Recordings never completing! (1 Viewer)

[mrbenji]

I posted this issue to the previous SVN's thread, but after reverting to the 5/2/2008 SVN I'm still getting the issue... so I don't actually know when it started happening.

For the past three mornings I've walked into my living room and seen the HD light on my HTPC flashing like crazy. Turning my TV on I've noticed the red record dot displaying in the corner of the MP menu, even though nothing should have been recording (last recording was night before).

On the first morning and again on this morning the TV streams display showed all three of my tuners recording something, two on the same channel. A restart of TvService causes the recordings to stop... this says to me there's no issue with a mis-set post-record, as the recordings would in that case immediately start up again when TvService started, right?

This morning I inspected my recordings from the night before, and found 3 recordings for the same episode of Boston Legal. Two of them started on time and were almost 8hrs long... i.e. they'd run throughout the night, and were still hogging two of my tuners when I got up in the morning. The third started 5 minutes after the scheduled time, and concluded on time... this would be the tuner that wound up running on through the night on a different channel.

Can anyone tell me what's going on?

Thanks,
Benji

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TV-Server Version: 1.0 RC1 svn-05-09-2008
MediaPortal Version: 1.0 RC1 svn-05-09-2008
MediaPortal Skin: Monochrome 1.9.800
Windows Version: Vista Ultimate 64bit
CPU Type: AMD Phenom 9600 (Quad 2.3gHz)
HDD: Samsung HD501LJ Spinpoint T166 (500GB)
Memory: 4GB DDR2
Motherboard: ECS GeForce6100PM-M2
Motherboard Chipset: NVidia GeForce 6100 / nForce 430
Video Card: Sapphire HD3470 (ATI Radeon)
Video Card Driver: Latest
1. TV Cards: 3 Pinnacle PCTV HD PRO Sticks (a.k.a. PCTV 330e)
1. TV Card Type: USB "sticks" (3 of them)
1. TV Card Driver: Latest
MPEG2 Video Codec: MPV Decoder Filter
MPEG2 Audio Codec: ffdshow Audio Decoder
Satelite/CableTV Provider: None (OTA antenna)
HTPC Case: Antec Fusion 430 V2
Cooling: Scythe Ninja Mini CPU cooler + equipment cabinet is actively ventilated
Power Supply: Antec 430 Watt
Remote: Logitech Harmony 550, i-Rocks USB Remote Receiver.
TV: Olevia 237T
TV -> HTPC Connection: Sapphire HD3470 HDMI out

 

[mrbenji]

Help... is nobody else having this issue? It's still happening to me every night!

Another data point: when I bring up my TV Service config screen and look at manual control after a recording is supposed to have finished (but is still running) I've noticed that every active tuner is listed twice!

I've tried with each of the last 3 SVNs and the problem's not going away.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Have not seen any other comments about this, sounds like the database may have some strange time setting in the epg section.

If i have ever thought this, backup the sql db and then delete it and reconfigure and see if the problem has gone, if it has not then restore database.

Personally anything that normally screws up is database related.

 

[tourettes]

Also if you are using any 3rd party plugins please disable those.