I'm posting in General Discussion as I'm open to any suggestions which may or may not include NextPVR - I'll explain.
I'm looking into providing a media centre / entertainment system for a family friend who is severely disabled. He's 27 and has cerebral palsy (quadriplegic) and lives in a care home with his own room with TV and DVD player and spends much of his life watching TV or DVDs (mostly the latter). Obviously because of his lack of mobility he has to rely on care workers to switch is TV on, load DVD etc etc
So...cut to the chase...
Funding is available but limited. I've been asked to look into something for a budget Android tablet as a control unit (using wifi) but after that we need the media source and some sort of extender attached to the TV.
The initial idea is to start with ripping his DVDs (or as many as possible) to a NAS box but at that point is where the ideas of how to link that to a TV with a usable touch screen as a remote control are needed. The less "tech" involved is essential as the family and care workers aren't going to want to deal with technical problems if they arise.
If anyone has any ideas I'd be grateful to hear them.
Is there any common set of ideas for dealing with ATSC OTA channels that don't have *perfect* reception, when it comes to streaming live TV to a NPVR client computer?
For recordings - this AM I got a postprocessing script worked out to run VideoRedo's stream fix automatically to resolve timeline issues. That seems to work relatively well. Playback still has blips in reception but it doesn't disrupt the navigation of the file & play/pause.
Some channels - the ones with good reception on my current antenna alignment - seem to livestream nearly without issues at all. Others - where the reception isn't perfect - seem to freeze after experiencing too many signal interruptions within a certain amount of time.
Right now I'm only running one client, which is a TV and is also directly connected to the antenna - so with some channels I know it's just a better idea to skip straight to using the TV rather than going through NPVR. I'd like to add at least one network client in a spot where I won't be able to connect to antenna, so I'd like to resolve this (as best I can) before committing the financial resources to acquiring hardware for the new client.
I was changing my lineup on SchedulesDirect and there's an announcement about them changing listing providers and consequently making major changes to the service. The new feeds will include season/episode info (yay!).
This all happens November 1.
Hopefully sub is already aware of this?!
Is there a way to get NPVR to write the output (which is getting written to stdout) in my PostProcessing.bat to the NPVR or NRecord logs?
I'm attempting to debug some issues with a homebrewed postprocessing script, and it doesn't seem to write the same output to the log that I get when I run my postprocessing script manually from the console.
Does anyone know of any apps that can adjust the time base of an xmltv file?
My Foxtel data has not corrected for daylight saving time properly.
There used to be a program called 'xmltvalter' but that expired when epgstream.net went belly up.
Just - well about 2 hours ago NPVR stopped working with an exception on Unmanaged dll.
Managed to see in the details that it had stopped working because it contained a virus or PUP - which was a good clue.
This is the dll dated 10/05/2014 and has been fine for 5 months.
After several fights with Avast AV I have managed to set exceptions for this file in both locations and replace the files with my zip copy.
Strangely scanning the file produced no infection it was something in the initialization that the heuristics didn't like.
False Positive report sent to Avast.
I may just join their forum to complain about this - this is the 3rd program to be trashed by Avast in the last 2 months with false positives, one of them - a propriety database - had been running since 2006 without any updates or problems until Avast deleted the main exe :eek:
I see unmanaged.dll has been scanned on virus total today - before me someone else having same problem?
Hi there.
I want to change a recording's timeslot via the newa interface. I want to alter the recording to start at 7:pm instead of 6:pm, but I cannot use the GUI because it doesn't work with my screen reader. I can't seem to find any way to do this in the Newa web interface. Can anyone help?
Thanks.
I'm looking for what setting in config controls when it will look at for recurring recordings.... I wonder if it's this one??
<TimeSlotMinutes>90</TimeSlotMinutes>
& if it is within what time frame does that actually mean it will schedule from??
The reason I'm asking is I missed the second last ever episode of True Blood the other night because they broadcast it half an hour earlier than normal & it didn't set to auto record.... I'm pretty sure I never had this problem with how I had GB-PVR configured...
