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Right... So I might have nailed it. Still testing so far but got 3 tuners active (2 timeshift separate clients and 1 recording).

I was starting to believe it was related to the virtual network card/switch that is used when virtualizing software so I decided to reinstall Server 2012 R2 using the eval version (to save using my key and causing more issues down the track). Installing the Windows 8.1 BDA files allowed full use of the tuners. As expected TVserver was fine, no issues... However as Windows is now natively accessing the network card it seems that it is stable. This makes me believe that while UNC is fine over virtualized switches, it throws out the timing of video which requires fairly precise stuff.

My next test is to enable Hyper-v, create a virtual switch and then install a new server. IF I start to get the issues as before then I know is virtual switches/Ethernet adapters which MP over UNC cannot deal with.

I'm lucky that my motherboard/cpu allows me to pass through any attached PCi/PCi-e device to a virtual machine so I do expect to solve this by purchasing a new Ethernet card and then pass that through to the VM.

I'll continue to update this thread as I explore further and will update (or provide an update) for the wiki so other people can understand the benefits/pitfalls of virtualizing their hardware when running TVserver (and this might apply to the centralized server approach of MP2 as well).

Chris

<blockquote data-quote="Benoire" data-source="post: 1040504" data-attributes="member: 121281">Right... So I might have nailed it.&nbsp; Still testing so far but got 3 tuners active (2 timeshift separate clients and 1 recording).I was starting to believe it was related to the virtual network card/switch that is used when virtualizing software so I decided to reinstall Server 2012 R2 using the eval version (to save using my key and causing more issues down the track).&nbsp; Installing the Windows 8.1 BDA files allowed full use of the tuners.&nbsp; As expected TVserver was fine, no issues... However as Windows is now natively accessing the network card it seems that it is stable.&nbsp; This makes me believe that while UNC is fine over virtualized switches, it throws out the timing of video which requires fairly precise stuff.My next test is to enable Hyper-v, create a virtual switch and then install a new server.&nbsp; IF I start to get the issues as before then I know is virtual switches/Ethernet adapters which MP over UNC cannot deal with.I'm lucky that my motherboard/cpu allows me to pass through any attached PCi/PCi-e device to a virtual machine so I do expect to solve this by purchasing a new Ethernet card and then pass that through to the VM.I'll continue to update this thread as I explore further and will update (or provide an update) for the wiki so other people can understand the benefits/pitfalls of virtualizing their hardware when running TVserver (and this might apply to the centralized server approach of MP2 as well).Chris</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Benoire, post: 1040504, member: 121281"] Right... So I might have nailed it. Still testing so far but got 3 tuners active (2 timeshift separate clients and 1 recording). I was starting to believe it was related to the virtual network card/switch that is used when virtualizing software so I decided to reinstall Server 2012 R2 using the eval version (to save using my key and causing more issues down the track). Installing the Windows 8.1 BDA files allowed full use of the tuners. As expected TVserver was fine, no issues... However as Windows is now natively accessing the network card it seems that it is stable. This makes me believe that while UNC is fine over virtualized switches, it throws out the timing of video which requires fairly precise stuff. My next test is to enable Hyper-v, create a virtual switch and then install a new server. IF I start to get the issues as before then I know is virtual switches/Ethernet adapters which MP over UNC cannot deal with. I'm lucky that my motherboard/cpu allows me to pass through any attached PCi/PCi-e device to a virtual machine so I do expect to solve this by purchasing a new Ethernet card and then pass that through to the VM. I'll continue to update this thread as I explore further and will update (or provide an update) for the wiki so other people can understand the benefits/pitfalls of virtualizing their hardware when running TVserver (and this might apply to the centralized server approach of MP2 as well). Chris [/QUOTE]