So i have a raspberry pi running the latest raspbmc. I am running nextpvr 3.1.1 and all seems well except while i am watching live tv it seems to freeze around 7 minutes into the show. I hit a stop button on my remote and go to the menu page show and a little message will display stating "tuner no longer available". I then can select the channel again and the show will start again.
Is there a buffer setting that i am missing. I do have the mpeg license installed.
Please let me know if i am missing something. Also i am plugged in not using wifi.
I'm trying to work out a way to add inbound port rules to Windows Firewall. It seems there are 2 APIs - the one introduced with XP SP2 and the "advanced" API added in Vista.
It seems rules created with the XP API approach would be valid for Vista and later but it is recommended to use the advanced API. One problem is the MS code samples for the XP API are in C++ and I'd rather use C# - another problem is the samples for the advanced can't be built in VS2010 on my XP machine because they need to reference a system dll (or a version of it) which only comes with Vista and later.
I thought about just using a shell to execute the netsh CLI using "netsh firewall" or "netsh advfirewall" commands depending on OS version but I've never been keen on executing a command-line program from within a .NET program.
There seems to be a bug in the Frodo build with NextPVR Addon that requires you to change the channel 3 times before you can use the tunner from the HDHomeRun Prime without getting the "Tunner not Available" error. On the 3rd time it works every time. I had a co-worker try his and the same thing.
I was able to get rid of this bug by turning off the time shifting but then the live tv jitters and becomes unwatchable on my RPi.
Anyone else notice this bug and come up with a fix.
Let me start off by saying the world of HTPC's and PVR's is still pretty new to me, so please bear with me...
I am having a good deal of trouble getting NextPVR set up as a backend for XBMC. Since I have a Ceton InfiniTV 4 with a CableCard, I have tried following the guides posted here and other places. I have managed to get SageDCT to recognize the Ceton internal card and all four tuners. I have also installed Network Recorder. However, the first issue I have encountered is that once I have the first tuner configured, NextPVR (outside of XBMC) tells me it can not communicate with the device. The second problem is that if I add the other 3 tuners in the .xml file, only the original tuner appears in the NextPVR settings. I am using Windows 7 x64. To help explain, I have attache screenshots, as well as the log file below.
This is really, really weird.
I told npvr to record 2 shows @ 8, and 2 shows at 9.
My tuner is a HR prime with 3 tuners.
Usually, it would use one tuner per show.
This time around, it used 1 tuner for 2 shows, verified by what status was showing, AND going to the prime's status page, and looking at the tuner info. Only 1 tuner was in use!
So, I figured it was a bug, so I stopped 1 show, and then did a quick record.
It was still using 1 tuner for BOTH shows.
Looking at the files, yeah, they were both being written to, AND the data was different.
It was indeed the shows it was supposed to record.
At 9, status showed *4* shows on 1 tuner. The prime still had 1 LED on for tuner status, so again, it was using 1 tuner, but this time with 4 shows. (the end of the first two, and the start of the next two).
They were on the same channel though, so, in reality, it was still only 2 channels on 1 tuner.
Yes, all vids show all the content it was supposed to.
I am really confused on how this can happen, is there a secret way to record off the prime so it doesn't show tuner status at all ?
Right now, while this is going on, it is showing this,for tuner status:
Code:
Modulation Lock qam256
PCR Lock locked
Signal Strength 100% (2.3 dBmV)
Signal Quality 100% (37.6 dB)
Symbol Quality 100%
Streaming Rate 37.785 Mbps
Resource Lock 192.168.1.10
the other two tuners show:
Code:
Modulation Lock none
PCR Lock none
Signal Strength none
Signal Quality none
Symbol Quality none
Streaming Rate none
Resource Lock none
from logs:
Code:
2014-01-23 19:59:00.468 [DEBUG][7] About to start recording (882 on 27):
2014-01-23 19:59:03.312 [DEBUG][7] About to get: ipc://DigitalHost-27/RecorderRemote
2014-01-23 19:59:03.312 [DEBUG][7] Got: ipc://DigitalHost-27/RecorderRemote
2014-01-23 19:59:05.687 [DEBUG][7] Started recording (882:1:
---
2014-01-23 19:59:05.859 [DEBUG][7] About to start recording (885 on 27):
2014-01-23 19:59:05.875 [DEBUG][7] Started recording (885:2:
2014-01-23 20:04:36.406 [DEBUG][14] CancelRecording(885)
2014-01-23 20:04:44.640 [DEBUG][7] Started recording (886:3:
...
It happened yesterday and I thought it was me, so I did an update for logging and thought I'd try again after restoring.
It goes something like this:-
View a recording and exit before the finish to recordings menu.
move down to a recording I want to delete and press the square stop key (used for delete) and it deleted the recording I was part way through watching, not the one highlighted in the menu.
In my case today, I wanted to delete the file "Dolphins - Spy in the Pod" and it deleted "Burn after Reading".
The weblog shows the name of the recording deleted "Burn after Reading"
It would be reassuring if the confirm yes/no dialogue box had the recording name in it ??
OK so this conversion of the production server to NextPVR is currently totally in a large love hate relationship.... the latest hate (I will get back to the others later as they aren't show stoppers) is it crashing while I'm listening to random music through MB4 with SSP as the screensaver.... I'm not sure if it's a NextPVR thing an MB4 thing or an SSP thing.... or a "me has something (setup) wrong" thing... all the logs & win event attached (sorry for the format of the event log but I can't figure out how to capture it any other way with win7??) of course there is no mvp log for this NMT as we have more than one extender attached.
just wondering if anyone has a google tv device (other than the netgear neo).
hopefully someone with a vizio neo (im looking to buy that one).
i can provide a apk with nextpvr for google tv (same as nextpvr for samsung just using the google tv remote and a different player). just want someone to confirm playback works on any google tv device, before i buy another one that it still doesnt work on. (not that i would be to upset by this, i still love my netgear neo for netflix, vudu, plex (although not everything works in plex)).
to install it you would just need to sign into the portal.reven.co.nz using chrome on the google tv and there will be download link. once you download it to the google tv, just open the "nextpvr.apk" file in the "Downloads" app on GTV and it should appear in the "All Apps" menu.
I haven't uploaded the apk yet, but if someone has a google tv device, then ill build it and upload it.
it needs to be a google tv device as its designed for that remote, it doesnt have a touch interface.
i just need someone to test playback of recordings.
