Network Recorder Experience

[Reddwarf]

If you need live tv try increasing the delay in seconds (1000ms) until it improves. Sounds like you need a little bit more buffering. Restart the recording service for the change to take effect.

Martin

I have the delay set to 10000. Correction: Live tv never works on the server, I get half a second video and the screen turns black, but on my laptop client it works every time, that is from the network recorders. The laptop is running the same OS and using the same decoders as the server. The server has all the latest patches, the client does not.

[mvallevand]

The client doesn't really know the server is capturing using network recorder, any difference would be decoders afaik.

Martin

[Reddwarf]

The client doesn't really know the server is capturing using network recorder, any difference would be decoders afaik.

Martin

It is puzzeling, since they are using exactly the same decoders. I'll try some other decoders on the server tomorrow.

[Reddwarf]

Well I'm no closer as to why live tv works on the client but not on the server with network recorder. But I'v found that is is absolutely vital to use WriteTime to generate timing.info. Without it jumping is random at best, forward skips goes both backwards and forward in random sized skips. With timing info skipping and comskip jumps works normal. IMHO worth mentioning on the wiki too.

[Reddwarf]

Something strange has occured, after updating all systems to post-R2 the network recorders won't record two different channels from the remote anymore. Here's the logs from the remote npvr machine. It seems like Nrecord thinks the requested channels are on the same frequency even they are not. Any ideas?

[mvallevand]

It looks like a server issue not related to network recorder.

2013-03-02 20:29:34.716 [DEBUG][6] Calling LockChannel()
2013-03-02 20:29:34.716 [DEBUG][6] locked=0, present=0, strength=0, quality=0 (took 0ms to check)
2013-03-02 20:29:34.716 [DEBUG][6] DigitalRecorderDVBC::Tune() tuning done
2013-03-02 20:29:34.739 [DEBUG][6] File size is 0


Martin

[Reddwarf]

A job for Sub, in other words? Btw, don't mind the locked=0 etc, the Cinergy card has never given out the correct status.

[mvallevand]

I am not sure then, I don't see the client id in the URLin web.log which could mean you have the wrong plugin, but that might just be how it is logged too.

Martin

[Reddwarf]

I am not sure then, I don't see the client id in the URLin web.log which could mean you have the wrong plugin, but that might just be how it is logged too.

Martin

The date of NetworkRecorder.dll is 24.02.2013 so should be the latest version. Perhaps Sub could add some more logging to find out what's going wrong. I could test with two ordinary clients also once tonight's recordings are finished, I had to reconfigure in a hurry to rescue tonight's scheduled recordings.

[Reddwarf]

Just did a test with live tv using NR, here's a snippet from web.log:

Code:

2013-03-03 10:25:08.011    [DEBUG][17]    About to delete temp file: D:\NPVR\live-NRK1Østnytt-6248-11.ts
2013-03-03 10:25:08.012    [DEBUG][17]    Cleaning up: D:\NPVR\live-NRK1Østnytt-6248-11.ts
2013-03-03 10:28:33.308    [DEBUG][17]    Got Web Request (192.168.1.5): /live    channel=5
2013-03-03 10:28:33.308    [DEBUG][17]    StreamNative@1
2013-03-03 10:28:33.308    [DEBUG][17]    StreamNative@2
2013-03-03 10:28:33.308    [DEBUG][17]    StreamNative@3
2013-03-03 10:28:33.308    [DEBUG][17]    StreamNative@4
2013-03-03 10:28:33.308    [DEBUG][17]    StreamNative@5
2013-03-03 10:28:33.326    [DEBUG][17]    StreamNative@6
2013-03-03 10:28:33.326    [DEBUG][17]    StreamNative@7
2013-03-03 10:28:33.326    [DEBUG][17]    StreamNative@8
2013-03-03 10:28:36.112    [DEBUG][17]    StartStream(7411:TV 2 (N), LIVE&D:\NPVR\live-TV2(N)-6248-12.ts) allocated handle: 1703952
2013-03-03 10:28:36.112    [DEBUG][17]    Handle: 1A0010
2013-03-03 10:28:36.113    [DEBUG][17]    StreamNative@9 (storing stream handle: 1703952)
2013-03-03 10:28:36.113    [DEBUG][17]    clientHandle[default] = 1703952 *
2013-03-03 10:28:36.313    [DEBUG][17]    StreamNative@10
2013-03-03 10:28:36.313    [DEBUG][17]    RollingFile(D:\NPVR\live-TV2(N)-6248-12.ts)..
2013-03-03 10:28:36.313    [DEBUG][17]    SharedMemoryHelper::Open()
2013-03-03 10:28:36.313    [DEBUG][17]    Got file mapping
2013-03-03 10:28:36.313    [DEBUG][17]    got shared memory helper
2013-03-03 10:28:36.715    [DEBUG][17]    <Files>
  <Length>83860</Length>
  <File offset="0">D:\NPVR\live-TV2(N)-6248-12.ts</File>
  <Duration>499</Duration>
  <Complete>0</Complete>
</Files>

2013-03-03 10:28:36.715    [DEBUG][17]    about to read 50000 from location 0  (current length = 83848)
2013-03-03 10:28:36.715    [DEBUG][17]    About to send 50000 bytes
2013-03-03 10:28:36.715    [DEBUG][17]    Sent 50000 bytes

Should there not be a client id listed? If I should test with VLC, would the correct syntax be:
http://Sirius:8866/live?channel=86&clientid=12