Cannot Delete a TV Program

Hello David

It looks like the log is saying that the file is marked as read-only.

Without any example - date, time, channel name, program name, log files - that's an impossible question.

Ummm, usually both programs...
...or are you saying you only have one tuner to record with, therefore there is a conflict?
If that is the case, as far as I am aware the answer is that there is no answer. The choice about which program to record is non-deterministic. In other words, there is no [obvious] logic that will explain/predict which program is chosen to record. One program will be recorded; one won't.

So many ways. To name a few:

• The splash screen when you open MediaPortal shows the version number.
• The welcome/project pages in MediaPortal configuration and TV Server configuration show the version number.
• Look at the version numbers on the files in the MediaPortal and TV Server install folders.
• Look at the first few lines in the MediaPortal.log or TVService.log files.

Regards,
mm

 

No idea.

Well, it isn't a MediaPortal setting. It is a file property. Any file on your PC can be marked read-only by Windows.
Right click on the file in Windows file explorer, select properties. On the general tab, untick the read-only attribute at the bottom.

Use Windows file explorer to delete the file.

 

Possibly, in which case you'd have to ask yourself how that could have happened.

In TV Server configuration, recording section, import tab:
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_...er_Configuration/07_Recording#Database_import

Use the remove invalid entries function. Note that will remove all recordings that don't have a matching file on disk, not just the one you're looking at.

 

Hello again David

I also have no idea, and without log files and recording details I can't go back and check the recording process etc.

I'm probably the team member who is the most familiar with the workings of TV Server. If you want to ask somebody else that is fine, but for the record...

As I already said, there is no algorithm and no definitive way. Period.
You're expected to resolve conflicts by cancelling schedules or episodes as required. If you choose not to resolve conflicts then as far as I'm concerned there are even chances on each recording being performed.

Again in another way: the TV Server recorder doesn't actively handle this situation. Once a schedule is created, the recorder blindly attempts to record according to the schedule. It doesn't check for conflicts. Heck, it doesn't even know what a conflict is!

Yes, it is possible that the recorder is more prone to record certain schedules in a conflict situation. For example, it might record the schedule that was created first. However, that would be pure chance. It is not something that we actively designed into the logic. Such a "tendency" may or may not exist. If such a tendency did exist you would need to find it yourself by examining the code. Of course, the code is subject to change at any time. Therefore any undesigned behaviour could also change at any time.

This feature already exists and should work. If you're not seeing that happen with your Colossus then it is possible that it is due to your configuration. In particular, your channel configuration. To detect a conflict, TV Server has to be able to work out that the corresponding channels can't be simultaneously viewed/recorded with the available tuners. If TV Server thinks there are not going to be enough tuners available at that time then you should get a warning when you create the schedule. Otherwise you won't get a warning.

As above. It is possible, and actually even implemented.

Without meaning to blow my own trumpet, there's no other active team member I can think of who is more qualified/knowledgeable about TV Server than myself. If you can't or won't accept my answer then I don't think I can help you further, because if you don't trust my answer then I don't know whose answer you will trust.

Regards,
mm

 

Hello again Dave

The channel configuration thing I spoke of was not in the form of an option to turn conflict warning on or off.
Rather, in order to detect conflicts TV Server has to be able to look at the channel tuning details and determine that the two channels can't be viewed recorded at the same time.

In short, please post screenshots of the tuning details for a few of your channels.
The screenshots should look like this:
http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/@api/deki/files/2582/=Tuning_detail_1_Analog-TV.png

Yes it should when it is working correctly.

Okay.

I said the recorder does not know. That is a deliberate choice of words.
When you go to create a schedule the TV plugin first checks for conflicts. If it finds any you should get a warning and a choice about how to resolve the conflict(s). This point is critical because no other part of TV Server - including the recorder - knows about conflicts. Once you create the schedule TV Server assumes there are no conflicts with it, because you've had the option to resolve them. One of the options in the warning is to ignore the conflicts and create the schedule anyway, and if you choose to do that then you're expected to resolve the conflicts manually by cancelling episodes as required.

No. The TV plugin definitely checks for other schedules at the same time. However, it will only raise a warning if it thinks it doesn't have enough tuners to handle all of the schedules. That point - whether enough cards are available or not - is the point where I think you're missing out. I suspect you channel tuning details are configured in such a way that TV Server thinks it can view/record all of them at the same time with your one tuner (!!!).

Aww, shucks - you're too kind! Thanks.

Best regards,
mm