tphillip1120 2 Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 I recently built another Emby Server with a Ceton 6 tuner pcie card. I am on Time Warner Cable which requires an external tuning adapter in order to get all the encrypted channels. ServerWMC can see most of the channels that the tuner can see (667 out 688). After first installing the new Ceton I was able to get into the Emby's LiveTv Guide, but paging through it hung the web interface. I then tried watching live tv on a HD channel and I received either a blank grey screen where the video should have been, or I received a single video frame while the only sound was an alternating buzzing and humming. I tried some other channels that were not HD and sometimes they worked ok and sometimes they exhibited the same issue stated above. I have disabled DLNA on both Emby and ServerWMC, increased the initial buffer time in ServewrWMC from the default of 10,000 to 20,000, and have also tried enabling Use HTTP in ServerWMC. Nothing seems to have an effect. My server is a quad core i-7 with 12 gigs of ram so I know it is not a hardware performance issue. I am scratching my head over this because all channels work find in Windows Media Center. I have also now noticed that it takes a very long time to load guide data in the Emby Web Client but I attributed that to now having 667 channels. I have another Emby Server with an analog Hauppauge 2250 tuner card and it works flawlessly. I wanted to go with a Ceton Card because of the 6 Tuners and also because I heard that Time Warner is going completely digital in my area within the next year. I am wondering if anyone else has had this issue with the Ceton card with a Time Warner Tuning Adapter connected and how they may have fixed it. I am at work currently and cannot upload my server logs, (forgot to enable RDP on the new server build) but can upload them later this evening when I get home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krustyreturns 191 Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 It sounds to me like your twc channels are drm'd, that's why only wmc will play them. And if I recall right, my users have reported that twc drm's everything (nice right?). The swmc log should show if this is true, but a simple test is to record a wtv off of one of these channels and then try to play the file in emby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tphillip1120 2 Posted August 20, 2015 Author Share Posted August 20, 2015 Thanks Krusty, but if TWC DRM'd all channels then why does my Hauppauge 2250 card work fine? Maybe because it's an analog/digital card? I will give it a try tonight and let you know. Any idea about what could be causing my channel guide issues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krustyreturns 191 Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 The 2250 can only receive analog or clearQAM, and I assume it's a small subset of the channels the ceton is receiving. I don't know about the long load times of the guide data, but certainly 667 channels doesn't help. You can always have emby just input the channels you care about to speed things up if that's the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tphillip1120 2 Posted August 20, 2015 Author Share Posted August 20, 2015 Well I tried viewing a few more channels tonight with the same result. Video freezes on first frame and then I get strange buzzing noises for the volume. Looking at the log, it doesn't appear that the channels are encrypted. The log states that your DRM Query did fail though. It looks to me like the stream is starting and then stopping, but you probably can tell whats going on more than I can. I have attached the log. Could you please let me know what you think and if there might be a possible solution. Thanks, Tony ServerWMC.log Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krustyreturns 191 Posted August 20, 2015 Share Posted August 20, 2015 The drm query problem can likely be fixed by rebooting your serverwmc machine. But still the cleanest drm test is to try and play a wtv file recorded from these channels with emby (or vlc or kodi or ...). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tphillip1120 2 Posted August 21, 2015 Author Share Posted August 21, 2015 Well, I tried playing a recorded show in VLC and it is doing the same thing as Emby. Damn I hate Time Warner. Too bad someone can't figure out how to play streams using the media center player, capture video and then re-stream it. I can't believe they encrypt everything. Looks like it's back to the Hauppauge 2250 card for now. Thanks for looking into this for me Krusty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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