hello everyone. i'm a complete noob here so please be patient with me and please help me understand.

initially i bought the gbox mx2 so i could cut the cord and stream live tv. went on with my roku device for about 2 months before purchasing my gbox mx2. i may have been completely nieve about the situation and what all it needed in order to get the live tv function to work, but i went ahead and jumped on it anyways.

i've gone through the multiple ways of configuring the next pvr client in my xbmc application and doing it like everyone else has done. my issue is, that even though i've enabled the pvr client, i'm still getting messages saying "connection lost". i've gone through the other half of the setup process and tried to configure my firewall to accept the pvr client host names and ports, but still nothing has changed. i don't know what the hell i'm doing wrong, but i've been battling this freaking thing for the past week. honestly, i'm about at my wits end spending unnecessary hours trying to get it to work and sending it back.

can someone please walk me through this step by step and hold my hand along the way? lol i know i'm asking a lot, but i just want to get this right. plus i need to look like i knew what it was the whole time to my wife.

thanks guys.

I am running 3.2.9 on two clients, both Win 8.1. I just set up a new machine - based on Gigabyte Brix 2807 Celeron. All works well, faster in fact based on benchmarks, than my other E-350 based mini client in the living room. Both clients are hooked to HD TVs at 1080 via HDMI cables. I am running all displays at native 1080 resolution.

My issue is that the new Brix unit renders the UI "blurry", appearing upscaled from 720 or less resolution. I have specified 1920x1080 resolution in settings rather than auto, but try as I might, the UI is still blurry in appearance relative to my other machines, or other applications on that client machine. I did a bit of research and installed the Microsoft DirectX 9 runtimes, but that did not seem to help. The video playback of both 720 and 1080 content seems fine.

Maybe an issue with the driver? I would have thought forcing 1080 in the settings would do it?

Hi.

I've got NPVR running on an XP 32 machine. I will be rebuilding the machine (same hardware) as a W7 Pro 64. I would like NPVR to be setup and operate exactly how it is on the XP machine. Which files should I backup on the XP machine and replace on the new machine once I've installed NPVR so that my configuration is quicker/easier? I am especially interested in Devices, Channels, EPG settings and Recording paths.

Thanks.

I have a 4 quad tuner system, a dual DVB-T and a dual DVB-S2 setup.

What I have noticed that that system appears to only record from 2 tuners at any one time, ie one of the -T and one -S2.
It appears not to be able to use the second tuner of a dual set.

This did use to work fine when I just had the DVB-T dual tuner.

I have setup the system to have Freeview and Freesat.
and have 'think I have' setup the system so that ie Channel 4 appears on all tuner cards, which it does.
and I have tested the same channel on each tuner.


It does still appear to record from the same mux at the same time from the same tuner


any ideas?

Windows 7 ultimate
xbmc 13.2
Nextpvr 3.29
Happague win tv live OTA atsc TV

I am able to see TV in the Nextpvr program AND I am able to record from within Nextpvr program.

In xbmc I can watch tv, get the full epg etc. however when I try to record it first shows a screen with 5 selections (top 2 are blank) the next 3 show ?0?. (top image below)

Then I get an error (bottom mage below)

Would someone direct me to a solution for this?
I am also unable to find any log file for Nextpvr. Where might that be located?



Thank You

Hi

Im having great difficulty installing the Nextpvr addon and need some help!

So the MX box is running

Linux 3.0.101
Android 4.2.2 - I think this is Jelly Bean?
XBMC 13.2

The Nextpvr is not pre installed although many others are, however if go

Settings
Add ons
Get Add ons
All add ons
PVR Clients

NextPVR PVR Client is there

When I click it I have the option to install, when I click this I get a 'Working' symbol appear down the bottom right but it doesnt actually install.

Any advice greatly appreciated?

Ive tried downloading and installing from USB stick but the MX box states its not in the right structure

Thanks

I'm struggling to get NextPVR to find some digital QAM channels. I have a TV that can find the QAM channels, so I know they are there. My first try was with a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1250 in a Windows 7 64 bit machine, but neither the Hauppauge software nor NextPVR were able to find the channels.

