Have been updating my PCs for ages now with new versions of NextPVR without any issues until the other day.
Server and both PC clients have all been updated.
Some channels play live TV on clients without any problems others consistently freeze after a few seconds on playing OK. By freeze I mean that the sound and image both stop although a tap on the ESC key gets you back to the program guide.
Three sets of logs attached.
- One with server playing channel Quest OK.
- Other two are with the client playing Quest when it freezes.
FYI: I upgraded to NPVR 3.4.8 over the weekend, but I don't know if that makes a difference.
Tonight I had several shows recording at once from a combination of regular HDHRs (ATSC via BDA/NDigitalHost) and HDHR Primes (CableCard via NRecord). And I was watching a show recorded before on the NMT. Several times I noticed that my playback would hang for several seconds, so I began to investigate.
What I found was that when my playback would hang, there were HUGE (48-65 MB/s) writes going to the recording disk (a local SATA drive) for one of the shows being recorded from an HDHR Prime tuner. So I began to watch the physical disk activity on the recording drive more carefully. What I found was that for the shows being recorded from the ATSC HDHR, there would be pretty consistent writes (1.6-1.8 MB/s) to the .ts file and (about 2 KB/s) to the timing.info file. And for shows being recorded from the HDHR Prime, there would be periods of many minutes between writes to the .ts file and when they did occur, they were these huge 48-65 MB/s writes for about 30 seconds each that would temporarily block out the reads for the playback. (Upon more investigation, I am wondering if these may not be writing out to the physical disk until the recording completes and then writing the entire file at once!)
These recordings are all going to the same physical disk, so the Windows caching, etc. should be the same. Which leads me to think that somehow NPVR is doing something differently in the writing of the files between the ones written by NDigitalHost and the ones written by NRecord. Any ideas, sub?
On 3.3.8 with Schedules Direct I was getting 12 days of EPG, after upgrading to 3.4.8 I only get 8 days now. I understand the Schedules Direct interface changed, is 8 days going to be the new "norm or am I missing a new setting somewhere?
Upgraded to 3.4.8 and now I'm getting some strange recordings.Not every time, just occasionally. The recordings are full length time wise, appear full size bit wise and windows reports the correct length/time but the file won't play in Npvr nor VLC. I've tried running them through mpeg2repair, handbrake and avermedia. All fail and won't read them.
Never had this before, zero bit recordings yes, but not this. My signal appears good, HDHR reports signal strength 90% and signal quality 100%.
Logs attached, any ideas?
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Sub - I PMd you a link to the full recording if you want to down load it and look at it.
In order to get the series recording dialog to open with the Kodi addon you need to use the default skin. I use Mimic so I skinned the confluence dialog to work with it:
