Apologies if this is covered elsewhere but I'm not sure how to search for this.

When I start playing something currently recording it seems the endpoint is fixed at the time I start playing, so that when I get to this point I cannot skip forward through this endpoint, however the recording will play interrupted if I don't skip.

Does that make sense?? It makes it annoying if I forgot and hit skip then the recording hits the endpoint, and I have to stop, play from the beginning, and skip forward to where I was last viewing.

Any ideas?

I've been having quite a few problems with the .ts files produced by my FTA digitial tuners, scheduled using NPVR, since the digital TV upgrade.
In the old analogue .mpg days, the files were clearly smaller and were less problematic.

Now I very often get a file, which loses the timeline when playing it back on my popcornhour.

What happens is this:

• I watch it and
  
• the green bar moves along over the grey one but
  
• at some point, quite often after a comskip cut,
  
• the WHOLE bar goes green and
  
• the time played becomes longer than the total show time and if I try to move forward with FF or Skip it ALWAYS jumps out of the file being played.
  

• the original signal is weak?
  
• my tuners are rubbish at processing
  
• my computer can't keep up when being fed the stream from the tuner
  

For some reason the NPVR recording service will not start now. I have tried to start it manually at services but get an error 3 stating it can not find the specified path. Now I get the error as shown in the attachment. Any ideas. I tried to uninstall and install again but get the same thing.


IGNORE THIS. I found the problem. Thanks

for some reason the npvr recording service seems to stop itself every single day now.... i am unsure what logs go hand in hand with it.

i did reinstall npvr a few days ago but it seems that the service keeps stopping itself.

very weird

event viewer shows

The NPVR Recording Service service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 3 time(s).

and it seems its always accompanied with this error

An unhandled exception occurred and the process was terminated.

Application ID: NRecord.exe

Process ID: 1944

Exception: System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException

Message: The given key was not present in the dictionary.

StackTrace: at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowKeyNotFoundException()
at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.get_Item(TKey key)
at NShared.RecordingService.WorkerThread()
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()

Hi, I searched for "a day off" and got no results, so I apologise if this has been covered before.

Each week I set NPVR to record Tuesday and Thursday night shows, and each week it records on Wednesday and Friday. Then, I cancel the recordings and make new ones for Tuesdays and Thursdays, and NPVR records Wednesdays and Fridays.

This is the sixth week of me cancelling recordings, deleting files, and scheduling recordings, only to have the wrong show recorded because NPVR is a day late. It's getting more than a bit frustrating, because I don't see anything on my system which would cause this weird kind of error.

My computer's time/day is correct. What's going on?

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

In the HDHomeRun app and WMC I have 13 channels. Now in NPVR, only one channel is missing.

I cannot find any option to add a missing channels like I have in WMC.

The channel is 40.3 (CHOT-TV) and I live in Canada-Ottawa.

Thanks for helping!

This is one that is driving me crazy right now. I had SPDIF working before and yesterday after having to refresh my box I could not get SPDIF. Eventually I did get HDMI to work though (not even really sure how though. Today I decided I wanted to try a couple more NPVR config changes to see if I could get SPDIF back.

So I switched the Audio to the SPDIF output and lost audio. Figured I could then just switch back to HDMI like it was and be fine. No such luck! No matter what I have tried I cannot get the audio to come back on either HDMI or SPDIF. I know that both HDMI and SPDIF work because I tested them on the Windows desktop. I tried rebooting as well.

Is there anything that anyone can recommend here?

I had to re-install my setup after messing up a audio and video issue on my box. Now I am getting the following errors and wonder if anyone has any thoughts.

Hauppage Win TV-NOVA-T-Stick; all channels play fine in WinTV.

Using NextPVR, some channels display only black, no audio - and won't record either. I've tried multiple decoder settings to no avail.

Attached are log files from both a good and a bad channel.

Can anyone help me figure out what I've messed up?

I have an intermittant problem where I get 0 byte recordings (DCR-2650). When these zero byte recordings occur, the recording service crashes, and I have to manually restart it. To get around this, I've set the recording service to restart automatically when it crashes... and this works to some degree. Now, the recording service tries to restart, but it apparently cannot, until the zero byte show has finished "recording". The attached logs show a recording attempt (Glee) which shows two attempts to record. When I looked at the Glee recording folder, there were 30 zero byte recording attempts. Later on in the evening, Letterman recorded successfully. As far as signal strength goes, I've removed splitters, added an inline amp, and now have 100% signal strength and around 90-100% quality on my DCR-2650. I'm wondering if this could be a problem from my providers side (Comcast) where intermittantly no data/low signal strength is delivered. Has anyone else seen a problem like this?