Every once in a while the recording engine locks up. I notice when checking tuner status from the tray icon, it shows up empty. It's happened two or three times over the last few months. I figured I would upload logs and ask the experts if they could see anything out of the ordinary in the them that would explain why it was locking up. I caught it early this time with the most recent lockup around 2:00pm on 4/3

Thanks for any assistance given.

There are five OTA channels in my area. When I click on one to watch, it just sits at a black screen. How do I fix this? I'm using Schedules Direct as my TV guide, and I have a Hauppauge Colossus 2.

Jim

Has anyone ever solved this problem? I saw some posts on this subject a while back but didn't run across them today. This isn't a huge problem since that notice goes away in about 20 seconds and only the first recorded tv program has a delay in starting. After that, everything is normal. I'm attaching a file of the logs after a start and shutdown.

Most of my auto-record stuff works but I am finding that certain shows are failing to autorecord and to get them I have to manually select the show under "episode" search and click "submit" then the episodes are found and can be flagged for recording.

"Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D" is one that I noticed today - logs attached.

Any ideas?

TIA
Dave

I have the latest version of nPVR using two Haupage tuners on FreeSat and I am seeing occasional errors of the type shown above.

Any idea of the cause ?? I dont remember seeing this on previous revisions.

eg:-
Home Fires
Drama set in a village during WWII. With war looming, the women of Great Paxford face a difficult decision, and Dr Campbell discovers the terrible reason why he cannot enlist. [S]
Genre: Drama Recording Error: Recording service not running at recording time

Logs attached

TIA
Dave

Are there any "skins" or "styles" available for NEWA?

Failing that, where's the CSS stored so I can change the style myself. I'd like to tweak the colors a bit.

How can I make the TV Guide listing larger?

My wife has poor vision. We're OK with sacrificing some rows (and columns) if it will allow us to get larger text so she can read the guide data better. I'm fairly competent editing stuff, I just need to know what files to edit.

Is it possible to detect that a recording is getting no signal/data while recording?

I have digital cable boxes as my source (Arris DCX 3200) but they randomly turn off every 2-3 weeks. My remote has a power toggle button but not a power on. If i could detect that the box is off i could send the power toggle signal and maybe repeat the channel change command to get things back on track.

Hi,

I'm a newbie with NextPVR.

I'm running NextPVR under Windows 10. I've installed NextPVR, however I cannot seem to configure the MPEG2 decoder. In the NextPVR Decoders dialog, under "Video Decoders MPEG2 Video:" there is only one option "Disabled". If I try to select the button with the three dots to the right of this (which I assume is a button to enable me to browse the filesystem and find the correct decoder) the button does nothing.

I have a hauppauge Win TV-7164 BDA ATSC/QAM dual tuner card. In the installation instructions for NextPVR (at http://www.nextpvr.com/decoders.html) it says that if you want to install an MPEG2 video decoder then: "MPEG-2 Video: ... the MainConcept decoder that comes with the Hauppauge WinTV software, ..." is available. I imagine that this means that I am to point the MPEG2 Video decoder in the NextPVR "Decoders" dialog to the MainConcept decoder that comes with my hauppauge tuner card. I can't seem to do this.

I have three problems:
1. the MainConcept decoder is not presented as an MPEG2 Video decoder option by NextPVR

2. the little button which is beside the "Video Decoders MPEG2 Video" does not allow me to browse to the location of the MainConcept decoder

3. even if I could browse my filesystem I don't know where the MainConcept decoder is located on my filesystem (I installed the hauppauge dual tuner card but I have no idea where it put the MainConcept decoder).

I've attached the logs from NextPVR to this post, as well as a snapshot of the NextPVR Decoders dialog.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

I have a dual boot PC with win 7 and win 10.

On win 7 NextPVR has no problem with channel changes.

On Win10, first channel selected comes up in a few seconds. However if you use either the channel up or type in a new channel it registers on the set top box, the red light comes on on the Hauppague HDPVR for about a minute then goes out. About a minute later, The message following comes on the screen:

"The tuner you were using was required for a recording. Would you like to switch to watching a recording or exit to the main menu?

When you exit to the main menu the new channel comes up in seconds after selecting live TV.

I have tried numerous decoders and device setups but the result is the same. the setup in the logs is as far as I can tell the same one that works perfectly on the Windows7 setup on the same physical machine.

I have spent many hours trying various decoders and device setups. I even did a Win 10 refresh. No change. Currently back on my restored image.

Any help would be much appreciated.

James