Recordings stops in the middle (1 Viewer)

[petsa]

Dear TV3E developer,

For some time now I have experience problems where some recording are interrupted in the middle. I've tried various versions of TV3E but can't see any difference. My current TV3E SVN is from Nov 2nd (16422)

The symptoms are as follows:

- Recording starts on time and write the .xml file and open the .ts file

- It records for a while but suddenly stops writing anything more to the .ts file

- Having said that, the recording continues (according to TV Server config tool)

- The recording stops on time and close the .ts file. The timestamp on the .ts file is correct.

When I look at the file it is OK but too short, and then suddenly ends. There has been nothing on the TSWriter.log so far but I used the version from Tourettes with enabled logging and got a LARGE log file.

The attached log file is an extract from a recording that failed today (Masters Golf). The recording starts at 13.25 and ends at 17.15. When I look at the .ts file it stops after 1.07.38. This should be at 14.32.38 in the log file.

I do not understand the content of the log file messages (about PCR values etc) but I hope this can tell you more what is going on). Please note that the file is 90MB+ uncompressed...

This also seems to happen more often on some muxes/channels than other. In this case it is TV6 which is an FTA channel. Last night I also had issues with TV4 which is on the same mux.

Can this issue have anything to do with which mux the channel is on?

/Peter

 

[infinite.loop]

please include all logs (error.log / tv.log / epg.log / tswriter.log) thanks

 

[petsa]

Hi!

I lost the other logs when I restarted TV Server. I will recreated them until tomorrow with some new recordings.

I the mean time I extracted from a scan of channels the following PCR numbers:

04-11-2007 20:24:53 NIT: terrestial frequency=64200000 bandwidth=8 other freqs:3
04-11-2007 20:24:58 0) p:Viasat AB s:TV6 onid:22f1 tsid: 3fe sid: 42e major: 0 minor: 0 freq: 0 type: 1 pcr: 437 pmt: 42e v: 437 a1: 436 a2: 0 a3: 0 ac3: 0 ttx: 434 sub1: 0 sub2: 0 sub3: 0 sub4: 0 othermux:0 freeca:0
04-11-2007 20:24:58 1) p:TV4 AB s:TV4 Film onid:22f1 tsid: 3fe sid: 46a major: 0 minor: 0 freq: 0 type: 1 pcr: 473 pmt: 46a v: 473 a1: 472 a2: 0 a3: 0 ac3: 0 ttx: 470 sub1: 0 sub2: 0 sub3: 0 sub4: 0 othermux:0 freeca:1
04-11-2007 20:24:58 2) p:TV4 AB s:TV400 onid:22f1 tsid: 3fe sid: 474 major: 0 minor: 0 freq: 0 type: 1 pcr: 47d pmt: 474 v: 47d a1: 47c a2: 0 a3: 0 ac3: 0 ttx: 47a sub1: 0 sub2: 0 sub3: 0 sub4: 0 othermux:0 freeca:1
04-11-2007 20:24:58 3) p:TV4 AB s:TV4 Plus onid:22f1 tsid: 3fe sid: 47e major: 0 minor: 0 freq: 0 type: 1 pcr: 487 pmt: 47e v: 487 a1: 486 a2: 0 a3: 0 ac3: 0 ttx: 484 sub1: 0 sub2: 0 sub3: 0 sub4: 0 othermux:0 freeca:1
04-11-2007 20:24:58 4) p:TV4 AB s:CNN onid:22f1 tsid: 3fe sid: 488 major: 0 minor: 0 freq: 0 type: 1 pcr: 491 pmt: 488 v: 491 a1: 490 a2: 0 a3: 0 ac3: 0 ttx: 0 sub1: 0 sub2: 0 sub3: 0 sub4: 0 othermux:0 freeca:1
04-11-2007 20:24:58 5) p:TV4 AB s:TV4 Fakta onid:22f1 tsid: 3fe sid: 4c4 major: 0 minor: 0 freq: 0 type: 1 pcr: 4cd pmt: 4c4 v: 4cd a1: 4cc a2: 0 a3: 0 ac3: 0 ttx: 0 sub1: 0 sub2: 0 sub3: 0 sub4: 0 othermux:0 freeca:1
04-11-2007 20:24:58 6) p:TV4 AB s:TV4 Stockholm onid:22f1 tsid: 3fe sid:17de major: 0 minor: 0 freq: 0 type: 1 pcr: 419 pmt:17de v: 419 a1: 418 a2: 0 a3: 0 ac3: 0 ttx: 416 sub1: 0 sub2: 0 sub3: 0 sub4: 0 othermux:0 freeca:0
04-11-2007 20:24:58 7) p:Boxer TV Access AB s:Boxer Navigator onid:22f1 tsid: 3fe sid:fffe major: 0 minor: 0 freq: 0 type: 12 pcr:1fff pmt: 712 v: 0 a1: 0 a2: 0 a3: 0 ac3: 0 ttx: 0 sub1: 0 sub2: 0 sub3: 0 sub4: 0 othermux:0 freeca:0
04-11-2007 20:24:58 PatParser:Reset(0)

