MP Crash when recording and viewing the same channel - New Info (1 Viewer)

[kkozma]

TV-Server Version: 1.0.0.0
MediaPortal Version: 1.0.0.0
MediaPortal Skin: Streamed MP
Windows Version: XP Home SP3
CPU Type: AMD 64 X2 4800+
HDD: Seagate 500gb
Memory: 1gb
Motherboard: Foxconn MCP61SM2MA-RS2H
Video Card: ATI Radeon 2600HD
Video Card Driver: Catalyst 8.9
Sound Card: ATI Radeon 2600HD
Sound Card AC3:
Sound Card Driver:
1. TV Card: HDhomerun
1. TV Card Type: ATSC
1. TV Card Driver:
2. TV Card: HDhomerun
2. TV Card Type: ATSC
2. TV Card Driver:
3. TV Card:
3. TV Card Type:
3. TV Card Driver:
4. TV Card:
4. TV Card Type:
4. TV Card Driver:
MPEG2 Video Codec: Cyberlink
MPEG2 Audio Codec: AC3Filter
h.264 Video Codec: MPC
Satelite/CableTV Provider: OTA
HTPC Case:
Cooling:
Power Supply:
Remote: MCE 2005
TV: Olevia 332h
TV - HTPC Connection: HDMI

This has happened twice now and it's rather frustrating as I have no clue where to even start. Just as the title of my thread suggests. First time this happened was Monday night. We watched Chuck on NBC and then I set MP to record Heroes. At this time I switched over to my Satellite dish to watch something else but left MP running. When I flipped back to the PC, I found a nice little MP error saying it encountered a problem and needed to shut down. I thought it was because I hadn't installed the DVB Hotfix yet, so I installed that and tried to record something and watch the same channel and it happened again. Not sure if this matters but on both occasions when I rebooted, I got a DEP error for "generic host process for win32 services"

Please help! I only have a few more days until my Dish Network service isa shut off and I need this to be reliable!

Thanks in advance!

 

[kkozma]

Anyone?

 

[kkozma]

Ok, this is starting to annoy me...

CLEAN install. There is nothing on the PC other than items required to run Media Portal. Same thing AGAIN last night.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Disable all the extra plugins, see if it works then, ie moving pictures\TVSeries both at sometime have caused MP to crash, but nothing in logs to indicate such.

The other thing could be have you got epg grabbing enabled, try disabling that and see what happens.

 

[kkozma]

Disable all the extra plugins, see if it works then, ie moving pictures\TVSeries both at sometime have caused MP to crash, but nothing in logs to indicate such.

The other thing could be have you got epg grabbing enabled, try disabling that and see what happens.

Thank you very much for the reply and suggestions. I'll try killing the plug-in's and give it another go.

I think I have epg grabbing turned off now. I disabled it on the hdhr in tv server. Are there any places in the MP config itself I should check too? The interesting thing this time that was different is that it crashed before the recording started and it actually completed the record process.

I don't have any new logs to post this time unfortuneately, it seems that mp deleted them from yesterday when I restarted it this morning. I'll see if I can make it do it again tonight.

One other bit of info is that I'm running a single hard drive with a single partition. Don't know if that could be the problem or not.
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[kkozma]

Well I didn't even have to test anything. When I got home from work, my wife told me that the Media PC had crashed. NOthing was set to record. It just up and crashed this time. Same results as the above logs, only this time I also looked in my system event viewer and noticed that .net framework crashed at the exact moment MP started generating oddities in it's log.

Some snippets:

tswriter.log:

02-03-2009 11:08:33.203 MultiFileWriter: failed to create file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\timeshiftbuffer\live1-0.ts.tsbuffer2.ts
02-03-2009 11:10:35.562 MultiFileWriter: failed to create file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\timeshiftbuffer\live1-0.ts.tsbuffer2.ts
02-03-2009 11:12:37.968 MultiFileWriter: failed to create file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\timeshiftbuffer\live1-0.ts.tsbuffer2.ts
02-03-2009 11:14:40.390 MultiFileWriter: failed to create file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\timeshiftbuffer\live1-0.ts.tsbuffer2.ts
02-03-2009 11:16:42.828 MultiFileWriter: failed to create file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\timeshiftbuffer\live1-0.ts.tsbuffer2.ts
02-03-2009 11:18:45.250 MultiFileWriter: failed to create file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\timeshiftbuffer\live1-0.ts.tsbuffer2.ts
02-03-2009 11:20:47.656 MultiFileWriter: failed to create file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\timeshiftbuffer\live1-0.ts.tsbuffer2.ts
02-03-2009 11:22:50.78 MultiFileWriter: failed to create file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\timeshiftbuffer\live1-0.ts.tsbuffer2.ts
02-03-2009 11:24:52.500 MultiFileWriter: failed to create file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\timeshiftbuffer\live1-0.ts.tsbuffer2.ts
02-03-2009 11:26:54.921 MultiFileWriter: failed to create file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\timeshiftbuffer\live1-0.ts.tsbuffer2.ts
02-03-2009 11:28:57.359 MultiFileWriter: failed to create file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\timeshiftbuffer\live1-0.ts.tsbuffer2.ts
02-03-2009 11:30:59.781 MultiFileWriter: failed to create file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\timeshiftbuffer\live1-0.ts.tsbuffer2.ts
02-03-2009 11:33:02.187 MultiFileWriter: failed to create file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\timeshiftbuffer\live1-0.ts.tsbuffer2.ts
02-03-2009 11:35:04.609 MultiFileWriter: failed to create file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\timeshiftbuffer\live1-0.ts.tsbuffer2.ts
02-03-2009 11:37:07.46 MultiFileWriter: failed to create file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\timeshiftbuffer\live1-0.ts.tsbuffer2.ts
02-03-2009 11:37:07.46 Failed to reopen old file. It's currently in use. Dropping data!
02-03-2009 11:37:07.640 MultiFileWriter: failed to create file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\timeshiftbuffer\live1-0.ts.tsbuffer2.ts
02-03-2009 11:37:07.640 Failed to reopen old file. It's currently in use. Dropping data!
02-03-2009 11:37:08.250 MultiFileWriter: failed to create file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\timeshiftbuffer\live1-0.ts.tsbuffer2.ts
02-03-2009 11:37:08.250 Failed to reopen old file. It's currently in use. Dropping data!
02-03-2009 11:37:08.859 MultiFileWriter: failed to create file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\timeshiftbuffer\live1-0.ts.tsbuffer2.ts
02-03-2009 11:37:08.859 Failed to reopen old file. It's currently in use. Dropping data!
02-03-2009 11:37:09.453 MultiFileWriter: failed to create file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\timeshiftbuffer\live1-0.ts.tsbuffer2.ts
02-03-2009 11:37:09.453 Failed to reopen old file. It's currently in use. Dropping data!

