Can anyone help me?

I am having a problem in getting NPVR recorded files to playback on a NPVR PC client. These files have been recorded via a Network Recorder link to a second NPVR server from my main NPVR server

My system is as followes:

Main NPVR Server -- running Windows XP SP3 with an ASTC card for OTA HD and SD recording -- all files created on this main NPVR server will playback correctly on both the server and on any of my NPVR clients.

Second NPVR Server -- running Windows XP SP3 with a Hauppaugue 150 card hooked to a satellite settop box via S-video -- this server is linked to the main server using Network recorder -- any files created from this second server recorded on the main server via the Network Recorder link playback properly on the main server

Client NPVR machine -- running Windows XP SP3 -- this client machine will play back recorded files created on the main server (with the internal ASTC card) but it will not playback recorded files created via the Network recorder link from the second server.

Here is the strange thing -- on the client NPVR machine it is possible to watch live TV from a channel that is coming from the Network Recorder machine and it is also possible to watch a recording that is in progress from the Network recorder machine -- but it is not possible to watch a program that has finished recording.

What happens when I try to watch any of these completed recordings is that the playback seems to start -- then the screen goes black for 3 to 5 seconds and then it returns to the "whats new menu" -- with no error message displayed. If I immediately move to the main server and try to watch the same recording -- everything works correctly with proper playback. This behavior has been reproduced on each of my four client machines.

The files created via the Network Recorder link on the main server playback correctly on any of the client machines using an external media player such as Zoom Play -- they will just not playback using NPVR.

So -- any ideas -- I have not attached any logs yet as I am not sure what loge are needed -- the main server, the Network recorder machine or the Client machine.

Please let me know and I will post as needed.

Michael

Here's another problem which causes the picture to freeze, this time on a client machine running Windows 7 and the Microsoft DTV-DVD decoders. Here's an extract from the npvr.log file on the client (the "OnKeyDown() called: Escape" is me noticing the freeze and preparing to restart).

As I was rooting around in my npvr.db3 with SQLiteSpy, I discovered that the RECENTLY_DELETED table has entries going back 90 days, to April 21st. However earlier this year, I set my <DeletionHistoryDays> setting to 30 and dumped the deletion history. Initially it started recording all shows again, but after a couple of months it got back to skipping most shows. We don't watch all these re-run shows all the time, they often get deleted unwatched, we just expect a fresh batch to be recorded for when the mood strikes. So I went back and set the <DeletionHistoryDays> to 15, but nothing changed. Now I see why, it's still keeping 90 days of history despite my setting. Is this another one where the setting listed in Config.xml isn't the same as what NPVR is looking for?

Ok, this one is very weird. It's tough to follow myself, much less explain, so I'll just go explain the tuner setup and then list the events:

Tuners, in priority order:

Digital 1523: Hauppauge WinTV 885 BDA Tuner/Demod (QAM) - this is an HVR-1250 -
Digital 1524: WinTV HVR-950 BDA Tuner (ATSC) - this is an HVR-850 -
Analog 1: USB 2883 Device
Analog 2: Happauge WinTV 885 Video Capture (same device as digital 1523)

(only the digital tuners are involved with the issue, the analog tuners listed for sake of completeness.)

All channels involved here are merged between the QAM and ATSC tuners. I have verified that the tuning entries are correct in Devices, and that each channel works on each tuner.

Logical Channel 7 = QAM 92.546, ATSC 7.1
Logical Channel 11 = QAM 92.548, ATSC 13.4
Logical Channel 13 = QAM 93.553, ATSC 13.3

1. At 18:58:58, Started watching Live TV on QAM tuner (1523). This is logical channel 7, QAM channel 92.546
   
2. At 19:00, The Big Bang Theory started recording on the QAM tuner, on logical channel 11, QAM channel 92.548. All is well.
   
3. At 19:30:00, The Big Bang Theory stops recording. LiveTV is still active. All is well.
   
4. At 19:30:01.236, NRecord wanted to record "How I Met Your Mother" (logical channel 13) on the QAM tuner, but had to move because of LiveTV.
   
5. At 19:30:01.338, NRecord determines correctly that it can move the recording to the ATSC tuner (1524), where it should be on ATSC 13.3.
   
6. At 19:30:01.554, NRecord asks NDigitalHost-1524 to start the recording.
   
7. NDigitalHost-1524: At 19:30:05.355, NDigitalHost tries to tune the ATSC tuner with a QAM tuning request!!! It tunes QAM channel 93.553, when it should tune ATSC 13.3! It even reports a signal lock, though to what I have no clue, there's nothing there...
   
8. At 19:30:05.808, NRecord wanted to record another "Big Bang Theory" (logical channel 11); says it needs to move it because of LiveTV (this isn't really correct, it was provisionally scheduled on ATSC Tuner 1524, which is now in use for a recording; tuner 1524 SHOULD be recording on ATSC 13.3, and this new recording needs ATSC 13.4 so it should use the same tuner... but NRecord is confused, and has tuned 1524 to QAM 93.553)
   
9. At 19:30:05.823, NRecord determines that it can move the recording to QAM Tuner 1523, which is still running LiveTV on physical channel 92, the same QAM channel needed for The Big Bang Theory (just like the 19:00 recording that just finished).
   
10. At 19:30:05.876, NRecord asks NDigitalHost-1523 to start the recording.
    
11. NDigitalHost-1523: At 19:30:05.877, NDigitalHost tries to tune the QAM tuner with an ATSC tuning request!!! It tunes ATSC channel 13.4, when it should stay on QAM 92 and access stream 548.
    
12. NDigitalHost-1523: At 19:30:06.493, NDigitalHost determines that the LiveTV stream is no longer valid, since the tuner has changed frequencies, and stops handle 23.
    
13. At 19:30:06.491, NRecord fails to renew the LiveTV lease on handle 23, and stops the stream. LiveTV ends.
    

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Cheers

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Cheers.