Manual recording with MP

I made my first recording last night with MP. I started a manual record of Torchwood on BBC HD at 9:02pm and left it to record. I set WinOFF (an auto shutdown program) to turn off at 10:05pm and left my HTPC recording...

In the morning I checked to see if it had recorded OK. I booted the HTPC and started MP, and found it was still recording! Well it seemed to have kicked off recording where it left off, so I made a manual stop, and yes, it only recorded a minute. I looked in my recordings list to find two recordings:

The times indicating the length of the newest recording was fine, but the Torchwood recording showed 21:02-21:02! I quickly checked to see if it had made the full recording... and fast forwarded to the end - and it seemed fine and complete.

So I posted on the MediaPortal forum, to find out that this how it behaves if the recording was cut short (like if WinOFF has turned off the HTPC), and the only way of fixing this is to edit the database entry for this recording! (read this post). So the lesson is to learn how to schedule timers within MP, or use ForTheRecord to make my recordings...

Anyway back to the Blu-ray playback. Well I uninstalled AnyDVD, and tested PowerDVD8 on the Blu-ray disc check - and unfortunately this fails. There is still this bug in PDVD and so its use for playing Blu-ray must be inconjunction with AnyDVD. I also noticed that the BD-ROM drive seems to be whirling all the time now (whereas with PDVD9 it would stop after a while).

My other Blu-ray movies still have not arrived! It's been over 7 (working) days since the 3 were posted. I contacted Amazon and ask them where the other two were and got a reply saying to wait for another week incase it is slow in the post! Well, I can't see why one would arrive and not the other two, so I am suspicious that two of them are lost...