Shows not recording randomly until rebooting the OS
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jjacksqr
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Shows not recording randomly until rebooting the OS
I didn’t see anything similar to this issue on the site. I’m using EPG123 and Windows 7. This started happening a couple of months ago sometime after updating EPG123. About every week or so recordings will not be successful. After rebooting the OS, recordings will resume. I tried updating EPG123 again to no avail. Is this a known issue and is there a fix?
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grittree
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What does the WMC "history" say happened?
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jjacksqr
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Where do I find WMC history?
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Kirben
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I'm having the same problem, closing and restarting Media Center makes no difference, it requires a reboot each time.
Nothing is listed in the History, so I have no idea what causes this problem.
Nothing is listed in the History, so I have no idea what causes this problem.
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jjacksqr
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When this issue happens, the history does not list shows that were supposed to have recorded. After rebooting, shows that I set to record are in the history until the issue happens again.
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stuartm
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So to be clear the shows are in the scheduled recordings list but then they don't record? Or, do you have shows (e.g. series requests) expected to record, but they are not even showing in the scheduled recordings list?
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d00zah
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Just have to ask... did this ever work after installing EPG123?
Did you do a "clean start" setup of WMC when switching over to EPG123 using the instructions @garyan2 provided?
Run the transfer tool to convert old guide series IDs to SD IDs?
Old tuners still listed in channel config?
I've read of numerous problems from users who didn't follow the EPG123 setup instructions & this just sounds familiar.
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jjacksqr
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I don’t know if they were in the scheduled recording list, but I had set them to record. After rebooting, recording resumes as expected.
I followed the EPG123 instructions.
I followed the EPG123 instructions.
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stuartm
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It will help to narrow down if we know whether they show in the scheduled to record list or not.
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jjacksqr
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Next time it happens I’ll check.
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Do you see error messages that the show didn't record?
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jjacksqr
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No error messages. WMA behaves as if it has not been requested to record anything.
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jjacksqr
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Note that a show that I requested to record was not recording.
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jjacksqr
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Restarted system and it performed a chkdsk because of an inconsistency.
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jjacksqr
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After the restart, recording works again.
Note that schedule shows a red dot where a red dot didn’t show up when recording wasn’t happening.
Also, I tried to record the NFL game on 8/28. Since it didn’t record, it was scheduled for a replay on 8/29. Therefore, the system was aware that the recording was unsuccessful but no errors were displayed.
Note that schedule shows a red dot where a red dot didn’t show up when recording wasn’t happening.
Also, I tried to record the NFL game on 8/28. Since it didn’t record, it was scheduled for a replay on 8/29. Therefore, the system was aware that the recording was unsuccessful but no errors were displayed.
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Click the History button. What does it say for the failed recording?
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jjacksqr
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The recordings (the ones that didn’t happen) don’t show history. As if they were never set to record.
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CyberSimian
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Vista has a bug in the handling of its event log files that results in the most-recent few entries being missing from the WMC "History" panel, but these missing events do appear eventually.
The event log files can be configured either to create a new log file when the current one becomes full, or to wrap around to the beginning of the current log file (so you only ever have one log file). The bug is that this wrap-around gets out-of-step with the current-entry indicator. So when the WMC "History" panel displays the most-recent entries for WMC, the panel actually displays older entries. However, the new entries are created correctly, and they will appear in the "History" panel when a few more WMC entries have been added to the event log.
I don't know whether this bug also occurs in Windows 7. To avoid it, change the event log config so that it creates a new log file instead of wrapping round. (Of course, you will need to remember to delete older log files from time to time, to prevent your C: drive becoming full.)
-- from CyberSimian in the UK