Remote clients knocking each other off their tuners

[crutonius]

Okay this has probably been solved elsewhere but I don't know the right terms to search with.

So I've got one machine running an Infinitv 4. On that machine I can run NPVR and WMC and they both run fine side by side.

Here's the problem:

I have two computers setup to use that machine with the Infinitv 4 as the server. I start up one machine and start streaming live tv and that works. I see in the status of the server that the first tuner is in use. Then I start streaming NPVR on the second machine. I see that the second tuner is in use on the server but then the first tuner goes idle knocking out the video feed for the first machine.

Any ideas?

thanks in advance

[Reddwarf]

Please read the sticky thread on top of this forum about how to post logs when you report a problem. Without logs we have no way of determining what is going wrong.

[mvallevand]

I know NetworkRecorder doesn't make any attempt to reject a LiveTV request to use an existing socket, because it doesn't know if it is from a new client or not. Sub would need to explain what I need to do if this is the role of the plugin to reject requests.

Martin

[sub]

Martin, you'd need to implement the IRecoder.IsLiveTVPossibleNow() method, to return true if it's available, or false if it's not - taking into account the previousHandle value passed in.

[mvallevand]

Right I implemented it but I figured it was always true when not recording since if the same client comes in, I wouldn't want to return false.

Martin

[sub]

Right I implemented it but I figured it was always true when not recording since if the same client comes in, I wouldn't want to return false.

That's where the previousHandle comes in. ie, if it comes in as zero, then you know it's a new client wanting to start a live tv session. If it comes in with a non-zero value, it's a request to change channels.

[crutonius]

Please read the sticky thread on top of this forum about how to post logs when you report a problem. Without logs we have no way of determining what is going wrong.

Here you go.

[sub]

Here you go.

It sounds like you'll need an updated Network Recorder plugin to resolve this problem.

[mvallevand]

I'm not sure now what the problem is since they come in on different tuners

Code:

2013-10-27 15:53:26.215    [DEBUG][17]    checking: NetworkRecorder:2.NetworkRecorder
2013-10-27 15:53:26.215    [DEBUG][17]    enabled and present
2013-10-27 15:53:26.215    [DEBUG][17]    has channel
2013-10-27 15:53:26.215    [DEBUG][17]    live tv is possible
2013-10-27 15:53:26.220    [DEBUG][17]    Network Recorder Send VERSION
2013-10-27 15:53:26.220    [DEBUG][17]    Network Recorder Reply 1
2013-10-27 15:53:26.220    [DEBUG][17]    NetworkRecorder:2 Recording D:\Recorded TV\live-HISTORY-18773.ts
2013-10-27 15:53:26.220    [DEBUG][17]    Network Recorder Send START Graph Recorder2|10|12345678|D:\Recorded TV\live-HISTORY-18773.ts|Great
2013-10-27 15:53:33.605    [DEBUG][17]    NetworkRecorder:2 Starting D:\Recorded TV\live-HISTORY-18773.ts
2013-10-27 15:53:33.605    [DEBUG][15]    Thread starting
2013-10-27 15:53:41.605    [DEBUG][17]    Live TV handle: 0x1603E8

Code:

2013-10-27 15:53:58.070    [DEBUG][17]    StartStream(9044:COMEDYP)
2013-10-27 15:53:58.070    [DEBUG][17]    looking for capture source
2013-10-27 15:53:58.070    [DEBUG][17]    checking: NetworkRecorder:2.NetworkRecorder
2013-10-27 15:53:58.070    [DEBUG][17]    enabled and present
2013-10-27 15:53:58.070    [DEBUG][17]    has channel
2013-10-27 15:53:58.070    [DEBUG][17]    Requested COMEDYPbut still recording 1000
2013-10-27 15:53:58.070    [DEBUG][17]    live tv is not possible
2013-10-27 15:53:58.070    [DEBUG][17]    checking: NetworkRecorder:3.NetworkRecorder
2013-10-27 15:53:58.075    [DEBUG][17]    enabled and present
2013-10-27 15:53:58.075    [DEBUG][17]    has channel
2013-10-27 15:53:58.075    [DEBUG][17]    live tv is possible
2013-10-27 15:53:58.075    [DEBUG][17]    Network Recorder Send VERSION
2013-10-27 15:53:58.075    [DEBUG][17]    Network Recorder Reply 1
2013-10-27 15:53:58.075    [DEBUG][17]    NetworkRecorder:3 Recording D:\Recorded TV\live-COMEDYP-5041.ts
2013-10-27 15:53:58.075    [DEBUG][17]    Network Recorder Send START Graph Recorder3|58|12345678|D:\Recorded TV\live-COMEDYP-5041.ts|Great
...
2013-10-27 15:54:12.875    [DEBUG][17]    NetworkRecorder:3 Starting D:\Recorded TV\live-COMEDYP-5041.ts
2013-10-27 15:54:12.875    [DEBUG][21]    Thread starting
2013-10-27 15:54:20.875    [DEBUG][17]    Live TV handle: 0x1703E8

The reason that the first stream stops looks like a request from NextPVR

Code:

2013-10-27 15:54:20.875    [DEBUG][17]    Live TV handle: 0x1703E8
2013-10-27 15:54:20.875    [ERROR][9]    Live stream expired without renewal. (handle:1603E8)
2013-10-27 15:54:20.875    [DEBUG][9]    NetworkRecorder:2 Stop Stream 1000
2013-10-27 15:54:20.875    [DEBUG][9]    Network Recorder Send STOP

but that handle was streaming a few seconds earlier.

2013-10-27 15:54:20.700 [DEBUG][19] READabout to send 169200 bytes, from offset 17766000

Martin

[crutonius]

It sounds like you'll need an updated Network Recorder plugin to resolve this problem.

It looks like the latest release is Sep 16 2011. I got it from here: http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...order#toc1. Is there a newer version?