I am having trouble with a specific show. Oddly it plays if I go to it in the guide but will not if I record it. The show is Seinfeld. I can’t figure out what is going on. All other shows that I have recorded playback properly.
What client/app are you trying to play the recording in?
A windows pc. You recently repaired an issue with it by remoting in.
Sorry. The client is an Apple TV 4k
I made a small video of it if you would like me to send it.
I just sent it. It was large so I had to send via drive link.
Did you receive the video?
Yes. None of those recordings have preview images, so it seems like they didn’t record properly or got corrupted somehow. Can you check the Log tab of the DVR to see if there are errors from whenever Seinfeld was recording?
I went to the Channels on my pc to see if I could find the log tab. When I clicked on the application icon I have pinned to my taskbar the following message popped up.
Database failure couldn’t open settings.db: open settings.db.lock: Access is denied.
Ok…I found the correct icon. Evidently the one on my taskbar was from a prior install.
ction on file 421 (TV\Born This Way\Born This Way S04E05 2018-08-29 One Small Step 2018-08-29-1859.mpg)
2018/08/29 20:06:01 [DVR] Commercial detection finished with 12 markers.
2018/08/29 21:01:10 [TNR] Closed connection to 13264DEB for ch1048
2018/08/29 21:01:10 [DVR] Finished job 1535590790-25 Born This Way
2018/08/29 21:01:10 [DVR] Processing file-422: TV\Born This Way\Born This Way S04E06 2018-08-29 Joyride 2018-08-29-1959.mpg
2018/08/29 21:01:10 [DVR] Waiting 28m49.989826s until next job 1535596200-22 Seinfeld
2018/08/29 21:01:10 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 422 (TV\Born This Way\Born This Way S04E06 2018-08-29 Joyride 2018-08-29-1959.mpg)
2018/08/29 21:07:07 [DVR] Commercial detection finished with 10 markers.
2018/08/29 21:30:00 [DVR] Starting job 1535596200-22 Seinfeld on ch=[112 12]
2018/08/29 21:30:00 [DVR] Waiting 29m59.9974243s until next job 1535598000-22 Seinfeld
2018/08/29 21:30:00 [TNR] Opened connection to 13264DEB for ch112
2018/08/29 21:30:00 [DVR] Recording for job 1535596200-22 from 13264DEB ch112 into “TV\Seinfeld\Seinfeld S05E22 1994-05-19 The Opposite 2018-08-29-2130.mpg” for 30m9.9974243s
2018/08/29 22:00:00 [DVR] Starting job 1535598000-22 Seinfeld on ch=[112 12]
2018/08/29 22:00:00 [DVR] Waiting 3m49.995128s until next job 1535598230-25 Born This Way
2018/08/29 22:00:00 [TNR] Sharing existing connection to 13264DEB for ch112 (clients=2, len=0)
2018/08/29 22:00:00 [DVR] Recording for job 1535598000-22 from 13264DEB ch112 into “TV\Seinfeld\Seinfeld S03E09 1991-11-20 The Nose Job 2018-08-29-2200.mpg” for 30m9.995128s
2018/08/29 22:00:10 [DVR] Finished job 1535596200-22 Seinfeld
2018/08/29 22:00:10 [DVR] Processing file-423: TV\Seinfeld\Seinfeld S05E22 1994-05-19 The Opposite 2018-08-29-2130.mpg
2018/08/29 22:00:10 [DVR] Waiting 3m39.4420975s until next job 1535598230-25 Born This Way
2018/08/29 22:00:10 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 423 (TV\Seinfeld\Seinfeld S05E22 1994-05-19 The Opposite 2018-08-29-2130.mpg)
2018/08/29 22:00:55 [DVR] Commercial detection finished with 6 markers.
2018/08/29 22:02:14 [DVR] Deleting E:\Recorded TV\TV\Born This Way\Born This Way S04E05 2018-08-29 One Small Step 2018-08-29-1859.mpg
2018/08/29 22:03:50 [DVR] Starting job 1535598230-25 Born This Way on ch=[1048 48]
2018/08/29 22:03:50 [DVR] Waiting 10h56m9.9955622s until next job 1535637600-22 Seinfeld
2018/08/29 22:03:50 [TNR] Opened connection to 13264DEB for ch1048
2018/08/29 22:03:50 [DVR] Recording for job 1535598230-25 from 13264DEB ch1048 into “TV\Born This Way\Born This Way S04E04 2018-08-22 Home Alone 2018-08-29-2203.mpg” for 59m19.9955622s
E:\Recorded TV\TV\Born This Way\Born This Way S04E04 2018-08-22 Home Alone 2018-08-29-2203.mpg: could not find codec parameters
2018/08/29 22:30:10 [TNR] Closed connection to 13264DEB for ch112
2018/08/29 22:30:10 [DVR] Finished job 1535598000-22 Seinfeld
2018/08/29 22:30:10 [DVR] Processing file-424: TV\Seinfeld\Seinfeld S03E09 1991-11-20 The Nose Job 2018-08-29-2200.mpg
2018/08/29 22:30:10 [DVR] Waiting 10h29m49.9899678s until next job 1535637600-22 Seinfeld
2018/08/29 22:30:10 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 424 (TV\Seinfeld\Seinfeld S03E09 1991-11-20 The Nose Job 2018-08-29-2200.mpg)
2018/08/29 22:31:22 [DVR] Commercial detection finished with 6 markers.
