HELP ! Its all gone very wrong :-(

[R1Dave]

I set NPVR up in early December. No real problems except with my Hauppauge NOVA-T-500 which exibited a known issue with the XP USB drivers causing Blue Screens when 2 tuners were in use.

anyway, i fixed that yesterday by downgrading the drivers to XP SP2 and everthing was lovely.

i was having minor issues with the UK "Dave" channel freezing on adverts so decided to delete it and re-tune. Did this, re-added "Dave" and it also found Channel5+1 which was a bonus.

BUT

since then (might be a cooincidence?) most of my Channels will not play (black screen, no sound). i just get a black screen and no sound. I've attached the logs. the last "Watch" was an example of one not working. the previous one to that did work.

the only channels I can now get are all BBC and all on frequency 530000. note though that non-BBC channels on that frequency do not work.

just as a test, i plugged a portable TV into the same aerial and retuned and it found and played all the channels with no issue. so it isn't the signal.

i also tried starting with a clean database and doing a complete retune. This did not find many channels for some reason and some that it did find did not work.

the final test was to disable the Hauppauge card and use an external USB Nebula tuner. this did exactly the same as the Hauppauge cardvso it isn't a faulty card.

if it helps, I'm on the Ridge Hill Transmitter in the UK.

please help ! my wife will kill me if she can't use it over the weekend !

[R1Dave]

Interestingly, I've just changed ALL the decoders to FFDShow. When i watch a channel that works, the FFV icon pops up on the bottom right corner. When i watch a channel that doesn't work, the icon does not appear.

[bgowland]

Neither of those logs show the scan. I'd suggest deleting all channels from a tuner and rescanning then post the log with the scan information. It might give more of a clue.

[Reddwarf]

Interestingly, I've just changed ALL the decoders to FFDShow. When i watch a channel that works, the FFV icon pops up on the bottom right corner. When i watch a channel that doesn't work, the icon does not appear.

I remember seeing somthing about enabling MPEG2 in ffdshow mentioned in a post... Have you tried other decoders?

BTW, from your logs all channels you have tried are present and locked, with reasonable quality and strength.

[R1Dave]

revised logs attached. This time, I started with a clean databse and did a scan. it did not find all channels and it doesn't look as though any of them are working (previously the bbc channels were).

regarding decoders, I've been using either cyberlink or nvidea because i had a few stability issues with ffdshow. I've tried all 3 today and it doesn't make any difference.

[stustunz]

Does your machine have good cooling ?

[R1Dave]

Its a standard HP mini tower. But one of the tuners I've tried is USB anyway so not sure i see the relevence .... But happy to be corrected....

[stustunz]

Yeah sorry read it wrong !!
if you record something does a file get created ,will it play in another media player like vlc

[bgowland]

Something really weird going on there.

The log shows it successfully tunes to 474000 and successfully retrieves a list of the correct channels for that MUX. After that, however, for every MUX it tries after that, it lists the same TSID and the same set of channels....UNTIL, it gets to 530000 at which point it lists the correct TSID for that MUX and the correct list of channels.

I could understand it if the new frequencies weren't taking when the scan process tried to retune and it was getting stuck all the way, but the fact 530000 works makes no sense.

[R1Dave]

Sorry, i just posted to say it played a recording back in VLC. That was not correct. I used the wrong channel. It records a zero byte file.