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.):
Code:
select disk 1 <- replace '1' with your flash disk number from list disk.
clean
create partition primary
format fs=ntfs quick
select partition 1 <- you are selecting the partition you just formatted
active
list volume
select volume E: <- replace E: with the volume of the flash drive
assign
list volume <- make note of the volume letter of your flash drive (F:) and windows partition (C:).
exit
11)
Install boot files to flash drive (replace flash drive letter as necessary, the middle switch is a lower case L):
Code:
bcdboot C:\Windows /l en-us /s F:
12) Install the boot sector to flash drive (replace drive letter with yours):
Code:
bootsect /nt60 F: /mbr /force
13) run this, also replacing the drive letter for your flash drive
14) reboot, and ensure your bios is set to boot from USB and the boot order has USB ahead of hdd. You should boot into windows on your new disk!
from here, you can remove the flash drive's drive letter using disk management (run diskmgmt.msc), right click flash drive partition and change (delete) drive letter.
The bootloader instructions are thanks to milindsmart from the win seven forums. This is a new technique that pretty much no one knows of so far, so spread the word.
This is a first time install that I have yet to get working. The Hauppauge software set up just fine and is working perfectly. I can view beautiful live TV in the Hauppage WinTV app (53 channels).
OTA is the only thing I'm trying to get working in nPVR. I have only one device: a WinTV-HVR-Hauppauge 955Q.
I'm starting to hack at stuff and run the risk of doing more harm than good. For instance: I went in to Settings, Devices, and deleted everything except the ATSC device since that was the only device I had channels configured for. However, now all the ones I deleted (Analog, QAM, IPTV) are back and seem to be duplicated when I view Settings, Status.
Bottom line: When I choose Live TV from the nPVR main menu, I get a blank (black) window. No video, no audio. I can change channels, but they all behave the same.
I'm releasing a utility I created to rename files recorded from NPVR to a format supported by XBMC. It works by scraping the required information from TheTvDB and TheMovieDB. It was designed specifically to work with Zap2It based EPGs such as Schedules Direct or the Microsoft EPG. I'm not sure how well it will work with other types of EPGs. So far it's only been tested against the Microsoft EPG.
It doesn't require an exact match in order for the file renaming to occur. It will try its best to rename the file using fuzzy matching. In some cases it's possible this behavior may cause an incorrect match but I haven't run into any mismatches lately. If a match can't be found it will create NFO files.
Installation:
Note: .net framework 4.5 required
1. Extract the files from the archive and copy them all to c:\pvrscraper\.
2. Edit PvrScraper.exe.config and set the npvrDbPath, xbmcTvPath, and xbmcMoviePath variables to suit your own needs.
[INDENT]a. npvrDbPath - the location of your NPVR SQLite database, usually c:\users\public\npvr\npvr.db3[/INDENT]
[INDENT]b. xbmcTvPath - the folder containing tv shows that XBMC reads from. PvrScraper will move the files to this folder during the renaming process.[/INDENT]
[INDENT]c. xbmcMoviePath - the folder containing movies that XBMC reads from. PvrScaper will move the files to this folder during the renaming process. [/INDENT]
Usage:
Running for a specific OID:
pvrscraper.exe oid <insert oid here>
Re-running for recordings that have failed to match in the past:
pvrscraper.exe failed
Recommended Batch Files:
PostProcessing.bat
"c:\pvrscraper\pvrscraper.exe" oid %3
I've got two installs of XBMC, one running on a laptop using XBMCbuntu and another on a RPi, using OpenElec.
The XBMCbuntu install is running perfectly, using the NPVR addon for XBMC, which has now updated to version 1.9.10.
The RPi install is not working, however. I usually get the "Tuner not available" message, but have on occasion been able to get audio but no video.
I get audio but no video on Recordings as well as Live TV.
I'm using OpenElec 4.1.4 which uses XBMC Gotham 13.2RC, but it's still using the 1.9.7 version of the NPVR addon.
Is there anywhere I can download a build of 1.9.10 for this? I assume that OpenElec uses a 32-bit install of linux, where my XBMCbuntu is (I think) 64-bit.
Thanks for any and all help.
PS - I have the MPG2 license for my RPi but not the VC-1. Would I need both for NPVR to work?
There does not seem to be any CURRENT information about remote controls that is relevant to NextPVR 3.2.9.
I have a FireFly remote. I have set âHandle MCE remote eventsâ and I am able navigate all of the menus. However during playback only the âexitâ keys is processed. Is there a way to configure NextPVR to use stop, play, skip, etc. during playback ? I have not found complete, coherent configuration documentation on FireFly. There are a configuration profiles for other applications but they do not seem to make much sense. Is there any truly useful information about configuring FireFly ? I would like to send commands only to NextPVR even though the Windows program focus is on another application. I sometimes use Media Player Classic and would like to use the remote to control MPC. (In know there is a conflict there) Is that possible ? If so how â again the documentation.
The driver for the remote is a generic X10 driver. Do I even need FireFly software ? Is software required above the driver level ? I have read briefly about LM Remote Keymap. The claim is that it replaces FireFly. True or False ? Has anyone used it ? Did it work ?
Alternately, would a newer remote solve the above problems ? The Wiki has images of Hauppauge and Microsoft remotes. (I could not find either the Hauppauge or Microsoft remotes in their respective websites. Are FireFly, Hauppauge and Microsoft all out of the MCE remote business ?) I have to believe that there are other remotes that will also work. Are there any recommended remotes ? Are there remotes to avoid ?
As you can tell my search has left me with more questions than answers. Thank you in advance for any clarity you can bring.
I can not the patches file to my NPVR folder in Windows 8.1. It will not let me do it and after reading on the web, Windows 8 will not let you open file explorer as an adminstrator. Does any one know how I can put this patch into my NPVR Windows 8 Program folder????
