Reading Logs

[Brucek2839]

Can anyone give me some advice on reading logs.
Thank you,

[sub]

Honestly, that is a very vague request. You'd be better off posting the details of the problem you're having, along with the logs. After someone helps you out, as a follow up, ask how they worked out the solution - I'm sure they'll give you some tips.

Otherwise you can just try reading the logs with a text editor, and try reading the messages. I try to make them meaningful.

[Brucek2839]

Thank you Sub

[Brucek2839]

Hey Sub,
Would an I3 computer work well as a main NextPVR server?
Thank you,

[JEF]

My I3 computer computer works great, before that I had a Pentium 4 which also worked well

[Graham]

Hey Sub,
Would an I3 computer work well as a main NextPVR server?
Thank you,

Almost any machine will do for a machine that is receiving digital broadcasts because NextPVR is copying the incoming stream to disk and does not have to reprocess the stream. You may need a little more grunt if you use client machines that require that the NextPVR server transcodes.

You might be re-assurred if you get your existing machine to make multiple simultaneous recordings. You should see in Task Manager that the machine is not heavily loaded.

[jcjefferies]

I have been using a HP Microserver for many years and that has a twin 1.2GHZ E450 processor which is probably "sub Celeron" in performance. I have 4 tuners three of which can do HD and not had problems that could be blamed on the processor!

[Brucek2839]

Hey there Jef,
Your I3 computer. Are you running it as a server or as a client? How much ram are you running?
Thank you for your time...
Bruce

[gEd]

Hi Bruce.

You asked "Would an I3 computer work well as a main NextPVR server?"
yes, it will work just fine as a server and perfectly fine for playback with a only modest graphics card installed (I use a second hand GTX 650 which workds perfectly). I'd probably go for the quad core instead of the dual core (you didn't say which I3) unless the budget is very tight, just to give yourself some headroom over the next few years.

For reference (until I shuffled kit around within the home) I was running a really old first gen quad core Q9300 with 3GB if I recall (as one DIMM failed). NextPVR uses very little RAM (4GB would be fine but people generally would build a machine with 8GB minimum nowerdays just because). It also uses very little CPU except (As Graham said above) if you are planning to stream recordings to mobile devices, thisi will require the show to be converted (transcoded) on the fly which does require more CPU power to handle.

If you are planning to build a system from scratch, you may have other considerations to take into account. For example, if the PC is to live under the TV in the living room, the esthetics of the case and noise levels from the PC can be important matters. These were important for me but for many other peopel, a complete non-issue.

[Brucek2839]

Thank you for the info gEd.