Newbie having problems with TV Server (1 Viewer)

[bovaboy]

Hi All,

New to this and liking MP at the moment, newly changed over from WMC as it con't do what I want (backend server and multiple frontends).

Currently running the TV-server on an AMD Athlon LE-1600 2.2GHz running Win7 Ultimate 32bit.
Hard drives are both old IDE, one 80GB (System) and the other 500GB (TV Data) though running off of one controller (I do have some newer drives to install).
2GB RAM
2X Haupauge TD500 tuners (4 tuners total), though currently only using one card.

I'm only running a single front end at the moment and they are attached by Gigabit ethernet to each other through a Netgear 8 port Switch.
Front end is a Aser Aspire Revo ION2 chipset, Dual atom 1.8Ghz (I think) 2GB RAM, Win7 Home Premium.

The front end seems to work ok, but the TV server has crashed both days when the stream has been left running with live TV for some time (some time is the only thing my wife told me!). This is odd as I watched a couple of films in the evening and had no problems.

Another niggling problem is the fast forward - rewind, it seems to just about show what's being played though not very well at low speeds. If I speed it up to X4/X6 (I think) then the picture just freezes until I hit play again, and it's moved forward some unknown amount. Is there a way of getting this to work (like would it be better if I used a separate drive for Recordings and one for Timeshifting?) or do I need to speed up the backend server operating system?

Thanks in advance for any pointers!

Oh, running 1.1.2

1st Day Log:

26-01-2011 08:45:03.792 Recorderid 20b : Discontinuity header bit set!
26-01-2011 09:49:36.274 Recorderid 20b : Discontinuity header bit set!
26-01-2011 10:03:04.541 Recorderid 209 , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! 1 ( prev 4 )
26-01-2011 10:03:12.590 Recorderid 208 , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! 7 ( prev 6 )
26-01-2011 10:03:50.904 Recorderid 20a : Discontinuity header bit set!
26-01-2011 10:03:55.553 Recorderid 20b , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! 5 ( prev b )
26-01-2011 10:10:21.544 Recorderid 208 : Discontinuity header bit set!
26-01-2011 10:10:21.902 Recorder: TIMESHIFT Info : Program clock reference forward jump ( 45945 ).
26-01-2011 10:10:29.999 Recorderid 208 , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! 0 ( prev 4 )
26-01-2011 10:10:30.248 Recorder: TIMESHIFT Info : Program clock reference forward jump ( 43736 ).
26-01-2011 10:10:40.669 Recorderid 209 : Discontinuity header bit set!
26-01-2011 10:10:44.819 Recorderid 20a , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! a ( prev 2 )
26-01-2011 10:10:58.968 Recorderid 209 , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! d ( prev f )
26-01-2011 10:20:04.219 Recorderid 208 : Discontinuity header bit set!
26-01-2011 10:20:21.988 Recorderid 208 , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! 9 ( prev 1 )
26-01-2011 10:20:32.393 Recorderid 20b , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! b ( prev f )
26-01-2011 10:20:39.07 Recorderid 208 : Discontinuity header bit set!
26-01-2011 10:20:39.07 Recorderid 208 , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! 7 ( prev 5 )
26-01-2011 10:20:39.740 Recorderid 208 , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! d ( prev 4 )
26-01-2011 10:20:40.06 Recorder: TIMESHIFT Info : Program clock reference forward jump ( 94129 ).
26-01-2011 10:20:51.253 Recorderid 20b , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! 3 ( prev d )
26-01-2011 10:27:13.328 Recorderid 209 , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! 5 ( prev 6 )
26-01-2011 10:27:24.498 Recorderid 209 : Discontinuity header bit set!
26-01-2011 10:27:25.106 Recorderid 209 , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! a ( prev d )
26-01-2011 18:13:44.64 CMpTs::ctor()
26-01-2011 18:13:44.79 CMpTsFilterPin:ctor
26-01-2011 18:13:44.79 PatParser:Reset(0)

As you can see I restarted the service at 18:13,

 

[bovaboy]

