Black Screen for Live or Recorded Video with 2.5.9 on Windows 7

[rogerjenn]

Hi,

I'm new to NextPVR but have been using a Pinnacle PCTV USB Stick 80e with TV Center software for more than a year on a 64-bit and 32-bit Windows 7 machines. The 64-bit has Intel on-board graphics and the 32-bit has an NVidia GeForce 6600 installed.

I installed DirectX runtime 9.0c and NextPVR, set up 35 Bay Area channels, populated the channel guide and tried to watch live TV. Visual Studio installed all required VC++ runtimes. At one point I was able to see live video with no audio but, after closing down NextPVR, was never again able to get anything but a black screen with live or recorded *.ts files.

Video recording works as expected and I can view the recorded *.ts files as well as the buffer *.ts file in the VLC Video Player and Windows Media Player, which also deliver audio correctly.

I have the same problem with the Web front-end, although once the Web front end caused a hard freeze when attempting to play videp. Required a cold boot.

Hope you can shine some light on the problem. I've zipped up and attached the logs for today.

I also had problems with nDroid not being able to connect with the nDroid service (Fiddler2 said request timed out.) I'm taking that up with the Beetec folks.

Cheers,

Roger Jennings
OakLeaf Systems

[sub]

Video recording works as expected and I can view the recorded *.ts files as well as the buffer *.ts file in the VLC Video Player and Windows Media Player, which also deliver audio correctly.

Sounds like your audio/video decoder settings then.

You forgot to attach you logs.

[rogerjenn]

Forgot to upload the attached *.zip of logs.

Sorry about that,

--rj

[rogerjenn]

Wow, that was fast.

[sub]

You should set your audio renderer back to default. Other values can cause black screens etc.

You're using the 'Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder' decoder. This should be fine as long as you're not on Win8.

[rogerjenn]

Hi,

Changed to default audio rendering as shown in attachment but still have black screen:

[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]

Thanks for the speedy responses.

Cheers,

--rj

[sub]

Have you tried other audio/video decoders?

[rogerjenn]

Hi, Sub,

Tried this set a few times:

[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]

Is there an action (other than attempting live TV capture again) required to effect a change of encoders?

Cheers,

--rj

[sub]

They apply next time you start tv or playback of a recording.

If you do a recording, can you play that recording? ie, take live tv out of the mix temporarily.

[rogerjenn]

Hi, Sub,

Each time I try Live TV, I also try to open the recording.

No go with either live or recorded so far.

--rj