The next try was with an older DVICO FusionHDTV5 Lite in a Windows XP 32 bit installation. I knew this configuration was able to previously receive these digital channels. The software for the card, FusionHDTV 3.90.00, finds the digital channels that I am interested in and it successfully tunes to the channels after the scan is done. They are identified as D1060, D1061, D1071, and D1072 in the screenshot. Within NextPVR the device shows up as QAM FusionHDTV, BDA Tuner. I've scanned using the Default Cable Frequencies and the HRC Cable Frequencies, but nothing is found. I've attached the NextPVR log after the scan was complete.

What I'd really like is to get the Hauppauge card to tune the digital channels, but the DVICO is the only one that I can demonstrate can tune them. What can I do to get these channels detected in NextPVR?

I don't have the recommended software that's supposed to work with my Hauppague DCR 2650 (windows media center) installed on my pc, I would need to reinstall windows for this feature (long story). So far I am able to get things going with NextPVR and HDHomeRun but Comcast says they cant pair my cable card with my Hauppague DCR 2650 because Windows Media Center seems to be the only software they know that shows the needed host and device id #'s necessary for the pairing. Does anyone know a walk around used in getting these numbers?

After moving the file location of recordings, I had to use vidimport to batch import them all. his worked pretty well, except for shows with apostrophes (') and ampersands (&) like thomas and friends, the xml file contained an extra code for the ampersand of the code that represents the character. For example

Instead of & in the xml file, representing '&' the xml file contained &

To fix this, I had to flag import=off for vidimport, and do a search & replace for & and ' after which everything imported OK.

Not sure if this util is still in active dev, but I thought i'd post the solution in case others find the issue too. This could go in the wiki page (don't think I have edit rights)

Hey guys, I have been rolling with a 250gb hdd for a while, using win7 32 bit and recently upgraded to a 3TB hard drive without re-installing windows and all the programs. This is how it's possible.

Some background: Win XP and most win7 installations on 2TB or less HDDs will have the disk partitioned using a master boot record partition table (MBR) and NTFS file system. The MBR can only utilize up to 2TB of disk capacity. If you want to use the extra space on disks over that, you'll have to update to the new partition table format, GPT. There are several problems with this: GPT partitions store boot record information completely differently than MBR, your system bios must support UEFI bootloading, the bootable OS partition must be FAT32, and only 64 bit win7 and vista support this booting mode.

So, how does one take an NTFS win7 32-bit install and clone it to run on a 3TB+ GPT disk while booting normally from BIOS without messing with UEFI? Here's how I did it:

required: 1) a small flash drive, 2) your windows install disk

overview: we are going to clone your disk to the new one, non-destructively convert it to GPT and resize to fill the drive, and create a MBR-based flash drive bootloader to run windows from a GPT partition. The flash drive will have to remain in the system for it to boot.

1) Download and burn a live image of clonezilla.
2) Install your new larger HDD into the computer
3) Boot from this cd/dvd you burned (you may have to adjust your bios boot settings) and do a disk-to-disk clone from your old hdd to the new one. Make note of the drive order. If the new drive is listed first, you'll have to turn off computer and swap sata cables at the drive OR motherboard side before the next step.
4) turn off computer and unplug the sata cable from the old drive, turn on computer and ensure your new cloned drive boots properly, shut down
5) re-connect sata cable to your old drive and boot to windows using your old drive
6) Download and install AOMEI partition assistant lite and convert your new disk to GPT, Apply. Then set up/resize your partitions as desired. Apply. I resized my OS partition to 100GB and created a 2.7TB partition for media after it.
7) Shut down, disconnect sata cable from old drive. Boot using your windows install disk. Choose recovery and get to a command prompt. If it complains "System Recovery Option is not compatible with the version of windows you are trying to repair" press shift-F10 to get a command prompt.
8) plug in your USB flash drive. you are almost done!
9) type 'diskpart' and press enter to run the disk partition utility. Caution: track the disk and partition numbers carefully so you don't mess up your hard disk. type 'list disk' you should see your new hdd and your flash drive.
10) type the following commands into diskpart (the <- and text following it is a note. do not type this.):