2.0.3 - No Tuners Available HVR 1300 - Solved

[ralphy]

I started posting this message before I managed to solve the problem. However, I decide to post anyway, in case others have a similar problem when upgrading to 2.0.3.

Better half just came downstairs complaining that 'no tuner' (analog) are available after upgrading to 2.0.3 and trying to set a recording. LiveTV does not work either with "no capture devices" message.

A reboot didn't help, and there are no active recordings.


Configuration (setting/devices) suggested the Analog tuner is not present, but enabled, and the digital is both present and enabled. Error message in NPVR.log referred to MainConcept encoders not present (just like here)

I noticed that the upgrade seemed to change analogdevices.xml changed back to soft_encode from

Code:

    <Device filter="Hauppauge WinTV 88x Video Capture">
        <Name>Hauppauge HVR-3000/4000</Name>
        <Type>HARD_ENCODE</Type>
    </Device>

Changing back to HARD_ENCODE enabled the analog tuner and got rid of the MainConcept encoder error message, but did not seem to solver the original 'no tuners' problem.

So I re-registered (see here) hcw_mcmpeg2mux.ax, and a restart of the recording service and NPVR seemed to solve the problem.

Hopefully the WAF is restored.

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Configuration (setting/devices) suggested the Analog tuner is not present, but enabled, and the digital is both present and enabled. Error message in NPVR.log referred to MainConcept encoders not present (just like here)

I noticed that the upgrade seemed to change analogdevices.xml changed back to soft_encode from

Code:

    <Device filter="Hauppauge WinTV 88x Video Capture">
        <Name>Hauppauge HVR-3000/4000</Name>
        <Type>HARD_ENCODE</Type>
    </Device>

Changing back to HARD_ENCODE enabled the analog tuner and got rid of the MainConcept encoder error message, but did not seem to solver the original 'no tuners' problem.

Unfortunately you're going to need to make that change every releases (until I eventually come up with a fix). This file is overwritten with each upgrade.

Hauppauge reused this filter name for both soft and hard encode devices, so the app cant tell the difference. The majority of those devices are soft encoder devices though, which is why I've had the AnalogDevices.xml default to soft encode. The HVR1300 is the only member of the family that does hardware encoding.