NPVR Not responsive.

[Cotty72]

HI,
I have installed NPVR and have been having some issues getting it to work. I have an AVerMedia H752 TV Tuner Card running Windows 10 in Adelaide Australia. When I try to watch TV NPVR locks up. In fact when it is just sitting idle it will eventually lock up (showing "not responding"). I have tried everything I know (very new to this) including a fresh install (which does not seem to be so fresh as all of my previous setting magically appear on re-installation). I have zipped and attached my log files if anyone can help me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Cotty.

[mvallevand]

Does the software that comes with your tuner card work?

Also your screen res. is odd Rendering for screen size: 1776x1000 have you tried anything closer to video standards?

Martin

[sub]

Two of your logs seem to end with this message:

2017-02-26 18:54:01.696 [DEBUG][1] Getting Decoders for type: MEDIATYPE_Audio, subtype: MEDIASUBTYPE_DOLBY_AC3

which makes me think maybe there is something screwy about one of your AC3 decoders, but I'm not 100% sure how you'd fix that.

Are you able to view the Settings->Decoders screen? What AC3 decoder do you have selected?

[Cotty72]

Thank you for your replies,

I have changed my Resolution to 1920X1080 (recommended by my system), and this did not change anything. I had originally set the 1770 resolution so that my whole desktop appears on the display (rather old Flat screen TV with no organic resolution setting other than 16:9 or letterbox..). I can get into the setting page and if i do it before NPVR crashes it will run away happily until I exit settings and try to look at the EPG or live Tv. I have the ffdshow audio decoder for AC3 audio which I installed last night, prior to this I was using (or attempting to use) LAV decoders.

I do not have the software that came with the tuner as it was pre-installed into my system when I got it. It did work on Window MCE until microsoft decided what we wanted for us.

Anything that I can try would be greatly appreciated as I am stuck with an LG Blueray with built in DVR which is not the most usable beasty.

Thanks Again

Cotty

[Cotty72]

Sub,
Well I almost have it figured out, I had to run the windows compatibility manager to get NPVR to work (running in Win 8.1 compatibility mode now). While I can record and playback I am not quite there yet though as now i get a freeze when watching live TV, the freeze happens at a constant 20ish seconds (counting in my head). I would like some idea of what to check, I have already checked the buffer file for permissions as suggested on some really early posts and this seems to be OK, i have again attached log files, your help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in Advance

Cotty

[mvallevand]

Most people have no luck with LAV Video for NextPVR recordings, try another decoder, especially the Microsoft MS DTV-DVD decoder if you have it.

Martin

[Cotty72]

Thank you, mvallevand for your response and assistance. I am getting closer, i have changed the decoders as suggested and I have also put a folder in C drive to act as a buffer directory and i got it to work once (I got very excited as thought i had cracked it!!!). I feel that I have something very minor going on with my recording service as if I am patient I get the following message

"The Tuner you were using was required for a recording. Would you like to switch to watching a recording, or exit back to the main menu?"

There is no option to continue watching recording only exit to menu which doesn't work. SO I am gathering I have a problem associated with the recording service. I have tried stopping and starting it with no luck. Incidentally while I was typing this NPVR returned to the EPG page by itself - weird??

Again I have posted my logs and I appreciate any help I can get.

Regards

Cotty

[mvallevand]

Your aren't clear in your post but the message sounds like the Kodi message and is common if you use time shifting. You might want to check the Kodi sub-forum here, that is a common unresolved issue.

Marti

[Cotty72]

Hi Marti,
I am at it again trying to get this thing working. There is no point checking into Kodi because NPVR won't run organically, I only get about 20-30 secs of live TV before the screen freezes, I have been trying different setting but nothing seems to work. If I do go to Kodi and try I get an error mesg that NPVR plug in not available at about the 20-30 second mark.

thanks