2nd Day Log:

27-01-2011 08:41:36.848 epg: reset
27-01-2011 08:41:36.848 epg:ResetEPG()
27-01-2011 08:41:36.863 mhw reset
27-01-2011 08:41:36.910 epg: reset
27-01-2011 08:41:36.910 epg:ResetEPG()
27-01-2011 08:41:36.941 mhw reset
27-01-2011 10:27:44.752 Recorderid 20b , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! c ( prev d )
27-01-2011 10:27:52.459 Recorder: TIMESHIFT Info : Program clock reference forward jump ( 49169 ).
27-01-2011 10:28:11.85 Recorderid 20a , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! 0 ( prev c )
27-01-2011 10:34:33.32 Recorderid 20a : Discontinuity header bit set!
27-01-2011 10:34:37.986 Recorderid 208 , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! 3 ( prev 0 )
27-01-2011 10:34:38.99 Recorder: TIMESHIFT Info : Program clock reference forward jump ( 46057 ).
27-01-2011 10:34:39.462 Recorderid 20b , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! 0 ( prev f )
27-01-2011 10:34:45.914 Recorderid 208 : Discontinuity header bit set!
27-01-2011 10:34:52.164 Recorderid 208 , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! a ( prev 1 )
27-01-2011 10:34:52.272 Recorder: TIMESHIFT Info : Program clock reference forward jump ( 48427 ).
27-01-2011 10:34:55.313 Recorderid 208 : Discontinuity header bit set!
27-01-2011 10:34:55.316 Recorderid 208 , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! 7 ( prev 9 )
27-01-2011 10:35:01.22 Recorderid 20b : Discontinuity header bit set!
27-01-2011 10:38:21.199 Recorderid 20b : Discontinuity header bit set!
27-01-2011 10:42:04.965 Recorderid 20a : Discontinuity header bit set!
27-01-2011 10:42:04.965 Recorderid 20a , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! 7 ( prev e )
27-01-2011 10:42:15.433 Recorderid 209 : Discontinuity header bit set!
27-01-2011 10:42:21.361 Recorderid 209 : Discontinuity header bit set!
27-01-2011 10:42:26.836 Recorderid 209 : Discontinuity header bit set!
27-01-2011 10:42:27.133 Recorderid 20b , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! 3 ( prev 0 )
27-01-2011 10:42:28.22 Recorderid 20b , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! d ( prev 3 )
27-01-2011 10:48:36.88 Recorderid 20b : Discontinuity header bit set!
27-01-2011 10:48:48.833 Recorderid 209 , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! f ( prev c )
27-01-2011 10:48:57.538 Recorderid 208 : Discontinuity header bit set!
27-01-2011 10:49:01.797 Recorderid 209 , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! e ( prev 2 )
27-01-2011 10:49:07.429 Recorderid 209 : Discontinuity header bit set!
27-01-2011 10:49:14.589 Recorderid 20a : Discontinuity header bit set!
27-01-2011 10:49:25.72 Recorderid 20a , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! a ( prev 8 )
27-01-2011 10:49:36.663 Recorderid 209 : Discontinuity header bit set!
27-01-2011 10:55:54.323 Recorderid 208 : Discontinuity header bit set!
27-01-2011 10:55:58.05 Recorderid 20b : Discontinuity header bit set!
27-01-2011 10:56:32.247 Recorderid 208 , No PayLoad, Continuity Counter should be the same ! 1 ( prev 7 )
27-01-2011 10:56:35.570 Recorderid 20b : Discontinuity header bit set!
27-01-2011 18:14:00.336 CMpTs::ctor()
27-01-2011 18:14:00.342 CMpTsFilterPin:ctor

 

[bovaboy]

Hi there,

Well I thought I'd report back as I seem to have found the source of the problem! After trying different codecs, messing around with disk drives to try and improve this problem, the backend servers' CPU heatsink wasn't installed properly.
The stream would break up and hang every time the heatsink moved away from the processor, pushing it back on would sort it out in seconds!

Oh well, onto the next problem.