2011-01-13, 12:10 PM
I have been trying to understand why sometimes recordings are fine, and occasionally very poor.
I have three tuners, a WinTV Nova T stick and a WinTV Nova TD stick (containing two tuners).
In order to get the signal strength displayed on the setting>status window, I deleted the contents of C/program files/NPVR and installed version 1.5.31 (I had version 1.5.36 running previously).
If I record three channels which are on different frequencies (e.g. TV1, TV3 and Prime) I find that two tuners show 100% signal, but one shows a low signal, often 40%.
I have eliminated the aerial cables by swapping them around during recording.
I noticed that it was always tuner 2 on the dual tuner stick which had the low signal. Then I tried changing the priority of the tuners in settings>devices, and found that it wasn't always tuner 2, but the second of the dual tuners to be used.
If it was always the same tuner, I would suspect a hardware issue, but as it is not, it could be a driver issue, or an NPVR issue.
I do have the latest hauppauge drivers installed.
The log shows starting NPVR, going into the guide and setting tree recordings going. The settings>status showed
dev1 path0 100% (dual tuner 1)
dev2 path0 100% (single tuner)
dev1 path1 40% but varying (dual tuner 2)
Any clues from the log as to where the problem lies?
I have three tuners, a WinTV Nova T stick and a WinTV Nova TD stick (containing two tuners).
In order to get the signal strength displayed on the setting>status window, I deleted the contents of C/program files/NPVR and installed version 1.5.31 (I had version 1.5.36 running previously).
If I record three channels which are on different frequencies (e.g. TV1, TV3 and Prime) I find that two tuners show 100% signal, but one shows a low signal, often 40%.
I have eliminated the aerial cables by swapping them around during recording.
I noticed that it was always tuner 2 on the dual tuner stick which had the low signal. Then I tried changing the priority of the tuners in settings>devices, and found that it wasn't always tuner 2, but the second of the dual tuners to be used.
If it was always the same tuner, I would suspect a hardware issue, but as it is not, it could be a driver issue, or an NPVR issue.
I do have the latest hauppauge drivers installed.
The log shows starting NPVR, going into the guide and setting tree recordings going. The settings>status showed
dev1 path0 100% (dual tuner 1)
dev2 path0 100% (single tuner)
dev1 path1 40% but varying (dual tuner 2)
Any clues from the log as to where the problem lies?