Hiho sub.

This error happens only on nPVR clients and seems to be depending of the account of installed tuners.
This is NO new error, i have this since the first nPVR release, but because of the poor streamingperformance (nobody of us used live tv via lan because of the stuttering and asynchronity with all tested decoders).

We start at channel 1, watching for 10 seconds. Then using PgUp and go to the 2nd channel. Watching for 10 seconds going to the 3rd channel. After more 10 seconds we go to the 4th channel. Till now all is fine. If i now try to "zap" to the next channel, then i'll get the message "the tuner being used for live tv is no longer available".

It looks like, that nPVR is going through all 4 tuners of this channel guide (the 5th tuner has another guide) and then just stops instead using one of the free tuners.

For me this is a low priority bug, because in television is most time only trash... But just to let you know (and perhaps fix this for other people).

Merry Christmas all,

I've upgraded from .33 to .36 and now keeping getting the error "unable to find available capture device". Previously the configuration was working, the card is a "Hauppauge WinTV 88x DVB-S Tuner/Demod" any thoughts?

Paul

I would warn you against Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0. Especially if your nPVR network operates.
MSE 2.0 seems to be a very solid software, however, very strict by default. To transfer files in a Gbit LAN with potent hardware on a transfer rate of less than 4 kilobytes per second can fall.
Usually, I am no friend to castrate security software in scope, but minimise to the performance you should configure MSE 2.0 as follows:



This prevents its impact performance significantly. However, I would like to point out that any interference with the PC security is a risk that must consider everyone for themselves. I will take no responsibility for any resulting damages.

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Like many others, my HTPC suffered from several HDMI handshake-related issues, mainly loss of audio after coming out of sleep mode. After a particularly frustrating 2009 Christmas, I finally solved all of these problems by throwing money at a Gefen HDMI Detective, which tricks the PC into thinking the TV and amplifier are connected at all times, even when they're not. It was expensive, but worth every penny in WAF points.

That same PC, which runs GBPVR on XP, can now dual-boot into a clean Windows 7 install ready for NPVR testing, but with the following strange issue:

- PC is on and running
- TV/Amp either get turned off or inputs are switched
- PC continues to run
- When the TV/Amp are turned on again, the PC goes *into* sleep mode

There's two weird things here. a) why is it even happening at all; it seems to be the reverse of every HDMI-related problem I've read about, and b) why isn't the Gefen stopping it from happening.

I'm sure it's probably solvable, but I'm at a loss as to where to start investigating. I'm assuming an EDID override won't help, as that's just a software solution to what the Gefen offers. Telling the PC to "never sleep" doesn't help (and ultimately I do want it to be able to sleep).

I really don't get it. How can whatever weird signal it's getting when the TV and amp turn back on force it into sleep mode? It can't be a hardware fault, because it doesn't happen with XP.

The PC's HDMI output is from an ATI HD4550, sitting in an Asus M2A-VM motherboard.

Iain

I am using a Lifeview TVWalker Twin--not the forbidden one from many years ago, but a dual DVB-T tuner that works like a charm with GB-PVR. However, I have an identical unit that I cannot keep connected. It installs correctly in Windows, and functions with its own software, but GBPVR cannot tell them apart; it believes there is still only a total of two tuners, and selects which one to use by way of crap-shoot. Has anyone out there ever faced and solved a similar problem?

I've been a little dissapointed as it seems i am not going to be able to make the transition over to NPVR. I appreciate your hard work sub, and love the new look of NPVR, and am hoping you might be able to shed some light on what i should be looking out for to get this going. I have not been able to get playback going properly with any of my clients, while all work fine in GBPVR. All video is stuttery and dont seem to be able to get it straightend out. I have tried many different decoders and none seem to be doing the trick. Most of my playback is mpeg 2 ts files.

My clients are all hard wired, one is on win 7, one is on xp sp3, neither playback video smoothly, server is on Win 7

Is the client implementation somehow different in NPVR than i GBPVR, i do know that GBPVR filesharing mode is what works best in GBPVR

Thanks

I only use freeview over Satellite, which I believe is just SD quality. I never rent DVDs or bluerays. I'm thinking about getting a new 42" plasma TV, and that 720p is going to be good enough for me for now. Question is will my 'rig' handle this nicely? Does my graphics card do the upscaling to 720p easily, or will the TV be forced to do it? Is that even possible? Appreciate any comments. Cheers.

Not sure if I'm blind, or missing something obvious...

But where is the setup for schedules direct?

Thanks

Ever since I upgraded to 1.5.36, I can't use my analog tuners. I get a message like "Unale to comminucate with recording service." I tried uninstalling and reinstalling. I shut the machine off & then restarted it. I tried disabling the devices in Device Manager & re-enabling them. I even tried installing 1.5.33 over 1.5.36, but it detected the newer files & didn't overwrite. I have a 2250, 1800 & 1600. The 2250 tuners are only used for QAM. The 1800 is only used for analog. The 1600 is used for QAM & analog.

The attached logs represent the following: I uninstalled. I installed 1.5.33 & watched a few minutes of random shows from an analog tuner. I exited, stopped the service & upgraded to 1.5.36 & tired to watch something.

Martin,

Awesome plugin. Running from PCH A-110 with PlayOn and NPVR 1.5.36 and latest mvpmcx2 update. YouTube seems to always work from PCH but I would say Netflix works about 20% of the time. If it doesn't work it goes black for about 1 minute and then just comes back. On computer, it seems to always go to 'Buffering' screen for about 20 seconds and then return. Log files attached... any ideas?

Steve