TVHeadend 4.3-2375 failed to stop at scheduled time

Martin Underwood

What could cause TVH to carry on recording 15 minutes (and counting!) after the scheduled stop time?

I've configured Configuration | Recording to add 5 mins pre-padding and 10 mins post-pading to every recording. I'm recording Alice Roberts' programme about the Ottoman Empire which the listings describe as 21:25-22:25.

The DVR | Upcoming Recordings page shows it as 21:19:30 (5 mins pre, plus 30 sec warm-up) to 22:35 (10 mins post). But the recording is still going, my post-processor programme hasn't been executed and there is not "stopped" entry in the debug trace. I am not using "Accurate Time" (EPG running state is not ticked). Any suggestions?

It's not a problem to stop it manually, but it looks like a bug. Another recording, Moonflower Murders (21:21-22:25 schedules start/stop) stopped exactly when I expected it to.

DeltaMikeCharlie

Martin Underwood What could cause TVH to carry on recording 15 minutes (and counting!) after the scheduled stop time?

Some places to look....

Did you provide manual padding when scheduling the recording that differs from the profile padding?

In Configuration -> Recording -> Digital Video Recorder Profiles -> (Default profile) there is also the option to provide pre/post padding. Did you have these fields set on the default profile or the profile that you selected for the recording in question?

Also, on the same page under EPG Autorec Settings there is an option to Use EPG running state. Did you have this option enabled?

davep

Martin Underwood Did the programme run to time and did it record successfully?

I've seen cases where there has been a last-minute change to the schedule, for example because an earlier live broadcast is overrunning. If the broadcaster is on the ball the EPG will be updated with the change.

I've set my Tvheadend with a 30-second "warm-up" in addition to padding. During the warm-up TVH is updating EPG and will modify the timing of the recording if necessary. In your case, without warm-up, the recording is already running when the EPG update is received, so all TVH can do is to change the stop time.

Martin Underwood

I had normal system-wide pre-padding of 5 mins and post-padding of 10 mins for the recording that never stopped (Ottoman Empire), with no override for that recording. Another recroding that took place almost similtaneously (Moonflower Murders) had reduced pre-padding of 4 mins to force Ottoman to use satellitr (higher priority) and Moonflower to use terrestrial. Moonflower turned off first (22:25 = 22:15 in EPG plus 10 mins padding) and Ottoman was supposed to turn off at 22:35 = 22:25 EPG + 10 mins. The EPG still listed Ottoman to finish at 22:25 - I noticed that while I was wating for Moonflower to turn off - I was checking carefully since I've only just strated using V4.3 ratehr than 4.2 and I', chekcing for odd behaviour.