Ceton Infinitv4, Windows 10

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EDIT: added the missing "not" in my reply above...(Sorry)

[Pctravel]

Glad to hear it it working, despite my missing file causing some initial problems.

That line is probably required even though the documentation says it is optional, you can test it if you want and I can change the documentation.  I think it became mandatory as the python file evolved.

The only thing that is worth looking into is changing all the opendct.properties sagetv.device.#####.consumedevice

from opendct.consumer.FFmpegTransSageTVConsumerImpl to opendct.consumer.DynamicConsumerImpl

What OpenDCT does is remux the ts stream using ffmpeg but that might not be necessary if the streams are ok.  I test this with the HDHR and I don't need it but it will depend on what the cable co provides.

Martin

Hmm, I'm running into recording issues. I can stream which is working great on live tv but when I setup recordings some fail and the message is "failed usually due to failed lock".  Some of the recordings stopped after 3 minutes or so, others failed to start.  Is this related to the the above suggestion or my difficulty with the webapp working?  Which are the proper logs to pull to see what is happening?  My computer should be plenty beefy with i5 9600K, 16 XMP ram and 1070 video card.  Need a bit of a tweak to fix this.

Is there a better transcoder setting for this Extra setup that may resolve my issue?

[mvallevand]

Recordings aren't related to the web app settings. You will need consumer.ffmpeg.upload_id_enabled=true in case you changed that to false but it won't be related to DynamicConsumerImpl.

Definitely start with the zipped NextPVR logs and the current ceton log doesn't hurt.

Martin

[Pctravel]

I checked that setting in Opendct config file and it's still true. Here are the NPVR logs zipped, for the ceton are you talking about the diagnostic "collect information" app from Ceton?  I ran that but it zips up tons of different logs.  Is there another ceton log you were thinking of or a specific one out of the diagnostic zip?

I've been streaming live tv for a couple hours this morning stopping and starting it and it seems solid from that perspective but tried another recording this morning and after 3 minutes it failed (but those 3 minutes looked great

[mvallevand]

You should save and upload the logs that you get via the web browser that are already zipped and flushed. That set is limited.

1. You still have h/w transcoding on on the web browser so recording playback is failing.

2. From Kodi I see a lot of

<rsp stat="failed">
<err code="5" msg="Channel not found" />
</rsp>

You need to reset the PVR database.

3. That particular set of logs is only using one tuner

2020-08-20 08:24:03.940 [DEBUG][9] Running: cmd /c ""C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\opendct.bat" 13 "DCT-Ceton InfiniTV PCIe (00-80-9f-48) Tuner 1" 7820"

Did you create the extra files using the python command?

Martin

[Pctravel]

Sorry but I need to clarify some of your questions:

1. You still have h/w transcoding on on the web browser so recording playback is failing. ***How do I turn off H/W transcoding?

2. From Kodi I see a lot of

<rsp stat="failed">
<err code="5" msg="Channel not found" />
</rsp>

You need to reset the PVR database. ***Is this in Kodi or NPVR? Do I just delete this: npvr.db3?

3. That particular set of logs is only using one tuner ***I had changed back to a prior config for NPVR because I thought the new one I made I improperly used the extra recording location command, this one only uses one location I selected in the gui and I do see the recordings going there. I started with only a single tuner but once that worked I clicked on "setup more devices" in Next PVR and copied the channels over. All the devices were there from the start but I mapped only one device to start. This morning I was only recording one item at a time. Does any of this help?

2020-08-20 08:24:03.940 [DEBUG][9] Running: cmd /c ""C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\opendct.bat" 13 "DCT-Ceton InfiniTV PCIe (00-80-9f-48) Tuner 1" 7820"

Did you create the extra files using the python command? I did use this command, should I rerun it?
python opendct.py INSTALLW Ceton

[mvallevand]

1. It is not the default you turned it on via the Settings->Transcoder so you can turn it of there

2. Kodi under PVR settings.

3. You were testing with two tuners Seinfeld was told to open on tuner 2 but NextPVR used the tuner 1 command. Do the xml files all have the same content?

Martin

[Pctravel]

under Settings/transcoder/ it doesn't let me delete and there is no "none" setting in the drop down. I have D3D11VA, CPU, INtel/nvidea/amd. 

For that screen here is what I have for the selections:
I see "preferred streaming profile" which is set at "default"
Video Encoder dropdown is what I referenced above, I don't have a "none" option?
Recording auto transcode "Leave recordings in native Format"

Attached were the flushed logs from the web gui.  I still need to look at the xml files.

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under Settings/transcoder/ it doesn't let me delete and there is no "none" setting in the drop down. I have D3D11VA, CPU, INtel/nvidea/amd. 

He means the "CPU" option (ie, not one of the hardware encoder options).

[Pctravel]

THANKS for clearing that up for me.