Repeat the failed to create new file for HOURS on end resulting in a 10 meg log file.

System Log from Event Viewer

Event Type: Error
Event Source: .NET Runtime 2.0 Error Reporting
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 3/2/2009
Time: 11:08:29 AM
User: N/A
Computer: HTPC
Description:
Faulting application mediaportal.exe, version 1.0.0.21149, stamp 494e6202, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 5.1.2600.5512, stamp 4802a12c, debug? 0, fault address 0x00010193.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 00 70 00 70 00 6c 00 A.p.p.l.
0008: 69 00 63 00 61 00 74 00 i.c.a.t.
0010: 69 00 6f 00 6e 00 20 00 i.o.n. .
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0038: 72 00 74 00 61 00 6c 00 r.t.a.l.
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0058: 31 00 31 00 34 00 39 00 1.1.4.9.
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0070: 32 00 20 00 69 00 6e 00 2. .i.n.
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00a0: 35 00 35 00 31 00 32 00 5.5.1.2.
00a8: 20 00 34 00 38 00 30 00 .4.8.0.
00b0: 32 00 61 00 31 00 32 00 2.a.1.2.
00b8: 63 00 20 00 66 00 44 00 c. .f.D.
00c0: 65 00 62 00 75 00 67 00 e.b.u.g.
00c8: 20 00 30 00 20 00 61 00 .0. .a.
00d0: 74 00 20 00 6f 00 66 00 t. .o.f.
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00e8: 31 00 30 00 31 00 39 00 1.0.1.9.
00f0: 33 00 0d 00 0a 00 3.....

And this is a snippet of errors from the 20MB tsreader.logwhich stops right before MP crashed.

02-03-2009 11:08:23.359 [9c0]vid:skip seek
02-03-2009 11:08:23.359 [9c0]aud:skip seek
02-03-2009 11:08:23.406 [9c0]aud:skip seek
02-03-2009 11:08:23.406 [9c0]vid:skip seek
02-03-2009 11:08:23.406 [9c0]aud:skip seek
02-03-2009 11:08:23.437 [9c0]aud:skip seek
02-03-2009 11:08:23.437 [9c0]vid:skip seek
02-03-2009 11:08:23.437 [9c0]aud:skip seek
02-03-2009 11:08:23.484 [9c0]aud:skip seek
02-03-2009 11:08:23.484 [9c0]vid:skip seek
02-03-2009 11:08:23.484 [9c0]aud:skip seek
02-03-2009 11:08:29.109 [9c0]aud seek to 112.006836/5264.237793
02-03-2009 11:08:29.109 [9c0]demux:set hold audio:1

Ok.. I don't know if this is a bug or what it is.... I stumbled across this post when I searched for the error I was getting from the system logs...

I can confirm that when the HDMI connection goes dead on my PC, that MP will in fact crash if live tv is left running... It doesn't happen immediately, but it will crash. When I switch back to HDMI the video is all sorts of choppy and there is no sound. Stopping live tv and resuming returns everything to normal.

This should be relatively easy for the dev's to replicate and determine if it's an ATI driver issue or MP issue.

 

[tourettes]

2009-02-23 21:00:16.250000 [Info.][MPMain]: TSReaderPlayer: event:ErrorAbort param1:-2005401480 param2:0 param1:0x88780078 param2:0x0

Indeed looks like audio driver is disabled / missing.

0x88780078 == DSERR_NODRIVER == No sound driver is available for use

Here's a patched core.dll (based on current SVN release, sorry cannot build 1.0 compatible core.dll at the coment.). MediaPortal should now stop live tv when it receives the missing driver notification. Hopefully this solves the crashing (not sure even where the crash happens, could be audio codec... I cannot reproduce the issue locally).

 

[kkozma]

Well one of the other problems I have is that I cannot make any of the current SVN's work on my machine..

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/general-support-51/none-svns-work-me-55706/

ARgghhh!!! Thank you though, I'll try to install one of the svn's again tonight.

 

[tourettes]

ok, I'll try to fetch the 1.0 source from SVN, althou it takes some time

 

[kkozma]

Thank you VERY much. I really like this application, I just wish I could get all of my bugs worked out.

If there's one thing I'm good at, it's finding ways to break things!