2018/08/29 22:46:11 [DVR] Deleting E:\Recorded TV\TV\Born This Way\Born This Way S04E06 2018-08-29 Joyride 2018-08-29-1959.mpg
2018/08/29 23:03:10 [TNR] Closed connection to 13264DEB for ch1048
2018/08/29 23:03:10 [DVR] Finished job 1535598230-25 Born This Way
2018/08/29 23:03:10 [DVR] Processing file-425: TV\Born This Way\Born This Way S04E04 2018-08-22 Home Alone 2018-08-29-2203.mpg
2018/08/29 23:03:10 [DVR] Waiting 9h56m49.4912256s until next job 1535637600-22 Seinfeld
2018/08/29 23:03:10 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 425 (TV\Born This Way\Born This Way S04E04 2018-08-22 Home Alone 2018-08-29-2203.mpg)
2018/08/29 23:09:00 [DVR] Commercial detection finished with 10 markers.
2018/08/30 09:00:00 [DVR] Starting job 1535637600-22 Seinfeld on ch=[1045 45]
2018/08/30 09:00:00 [DVR] Waiting 29m59.9916166s until next job 1535639400-22 Seinfeld
2018/08/30 09:00:00 [TNR] Opened connection to 13264DEB for ch1045
2018/08/30 09:00:00 [DVR] Recording for job 1535637600-22 from 13264DEB ch1045 into “TV\Seinfeld\Seinfeld S05E01 1993-09-16 The Mango 2018-08-30-0900.mpg” for 30m9.9916166s
2018/08/30 09:24:01 [DVR] Fetching guide data for 202 stations in USA-MS23449-X @ 2018-08-30 9:00AM
2018/08/30 09:24:09 [DVR] indexed 1435 airings (202 channels) [4s fetch, 3s index]
2018/08/30 09:24:10 [DVR] indexed 67 movies (30 channels) [0s fetch, 0s index]
2018/08/30 09:24:13 [DVR] pruned 164 replaced airings in 2s.
2018/08/30 09:24:14 [DVR] Fetching guide data for 202 stations in USA-MS23449-X @ 2018-08-30 3:00PM
2018/08/30 09:24:19 [DVR] indexed 1409 airings (202 channels) [3s fetch, 1s index]
2018/08/30 09:24:21 [DVR] indexed 92 movies (36 channels) [1s fetch, 0s index]
2018/08/30 09:24:21 [DVR] pruned 2 replaced airings in 0s.
2018/08/30 09:24:22 [DVR] Fetching guide data for 202 stations in USA-MS23449-X @ 2018-08-30 9:00PM
2018/08/30 09:24:28 [DVR] indexed 1486 airings (202 channels) [3s fetch, 1s index]
2018/08/30 09:24:29 [DVR] indexed 78 movies (33 channels) [0s fetch, 0s index]
2018/08/30 09:24:29 [DVR] pruned 2 replaced airings in 0s.
2018/08/30 09:24:30 [DVR] Fetching guide data for 202 stations in USA-MS23449-X @ 2018-08-31 3:00AM
2018/08/30 09:24:35 [DVR] indexed 1676 airings (202 channels) [3s fetch, 1s index]
2018/08/30 09:24:36 [DVR] indexed 50 movies (19 channels) [0s fetch, 0s index]
2018/08/30 09:24:36 [DVR] pruned 1 replaced airings in 0s.
2018/08/30 09:24:39 [DVR] Fetching guide data for 202 stations in USA-MS23449-X @ 2018-08-31 9:00AM
2018/08/30 09:24:44 [DVR] indexed 1416 airings (202 channels) [3s fetch, 1s index]
2018/08/30 09:24:45 [DVR] indexed 82 movies (31 channels) [0s fetch, 0s index]
2018/08/30 09:24:45 [DVR] pruned 3 replaced airings in 0s.
2018/08/30 09:24:46 [DVR] Fetching guide data for 202 stations in USA-MS23449-X @ 2018-08-31 3:00PM
2018/08/30 09:24:55 [DVR] indexed 1356 airings (202 channels) [7s fetch, 1s index]
2018/08/30 09:24:56 [DVR] indexed 113 movies (54 channels) [1s fetch, 0s index]
2018/08/30 09:24:56 [DVR] pruned 7 replaced airings in 0s.
2018/08/30 09:24:58 [DVR] Fetching guide data for 202 stations in USA-MS23449-X @ 2018-08-31 9:00PM
2018/08/30 09:25:04 [DVR] indexed 1480 airings (202 channels) [4s fetch, 1s index]
2018/08/30 09:25:05 [DVR] indexed 94 movies (51 channels) [1s fetch, 0s index]
2018/08/30 09:25:05 [DVR] pruned 8 replaced airings in 0s.
2018/08/30 09:25:07 [DVR] Fetching guide data for 202 stations in USA-MS23449-X @ 2018-09-01 3:00AM
2018/08/30 09:25:12 [DVR] indexed 1723 airings (202 channels) [3s fetch, 1s index]
2018/08/30 09:25:14 [DVR] indexed 66 movies (29 channels) [0s fetch, 0s index]
2018/08/30 09:25:14 [DVR] pruned 6 replaced airings in 0s.
Is there enough in that log for you to tell anything?
According to that log S05E22 and S03E09 recorded and processed correctly. Do those episodes play on your TV?
They won’t play on the server pc or the apple tv 4k. I can tune to the channel while the show is on and watch it.
The picture of what the pc is doing won’t upload so I will email it to you.
Try to find one of those recordings on your hard drive and play it with VLC. See if it plays or not.
I can’t find them. It is like they didn’t actually record.
What is in the Seinfeld folder?