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Nick Wilson wrote: </font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> Hi, </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
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<font color="#660066">> I've had this problem happen a few times now and I'm not sure exactly </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
<font color="#660066">> what is going on. One show in my scheduled recordings appears to </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
<font color="#660066">> record ok during the day according to the logs, but is completely </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
<font color="#660066">> absent from the recordings list by the time we get home later in the </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
<font color="#660066">> day (it's one of my fiancee's soap operas). This is now the third or </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
<font color="#660066">> fourth time that this has happened. </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">
> </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> I can see from the backend logs that the schedule kicked off the
</font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> recording at the right time (All My Children, starting at 11:58am).
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<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> 2007-10-01 11:57:29.165 TVRec(1): ASK_RECORDING 1 29 0 </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> 2007-10-01 11:57: 34.584 Received: CANCEL_NEXT_RECORDING 0 </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> 2007-10-01 11:58:02.516 Started recording: All My Children: channel </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> 2815 on cardid 1, sourceid 2 </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
<font color="#660066">> 2007-10-01 11:58:02.522 TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 2->1 </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
<font color="#660066">> 2007-10-01 11:58:03.218 Finished recording Without a Trace "4.0": </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
<font color="#660066">> channel 1040 </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> 2007-10-01 11:58:
03.268 Recreating channel... </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> 2007-10-01 11:58:03.300
DVBChan(0) Warning: Symbol Rate setting (0) is </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> out of range (min/max:5056941/10762000)
</font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> 2007-10-01 11:58:03.336 DVBChan(0) Warning: Symbol Rate setting (0) is
</font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> out of range (min/max:5056941/10762000) </font></font>
</font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> 2007-10-01 11:58:03.527 Finished recording Without a Trace "
4.0": </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> channel 1040 </font></font></font><br>
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">> </font></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"> </font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">This looks like you did not successfully tune the channel and its
</font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">recording at a symbol rate of zero. When this happens, you wind up with </font></font>
<br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">no file but the log thinks its recorded. Troubleshoot your tuning issue. </font></font></blockquote>
<div><br><br>Thanks, I wasn't sure what that message meant. Doing a bit more research it looks like turning my ringbuffer size down may help (I had it turned up while trying to fix some other issue but it's probably making this problem worse). I've noticed that this particular card model has a lot of issues with switching between HD and SD capture. I've already set my dvb_timeout to 0 in my module options (per recommendations on the pchdtv forums) but it's still not as stable as I'd like.
<br><br>I'll try turning my ringbuffer down when I get home tonight and see if that makes any noticeable improvement.<br><br>Thanks!<br><br>-Nick<br></div><br>