I was waiting until 2.14 to post this, hoping the update would help. In just the past few weeks I've moved to a permanent client/server model with NPVR.

I'm having a re-occurring, random problem with my HD-PVRs arranged in a client/server setup. Often, I start LiveTV and it works great. When I stop LiveTV and attempt to restart it, I'll get the "please wait..." dialog and it'll just sit there and time out.

If I go and visit the server, I'll see the HD-PVR it attempted to use has it's "bling" lights on. It is as if the "stop" livetv command from the previous viewing on the client isn't stopping the HD-PVR, which then fails to start up the next time.

NPVR still thinks that HD-PVR is in use for LiveTV. The only way to reset it is to exit out of NPVR on the server, power cycle that HD-PVR, and startup NPVR again.

I have two HDPVRs connected, I've swapped them around to make sure one isn't behaving badly (one is actually brand new). It has randomly happened with both.

I've made sure firewalls are off on both client and server as well as used the actual statically assigned IP address server address on the client instead of relying on DNS.

Server and client are hardwired on a GIG switch (not a router, a real switch.)

Any advice would be most appreciated.

I'm trying to upgrade to NPVR using a Pinnacle PCTV 80e but I can't get clearQAM to work. OS is win7. ATSC works fine, QAM doesn't. In all fairness, I don't know whether QAM works properly on this tuner (don't have any other way to test it). I do have clear channels (TV tunes in).

I see 2 tuners:
PCTV 80e/290e/460e BDA 2875 TVTuner C (QAM)
PCTV 80e/290e/460e BDA 2875 TVTuner (ATSC)

I tried the "ATSCMode => 2" registry trick from other posts but didn't work. I also deleted the temp file from the dotnet library and restarted. What I see in the logs is:


About to submit tuning request
Unexpected error on ATSC put_TunerRequest: 0x80070057


Any help is appreciated!

I'm off on holidays this week and I'm wondering if there is an easy way for me to record the F1 this weekend then download when I'm abroad.

I could just use NEWA to download the recording, but my home upload speed isn't great and I'm worried the connection at the end I'm downloading it will flake out half way through.

Ideally for this single program I'd like my server to post process it into h264 to get the size down, then add it to my drop box, that way at the other end the file is small and download speed will be limited by dropbox not my home up speed.

Any ideas what might be the easiest way of doing this, at the moment I'm thinking of just leaving VNC running so I can remote in and do it manually.

Just upgraded t 2.1.4 - thank you sub!. However, it's thrown an error on trying to parse XMLTV's XML file, which didn't happen before. [ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]

Has anything changed here? Thanks

The recent changes in the BBC HD broadcasts on UK FreeSat seem to have caused a problem with my TT S2-3200 card. It still works fine for the SD channels, but it creates zero length files for BBC HD and BBC1 HD.
I get this in the nrecord log

This happens every time I select a program from the TV guide and choose "Watch".
I have a Q-BOX CI USB card with the latest drivers. My OS is Win7-x64.
Any idea?
Thank you!

ccristal

I wasn't sure whether to post this in general support or Plugins but decided on general as I'm having issues with multiple plugins and think my issue isn't related to the plugins.

I've upgraded to 2.1.4 and have also installed SearchLite and Music Box. I have a Logitech Harmony remote configured with a PVR Hauppauge 4000 device (my tuner type). This configuration works fine within NPVR itself, but in SearchLite and Music Box most of the buttons don't work. For example, when I press Left or Right in Music Box, the Search box at the top of the screen shows '_NAVIGATERIGHT' instead of changing the display. Most of the other buttons cause the same issue. It's the same with the Search plugin.

Does anyone else have this issue? Is there someone within NPVR that I can change to get this to work? Or something with my Harmony remote?

Thanks!

Using 2.1.4 but the last version had this problem too. Using XP pro. I start NPVR go to tv guide select an analog channel and it plays fine but when i go back to the guide and select the same analog channel or any analog channel I get fine picture but no audio. If I exit NPVR and restart the recording service the audio comes back. I tested a recording and it says theres mpeg audio stream but its just blank. I'm using an ATI theater 550 pro for analog and a hauppauge hvr-1250 for digital which works fine. Tested a 650 pro with same results. Any ideas?

What's the keyboard shortcut to get the video in a box as shown? With the mouse, if I double click the top border, it goes to full screen menu with the video box. But, I can't seem to find a shortcut to do this.

Quote:- improved tuner usage logic to make it more likely for recordings to include padding in multi-tuner setups