Problem With Scheduling Recordings

[Wraith_17]

Hi guys, first post on here
I'm pretty new to media portal but have started using it because of its good support of dvb-s/s2 and HD channels.
I've set up mediaportal working with my Nova-HD-S2 card to watch the freesat/sky channels. This works fine and allows me to record programs which are currently showing or record manually when there are no listings.

However my problem lies when I try to schedule a recording of a program in the guide listings which has not yet started. When I tell mediaportal to record a program in the future, regardless of wethere I am using the tuner or not it will always crash to the desktop without adding the program to the schedule and windows will come up with a message saying "Mediaportal has stopped working, do you want to close this program". Your only option is then to close the program and restart it and again when it restarts it works fine until you try and schedule a future recording.

I have no idea what the problem is, I have tried various different xml guides and restated the computer and rescanned the channels several times but to no avail. Is it that mediaportal simply doesn't have the campability to schedule recordings? or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for the help (Rig specs below)



TV-Server Version: 1.0
MediaPortal Version: 1.0
MediaPortal Skin: Wide Blue 2
Windows Version: Vista 64bit Ultimate
CPU Type: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
HDD: Western Digital 500GB 7200rpm SATAII
Memory: 4GB OCZ 800Mhz DDR2
Motherboard: Gigabyte mATX GA-G33M-S2
Video Card: Nvidia 8800gt 512mb
Video Card Driver: Latest Nvidia
Sound Card: Creative X-Fi Soundblaster PCI-Express
Sound Card AC3: "
Sound Card Driver: Latest Creative driver
1. TV Card: Hauppauge WinTV Nova-HD-S2
1. TV Card Type: DVB-S/S2
1. TV Card Driver: Latest Hauppauge Drivers
MPEG2 Video Codec: Standard MP Codec
MPEG2 Audio Codec: " " "
h.264 Video Codec: CoreAVC Professional, latest version
Satelite/CableTV Provider: Sky Dish, Astra 2, 28,2
HTPC Case: Opera MCE Case
Cooling: Air
Power Supply: 500W
Remote: Microsoft Windows Vista MCE USB Remote
TV: Samsung 40" le40m87bdx
TV - HTPC Connection: HDMI

[Paranoid Delusion]

Is it that mediaportal simply doesn't have the campability to schedule recordings?

No, works fine here

Can i ask you to update to svn 19158

This involves uninstalling TVServer + client plugin saying no to remove settings, install the mediaportal part of svn update and then the TVServer\client plugin, which you will need to restart (password MediaPortal).

Ok this version will now correctly gather logs, using the MPTestTool from your start menu, recreate your problem and upload the logs using the advanced + feature.

[Wraith_17]

Ok, will do

[lofViewer]

I have the same problem, but I have found a temporary work around:
I start Mediaportal as administrator.

[Sh4d3]

TV-Server Version: 1.0 RC2
MediaPortal Version: 1.0 RC2
MediaPortal Skin: BlueTwo Wide
Windows Version: Windows Vista Ultimate 32b
CPU Type: Intel E4400
HDD: Maxtor 250Gb SATA
Memory: 2 x 1Gb Buffalo 800
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP43-DS3
Video Card: MSI GF 9500GT
Video Card Driver: 177.79
Sound Card: REALTEK ALC888
Sound Card Driver: Latest
1. TV Card: A-LINK DTU DVB-T DONGLE
1. TV Card Type: USB
1. TV Card Driver: LATEST
MPEG2 Video Codec:
MPEG2 Audio Codec:
h.264 Video Codec:
HTPC Case: SILVERSTONE LC-10M
Cooling: ZALMAN CNPS-7000-ALCu
Power Supply: ZALMAN 360W
Remote: Imon
TV: SAMSUNG 32" LE32S67
TV - HTPC Connection: HDMI

Same problem here and running it as a admin wont help. Ill submit the logs and hopefully someone can shed some light to this.. So just to make it clear, everything else works smooth, except when computer is put to sleep and there's scheduled recording. Computer wont start up to record and when computer is turned on there's a window saying media portal has crashed..

[Sh4d3]

I guess no one cares or knows the solution for this. Anyway, I proped a bit more and found some error reports from windows.. Like this...

Product
MediaPortal

Problem
Stopped working

Date
17.8.2008 17:27

Status
Not Reported

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: MediaPortal.exe
Application Version: 0.9.2.19657
Application Timestamp: 487efb9c
Fault Module Name: Mpeg2DecFilter.ax
Fault Module Version: 1.0.0.3
Fault Module Timestamp: 4411e82c
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0001644c
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1035
Additional Information 1: fd00
Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3: fd00
Additional Information 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160


so, I guess its the mpeg2 filter thats causing this.. Ill try to change it and see if it helps at all..

[Sh4d3]

Well.. Ill post my findings here also After lot of shuffling trough these forums, I found out that "windows" hibernate doesnt work that well with MP Power scheduler. So, now that I finally got power scheduler working, Im hibernating the computer with idling X minutes and with this, everything works 90% of the time. Sometimes Im getting strange crashes here and there, but Im happy now, atleast until my first scheduled recording gets really screwed cause of these crashes :p