I'm sorry, I'm not able to help you. As you probably know we are having issues with 64 bit so you'll need to go to W7 32 bit regardless. Further I *think* the XBMC PVR add-on requires MP 1.2.3 (I could be wrong). I just do not have the capacity to support anything more than MP 1.3 alpha at present. So if you want to test then I'm sorry but you're either going to have to wait or change your system configuration.I have new InfiniTV PCIe card, but with Win7-64 bit. I like to test with the new XBMC PVR support....
Yes, that is intentional. I think what you're trying to do may not be possible. The reason is that clear QAM tuners tune by frequency/modulation whereas CableCARD tuners tune by virtual channel numbers - quite different. If that was to have any chance of working at all you would have to scan with the clear QAM tuners, then make sure the channel numbers match the real virtual/logical channel numbers that the CableCARD tuner uses. About the modulation setting: at present I'm using that to differentiate between clear QAM and encrypted CableCARD channels.I did notice that for the channel tuning information, there doesn't seem to be an encoding type (e.g. 8VSB or 256QAM). Is this intentional? For ClearQAM channels I would like to have the same tuning information mapped for both CableCard tuners and ClearQAM tuners. Right now, I have them separate (this is my production machine, so I'm making changes slowly).
11/14/2012 Update: New drivers and I haven't seen a blue screen. I'm having issues with prematurely ending recordings and failure to tune, but I think it's all thermal related (the card is running 67C+ regularly, and Ceton recommends no higher than 65C). Once I get thermal under control, I'll see if any of my issues are MP related, but I don't think so.
Thanks for the feedback.I have a note for any other Ceton InfiniTV users. In order to get the tuners to work more than once, I had to set the cards as "preloaded" and "pause," not "stop."
I personally have not trialed enough to comment about the preload/pause setting.Is this a configuration other users have? I'm still having other issues that may be CableCard related (dropped recordings, channel entitlement).
Lets tackle the easy question first. You will see 6 tuners for the Prime because Silicondust created a "wrapper" for the Prime that allows software like MP to use it for clear QAM only without any changes. So the 3 tuners named like "HDHomeRun Prime Tuner" are the CableCARD tuners; the other three are the same tuners, but only capable of clear QAM. I've added this info to the first post. Thanks for asking.I have a HDHomerun Prime. I have tried testing this in a VM and I had major sync issues. So I blew up my 2nd htpc that I dont use that much and installed a fresh copy of windows 7 pro x86. I'm still getting a ton of sync errors. The other thing I noticed in both testing setups that the hdhomerun was listed a total of 6 times and not 3.
I'm including the log files. Hopefully we can get this sorted!
Okay - please post logs as per the first post.Sync issues meaning stuttering stopping and starting video? I have that on wired and wireless with or without virus/firewall. The prime quicktv plays ok.
I also cannot connect to a tuner more than once without restarting server service.
Hi zyrod
Lets tackle the easy question first. You will see 6 tuners for the Prime because Silicondust created a "wrapper" for the Prime that allows software like MP to use it for clear QAM only without any changes. So the 3 tuners named like "HDHomeRun Prime Tuner" are the CableCARD tuners; the other three are the same tuners, but only capable of clear QAM. I've added this info to the first post. Thanks for asking.I have a HDHomerun Prime. I have tried testing this in a VM and I had major sync issues. So I blew up my 2nd htpc that I dont use that much and installed a fresh copy of windows 7 pro x86. I'm still getting a ton of sync errors. The other thing I noticed in both testing setups that the hdhomerun was listed a total of 6 times and not 3.
I'm including the log files. Hopefully we can get this sorted!
Now for the tougher question. I can see what you mean about the sync issues in the TsWriter log as stream discontinuities. This means that the problem is definitely the stream source, not just playback. In general discontinuities indicate one of two things:
1. Signal quality issues.
2. Timeshift/recording HDD stress.
I'm assuming your signal quality is okay so I'm ignoring that for the moment.
For the second point: are you running any real-time virus/spyware scanners like MS Security Essentials? If these scanners decide to scan your MP/TV Server program folders and/or your timeshifting/recording folders then it can cause symptoms like this.
Since the Prime is a networked tuner I think we should also consider network issues, including firewalls:
Cheers,
- Could you please make sure that there is an exception for TvService.exe in your firewall (there should be, but just make sure).
- Please test with firewall(s) enabled and disabled and see if it makes any difference.
- Please tell us if you're using wireless or wired networking between your router and the TV Server PC.
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