All I'm trying to achieve is a simple poster/info for movies in a movie folder in the Videos section. What I want is described here: http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Manual.Video
Do you think I can get this...NO, and I don't understand why. I downloaded the Media Center Master program recommended in the link but I'm getting nothing like that image in my movie files. I notice it has several different xml file outputs and I've tried a couple but nothing shows up in the display window, even if I rename it [title].xml. I'm just trying to get what is already provided for TV shows with the MetaData header in Videos. You wouldn't think it would be this difficult but I'm apparently doing something wrong. Any ideas?
I've been working on some code to rename TV shows recorded by NPVR into a format compatible with XBMC's "Tv Show" menu.
I guess my project is probably similar to ImageGrabberLite, but it is more limited in scope & doesn't have as many features.
Still somewhat of a work in progress but I wanted to post the source code to get suggestions & feedback.
I am not including a binary file at this time, you will need to compile using Visual Studio. Also you will need to edit the App.config file and change settings to meet your needs plus insert your own TVDB API key.
In somewhat of a hurry today. I'll check back later and follow up if there is interest.
I've been away from these parts for a while. Used to have a GBPVR machine back in the day with a couple of mvp clients.
These days I have a humax pvr and an atv1 running crystalbuntu - both are very good but I'm getting fed up of always switching between devices or re-encoding downloads (the humax is fussy) and this got me thinking...
I have a HP microserver N54L serving as a NAS and running windows 8 (can't remember why). It just works. I started to wonder, if I add a suitable video card and a tuner, could this replace my two existing boxes...?
So, I'd appreciate any advice folks may have on either of these two devices. I took a quick look at buyer and I see a cheap silent 5450 card for 20 quid:
This interests me as I have an old sky dish with a quad LNB though I haven't used it for many years. I'm not sure if there is anything worth watching on freesat but when I last looked at it, freeview was the better option...
Anyway, would this lot work in a n54l and give reasonable performance?
I'm not sure if I'm having an issue with XBMC or nPVR. I use XBMC clients exclusively with my nPVR backend. I am seeing orphaned .nfo files (created with imageGrabLite) when I delete recordings from XBMC. This not only leaves the .nfo files but also the directories for the show as well. Does anyone know what I should do to ensure that XBMC deletes all files associated with the recording as well as the directory if it is empty?
For the first time I have recorded a long DVB-S2 HD broadcast and am having nightmares trying to watch it (very early start F1 qualifying).
The pre-padding may have started the recording before the channel came on air?? My attempts to skip forward don't seem have any effect other than usually going back to the menu (NMT) or end of the recording - sometimes 1 hour 40+ minutes into the recording.
I've tried a few things from basic googling to trim the first 5 minutes off, but they don't seem to produce a watchable file.
VNC displays a tiny screen for the first few minutes and then expands when the video starts.
It's an encrypted channel and I'm using acamd and my own card locally, live viewing is glitch free. I'll probably watch the re-run now, but for future, I'd like a suggestion
I'm sure trim and/or remux tools have been recommended but I can't seem to find them.... Being a 15gb files, some of the tools I tried off the web would be still running when I've popped my clogs.....
I am not sure what might be the cause though. It happened on the last NextPVR version (3.1.1), and also happens on this new version (3.2.9).
I am using the default padding, 1 minute pre and 2 minutes post.
To preface, I am subscribed to Schedule Direct and they are indeed sending me the correct info. I just checked the XML file.
This is the second time this has happened that I know of. There was an airing of Doctor Zhivago on TCM today, which takes up nearly a 4 hour time slot. The actual movie may be a bit shorter than that. The recording I ended up with on my hard drive was 2:04:43 long. It started on time, but ended early.
Here is the Schedule Direct time code entry for that airing:
I have a Hauppauge HD-PVR2 Gaming Edition with the latest firmware from their website. The green light was on bright the whole time, indicating that it would have been capturing signal. Unfortunately I didn't actually have the TV on, but I was sitting in the room reading.
Also directly after that there was another movie which didn't record at all, "Meet Me in St. Louis". All I got was a zero-byte TS file. For that recording, I got a red "failed" indication and this message in NEWA:
Code:
Recording Error: No errors, but no data delivered. This is usually because the device failed to lock a signal.
Again, the bright green recording light on the Hauppauge was lit the entire time for this movie too.
See attachment for NRECORD log. (NEWA log not included due to already being FIFO'd)
So for now it appears that movies much larger than 2 hours might be causing something to lock up. I haven't noticed this for shorter movies by themselves, and have recorded about 40 other movies without noticing this happening.
Ive been looking at getting a network Radio (have a number of projects that need it).
I know NPVR will do radio, have a number of questions....
1 - Does NPVR support RADIO with RDS (the pulling of text from the station for the track names etc..)
[COLOR="#A9A9A9"]2 - Will NPVR work with XBMC for radio (i assume through the LIVE TV section as RADIO would be a channel?)
Found the answer for this one, its under LIVE TV has a Radio section....[/COLOR]
3 - Will NPVR push RDS details to XBMC?
4 - I assume i will need more than one radio card to allow me to have different radio stations running?
5 - Could i use 3 XBMC devices to listen to the same radio "channel" on each so NPVR pushes the same station to all of them (assuming i only had 1 radio card so getting 1 station only)?
I hate to tell you how much time I've spent trying to get movie metadata for my NPVR movie files. I've tried ThumbGen and Ember and none of them come even close to giving me what I want. All I need is the cast/description/runtime basically, text format is fine. I just want to be able to read it as I can the TV info I can now see in the latest version of NPVR. I can get all sorts of pretty but illegible stuff from ThumbGen but that's useless for me. Any ideas on a quick and dirty way to get basic info and get in installed into NPVR? I've tried searching here but most of the info appears confusing and dated.