No TV recording after resuming from S3 (1 Viewer)

[moviebuff03]

TV-Server Version: 1.0.0 Final
MediaPortal Version: 1.0.0 Final
MediaPortal Skin: blue3wide
Windows Version: XP SP2 MCE 2005
CPU Type: Duo Core 2 1.8GHz
HDD: Seagate 300GB
Memory: Corsair 1GB DDR2
Motherboard: Asus P5w DH
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD2600PRO
Video Card Driver: Catalyst 9.1
Sound Card: M-Audio Revolution 7.1
Sound Card AC3: AC3/SPDIF
Sound Card Driver:
1. TV Card: Cinergy 2400i Dual
1. TV Card Type: DVB-T
1. TV Card Driver:
2. TV Card: Cinergy 1400
2. TV Card Type: DVB-T
2. TV Card Driver:
3. TV Card: Compro T300
3. TV Card Type: DVB-T
3. TV Card Driver:
MPEG2 Video Codec: MPV
MPEG2 Audio Codec: MPA
h.264 Video Codec: Core AVC
HTPC Case: Silverstone LC10
Cooling: Q-TEC
Power Supply: 500W
Remote: Microsoft
TV: 32" Sony HD Bravia
TV - HTPC Connection: DVI/HDMI

I've been having major problems with powerscheduler and recording as far back as RC2. My solution although not perfect was to close MP before powerscheduler would kick in and I would have successful recordings everytime!

This week I upgraded to 1.0Final and sadly I've had nothing but problems....I tried the above, but it makes no difference (whether MP is open with TV server of not), recordings are being missed and TV server log reports errors with 'TV.Library - unable to start graph' I don't even get a small .xml file, but no .ts. However if I do a cold start with XP and allow it to start TVservice & MP, all recordings successfully complete.

The problem starts when I allow powerscheduler to suspend MP/TV Server. On wakeup, it appears something is broken and the tuners are unable to get the correct information to start the recordings. It's worth mentioning that I have tried 'standby.cmd' so that TV Server checks it's status on startup and restarts the tvservice (as previously posted) and reinitialise tuners. For RC2 at least it worked!

I have no ideas of what to try next, so any solutions would be gratefully received.
Regards,
Darren

 

[Charly_Brown]

Hi,

please post all logs from TV-Server, especially tv.log. With only the error file it is impossible to see what has happened before. Thanks

BR

Charly

 

[moviebuff03]

Hi,
I've attached a few more logs for someone to view for me. If you care to look around 14:40 when MP went into standby, that's when the errors started. I picked two random recordings, which were set to begin between 14:55 - 15:10.

As before, there were no .xml or .ts files as if TV Server ignored the recordings, although clearly it didn't as they appear in the logs.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

It's like there are no cards available, but tvserver does not see such.

A thought, try setting a 15-20 second delay before TVServer detects cards under general settings.

Or as you have many cards, maybe disable one at a time by unticking each relevant card in TVServer and maybe trying to pinpoint error (i know ronisle has one of the 2400i cards and had issues down to a bad solder joint, which he managed to fix himself), but i would try each card.

Lastly, I had issues upgrading from RC4 to MP1.0, including failed recordings, only way I found around it was to restore Windows OS, there was nothing left to delete including registry\databases and Vista's virtualstore directory regarding MP, but it still gave failed recordings, which the new install has not suffered from since

 

[moviebuff03]

PD thanks for your suggestions...

I feel that I have wasted an entire day as I have managed to solve nothing!

I have done a complete clean re-install of XP. I have checked the cards are correctly in their slots. Both windows and MP install are happy with the cards, I have the correct up-to-date drivers installed. I have disabled and changed priorities on all 4 cards, but no change.

I did increase the delay detect to 20 seconds, which made tvserver create a 0kb .ts and a 1kb .xml, but sadly no recordings. I might be wrong, but don't feel it is the cards as I get successful recordings EVERY time, they simply ALL fail when the pvr resumes from standby. As mentioned before i use the utility standby.cmd in tvserver to close tvservice on standby and resume on wakeup. From RC2 it worked perfectly if MP was closed.

One other note is that the recordings can be seen from TVserver being allocated to a card (manual control), but no recordings generated!

I've attached the latest logs if they show anything different. I note that for each recording it appears in the log and tv log reports a 100% locked signal, so I am completely stumped over this whole thing.

Cheers for people's advice so far

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

at TvService.TVController.InitController()System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Cannot open database "MpTvDb" requested by the login. The login failed.
Login failed for user 'sa'.

Wondering if "network" failing on resume, is this singleseat, if so might be worthwhile trying the https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...ack-device-singleseat-users-51028/#post348973, or even to test multi-seat.

Remember every where there is pc name or localhost, I have changed to set ip of 192.168.2.1, so this is my TVServer streaming address.

Just check you have these services active, sqlserver (sqlexpress), sqlbrowser and sql server vss writer.

Also double check your sql config TV-Server/Configuration/SQL-Server - MediaPortal Manual Documentation

Recovery options for the above services should be set to "restart the service", also do this for TVService as not enabled by default

 

[Santy]

I had lots and lots of problems getting recordings to work too when the computer was coming out of hibernation specifically to record TV.

I started using the MPStandbyHandler application which has solved the problem. The application is worth having a go at using and if you look at page 14 of the thread Paranoid Delusion has put up some screen shots showing how to set it up best (screen shots are for an older version but I still use them and they work fine).

Worth a go...

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/plugins-47/mpstandbyhandler-44296/