PVR process stops working

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On 4 Dec 2023, at 19:02, MrBrunes <mr.brunes at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The PID never shows up in Task Manager or Process Explorer so it's reboot time.

At most, you should only need to kill the Perl interpreter (perl.exe) process.

> 
> How can I diagnose this?
> Failing that, is there any way to make the PVR process more resilient,
> or failing that is there an easier method to detect that it's stopped
> downloading?

Run PVR scheduler from a command prompt instead of from start menu or desktop. The output should remain on-screen if it dies, or you could redirect it to a file.

> 
> The docs mention the possibility of using the Windows scheduler for
> the PVR at https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/documentation/09a72bf76c131c8932bbf0aef1eeb95ec85049b9#scheduling-the-pvr
> but the external link is invalid.

You are linking to a very obsolete version of the docs. The current version has what you're after.