Pink Sections on HD recordings

[Mike Young]

Anyone know what the pink sections in he timebar are ? sometimes they are at begining, sometimes a little piece in the middle.
cant rewind past them, even to get to the begining of a show.
Also I have a Las Vegas from last night, I watched off and on on the client while it was still recording to do some testing.
now when I select it, each time it asks me if I want to delete it, the pointer is at the begining of the timebar, but it will not move, wont play, skip forward etc.


mike/

[Mike Young]

Still havent figured out whats going on with these. I know that I cant rewind these files properly and ff doesnt works only once in a while.
I got to the end of one, but it is now impossible to watch it again, it will not reset to the begining of the show, reset the watched status, everything I could think of, timeline pointer is at the end of the show and will not move at all.

[jkoutrouba]

Originally Posted by Mike Young

Still havent figured out whats going on with these. I know that I cant rewind these files properly and ff doesnt works only once in a while.
I got to the end of one, but it is now impossible to watch it again, it will not reset to the begining of the show, reset the watched status, everything I could think of, timeline pointer is at the end of the show and will not move at all.

I had a similar problem on a recording that I interupted with a reboot during the record process. I can't remember if there was anything pink in the time bar, but I found that if I hit RW about 4-5 times in rapid succession, then it would go to the beginning of the show. I also could not hit FF or RW during the show because it would skip to either the beginning or end of the show and I had to start over.


-JK

[Mike Young]

Must be some sort of corruption, probably not a coincidence that most of the shows that are really messed up like this are ones where I was watching with the client while they were being recorded...that must have caused a glitch of somekind.

[Opus4]

The time bar colors are described on p. 109 of the current v3 manual, in chapter 4. Pink/red are areas that were not recorded, so if you have a lot of those, then you are getting bad recordings because it keeps stopping & restarting the recording process. (Unless it is for live TV, where it can happen during channel flipping.)

- Andy

[Mike Young]

well, I WAS switching back and forth between watching the recording that was currently occuring and watching various other recorded SD and HD shows.
I dont remember seeing anything wrong with the show as I was watching it, but that means that whatever I was doing on the client was hosing up the recording process on the server.
I dont remmember EVER seeing this with my PVR250 so it must be a glitch with the A180.