Some more observations on my ?Invalid argument to function: at line 6899 Event: TIMER1CTDOWN ? Dialog:0? issue
here.
On my PC I notice when a number of recordings are queued for download in WizZilla 1.1.0.60, the copy progress bar doesn?t progress to an indicated 100%.
At an indicated 98% or 99% the copy progress bar disappears, the queued recording that seems to have just been copied also disappears from the queue list, & the green tick disappears from the same recording in the main list.
Switching immediately to Windows Explorer (already open in another window) I can observe there are two more tvwiz files still to be copied for this same recording (I knew how many tvwiz files the recording folder contained). These two remaining files continue to copy but before the last tvwiz file copies to the HDD, & before WizZilla starts copying the next queued recording, WizZilla displays the ?Invalid argument to function: at line 6899 Event: TIMER1CTDOWN ? Dialog:0? error message. By clicking ?OK? on this error message, WizZilla shuts down & the next queued recording starts copying, & completes copying, in the background. The remaining queued recordings of course fail to copy.
At a guess, it seems that WizZilla isn?t waiting long enough for the last tvwiz file to copy. If this is the case, I wonder if the timeout allows for copying to Ext USB HDDs connected to older slower PCs? My much refurbished Windows Home XP SP3 PC is way overdue for replacement but still works reliably, although a lot slower than modern PCs (it is only a 2.4GHz P4 with 1GB of RAM, new power supply, upgraded HDDs etc etc).
I tried copying 4 short queued recordings with WizZilla to one of the PC?s Ext USB HDDs (the same one used in all previous tests) & I could get the exact same above failure sequence every time ? the timeout error message after the 1st queued recording almost copied.
By copying the same recordings to the PC's internal HDD in the same queue sequence, sometimes WizZilla would copy all recordings without fail, other times it would fail after almost copying the 2nd recording & other times after almost copying the 3rd recording. In each case Windows Explorer showed WizZilla had one tvwiz file still to copy before the error message came up ? as detailed above. This last file eventually copies. So copying to the Int HDD is slightly more reliable than copying to the Ext HDD.
I then tried copying the same 4 recordings in the same sequence, plus an additional 2 recordings, with getWizPnP.exe 0.3.4.0 to the PC?s Ext USB HDD, using the following command:
c:\>getwizpnp.exe -a -H (the S1?s fixed IP address) -p 49152 "RocKwiz-16 (BS)" "Rockwiz-10 (MM)" "Rockwiz-11 (BM)" "Rockwiz-12 (RM)" "Rockwiz-3 (WJ)" "Rockwiz-6 (SO'N)" -O "M:\PVR_copy-test6" -d ?resume
This version of getWizPnP.exe is used by WizZilla 1.1.0.60 & copied all these recordings, in sequence, reliably.
My PC, LAN & DP-S1 setup is the same as listed in my earlier post (see link at the top of this post).
Edit 4-Jan-11: The same above test using getWizPnP.exe 0.3.4.0, has been carried out a few more times with the same success.