Recorded TV truncated - MP didn't throw any error.

[markius]

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Hi

I've had a few instances where MediaPortal has ended a recorded before it was supposed to. Although MediaPortal still says it's recording, when I play back the recording it stops before it should. MediaPortal and Windows also report the length of the clip to be shorter than it should be.

For example, this evening I set up a schedule to record The Italian Job on Film 4 between 21:00 and 23:05:

At 20:55:07 the recording started (5 minute pre/post configured)
At 22:41:39 the recorded file ends
At 23:10:00 the recording finished

At this point the Recorded TV list shown "The Italian Job" with duration of 02:15 but if I play and pause the recording the progress bar shows the recording at 1:41:39 in length.

As I say, this isn't the first time it's happened and I also get odd occasions where I can't play back a recorded file or the recording is zero length.

My AV software (Symantec Corporate 9) is configured to ignore the recordings & timestretch folder & the MP program files folder.

I've attached the logs. You'll need to look in the .BAK logs as this all happened yesterday evening. I've had a look through myself and can't see anything out of the ordinary.

If anyone can help I'd be grateful. Loosing the last 20 minutes of a film is a nightmare!

Cheers
Mark

[Paranoid Delusion]

Hi markius

Cannot see anything in the logs relating to a error at that time, same as you found, it shows a successfully completed recording.

What was the file size produced, might be worth while setting up a couple of test recordings, preferably making use of both tuners with a overlap time just to see if there is a file size limitation causing the problem.

Might also, if using the dvb-t epg to remove the database, and allow it to repopulate, cannot even blame it on BST, as all the times look fine.

[markius]

Hey PD

Unfortunately I've deleted the recording so I can't tell you exactly how big the file was though I *think* it was around 1.8Gb. There are other recording in the folder that exceed 2Gb and some even go up to 3Gb.

I did notice that the DVB EPG was a bit corrupt so I've deleted that. I've also uninstalled the AV software completely just in case it's interfering somehow.

I'll set up a few recordings for this evening and see if I can make it break but this is an intermittent problem so it'll take some time for me to be sure it's definately working. Fingers crossed though...

M