I have an HD Homerun Dual that I use for ATSC via a local tower. Three days ago I ran into an issue where my tuner recognizes the radio freguency from the tower, the HD homerun config app shows strong signal (green color bar) as well as gives the virtual name of the channel and number however it says "(no data)" after the channel name.
My first thought is that the signal was bad, so I switched to the tuner on my tv, works perfect.
My second thought, since the channel is CBS, maybe they are encoding it was some sort of security function that the HDHR Dual isn't compatible with.
Third thought is that tower is having issues as my NBC shows up on the tuner but just provides black picture... TV tuner is the same way.
Anyway I can tell if the CBS broadcast is encoded or not?
First of all I am running npvr on XP SP2 which I have to since I also run GBPVR. This combination has been running fine for the past 6 months or more.
Two tuner devices
Hauppauge WinTV PVR2 USB2(AVS) and WinTV HVR-900H (USB). GBPVR controls the WinTV PVR2 and NPVR the WinTV device.
This problem just started to occur and I am sure I made no changes (certainly no Windows updates since this is XP!).
When beginning a recording the NPVR tray icon goes red for about a minute and then it crashes with the above error message. I upgraded to 3.3.8 but the same problem occurs. If I record using GBPVR using the WinTV device (DVB-T) it's fine.
The logs are attached. One of them looks it shows a relevant error but I don't now what that means and I can't work out why it should start occurring now.
will not work as it needs the filename and cannot figure what should replace the %1
is it "%~dpn1.mpg" - excuse me for not trying, but i could really do with someone explaining what it means, please!
thanks
2. more seriously... comclean calls MPGTX.exe
so here i am droppingthe resulting MPG directly only the comclean.bat file, avoiding the wonky postprocessing.bat problem above
Quote:set mpgtx="c:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\mpgtx.exe"
set cmdline=%mpgtx% -j -f -o "%~dpn1_clean.mpg" "%~dpn1.mpg"
all good, it generates and the resulting, smaller file (1.5Gb to 1.3Gb ) BUT when i play it, i get audio only, the video is blank / black
i DLed the latest MPGTX from http://mpgtx.sourceforge.net/#Download
but that made no difference
any ideas why, please?
3 lastly, was THINKING of deleting the 2 dud files, automatically
yes i know, best doing it manually, but if i get all the above to work, and it is consistant, then i want the option
so i need the original filename.TS and the %~dpn1_original.mpg too
so what are my last two lines of code please
many thanks
hope all ok with 3 questions in one, but hoping too that others need these scripts
BTW, on windows 8.1 with LATEST k-lite mega codecs
The 1.5 version of serviio changed how it detects a new file (for streaming). It now has links into the operating system, and can detect a new file before it is playable (non-playable files are not added to the list of streamed files). This affects npvr, especially if you post-process to mp4 (and if you download torrents into the streamed folders).
I believe there are three ways to address the problem:
1. You can manually "Force library refresh"
2. You can try to change a serviio config setting to change back to periodic library scanning (like previous versions of serviio did)
- I tried this, but I failed to get it to work
3. You can download a third party app from the serviio.org forum (ForceServiioRefresh.zip) and place in postprocess.bat
- worked for me
I'm having some issues with my current TV-card and thinking of buying a HDHomerun 4DC (4 tuners, wow). But I wonder if nextpvr is capable of recording more than one channel using just one tuner of this device if the channels are on the same frequency. And I also wonder how much impact this device will have on my network when all tuners are in use. Can you tell me your experiences with these type of devices made by SiliconDust?
I belatedly updated to the latest version of NextPVR yesterday and today it is recording programmes I have recently watched. I checked the database and the "unique_id" field is blank.
For several years I have been using EPG Collector to extract the "episode-num" broadcast with the EPG data. As the data includes both the "Series_id" and the "Unique_id" of each programme I process the XML file to replace the "series_id" with a "0" so the "unique_id" field in the database is in the form 0:xxxxxxx:0 and this is also the format in the Recently_Deleted table.
Today I added the latest patches and the "unique_id" for some channels appears but in a different format which includes the programme name. The trouble is I have over 1200 recently deleted recordings and almost as many existing recordings so don't want to start again!
Is my best solution to do a clean install of v3.3.9 and import the backup xml files and possibly config.xml? A patch I know I needed is still available!!
I am trying to scan uk cable. I have modified one of the scan files with a known working transponder, but no channels are picked up. I have tried scanning using progdvb which does find channels on the same frequency and card.
I have 2 cards installed a TechnoTrend DVB-C 1500 and DVBSky T9580
Is there any way to use the episode info as the recording's filename rather than the date and a bunch of other numbers? I use NPVR to download sports and usually the info for the game will be really short for example "Eels vs Sea Eagles". This would be perfect for the filename of the recording if it's at all possible.
Thanks !
EDIT** I guess I should let you know that the "episode info" I'm talking about is coming from the mc2xml microsoft EPG.
I've updated npvr.db3 epg_mapping field from my prior install's channel export.xml
Manually selected through the UI the field looks like this:
<epg>
<source>XMLTV</source>
<file>D:\Program Files (x86)\NextPVR\mc2xml\xmltv.xml</file>
<mapping_id>I131.49679992.microsoft.com</mapping_id>
<mapping_name>131 WJBKDT2</mapping_name>
</epg>
My inserted field looks like this
<epg>
<source>XMLTV</source>
<file>D:\Program Files (x86)\NextPVR\mc2xml\xmltv.xml</file>
<mapping_id>I202.28461156.microsoft.com</mapping_id>
<mapping_name>202 WJBKDT</mapping_name>
</epg>
The first one in the channel details screen has the source filled out, the xmltv file field filled, and the mapping dropdown selected the correct value.
The second one, the one I inserted via SQL, Source field is filled out, XMLTV file field has the correct path, and the dropdown is NOT selected. The values are in the dropdown, and I can manually select, but it is blank to start on all of them except the one I manually did via the UI.