The channesl I have an issue with are TV6 and TV4.

/Peter

 

[infinite.loop]

please also attach the full system specification in your next reply (Go Advanced Button below quick reply).
because we need to know which TV-Cards you are using + driver versions.

 

[petsa]

TV-Server Version: TV3 + SVN
MediaPortal Version: 0.2.3.0 RC2 + SVN
MediaPortal Skin: Project Mayhem III
Windows Version: XP Home
CPU Type: Intel E6600
HDD: 300Gb + 500Gb + 500Gb
Memory: 2Gb
Motherboard: Abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD
Motherboard Chipset: ATI
Motherboard Bios:
Video Card: Integrated for now (ATI RX1250)
Video Card Driver:
Sound Card: Integrated
Sound Card AC3: Optical out
Sound Card Driver:
1. TV Card: Terratec 2400i (PCI-E)
1. TV Card Type: DVB-T
1. TV Card Driver: 1.0.3.266
2. TV Card:
2. TV Card Type:
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 PowerDVD
MPEG2 Audio Codec: Cyberlink PowerDVD
Satelite/CableTV Provider:
HTPC Case: Antec Fusion
Cooling: Scythe Ninja Mini
Power Supply: Antec 430W
Remote: M$ MCE
TV: Video7 32"
TV - HTPC Connection: DVI

 

[petsa]

Hi!

With the TV3 SVN 16445 I can no longer reproduce this problem. I made about 15 recordings yesterday and none of them failed. It seems as the "PCR fixes" Tourettes made fixed my issue as well.

I'm happy

/Peter

 

[infinite.loop]

great!

 

[petsa]

Hi!

I'm afraid I'm going to have to open this again... Got failures in recordings last night again. Nothing in the log as far as I can see, but logs attached.

The recording failed at exactly 00:59:01.

I use the SVN from "tvengine3-11-06-2007--19-46.zip"

I will test with the newest version but there is nothing in the changelog that indicate this problem has been addressed.

Would it be OK to ask Tourettes for a new version of the logging-enabled tswriter.ax to work with the latest SVN? Then I could provide some more detailed logs to this report.

/Peter

 

[petsa]

Got a new tswriter.ax from Tourettes. Will install and try tonight and post additional logs after that.

/Peter

 

[petsa]

Hi again,

Now I've collected the logs from a failing recoring.

If you look at the attached log files the recording starts at 04:45 and ends at 05:55. That is also the timestamps on the .ts and .xml files. However, when I view the reocrding it ends after 21 mins, i.e. 05:06.

Have a look at the TsWriter logfile and you'llsee that something happened with TSWriter at 05:06. All of a sudden it stopped listing "PCR" and there is nothing between 05:07 and 05:55. I had to strip down the logfile since it was about 200MB so I kept the section for this recording only.

I'm running this with the logging-enabled TsWriter from Tourettes, called "TsWriter_logging_16461.ax"

Can you please have a look?

/Peter