Scheduled recordings not occurring

[feamster]

What would prevent my recordings from occurring? They are marked as scheduled but never take place. Is there a log someplace that might explain why? I have 36gig free of 46gig available. Also when I use the client to view recordings there is intermittent lag (video/audio freeze). When I use explorer and play the recorded video on my client using windows media player it's perfect. RC3 had the same lag issues but at least recorded reliably. I have a gigabit network. The drives on the server are U320 and striped. Is the old sage version still available and will it continue to work with the TV guide? Thanks.

[Opus4]

Originally posted by feamster
What would prevent my recordings from occurring? They are marked as scheduled but never take place. Is there a log someplace that might explain why? I have 36gig free of 46gig available.

Do you put SageTV to sleep (icon in the sys tray), or do you leave it running (stays on the taskbar)? If you watch some LiveTV & don't put it to sleep, everything after that will be live tv & get marked as watched as it is recorded. Maybe it deletes your watched files. If you scroll back in time in the EPG, do you see a show that was supposed to be recorded & is now marked as watched (italicized)?

Also when I use the client to view recordings there is intermittent lag (video/audio freeze). When I use explorer and play the recorded video on my client using windows media player it's perfect. RC3 had the same lag issues but at least recorded reliably. I have a gigabit network.

Do you have something like Zone Alarm in use? Some peopel have said they have no problem, but when ZA is running on my server, it chews up 100% cpu time as SageTV tries to send video over the network & the client playback becomes choppy as a result.

- Andy

[feamster]

The server program is always asleep.

The client is only run when I want to watch something (which is usually a prerecorded show) and I usually end it by sleeping and then an immediate Exit SageTV. There currently aren't any snippets of programs in my video directory (as examined by windows explorer).

I'm not running any firewall software. The server and clients are protected from the internet by a hardware firewall. The lag occurrs on both a desktop and a laptop. And both play just fine by directly playing the file over the network.

If there isn't any diagnostic trail that I can follow I guess I'll just have to resort to trial and error.

Thanks