Scheduled Tv Recordings doesn't start automatically!! (1 Viewer)

[Zeljko]

Unfortunately, I have some problem with recording in new and final version of MP. Few days ago I tried some of SVN builds but I had same problem.
Schedule in RC4 works fine, and I don’t know what’s going on, and I’m really sad because final version works much faster and better. I’m from Croatia, and I have GMT+1 time zone. I just tried to set time zone to GMT, but problem is still here.
I changed time zone with MP running, and MP doesn’t change time until restart (not PC, just MP), maybe this can help you find out bug?
Did you change some way how MP does schedule? Do I need some process to start? New version of .NET framework (I have 2.0)?

MediaPortal Version: 0.2.0.0 final
MediaPortal Skin: Mce1280x1024
Windows Version: Windows XP Professional
DirectX Version: 9.0c
Audio Codec: nVidia pure or MPV
Video Codec: nVidia pure or MPA
CPU Type: AMD 64 3200+ Venice
Memory: 2GB
Motherboard: DFI nF4 SLI-D
TV Card Model: Gigabyte Digital Theater Hybrid TV Card GC-PTV-TAF
TV Card Type: PCI
Video Card Model: Gigabyte GF 7800GT 256 MB(GV-NX78T256V-B)
Video Card Resolution: 1024x768
Video Render Type: VMR9
Audio Card Model: Integrated Realtek ALC850 8-channel audio CODEC

 

[Zeljko]

Does anyone read this? Or only me have this problem? Dado?

 

[Dado]

Hi,
usually (in a working version of MP (before svn 23 jun 2006)) when a schedlued recording starts, MP writes to the log a lot of things and if the recording has errors for start there is something, too. In my case there is NOTHING into the log at the time to record..! The only way to explain this is that MP can't compare system time with the recording time correctly (in my case...).

Because we seems to be only two people with this big bug: when I'll find timer routine into the project code I'll try to debug the compare method between recording and system times to the log.

Thanks,
Dado

 

[Dado]

Hi,
my scheduled recording is "Manual" and I've found this in Scheduler.cs :

        // 1st check if the recording itself should b recorded
        if (rec.IsRecordingProgramAtTime(DateTime.Now, null, paddingFront, paddingEnd))
        {
            Log.Write("----------------------------------- > BP 14");
          //yes, time to record it. Are we already recording it?
          if (!handler.IsRecordingSchedule(rec, out card))
          {
              Log.Write("----------------------------------- > BP 15");
            // no, then start recording it now
            if (Record(handler, dtCurrentTime, rec, null, paddingFront, paddingEnd))
            {
              // recording it
            }
          }
        }

rtv: Is it correct ?? " // recording it" ??

Dado

 

[Dado]

Hi,
also into the Scheduler.cs there is this section:

      using (MediaPortal.Profile.Settings xmlreader = new MediaPortal.Profile.Settings("MediaPortal.xml"))
      {
        _preRecordInterval = xmlreader.GetValueAsInt("capture", "prerecord", 5);
        _postRecordInterval = xmlreader.GetValueAsInt("capture", "postrecord", 5);
        _preRecordingWarningTime = xmlreader.GetValueAsInt("mytv", "recordwarningtime", 2);
      }

..but I haven't setting "recordwarningtime" in my MediaPortal.xml : is this correct?

UPDATE: I have tried to record from TV Guide on a Dvb-T channel and MP is recording it !!!!!!!!!!!

...so the problem (I think) is this:

            // no, then start recording it now
            if (Record(handler, dtCurrentTime, rec, null, paddingFront, paddingEnd))
            {
              // recording it
            }

Thanks in advance,
Dado

 

[Zeljko]

Unfortunately, I’m not that good in coding as you are and I don’t have time to test it right.
Usually, I’m using MP like recorder for night show which I wish to see later, because of that manual schedule recording is very importing to me.
Of course, I’ll use EPG if I can, but DVB is still in experimental phase in my country and doesn’t have this feature.

I hope that I’ll have some more time to start testing new release of MP, because is much faster when switching TV channel, but without schedule it’s useless for me.

 

[Ralph]

Windows Version: Win MCE 2005 SP2
CPU Type: Intel Celeron 2,4 GHz
Memory: 521 MB DDR
Motherboard: Asus P4Pdeluxe
Motherboard Chipset:
Motherboard Bios:
Video Card: Nvidia 5200FX
Video Card Driver: Latest Nvidia driver
Sound Card: onboard
Sound Card AC3: onboard
Sound Card Driver:
1. TV Card: Hauppauge PVR 350
1. TV Card Type: analog
Video Codec: Nvidia
Audio Codec: Nvidia

Same behaviour here, manual recordings didn't work.
Maybe this relates to:
http://www.testteam-mediaportal.com/Joomla/forum/showthread.php?t=714

Regards
Ralph

 

[Dado]

Yes! I have the same problem with Powerscheduler from two months, too and now I use PVRScheduler... but my probrems are not only with Powerscheduler 'cause if I am in MP and a recording is due to start, it doesn't start anyway! Thanks for testteam link and I hope for Manual Recordings! Here TVGuide is very bad and wrong! I can use it!


Dado

 

[Zeljko]

If I start record manually it works, but schedule doesn’t work in any way. I don’t use and I don’t want to use power Powerscheduler for now, maybe for some special condition in the future.
I read some suggestion about time set in schedule, and I agreed with this, make it easier. I think is much logical to set it with number keyboard on remote, or scroll first hours and minutes later than this way what we have now. For now it’s not precise enough, too much scrolling and half hour in some cases is too short or too long.

I started new thread:
http://www.testteam-mediaportal.com/Joomla/forum/showthread.php?t=713

please post your logs there, because I can't now, thanks.

 

[rtv]

_preRecordingWarningTime = xmlreader.GetValueAsInt("mytv", "recordwarningtime"[b], 2)[/b]

the second param is the default value if there is no config value set.
I'll have a look at the passage you pointed out.