[confirm] TV Server multiple cards tuning problem (1 Viewer)

[ikke]

Hi all,

I have a mediaportal 1.3 beta installation with 2 clients and one server. In the server I have 3 tv cards 2 DVBS2 cards from TechnoTrend and one DVB-T card from Compro. System is running fine since the installation of 1.3 beta and the handling of multiple cards and channels worked fine. Last weeks I started to notice that the second DVB-S2 card wasn't working anymore. I could not tune to this card. Some time after that the DVB-T card was not working anymore as well. Now only works on DVB-S2 card and with this card I get often the error "No Video or audio found". Restarting the TV server service helps. The biggest problem is still the first that I can only use one card instead of 3.
Looking into the log files I can see hte following:

2013-02-26 20:17:42.577600 [(3)]: CardReservationBase.RequestCardTuneReservation: placed reservation with id=591, tuningdetails=DVBS:tv:CANALDIGITAAL een HD Freq:12188000 ONID:3 TSID:3225 SID:21025 PMT:0xAA5 FTA:False LCN:10000 SymbolRate:27500 Modulation:ModQpsk Polarisation:LinearH InnerFecRate:Rate5_6 DisEqcimpleB band:Universal Pilot:Off RollOff:ThirtyFive
2013-02-26 20:17:42.619600 [(3)]: CardReservationBase.RequestCardTuneReservation: placed reservation with id=592, tuningdetails=DVBS:tv:CANALDIGITAAL een HD Freq:12188000 ONID:3 TSID:3225 SID:21025 PMT:0xAA5 FTA:False LCN:10000 SymbolRate:27500 Modulation:ModQpsk Polarisation:LinearH InnerFecRate:Rate5_6 DisEqcimpleB band:Universal Pilot:Off RollOff:ThirtyFive
2013-02-26 20:17:42.659600 [(3)]: CardReservationBase.RequestCardTuneReservation: placed reservation with id=593, tuningdetails=DVBT:tv:VRT EEN Freq:482000 ONID:8248 TSID:1 SID:4112 PMT:0x1010 FTA:True LCN:10000 BandWidth:8
2013-02-26 20:17:42.705600 [(3)]: Controller: card:3 typevbS users: 1
2013-02-26 20:17:42.746600 [(3)]: Controller: card:3 typevbS is not available, tuned to different transponder
2013-02-26 20:17:42.785600 [(3)]: Controller: card:4 typevbS users: 1
2013-02-26 20:17:42.824600 [(3)]: Controller: card:4 typevbS is not available, tuned to different transponder
2013-02-26 20:17:42.863600 [(3)]: Controller: card:2 typevbT users: 0
2013-02-26 20:17:42.901600 [(3)]: Controller: card:2 typevbT is available

I can see that Card 3 has one user: This is correct, I tuned one channel on this card.
Card 4 has one user: This is not correct, nothing is hapening on the system. I can see this in the manual control section of the SetupMEdiaportal.
DVB-T has 0 users: correct.
What I'm wondering is why does mediaportal say that Card 4 is not available?
How can I check why this card is not available?

Regarding the tuning issue I see the following messages in the log:
2013-02-26 20:17:50.252600 [(3)]: card: WaitForFile - waiting _eventAudio & _eventVideo
2013-02-26 20:18:05.293600 [(3)]: card: WaitForFile - no audio was found after 15.041 seconds
2013-02-26 20:18:05.332600 [(3)]: card VideoMate Hybrid A+DVB-T DVBT Tuner: StopTimeShifting user:setuptv-1--1 sub:0
2013-02-26 20:18:05.370600 [(3)]: card not IDLE - removing user: setuptv-1--1

Seems that Mediaportal cannot find audio or video. Thing is that I did not change a thing.

Thanks in advance for helping.

Ikke

 

[ikke]

I don't know if you can start the TV service in debug mode.
I also did not upload the mediaportal client log files because it is not used to reproduce the problem.

Ikke

 

[ikke]

Hi,

I found out that you can debug the tvservice by the tvservice.exe /debug command. But it does not give more information.
Is till don't know why one recording can block 2 cards. See debug log files in attachment.

Ikke[DOUBLEPOST=1362405530][/DOUBLEPOST]Hi,

I already solved one problem. the DVB-S2 cards are in a card group. Apparently card groups are only interesting when having hybrid cards. I removed both cards from the card groups. After that I received an error that my smart card of my second DVB-S2 card was not valid anymore. Since I have TV Vlaanderen I tuned this card to the BVN channel for a couple of minutes and my second DVB-S2 cards is working again. I don't know why these card groups interefered with my second dvb-s2 card, anyone an idea?

Only problem remains is the DVB-T card which is unable to tune to channels. Searching channels still works, but viewing them not. All DVB-T channels are FTA.

Ikke