I usually record only episodes of TV shows (most of them are 30-60 minutes each).
Recently, I checked the TV show “Inspector Barnaby” to be recorded automatically, because ZDFNEOHD airs three or four episodes (each of them more than 90 minutes) per day.
Unfotunately, most recordings are unusable. I have the same symptoms on the second consecutive day now.
My DVR records 8 minutes prior of each episode and 8 minutes after each episode extra. Here is what happens - with yesterdays recordings as an example:
Channel Recording Start Recording End resulting file length
ZDFNEOHD 20:07 22:03 01:55:47
ZDFNEOHD 21:47 23:43 00:58:41 !!! (the fist 58 minutes)
ZDFNEOHD 23:27 01:23 01:37:05
The first recording is just fine, it stops at the time it was intended to stop and within a minute, the recorded file was available in the library while the second recording was on its way already.
The second recording of that channel should have stopped by 11:43pm.
The following image was taken eight minutes later:
As you can see, second recording not finished, third on its way.
The HDHomeRun Expand shows that only one of the four tuners is used for that channel:
Half an hour later, the same thing, second recording still unfinished, file not in library…
This was taken at 00:21am.
I checked this every few minutes and at 00:59am (more than an hour after the second recording should have ended), the second recording was finishing while the third recording of that channel was still ongoing.
A few minutes later, I checked the resulting recorded file which should have similar length than the first recording (01h55m), but it was only 58m41s. I checked the content of the second recording result and the file contains the first 58m of the intended recording. About an hour of the recording was missing while the recording took one hour longer than expected!
The third recording of the same channel should have finished ar 01:23am.
But the third recording showed the same symptoms as the second. More than twenty minutes after the supposed end of the recording, it was still underway. Here are the screen shots I took at 01:45am.
I then went to sleep at 02:06am (nothing changed until then) and checked in the morning… the third recording file length was 01h37m… not the 01h55m that were programmed to record.
Time stamp of the recording is 03:18am.
I checked the content again and the file contains the recording from the beginning, but the end was missing.
Sympoms (the same on two consecutive days with same channel):
- first recording is okay, starts at intended time, stops at intended time
- only one tuner channel is used for all overlapping recordings of the same channel
- second and all further recordings start at intended recording time
- those recordings take WAY longer before they stop (they do not end by the time they should stop, and the tuner channel stays locked for that recording for hour(s).
- the resulting recorded files stop prematurely (at different times)
This is not only one big problem (recordings without the end of the episode) but two… the tuner channel stays occupied until the long waiting time (no idea what PMS does during that time) so it cannot be used for other recordings of different channels.
I grabbed logs at the following times:
23:56pm
01:03am
09:47am
@sa2000? Any Plex helper?
