Device failed to start

[roy]

all tuners work

But not completely. Scheduled some recordings, they all started but, while I was out, they didn't stop, kept recording past the end time, and nPVR had crashed.

[roy]

Sounds like ElihuRozen's problem http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...1.5.33-can. He also uses TV Listings.

Martin

Yes, seems exactly the same. I removed all plugins, including TVListings, replaced Unmanaged.dll with the most recent from sub's #7 above. Still crashes when trying to use any of the 150, 500 or 1600 analog tuners.

[leaded1]

Just wanted to chime in that I get a NRecord crash whenever a recording starts on my analog pvr2-USB2 tuner (the analog side of my 1600 is broken, so I haven't tried that one.) digital recordings are working fine.

[sub]

Yeah, its definitely sounding like some issue with hard encoder analog devices. I'm intending to take a look tomorrow.

[mvallevand]

My HVR 1600 analog is fine, but I use analog cable not component/svideo and I only have one tuner.

Martin

[sub]

My HVR 1600 analog is fine, but I use analog cable not component/svideo and I only have one tuner.

Is your CPU usage as low as you'd expect while recording? It might be falling back to using soft encoding, which is what some of these other logs show it doing.

[mvallevand]

I never noticed but recording looks to be about 6-10%, and I don't have a hi-end machine, and I have never installed SoftPVR

Code:

2010-12-30 00:54:38.132    [INFO][5]    Creating graph
2010-12-30 00:54:38.168    [DEBUG][5]    Building graph using: Hauppauge WinTV 418 Video Capture (1)
2010-12-30 00:54:38.314    [DEBUG][5]    ConnectFilters->ConnectPins() failed: 0x80040207
2010-12-30 00:54:38.315    [DEBUG][5]    ConnectFilters->ConnectPins() failed: 0x80040207
2010-12-30 00:54:38.315    [DEBUG][5]    ConnectFilters->ConnectPins() failed: 0x80040207
2010-12-30 00:54:38.316    [DEBUG][5]    ConnectFilters->ConnectPins() failed: 0x80040207
2010-12-30 00:54:38.326    [DEBUG][5]    AttachHardEncoder@1
2010-12-30 00:54:38.327    [DEBUG][5]    AttachHardEncoder@2 (got medium)
2010-12-30 00:54:38.340    [DEBUG][5]    AttachHardEncoder@3 (got encoder)
2010-12-30 00:54:38.341    [DEBUG][5]    AttachHardEncoder@4 (about to connect encoder)
2010-12-30 00:54:38.343    [DEBUG][5]    ConnectFilters->ConnectPins() failed: 0x80040200
2010-12-30 00:54:38.345    [DEBUG][5]    ConnectFilters->ConnectPins() failed: 0x80040207
2010-12-30 00:54:38.347    [DEBUG][5]    ConnectFilters->ConnectPins() failed: 0x80040200
2010-12-30 00:54:38.352    [DEBUG][5]    ConnectFilters->ConnectPins() failed: 0x80040207
2010-12-30 00:54:38.356    [DEBUG][5]    AttachHardEncoder@5 (connected encoder)
2010-12-30 00:54:38.404    [DEBUG][5]    AttachHardEncoder@6 (connected demux)
2010-12-30 00:54:38.511    [DEBUG][5]    Graph filter list:
2010-12-30 00:54:38.513    [DEBUG][5]     - NPVR Writer2
2010-12-30 00:54:38.513    [DEBUG][5]     - NPVR Writer
2010-12-30 00:54:38.514    [DEBUG][5]     - Infinite Pin Tee Filter
2010-12-30 00:54:38.514    [DEBUG][5]     - MainConcept (HCW) MPEG Multiplexer-Plus
2010-12-30 00:54:38.515    [DEBUG][5]     - MPEG-2 Demultiplexer
2010-12-30 00:54:38.516    [DEBUG][5]     - Hauppauge WinTV 418 Encoder
2010-12-30 00:54:38.516    [DEBUG][5]     - Hauppauge WinTV 418 Video Capture
2010-12-30 00:54:38.516    [DEBUG][5]     - Hauppauge WinTV 418 Crossbar
2010-12-30 00:54:38.517    [DEBUG][5]     - Hauppauge WinTV 418 TvAudio
2010-12-30 00:54:38.517    [DEBUG][5]     - Hauppauge WinTV 418 Tuner
2010-12-30 00:54:38.564    [DEBUG][5]    Tuning to channel: 7
2010-12-30 00:54:38.826    [DEBUG][5]    Tuner reports frequency: 175250000
2010-12-30 00:54:38.826    [INFO][5]    About to start graph
2010-12-30 00:54:38.833    [DEBUG][5]    device minimum bitrate: 2000000
2010-12-30 00:54:38.834    [DEBUG][5]    device maximum bitrate: 8500000
2010-12-30 00:54:38.835    [DEBUG][5]    device bitrate step size: 1
2010-12-30 00:54:38.835    [DEBUG][5]    device reports current bitrate as: 3000000
2010-12-30 00:54:38.836    [DEBUG][5]    device reports current peak bitrate as: 5000000
2010-12-30 00:54:38.836    [DEBUG][5]    About to set BITRATE MODE
2010-12-30 00:54:38.837    [DEBUG][5]    requesting variable encoding
2010-12-30 00:54:38.837    [DEBUG][5]    trying to request bitrate: 3000000
2010-12-30 00:54:38.838    [DEBUG][5]    device confirms bitrate as: 3000000
2010-12-30 00:54:38.838    [DEBUG][5]    About to set PEAK BITRATE
2010-12-30 00:54:38.839    [DEBUG][5]    device minimum peak bitrate: 3000000
2010-12-30 00:54:38.839    [DEBUG][5]    device maximum peak bitrate: 9500000
2010-12-30 00:54:38.839    [DEBUG][5]    device peak bitrate step size: 1
2010-12-30 00:54:38.840    [DEBUG][5]    trying to request peak bitrate: 5000000
2010-12-30 00:54:38.840    [DEBUG][5]    device confirms bitrate as: 5000000
2010-12-30 00:54:39.393    [DEBUG][5]    About to tune graph to:
<tuning>
  <type>Analog</type>
  <locator>
    <channel>7</channel>
    <country>1</country>
    <input>cable</input>
    <source>Tuner</source>
    <fixed>2</fixed>
  </locator>
</tuning>

2010-12-30 00:54:39.399    [DEBUG][5]    Tuning to channel: 7
2010-12-30 00:54:39.701    [DEBUG][5]    Tuner reports frequency: 175250000
2010-12-30 00:54:39.701    [DEBUG][5]    About to switch AnalogRecorder to target:
C:\movies\The Colbert Report\The Colbert Report_20101230_00350107.ts

Martin

[sub]

That looks ok - yours is definitely using the hardware encoding successfully.

[ElihuRozen]

I doubt it matters, but I thought I'd mention that the QAM tuner in my 1800 has never worked. I noticed roy said that the digital tuner in his 1600 doesn't work. In my case the ATSC part of the 1800 does work, but I don't use it. I do use TV Listings, Weather, System & SubMenu plugins.

[leaded1]

I've got weather and system plugins installed too. I'll remove them and see if it makes any difference.