Reinstall

[Reddwarf]

edit: it may be best to turn off User Account Control, at least temporarily, until you get this sorted out.

Yes, that is a troublesome feature microsoft introduced.

[Sways]

It took a while to carry out all of these instructions. None of these appeared in the Task Manager and I had to look up how to do some of them.

I have reinstalled NPVR 2.1.5 and it runs. I have set up and scanned for channels successfully.

Unfortunately when I try to get live TV I get the message 'Device failed to start'

[sub]

Unfortunately when I try to get live TV I get the message 'Device failed to start'

Reproduce this problem, then post the npvr.log and nrecord.log and I'll take a look.

[Sways]

Just tried again. And again, "Device failed to start".

Hopefully I've attached the two log files requested.

By the way. Until I got this problem, the drive on which the live TV buffer was on ran out of space, NPVR had been working without problem.

[sub]

Hmm, it looks fine in the logs.

Do you get a file created and growing in the recording directory when you try watching tv?

[Sways]

Sorry, I don't quite understand what you are asking?

Which file? Which is the recording directory?

[johnsonx42]

sub means the live tv buffer directory which you have specified in Settings on the Misc page... it does exist, doesn't it?

[Sways]

The directory exists but there are no files in it.

[johnsonx42]

what about when you try to watch livetv, does anything get created there, even briefly?

[Sways]

Nothing at all, even briefly. As soon as I try live TV I get "Device failed to start"