings list as "Failed" and won't delete. What do I do?

[BerkA]

I have "failed" recordings I can't delete as well.

The recordings were scheduled through "season record." The computer was on "standby." When the time came, the computer did not wake up to record them. I woke up the computer and ran GBPVR: the entries appeared as "scheduled." They only turned to "failed" after a reboot.

I failed to reproduce this problem (tried once). I set up a 10-min manual record and put the computer in "standby." It woke up and recorded as expected.

[sub]

When it occurs, can you email over your GBPVRRecordingService.exe.log file?

[BerkA]

I haven't had any recordings scheduled over the weekend, so I don't have any more info on the wake-up-to-record problem.
For the "unable to delete failed recording" problem, I found this in the GBPVR.exe.log that may be helpful:
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05/23/2004 09:23:14.045 INFO [2] Warning: Deleting recording (video file no longer exists)
05/23/2004 09:23:14.085 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactor.DeleteSheduledRecording()
05/23/2004 09:23:14.145 VERBOSE [2] RecordingFactory.loadSchedule()
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It's true, the file doesn't exist. The recording had never started.

[glassvial]

That's what happened with my failed recording too, it never even started for whatever odd reason.

[sub]

I have found a sitution that doesn't occur all the time, but can cause the Recording Service to not initialize correctly. This problem was introduced in v0.17, but is corrected for the next release.

[BerkA]

Does this problem also cause the taskbar icon to disappear? I noticed that occasionally the icon disappears when I hover the mouse pointer over it. The process still appears running in the task manager.

[sub]

I'm not 100% sure at that senario, but if you restart the recording service (with the OK button in config app) and the icon doesn't appear, then the initialization has failed.

[alancs]

I am having the same problem here. I have no icon showing in the taskbar, cant remember ever seeing one, should there be one or is there a setting for it that i have missed in the config setup?

[Guest]

Did this issue ever get resolved? I seem to have recordings that say they are scheduled but the timeslot has long since passed. I cannot delete them. Once I reboot they show as failed and I can delete them. Once I get into the "missed scheduled recording but doesn't show as failed" state it seems like none of my recordings will work. I do all my scheduling through the TV guide, I believe I use Direct as the recording plugin. Doesn't matter if I schedule them from PC or MVP, it behaves the same. I have P3 900MHz, WinTV250, XP Pro w/ SP1, GBPVR 0.21, MVP.

1) I don't know what gets it into this state (although last night I had a program scheduled at 10pm on channel 4 and I was watching channel 9 at that time...I dunno if that has any relevance or not?).

2) I don't know why they don't show as failed

3) I'd like to at least know another way to get out of this state other than a reboot...would Restart Recording Service help?

I appologize if the resolution is posted elsewhere and I cannot find it!!

By the way, upgrading to v0.21 fixed my Live TV on MVP problem...GBPVR ROCKS MY WORLD!!!!

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