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<blockquote data-quote="craigparris1" data-source="post: 751649" data-attributes="member: 75254">Hi mepoes,No, you don't need to stay on the TV screen for a recording to keep going.&nbsp; Once you start a recording (I'm assuming you were watching a channel, and then selected &quot;Record Now&quot;?) the actual recording is then handled by the TV-Service, so basically it runs in the background, so you can carry on doing other thing in MediaPortal.Did it actually start recording at all, or did it cut out part way through the recording?&nbsp; MediaPortal has very good log files, so you would need to look through those and see if you can identify the problem (or alternatively upload them here and someone else may be able to identify it).One possible issue could have been I/O contention on your hard drive, if you just have a single hard drive in the PC - then MediaPortal is fighting with itself for the disk to record AND play the video you were watching, as well as the programs and Windows running, etc.&nbsp; However, if it's a reasonably quick hard drive, or you have multiple drives, that shouldn't cause the recording to fail entirely.Cheers,Craig</blockquote>

[QUOTE="craigparris1, post: 751649, member: 75254"] Hi mepoes, No, you don't need to stay on the TV screen for a recording to keep going. Once you start a recording (I'm assuming you were watching a channel, and then selected "Record Now"?) the actual recording is then handled by the TV-Service, so basically it runs in the background, so you can carry on doing other thing in MediaPortal. Did it actually start recording at all, or did it cut out part way through the recording? MediaPortal has very good log files, so you would need to look through those and see if you can identify the problem (or alternatively upload them here and someone else may be able to identify it). One possible issue could have been I/O contention on your hard drive, if you just have a single hard drive in the PC - then MediaPortal is fighting with itself for the disk to record AND play the video you were watching, as well as the programs and Windows running, etc. However, if it's a reasonably quick hard drive, or you have multiple drives, that shouldn't cause the recording to fail entirely. Cheers, Craig [/QUOTE]

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