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<blockquote data-quote="clarkebelt" data-source="post: 1094032" data-attributes="member: 148422">I am experiencing one other issue and wonder if anyone else has seen this.&nbsp; As noted in a previous post I am using a TBS6985 quad tuner card, and each tuner is connected to a four-port DiSEqC 2.0 switch.The issue is this:&nbsp; When recording a scheduled program, if the card selects DiSEqC port 1 (or A/A in MediaPortal terminology) on any tuner/DiSEqC switch combination then it always seems to work.&nbsp; However, if any of DiSEqC ports 2, 3, or 4 are selected, then sometimes (and ONLY sometimes) the recording will end prematurely.&nbsp; Strangely, when this happens, the recording will usually end somewhere near the 30 second mark, the 1 minute mark, or the 2 minute mark (give or take about 10 seconds).&nbsp; If the recording goes past two minutes then the entire program is almost always recorded (I saw it fail once about an hour into a two hour movie, but that could have been a signal strength issue).But another wrinkle is that if the recording fails, and then you subsequently record the next program on that same channel, that seems to always succeed.&nbsp; So if, for example, I want to record a program that starts at 8:00 PM, and it's on an LNB connected to DiSEqC port 2, 3, or 4, then the trick is to try to record the program that comes just before, such as at 7:30 PM.&nbsp; The 7:30 recording may fail after 30 seconds to 2 minutes, but then the 8:00 PM one will probably be good.I don't know if that makes any sense, but thought I would throw it out there and ask if anyone else that uses one or more DiSEqC switches has observed similar behavior.&nbsp; Or, if perhaps anyone knows of something in the patched driver that might induce this behavior.Would love to have a fix for this before the fall TV season starts, if anyone has the slightest clue why it happens and how to fix it.&nbsp; Also, I don't understand why it is that if I happen to shut down TV server while it's recording and then bring it back up, it will restart the recording (if it's still in that time period) but when this problem occurs MediaPortal seems to just give up and not even try to restart the recording.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clarkebelt, post: 1094032, member: 148422"] I am experiencing one other issue and wonder if anyone else has seen this. As noted in a previous post I am using a TBS6985 quad tuner card, and each tuner is connected to a four-port DiSEqC 2.0 switch. The issue is this: When recording a scheduled program, if the card selects DiSEqC port 1 (or A/A in MediaPortal terminology) on any tuner/DiSEqC switch combination then it always seems to work. However, if any of DiSEqC ports 2, 3, or 4 are selected, then sometimes (and ONLY sometimes) the recording will end prematurely. Strangely, when this happens, the recording will usually end somewhere near the 30 second mark, the 1 minute mark, or the 2 minute mark (give or take about 10 seconds). If the recording goes past two minutes then the entire program is almost always recorded (I saw it fail once about an hour into a two hour movie, but that could have been a signal strength issue). But another wrinkle is that if the recording fails, and then you subsequently record the next program on that same channel, that seems to always succeed. So if, for example, I want to record a program that starts at 8:00 PM, and it's on an LNB connected to DiSEqC port 2, 3, or 4, then the trick is to try to record the program that comes just before, such as at 7:30 PM. The 7:30 recording may fail after 30 seconds to 2 minutes, but then the 8:00 PM one will probably be good. I don't know if that makes any sense, but thought I would throw it out there and ask if anyone else that uses one or more DiSEqC switches has observed similar behavior. Or, if perhaps anyone knows of something in the patched driver that might induce this behavior. Would love to have a fix for this before the fall TV season starts, if anyone has the slightest clue why it happens and how to fix it. Also, I don't understand why it is that if I happen to shut down TV server while it's recording and then bring it back up, it will restart the recording (if it's still in that time period) but when this problem occurs MediaPortal seems to just give up and not even try to restart the recording. [/QUOTE]

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