Since applying 2.3.6 and the R1 patches I've noticed that after pausing, when I play again, it does not start where it left off.
When watching something which is still recording, it sometimes jumps forward, sometimes backwards, by up to 10 seconds.
When watching a recording which has completed, it consistently jumps forward 5 seconds.
The logs don't show the time into the recording, so don't show anything useful.

For two days now I haven''t been able to delete any recordings. I get an unhandled exception error which looks firewall related, but I don't run a firewall and Windows one is disabled. The only recent change is the installation of the YouTube plugin but I don't think this is the cause as the issue remains after disabling that plugin. I've restarted the NPVR services and computer but this has helped. New shows are being recorded fine, the only issue seems to be deleting. Any ideas what would cause this?

Logs attached.

My cable company is introducing whole home PVR capability and I thought that NextPVR users would like the "NextBox" name. Basically it just takes their single unit and allows you to integrate up to four of them networked via MoCA @$499 per two tuner unit w 160GB. Plus cable monthly fees

Is it really the NextBox? Hardly. My wife uses a single 2 tuner unit w 1TB of storage and here are some experiences

- every few months or so the hard disk loses all recordings, twice so far in 2012
- the box will spontaneously reboot, which takes several minutes.
- tonight I tried to watch a recording of "The Brits" and two transport streams seemed to be muxed together, making it completely unwatchable.

My favourite though is watching on demand shows. A couple of weeks ago when we lost all the programming we had to watch Fringe On Demand. The first thing it tells is is "Navigation controls are not available in this program" Commercials in a PVR yuck. We watched about 1/2 an hour and then the box crashed and we decided we will watch it the next night. Of course we had to let it play for 30 minutes to get to where we were. Then we started watching and about 15 minutes later the box said your 24 hour rental had ended and it stopped playing.

Giving up on the "NextBox", I recorded the whole thing on my STB (no PVR) via NextPVR even ran comskip for fun, and watched it via my NMT Recording OnDemand takes a bit of patience, with the remote, but other than that it just worked.

Martin

In troubleshooting this problem http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post431876 I was wondering what happens when a plugin isn't updated when structures change? The EPG objects changed quite a bit in 2.3.6 but how does NextPVR keep in sync with an outdated TVListings for scheduling using the API?

Martin

[Ok, got npvr 2.3.6 R1 running on all clients and the server can watch multiple clients at the same time and each one freezes but not at the same at random times.

Pressing paue and then play makes it carry on, but it stutters as if its just on the edge of the buffer so to speak, pressing pause again and waiting 5 seconds then pressing play makes it play fine.

Obviously we need some logs and I am guessing extra debugging info so if SUB or anyone can let me know how to enable it I can give you the full logs and information etc.

Many thanks

ok I have added reader.log and npvr.log from the client and nrecord.log from the server, it paused for 10 seconds at 7:25pm where the lip sync went very out follow by a freeze around 8pm

i have put 2.2.6 back on now but the same problem occurs these logs are from 2.2.6 with all patches

the logs are on the 4 th post down

The trouble is I find it very difficult to tell if any of the video processing is being off loaded onto the GPU. Its also very difficult to find out what the various DXVA functions DXVA Checker lists mean and if they are of use to you. Can anyone point me in the direction of some useful DXVA documentation?

So far I have found useful snippets from various tutorials so know if the words “H264_VLD” appear then it will decode H264 video. On the computer with the GeForce210 card it defaults to using ffdshow video decoder to play H264 video, but that decoder does not support DXVA. The next snippet I found was to “Disable H264 in the ffdshow video decoder”. Using “ffdshow video decoder” to play a H264 recording on my five year old 3Ghz P4 computer the processor runs between 50% and 90% capacity. For H264 recordings it now defaults to using the “ffdshow DXVA video decoder” the processor runs at around 5%. However neither the Cyberlink or LAV video decoders seem to use DXVA as both run the processor at around 60% if its enabled or not.

On the two computers with DXVA supporting chipsets neither showed any evidence of using video acceleration even though the AMD 760G listed H264 among its functions. Most of my recordings at the moment are SD MPEG2 664 X 544 so it does not matter that acceleration is not supported as the processor runs at around 10% to 20%. Graphstudio was very useful for monitoring which decoders NextPVR is actually using and also to test render a file and try different decoders. I was surprised how often some decoder combination failed.

Thought I'd start a different thread for this one.

I seem to have watch number of shows that the rename does not work on, apparently because there are multiple series with the same name. Castle, Being Human, and Once Upon a Time all seem to get errors, or pick up the wrong data (Being Human seems to fit this latter category, it gets the BBC show by the same name for some episodes).

Is there any way to specify, if you have shows you know this is the case for, which series is the correct one?

Thanks.

Hi,

I have installed NextPVR on a Windows 2008 Server R2 machine.
My capturing/ recording device (TVCard) is showing correctly in the device manager, but I can not see or setup them on the settings in NextPVR (tab devices).
Could you please advise me?

Any help will be appreciated.

Sub,

You mentioned that you'd "keep it in mind for the next release" so I thought I'd put it in the "official queue".

Thanks

I know you've denied this request but Sub said he'd be adding it for next release, if that changes anything.

Thanks