Post Record Ignored (1 Viewer)

[garyh]

Recently any manual post recording settings has been completely ignored. It has worked fine for well over a year now if you include 1.2.3 and has worked with 1.3.0 for nearly a month now without issue. To clarify, if a basketball game is on and I go to the guide, right click, record, click on the proper entry on the right and a red dot appears, click on post record and choose a time. This has worked many times before but no longer. I can go back into the record settings, even after exiting completely, and when clicking on post record it will come up with the time I had chose.

This is the part that has completely confused me. I had an image of the computer, Acronis, from May 5th which is right before I upgraded from 1.2.3 to 1.3.0 and it still ignores manual post record settings... most of the time.

In my logs you'll find I manually scheduled an episode of the Venture Bros. for 3am on June 10th and the post record for that actually worked even though I did it exactly like all the times in the log before that and after that. There are a few examples of me trying to record in the logs, not including the kid shows between 8am -12pm that I have set to series record for my daughter.

In case the logs do not say, I'm assuming they do, Windows 7 x64.

I've nearly killed myself with everything I could do from dropping the database, fresh installing and like I mentioned, restoring an image to back when I knew it was working. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Since I did restore a previous image, reinstalled MP and all I find it strange for it to be software related but I also do not see how it could be hardware related since the recordings are fine... everything works as it should except ignoring manual post recording settings.

I apologize in advance for any information that I've left out that is needed.

Thanks!

 

[mm1352000]

Hello and welcome garyh

So if I've understood you correctly, you're scheduling a recording... then manually updating the post-record time after the recording is scheduled?
You can certainly update the post-record time after scheduling and before the recording has actually started.
However, I'm pretty sure that any changes made after the recording has started will have no effect.

In your logs I can see many examples of recordings being started at "unusual" times - presumably part way through programs. I guess you were only setting those recordings to test post recording. Since the programs were running at the time, the recordings would have started immediately. As per my comments above, any changes to the post-record time were probably ignored (due to the fact that the post record time was changed after the recordings started).

Does that make sense?

mm

 

[garyh]

It does make sense. I honestly had not remembered it being that way but it makes sense enough. The only problem is that not all of the examples are from starting mid show. I've tried experimenting with all combinations. I had even tried last night to record a show an hour away and put a post record on it and it only recorded for the normal time. From my noob eyes it is as if the post recording entry isn't being sent to, what I can only imagine is the mysql database (if that is how it works).

FYI, the same behavior also persists in the debug mode as well.

Where in the log does it say about post recording?... or should say about it? I looked, especially at the lone entry that worked, and found nothing about the post record being set.

I really had thought you could change post recording after the recording started though. Perhaps I'm just that frizzled but I honestly seem to remember doing that rather recently with recording a basketball game, a few times I believe. That is neither here nor there though.

Is there any particular tests I should try? I'm really at a lose. Would a log of examples of shows not already started help at all?

I really appreciate you taking time out to answer!

(Edit)
I've looked through my logs and at 09:24:39 on June 10th I schedule a show that starts at 10am. I had set a post record for it as well though I do not remember if it was a 30min or 45min post record but I do know I set one... it was the whole reason in scheduling this show to record. The show ended at 10:30 completely ignoring the post record.

 

[netexplorer]

@mm1352000
I would like to see this in future versions of MP, that changing the post record time take effect, while the recording is in progress. Is there a chance to integrate this?

 

[mm1352000]

Hello again

The only problem is that not all of the examples are from starting mid show. I've tried experimenting with all combinations. I had even tried last night to record a show an hour away and put a post record on it and it only recorded for the normal time. From my noob eyes it is as if the post recording entry isn't being sent to, what I can only imagine is the mysql database (if that is how it works).

Well, if you come back and edit a recording after setting the post-record time and you see that the post-record was not remembered... that would be the post-record time not being saved back to the database.

FYI, the same behavior also persists in the debug mode as well.

Yep, MediaPortal debug mode will make no difference. This is a server side limitation.

Where in the log does it say about post recording?... or should say about it? I looked, especially at the lone entry that worked, and found nothing about the post record being set.

It isn't usually logged.

I really had thought you could change post recording after the recording started though. Perhaps I'm just that frizzled but I honestly seem to remember doing that rather recently with recording a basketball game, a few times I believe. That is neither here nor there though.

I'll try to find some time to see if I can reproduce, but I'm particularly busy at the moment.

Is there any particular tests I should try? I'm really at a lose. Would a log of examples of shows not already started help at all?

Let's be clear here.
So you accept that TV Server almost certainly doesn't support changing post record after a recording has started... but you're saying that it doesn't seem to be possible to change it at all?
One thing I'd like to know: what are your default pre and post record times.
Beyond that... I think the biggest thing is to be able to find a way to consistently reproduce both outcomes (ie. find out how to get post-record to be honoured and not honoured). That would be the best thing you can do.

I really appreciate you taking time out to answer!

Happy to help.


mm

 

[mm1352000]

@mm1352000
I would like to see this in future versions of MP, that changing the post record time take effect, while the recording is in progress. Is there a chance to integrate this?

@gibman is the scheduler and service expert. I usually leave these things to him.

 

[gibman]

I see no reason why this can't be done.

should be fairly easy.

/gibman