Chaning channels lock ups, client only

[cbgifford]

Good evening all,

I am trying to watch live TV but when I change channels NPVR locks up. It locks up only on my client, the server works fine. When I restart live tv on the client, it tuned to the channel I was trying to change to.

I've attached logs from the client. Any help would be appreciated.

[2leftfeet]

I have had this issue from time to time. It had disappeared for the most part when I switched to W10, but recently on one of my clients, it is again ,occasionally happening, but not always - I have been unable to get it to repeat. It is most frustrating because it seems to happen most when my wife tries to change channels, lol - causing me to stop what I am doing and help her change channels. (It also happens to me on occasion as well).

[2leftfeet]

It happened to me again today, several times. Logs from server & client attached - when unzipping, files will place into corresponding folders (server/client).

[johnsonx42]

might just be your decoder; some decoders are known to react badly to channel changes. I don't recall whether I've seen ffdshow blamed for this or not. I know LAV Video Decoder (I realize you're using LAV for Audio only) and the ATI MPEG-2 decoder are bad at this. Cyberlink is supposed to be pretty good.

[2leftfeet]

Decoders are the first thing I thought of - tried several of them (ffdshow, pdvd13, LAV - yes I know this one is problematic) , same result. Note sometimes the channel change works just fine, at other times, picture freeze - as it happened this morning.

It is only occurring one on of the clients - Dell Optiplex 760, E7300 core 2 duo, 4 GB ram, 1 TB harddrive, radeon 5450 graphics (HDMI), running W10. Other clients, with similar specs are all working without this issue.

[cbgifford]

I tried all the available codecs and none worked with the exception of the one I have configured. I checked the server and confirmed it was using the same codec, Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder. Because I am using network tuners, I deleted the installation on a client PC and reinstalled NPVR on that machine as a server and channels changed fine. I then put it in client mode and the channel changing problem came back. I've attached the logs from the test machine showing the channel changing working then changing it to a client and channel changing not working.

Thanks!

[mvallevand]

You need the server side NRecord log to show why an EOF is being found in the stream.


2015-11-02 17:08:09.146 [DEBUG][1] StartLiveTV@1
...
2015-11-02 17:08:17.512 [DEBUG][1] StartLiveTV@done
...
2015-11-02 17:08:17.514 [DEBUG][1] GetEventCode() returned: 0x0001

Martin

[cbgifford]

Good evening, sorry for the delayed response. I recreated the error and attached both server and client logs

[mvallevand]

This offset looks really wrong

2015-11-04 20:55:39.254 [DEBUG][4] CLIENT-READ: 233881274 bytes from offset 516773199740928 (file length: 3068160)

Also are you server and client times synced with Internet time?

Martin

[cbgifford]

The client syncs every 12 hours, left over when it was doing something else. The server is a brand new Win 7 install so it's syncing to the default of one week. I just compared times on both machines and they're about 1 minute off from each other