I am totally new to DVR and PVR. But I am experienced with computers. So I am going to do a project and build a PVR and see if I can get rid of most of my cable bills. Me question is this:
I have Dish Network . So I receive my channels over a satellite. What video capture card/tuner card internal do I need for my computer? I want the best so I get good HD reception. Also, do I have to have an antenna installed to use an OTA card? Thank you.
I know nothing of set top boxes and any help would be appreciated. I have an STB with only HDMI and SCART outputs (it's a Youview box for those in the UK who might know of such a thing). What would be a a good way to connect the STB to NextPVR?
I have looked at the various versions of the Hauppauge HD-PVR and Colussus. They are a tad expensive. Will they do what I want? Is there something cheaper?
Thanks for your help.
Edit: Does anyone know if HDCP content protection will get in the way if I try an HDMI connection?
First let me say how much I appreciate imageGrabLite, it's awesome! I've got one glitch though, it won't rename "The Flash" for some reason. I've attached the logs, which look like they are actually finding the show information but it's just not renaming it. I've got imageGrabLite in my postprocessing.bat but nothing special in there just "C:\Program Files (x86)\NPVR\imagegrablite.exe" --oid %3 --rename --zap2it
I am building a HTPC that will be replacing my DVR. I will be using a HDHomeRun PRIME with a cablecard. With that apparently there is a DRM issue that cablelabs requires some licence that WMC has. I will probibly use XBMC (KODI) as the front end just to keep everything easy.
So in a nut shell is there any reason I should us WMC rather than NextPVR? I really like how you can customize something and have the built in commercial remover.
I use NextPvr on my local PC to watch movies from a fileserver on my home network.
I can't store metadata on the fileserver so I was wondering if there's any way to store metadata on the local PC
and have it display when I access a movie from the fileserver.
I'm guessing that NextPvr expects the metadata to be in the same folder as the actual movie file, but I'm not
certain of this.
I'll post logs when I get back home, but wanted to throw this out there...
When I tune to a few channels (Clear QAM) The channel comes up and the audio is there, but the audio track is skipping. If I do a short rewind, the audio skipping goes away and I can watch the channel. This is not an issue for main channels, like 4.1, but for the other sub channels, like 4.2/9.3 as example.
I also notice there is an audio/video sync issue on the same channels, where after a few minutes I have to skip back to resync the audio.
Thoughts? Thanks.
I'm using the AC3 Filter with the Microsoft DTV decoder.
Question: I'm pretty unfamiliar with what IR remotes might be compatible... I've only ever used Snapstream Firefly remotes, which have a discrete USB receiver and some software to install/configure.
What would be the best plan/method for using a remote on this one? Would my TV remote work or do I need to find something else? I'm planning to (at least try) use KodiBuntu, so a Linux-friendly solution might work best.
I have a strange situation. My computer bluescreened during a recording (I'm running Windows 10 Technical Preview, and build 9879 has turned out to be more instable than the previous one, so I doubt the bluescreen is related to NPVR). After reboot, NVPR started with a new recording to continue the remainder of the program.
The first part is visible in the recordings-section, but NPVR cannot play back the file. The progress bar at the bottom has very large values both left and right, and the screen stays black on playback (progress indicator does not seem to move, counters stay constant). Interestingly, I can play the file in other software.
So for sure it is not a big deal, but I wonder if it is possible to play it in NPVR...
