MPStandbyHandler - Does Not Record On 2nd And Subsequent Recordings (1 Viewer)

[gperkinson]

Hi Again 5Hundred,

Just when I thought about throwing my PC out the window ......

....... I had a friend around last night who suggested looking at my Bios settings. Not being that IT Savoy, I have never stuffed around with them. We found quite a few power options in there, one being "S3 Sleep Only". We thought this might stop the PC going into S4 or S5. We also found PCI Card settings which were disabled. Anyhow, we enabled what we thought was right and today I had some sucess with recording on the NOVA 500-T.

Noticed one time the PC woke from sleep and went back to sleep just before recording. Changed a few of the Advanced TVS settings and it did not happen again. Will do more tests tonight.

I was wondering if I could just keep power on the PCI Cards for the tuners in sleep mode? It's definately something to do with the tuner card re-initialisation - it's got to be a simple setting or tweak as the PVR150 records fine.

Will keep you posted and thanks for all you help.

By the way, are you on XP or Vista?

Cheers

Graham

 

[gperkinson]

Hi Paranoid Delusion,

I have recently gone into the Bios settings and changed some of the power options. This seems to alow me to record my first recording, but I'm back to where I started - all subsequent recordings will not record on the NOVA 500-T Card.

I have noticed that I have the same issue that you did - the 2nd tuner card will nmot scan any channels, so it dies after the first recording. I have set MPSH as you have suggested, but no luck. Any other suggestions? I have dropped the TV.log file from last night - the recording at 5:00am failed.

Any help appreciated.

Cheers

Graham

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

I have noticed that I have the same issue that you did - the 2nd tuner card will nmot scan any channels, so it dies after the first recording. I have set MPSH as you have suggested, but no luck. Any other suggestions?

ATM no further suggestions, will try a clean install again this week, cannot understand why TVServer has suddenly stopped recognising both cards, because it was working perfectly for a whole week with multiple recordings\standbys done just for test purposes, the only thing i do know is i lost my internet at the end of the test week and the problem seems to have occured after that, but that has to be the most stupid thing to stop a singleseat setup from working.

Frustrating thing is that both Vista MCE and gbpvr have no problems with the card using Windows standby, and this was working fine after a decompose graph fix way back just after RC2's release.

 

[SuAlfons]

Hi!

I have a completely other configuration, but with my setup it helped NOT stop TVServer Service on suspend but to KILL and restart it on resume!
I got the impression, that Windows did forget it had to wake up once the TVServer was not running in stand-by (S3).

So I do:

Suspend:
1. Stop MediaPortal (no kill, safe stop)

Resume:
1. Kill MediaPortal (in case it's running)
2. Stop TVServer
3. Resart USB W-Lan Device
4. Restat DVB-S tuner device
5. Start TV Server
6. Network check
7. Start MediaPortal (which is set to wait for TV Server in it's settings)

Smetimes, the MP restart dies with an .Net error, but at least the recordings work out.

Maybe this help?

 

[gperkinson]

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for the post - appreciated.

I'm going to include the tuner card stop / restarts as you have suggested. Also going to try and stop MP and restart it at the end of the resume settings as you have as I have not done that before.

I also noticed when testing tonight that my TVS did not restart properly and I think I worked out the delay on the tuner card under the general settings in TVS was set to a time greater than the time out in MPSH - now wondering if that might have been causing issues when using MPSH??

Anyhow, have set the TV tuner delay to 0 and built the delay into MPSH and will see what happens.

Cheers

Graham

 

[gperkinson]

Hi Paranoid Delusion,

I'm still having no luck with my Nova 500-T Card - very frustrating!!

I'm now just recording on my PVR150 Analog card and it's recorded perfectly today and tonight - just like it used to in Window Media Centre, so gotta be this dam card.

What else can I do here - any ideas? What about Bios settings? I'm going to try tonight to restart the PCI BUS, then the tuner card as well (using MPSH) If you Google Nova 500-T sleep issues, I found this link which was interesting:

The Green Button - NOVA-T-500 resume from S3 Sleep or Resume FIXED

.... however this dates back a long time ago and is probably fixed in later releases of Vista / Service Packs and more recent drivers for the card. Anyhow, it talks about how the card presents itself as a USB device and mentions PCI BUS.

Will give it a blast. Keen to hear how you are going and any suggestions you may have.

Cheers

Graham

 

[gperkinson]

Hi Stefan,

Still no luck with this :-(

A question, with your settings in MPSH, does MP startup after waking from sleep? Mine seems to do this when I'm testing it, however when I switch on the TV after the machine has woken up, MP does not seem to be up. This was making me think MPSH was not even executing after a resume. Your thoughts please.

I have been looking through forums tonight and came across another suggestion of swapping my 2 dual tuner cards between the 2 PCI slots. Might try this.

Any other thoughts appreciated.

Also, what card dp you have in your machine? What operating system do you use? If it's Vista 32 bit with NOVA 500-T, then I would be interested in your driver version for the Nova 500-T.

Regards

Graham

Hi Paranoid Delusion,

How did you go with your clean install? I read tonight in another forum to swap the cards between PCI Slots - might be worth a go?

As mentioned, Analog dual tuner card has recorded without any issues - it's just the Nova 500-T and it seems to consistently record the first recording - it's just every one after that and the only way to record again is to reboot. One of the tuners on the card does not seem to scan any channels and I'm assuming this is the one used for recordings. I'm therefore thinking, is it a setting after recording has finished and how the PC goes to sleep? Any ideas?

Regards

Graham

 

[gperkinson]

Hi All,

Well, I upgraded to Media Portal Version 1 (finished at midnight the other night) and set the machine to record together with activating Powerscheduler only i.e. without MPStandbyHandler and it recorded 3 items going in and out of sleep without any issues. I'm thinking that either the default settings were the answer or perhaps Media Portal version 1 has fixed the issue, however I saw nothing about this in the release notes.

Fingers crossed, it is now sorted - hope I have not spoken too soon as things went wrong for Paranoid Delusion after a period of everything working OK.

Will post again later with the results.

Cheers

Graham

 

[gperkinson]

Hi All,

Just to let you know that I have had no failed recordings for a week now

Cheers

Graham

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Just to let you know that I have had no failed recordings for a week now

Ditto, something was reverted in MP1.0 release, not sure what part of the code it was but have the same as you now, the only difference i have found, is still got the same 20 second delay before detecting cards, but now have to have the reinitiliase tuners enabled in powerscheduler or only one card gets detected, suspect it was something in the powerscheduler plugin that had changed, why it stopped working with RC4 and refused to go away even if i uninstalled that version and reverted to RC3 (which worked fine originally) and refused to work even with MP1.0, until i did a complete Vista reinstall