Partial/Incomplete Recordings

[habsfan]

Lately I have been getting quite a few incomplete recordings or recordings that seem to stop in the middle of a show and restart a few seconds later as a separate file. It seems to be random for the most part with the exception of Two Broke Girls and Two and a Half Men. For the past few weeks every time it records those shows, it will show that I have 4-6 episodes of each. It might record 10 minutes, then 2 minutes, then 6 minutes, then 12 minutes. The other thing that is happening is occasionally I will get an incomplete recording. For instance Shark Tank recorded started at 9:00 but the recording started around 9:54 (only 1 or 2 other shows were recording so it wasn't a conflict issue).

Here is the history for one of the shows that recently was recorded (2 broke girls) and was broken up into 4 recordings:

Recording 1 started on Tuner 2 (Ceton) and recorded about 23 minutes. It said it began as scheduled but stopped early due to a schedule change.

Recording 2 began a few seconds later also on Tuner 2 and said it began late due to a temporary failure caused by a either a system malfunction or power loss and stopped early due to a schedule change. This one recorded about 4 minutes.

Recording 3 was about 2 minutes and used tuner 1 and had the same message as recording 2.

The last recording used tuner 4 and was about 1 minute and also had the same message as the 2nd recording.

I also am seeing a lot of recordings listed in the history (for this show and many others) stating it was not recorded: missed due to a temporary failure caused by either a system malfunction or power loss. This is on almost every show, even those that did record successfully.

[Crash2009]

Is your tuner overheating? click here http://192.168.200.1/Services/1/Tuner.html What is your temperature?

[foxwood]

Two Broke Girls .... Two and a Half Men ... Shark Tank

It's your local PBS station trying bout a new fund drive technique!

[habsfan]

Is your tuner overheating? click here http://192.168.200.1/Services/1/Tuner.html What is your temperature?

Temps range from 35-40C. I have a PCI fan installed next to the Ceton to keep it running cool.

Two Broke Girls .... Two and a Half Men ... Shark Tank

It's your local PBS station trying bout a new fund drive technique!

LOL!

[habsfan]

I'm still having this issue. I did update to the latest Ceton drivers last month. For instance, tonight it was recording The Voice and Hell's Kitchen. I wasn't watching anything else on live or recorded tv (I was on an xbox acting as an extender watching a video on Media Browser) and 2 errors popped up on the extender. I hit cancel (only option on the error which stated there was a recording error). I looked at the files on the drive where it records and did see 2 files listed here for each show now. I looked at the history in Media center and saw this:

The Windows media Center receiver service terminated unexpectedly. tuner 1, 7:57-8:31

Seems like it's something in Windows causing this. I'm wondering if I need to do a format/re-install? If I do that, are there any considerations I should know? Will I lose all my series that I setup recordings for? I'll make sure I write down all my settings for everything installed.

[erkotz]

This is a bit of a dart as I don't have enough data to say for certain, but try this hotfix http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2746119

[TeddyR]

Another "shot in the dark"... These are known to affect WMC and network tuners (which the Ceton is technically)

- If you have any other AV program other than MSSE/MSDefender and windows firewall, uninstall them completely (disable is not enough), reboot.

- If you have the Cisco VPN adapter (IPSEC) client installed, also remove it completely, reboot. (This may affect other VPN clients, but I know for sure that the Cisco one is a problem... the driver conflicts with the Ceton drivers.

- Make sure that the network interfaces are on the "Private/Home" zone. Sometimes changes on the network like changing homegroup name or adding/changing routers would cause windows to "rediscover" interfaces and put them in the default "Public" zone.

[varys40]

Did you ever fix this problem? I've been having a lot of these issues as well. I've noticed they seem to happen if after I start watching something using Media Browser. Whatever is recording will tend to stop due to "service not available" type of errors. Unfortunately, my InfiniTV won't update the FW, but I think that might be due to something unrelated.

I'm wondering if I don't have enough memory on my HTPC. I have 8 GB installed, but I occasionally get errors within Windows that state something like "low system resources".