Live TV and Recordings Playback menu problem

[reformedalpineskier]

Sorry for the longish post (my first here!). I've done a lot of searching on the forum but I haven't found a post that mirrors the problem I'm experiencing.


I'm pretty new to NPVR, having used it only for the past 2-3 months. It replaces my longtime PVR -- SageTV -- to record and serve TV, mostly sports broadcasts. TV is provided by way of a digital Charter Cable box. After a bit of learning and configuration, I configured NPVR to work perfectly as a replacement to SageTV. The only difference is I now use Schedules Direct instead of Sage's guide service. My system's key components consisted of an Intel e5200 processor, Win 10 Release Preview, a Hauppauge Colossus, an ASUS PQ5 Pro, and a 500 gb HDD used for temporary storage of the recorded TV videos. Once configured, this system worked great and I consequently suffered no SageTV seller's remorse. :-)


Last week, I migrated the Colossus capture card and the 500 gb hard drive to a similarly-aged but different PC. Its key components are an AMD Athlon64 x2 processor on a Gigabyte motherboard running Win 10 Release Preview. I saved the database and configuration files from the first computer. After installing Hauppauge's WinTV 8 and setting up the IR blaster software (all things Hauppauge -- Live TV, recording, channel changing are working perfectly), I then installed NPVR, immediately closed it and stopped the recording service, then copied my saved database and configuration files. In most respects, NPVR now functions as it did on the Intel PC - that is to say Schedules Direct and the guide work, I can record TV and play it back via NPVR (or any other video player) and serve it via Mezzo across my network to my TV via a Sony Blu-Ray player.


The exceptions (functions that aren't working) however are:


1: NPVR will not change the Motorola DCX3200 channels via the IR Blaster whether watching live TV or when attempting a pending recording;

2. No mouse menu control (play, pause, change channel up, change channel down, etc.) works when watching LiveTV or when paying back a recording.


I'm suspicious that issue 2 may actually be the crux. Could there be a video core component missing that's necessary for the overlay menu to work? One key distinction between the AMD computer and the Intel one is that the AMD was a clean Windows 10 installation back in Dec 2015 to an SSD using MS Media Creation Tool. The previous computer was upgraded over the years from Windows 7, 8, 8.1, (including Media Center) and finally to Windows 10 as the consumer reviews were released. Once NPVR installed, I initially received a message about missing DirectX components. I downloaded and updated all DX components. That seemed to placate NPVR. I've subsequently uninstalled and reinstalled NPVR a couple times.


I've found no instance among forum posts where the NPVR control overlay menu was reported not to function. Neither have I seen a post about IR Blaster dysfunction when the WinTV and the Hauppauge Blaster worked perfectly to change channels. So there it is! Anyone have a experience with such a thing?


Attached are the log files. I reinstalled NPVR, went straight to LiveTV, attempted a channel change up and down, and saved the log files.


Thanks in advance!

[sub]

Do you see any OSD graphics? Like info when you move the mouse?

I see your renderer is set to VMR9. If you set it to EVR, does the OSD graphics (and buttons) show up?

[sub]

For thr IR Blaster - have you configured the blaster in the Hauppauge BlastCFG utility? Does it manage to change channel successfully? NextPVR is effectively just passing channel change requests to this software, so you need to make sure it's configured for your set top box.

If you go into the Settings->Devices screen, and double click the Colossus, in the channel list at the bottom of the screen, does it show the blaster on the right side of each channel in the list?

[reformedalpineskier]

Do you see any OSD graphics? Like info when you move the mouse?

I see your renderer is set to VMR9. If you set it to EVR, does the OSD graphics (and buttons) show up?

Sub: Thanks; changing the setting to EVR does indeed make a difference in both playback of recordings and in LiveTV. The OSD buttons showed with VMR9, but they were dead.

[reformedalpineskier]

Sub: The HaupBlast.exe {channel} argument is present in all 84 channels. From the Hauppauge IR Blaster configuration tool, I can change channels with a 100% success rate. Same is true within WinTV 8. I can also use the Hauppauge remote control to change channels.

[sub]

If you run the following, HaupBlast.exe will tell the Hauppauge software to blast channel number 753. Does running this manually work?

"G:\Program Files\NPVR\HaupBlast.exe" 753

[reformedalpineskier]

It did not work. One reason is obvious to me...this computer is not dual boot like the old one and the boot drive for Window 10 is c:\. That's one form of punishment for using the old config file! However, it still did not work when I changed the command to "C:\Program Files\NPVR\HaupBlast.exe" 753"

[reformedalpineskier]

I take that back, Sub, it DID work. I should be able to find the drive mapping (even if one channel at a time) somewhere in the configuration file, edit it, and be good to go. Correct?

[sub]

You can got into the settings->devices screen, double click the device, enter the name/args of the blaster executable (or just select the "HDPVR IR Blaster" option) at the top of the screen, then highlight all the channel in the list, right click and select 'update to current settings'.

[reformedalpineskier]

That worked with short-term, mixed results. Once I pressed "Update to current settings," I was able to change the channel (yay!), but the Live TV window quickly went black. It's as though there's no input on any channel. And, even after a system reboot the LiveTV window is black and I've lost channel changing. Command line channel changing -- C:\Program Files\NPVR\HaupBlast.exe" XXX -- still works. Playback of ready videos works fine. I zipped a new log file for you!