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
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?
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.):
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
