Using fixed channel/Blaster Server very slow, client quite quick

[PatM]

I'm just experimenting with HIP + MCE Transciever and I have it working as far as getting NPVR to change channels etc but there's a very weird thing happening that I don't understand.

If I run NPVR on the server and change channels it takes about 10 seconds to see the channel number from the STB change on the video then another 15-60 seconds for the new channel to show up and steady out.

On the server, if I use HIPSend to change the channel it takes maybe 15 seconds tops to change channels and there's no timing issues or garbled video.

If I am on a client and I change channels it takes perhaps 2-3 seconds to accomplish a channel change and it's quite clean.

I'm thinking the big delay is the server playing buffered video (hence the 15 seconds or so before seeing the STB channel numbers) but I've not set anything in the client or server as far as buffers go so I'd think there's be no difference. Perhaps the use as client setting results in differing buffer sizes?

Is there not a way for NPVR to stop playing the buffer (if that's what is happening) on a channel change?

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Post the logs showing both, and I'll see if I can see the difference.

It might be down to the decoders/renderers you've got selected on the server.

[PatM]

I'll be getting at this again tonight or possibly tomorrow and see what happens. If it's the same way then I'll start a new session and keep the log to just this issue. As it is I did 8 billion other things to get hip etc working so the log is jam packed with repeatative and unrelated things.

However, simply switching back to regular cable and not touching decoders brought the server back to changing channels within a second. I'm going to check out the settings for LAv and see if there's a buffer setting. The client was using PDP8 while the server is the latest LAV. I'll also install the same codec pack on the client and see if the channel changing has the same long execution period.

[PatM]

I think this was just a windows glitch. I reinstalled drivers and rebooted then everything started working better.