2012-03-03, 03:57 PM
I watch most of my recordings on my Vista client and v2.3.6 has worked well for me since it was released. R1 patches made no significant difference and Skip almost always worked correctly for me. However after installing the recent âSkip patchâ NextPVR became unstable and at best would take about 20 seconds before the video was displayed and would take about 10 seconds to respond to Stop or Esc. The sound was often very choppy and sometimes also the video and NextPVR was very prone to âNot Respondingâ.
Reverting to the R1 patch and unregistering the TSreader2 made no difference and likewise after reinstalling v2.3.6 it was still almost unusable. Next I uninstalled NextPVR and deleted the NPVR data directory and reinstalled again but the problems were still there. I knew that this is not a fault in NextPVR because my other Vista client behaves as expected when similarly reinstalled so it had to be a problem with Windows. Instead of doing a Vista reinstall I did a âSystem Restoreâ from a restore point made in late January.
Afterwards some software had disappeared and other had reappeared so some installing and uninstalling was needed to get back to the required condition. After reinstalling NextPVR I now have a reliable working setup again. It is impossible to say what had gone wrong but something in Windows had got corrupted and a Restore took Windows back to how it was about 6 weeks ago when it was working correctly. However all versions of Windows gradually deteriorate so need a reinstall after a year or so to the point where afterwards people assumed you had given them a new faster computer!
Reverting to the R1 patch and unregistering the TSreader2 made no difference and likewise after reinstalling v2.3.6 it was still almost unusable. Next I uninstalled NextPVR and deleted the NPVR data directory and reinstalled again but the problems were still there. I knew that this is not a fault in NextPVR because my other Vista client behaves as expected when similarly reinstalled so it had to be a problem with Windows. Instead of doing a Vista reinstall I did a âSystem Restoreâ from a restore point made in late January.
Afterwards some software had disappeared and other had reappeared so some installing and uninstalling was needed to get back to the required condition. After reinstalling NextPVR I now have a reliable working setup again. It is impossible to say what had gone wrong but something in Windows had got corrupted and a Restore took Windows back to how it was about 6 weeks ago when it was working correctly. However all versions of Windows gradually deteriorate so need a reinstall after a year or so to the point where afterwards people assumed you had given them a new faster computer!
