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<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1300823" data-attributes="member: 141969">I experienced this in the past (when I had two TBS 6284 tuners in my HTPC). I don't know whether having two identical TBS cards was the problem, but I now use one TBS 6284 plus a Pinnacle 2000i. I have not encountered this problem recently. However...There is one setting that may affect this that I have not mentioned before. Note: this is a workaround, not a fix. The setting is Tuners to try. There are separate settings for Recording and Timeshifting, and the default is 0, which means try all tuners. So this is what I think happens:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">TV Server tries to tune a channel, but for some unknown reason the tune fails and the tuner is left in a locked-up state.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">TV Server then moves on to the next tuner and tries that. That tune also fails, leaving that tuner in a locked-up state.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">TV Server then moves on to the next tuner... and so on, until all tuners are locked up.</li>
</ul>So the workaround is to change Tuners to try to 1. My view these days is that if the first attempt to tune the channel fails, it is unlikely that any subsequent attempts using the other tuners will succeed.-- from CyberSimian in the UK</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1300823, member: 141969"] I experienced this in the past (when I had two TBS 6284 tuners in my HTPC). I don't know whether having two identical TBS cards was the problem, but I now use one TBS 6284 plus a Pinnacle 2000i. I have not encountered this problem recently. However... There is one setting that [i]may[/i] affect this that I have not mentioned before. Note: this is a workaround, not a fix. The setting is [b]Tuners to try[/b]. There are separate settings for Recording and Timeshifting, and the default is [b]0[/b], which means [b]try all tuners[/b]. So this is what I think happens: [LIST] [*]TV Server tries to tune a channel, but for some unknown reason the tune fails and the tuner is left in a locked-up state. [*]TV Server then moves on to the next tuner and tries that. That tune also fails, leaving that tuner in a locked-up state. [*]TV Server then moves on to the next tuner... and so on, until all tuners are locked up. [/LIST] So the workaround is to change [b]Tuners to try[/b] to [b]1[/b]. My view these days is that if the first attempt to tune the channel fails, it is unlikely that any subsequent attempts using the other tuners will succeed. -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]

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