[ChrisBon]

Hi,
I cannot get any channels to display Live TV.

I have an HP P6360uk Desktop (Intel i7 CPU) with 6GB RAM.
It is running Windows/7 64 bit Home Premium.
I have been happily using Windows Media Centre for 5 years recording and viewing live TV programs.
The HP came with a TV tuner installed, Device Manager says its an AverMedia H789 PCI-E Hybrid DVB-T
It is connected to the same aerial in the loft as the TV in our lounge.
I can receive all the UK Freeview channels just fine on both the TV and Computer.
I believe my nearest transmitter is the one at Crystal Palace.

I am being tempted to upgrade, for free, to Windows/10, but am concerned that it does not support Windows Media Centre.

So before upgrading to Windows 10, I am experimenting with different solutions for Line TV reception and Recording and Playback.

I have installed SmartWMC as the PVR backend and Kodi (15.0 Git:20150721-2f34a0c)
After a bit of mindless poking around I managed to get a list of channels showing up.
However if I select any of them I get no sound or vision and eventually get a message suggesting I read the log.
After a bit of hunting around I found a log in C:\Users\W7\AppData\Roaming\Kodi named Kodi.log, and found these entries:

13:24:57 T:3296 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: pvr://channels/tv/All channels/pvr.wmc_61330591.pvr
13:24:57 T:3296 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
13:24:57 T:3296 NOTICE: DXVA::CProcessorHD:reInit - The Direct3d device doesn't support DXVA-HD.
13:24:57 T:3296 NOTICE: CWinRenderer:reinit - could not init DXVA-HD processor - skipping
13:24:57 T:8460 NOTICE: Thread DVDPlayer start, auto delete: false
13:24:57 T:8460 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
13:25:04 T:8460 ERROR: AddOnLog: PVR WMC Client: Error opening stream file, Win32 error code: 0
13:25:05 T:8460 ERROR: CDVDPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [pvr://channels/tv/All channels/pvr.wmc_61330591.pvr]
13:25:05 T:8460 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
13:25:05 T:3296 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
13:25:05 T:3296 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
13:25:05 T:3296 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting
13:25:05 T:3296 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
13:25:05 T:3296 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
13:25:05 T:3296 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting
13:49:20 T:7352 NOTICE: Thread JobWorker start, auto delete: true
13:50:07 T:7972 NOTICE: Thread RSSReader start, auto delete: false

I don't know what all this means, so I picked out this line: DXVA::CProcessorHD:reInit - The Direct3d device doesn't support DXVA-HD possible clue?

Please, does anyone know what this means and what I am supposed to do to fix it?

I am able to use Kodi to play some recordings originally made on Windows Media Centre.
And, I am still able to receive and record broadcasts using Windows Media Centre.

Any advice would be very welcome,

Chris.

[scarecrow420]

I don't think that's your problem. Have you setup your recorded tv share and permissions? I think you'll need too go through the ServerWMC setup guide on the wiki

http://kodi.wiki/view/ServerWMC

[ChrisBon]

scarecrow420,
Thanks for your post. I did look at your link to ServerWMC wiki and checked a few things, however I did not change anything (honest) and magically, I can now view Live TV now.
I will do a final test of an unattended recording and if that works OK, I feel confident to go ahead with the Windows/7 -> Windows/10 upgrade.

Thanks again for your input.
Chris.

[Dilligaf]

You do understand that ServerWMC requires Windows Media Center to operate don't you? If you upgrade the ServerWMC box to Windows 10 ServerWMC will no longer function.

[ChrisBon]

Dilligaf,
DOH! - Ironically, just as I had successfully recorded an episode of Pointless ;-)
I did not realize the dependency.

Can you recommend an alternative that will support my TV tuner - Windows Device Manager says its an AverMedia H789 PCI-E Hybrid DVB-T ?

Chris.