I used to use WinTV as it came with the Hauppauge tuner card I have. Used it for years until this past winter, I switched to NPVR. Got it up and running a few months ago, and really like it. It's so much better, intuitive to use etc. I have been using 3.1.1 until today, since by random chance I saw there was a new version. I installed 3.2.9.

Anyway, suddenly in the past week or so (it predates the upgrade to 3.2.9), I've lost all the onscreen stuff, like the progress bar and info bar at the bottom of the screen. If I move the mouse during playback of a recording, or live tv, nothing. I do see the video and get the sound, just not the info and progress bars.

I noticed this when I recorded the show about Coldplay on NBC. When I went to play it, I only heard audio and saw no video. I tried playing the ts file with MPC-HC and the video is there, so the recording is ok, so I'm guessing it must have something to do with the renderer/decoder. This used to be set to EVR, but now in order to have video I set it to Overlay.

I have attached the logs and a screenshot of the Decoders screen. I am using XP.

If more info is needed, please let me know.

Sub,

Occasionally I get recordings where the timeline is corrupt in that when you start playback, the start position is correct and the time position shown tracks the amount of time playing but the end of recording time shows zeros.

This in itself insn't a problem...that is until the wife tries to jump forward (e.g. to skip adverts)..... at which point NPVR hangs with an windows error message and has to be killed with task manager. Whilst if you notice the end of file time is zeros, you can avoid the hang by not trying to jump, this is a pain and a frequent inconvenience (so I'm told).

Apparently me getting dragged in to use task manager is all my fault anyway for not sorting the bl**dy problem out

Is there any way Sub the error handling could be improved so it doesn't hang when the timeline is corrupt? I'd send you a sample file but they're typically >500mb.

Hi, I am just wondering if there is any way so far to easily include the year of release in the filename. This to to set apart movies that have similar or common names, but different release years.

So perhaps there might be some way I could take the existing format, which by the way I really like:

Movie Name_YYYYMMDD_HHMMHHMM

and do something like this:

Movie Name (YYYY)_YYYYMMDD_HHMMHHMM
(where "(YYYY)" = year of release, or first four digits of XML "original_air_date")

So far I have discovered <StoreSeparateMetadataXml> and tried setting it to "true". That at least gives me a way to get at the XML "description" after the files have been relocated and the entries removed from the database, as I find them useful.

I could presumably also do the same with the year, but it would be even better just to have it in the filename.

Thanks
Chris

I'm getting a lot of these:

17:50:18 T:2962684736 ERROR: 17:37:05.681 E [ap:3915] Connection error: 116
17:52:27 T:2860510016 ERROR: Open - Unhandled exception
17:52:28 T:2860510016 ERROR: Open - Error opening http://192.168.8.3:8866/service?method=c...0fc88d97a7

Prior to XBMC hanging. Not sure if this is NPVR or XBMC issue (the IP address is the NPVR server, although there's no TV in use at the time), so just starting the investigation here. Any thoughts?

I am able to play media from the share and get the HTML menu page, but when I select "N-PVR" from the menu I get "Request cannot be processed".

I am using a composite NTSC TV.

Here is my NMT System Check Output:

Checking for mvpmc share on DESKTOP5
mvpmc C:\mvpmc

Checking GB-PVR.html links
C:\mvpmc \GB-PVR.html not found

NMT IP Address: 192.168.0.15 MAC 0006DC43C00C

GB-PVR Not Installed

N-PVR Installed C:\Users\Public\NPVR
<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/NETWORK_SHARE/DESKTOP5:mvpmc/npvr.cgi">N-PVR</a>
<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/NETWORK_SHARE/NETWORK_BROWSER/browser.cgi">N-PVR via Network Browser</a>
<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/USB_DRIVE_A-1/mvpmc/usb_a.cgi">N-PVR via USB</a>

config.xml entry found Client Type PCH2
MVPSendIncrementalUpdates true
MVPClientType PCH2
MVPWidth 1280
MVPHeight 720
MVPOffsetX 0
MVPOffsetY 0

Enabled true
Port 8866

The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.

Checking NMT Version
01-17-110314-15-POP-403-000

Checking NMT Display
NTSC

Calling NMT Source
mvpmc
smb://DESKTOP5/mvpmc Username: Password Length: 0

Any help would be appreciated!

I know it's odd to post questions about Media Companion here, but I've recently started using it, have some questions, visited their forum and don't quite know how to get around there since I don't use XBMC. I've pretty much got the Movies part figured out but I don't understand some of the TV actions. I don't understand the Roots setting. All of my TV shows are downloaded by SB to a singe drive (G:\TV). On that drive there are multiple TV folders, some with one episode, some with several I just haven't gotten around to viewing yet. Would those go on the Root folders or the Separate folder? I've got them all on the Separate folder now. On TV/Main Browser, some of the shows are listed, some are grayed and some aren't showing although if you click on the right spot you'll see an episode screen on the right. Most of the time that screen has the right art but the wrong title. I've tried changing it several times and then exiting and when I come back the titles are once again unavailable and are misnamed. If I could get that explained it would solve a lot of problems.

Also, I notice they mention a SB script on their forum page for doing some automation. Is anyone using that and if so could you tell me how to implement it?

The MC TV/Help is nonexistent. Any help or a link to someplace that explains this better will be appreciated.

I'm new to NextPVR. I have a windows 7 box running XBMC with a Hauppauge 2250 installed. I'm currently using an OTA antenna but I plan on adding cable later.

When trying to play live TV, I get a black screen with no audio. I've attached the logs for review.

I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware or driver problem, since I've been able to set up and get it successfully working in Windows Media Center. I'd prefer NextPVR and XBMC, however.

Please see attached logs and let me know if there is anything I can do to get this working.

Dear all, I find this a very interesting thread to follow as obviously no wiki documentation has been done?

If it needs documenting then I do not mind helping but likewise from what I can follow on this thread nothing is particularly clear as hints to pointing at other threads etc? This seems to be a very hard plugin to find! If it is no longer active then ignore this post

I cannot even find a quick forum link to install and test?

Anyways up to you all, I can get a wiki ball rolling if needs be .......

I did notice a post from Grampz some moons back:

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...ies-Plugin

to which no-one replied?

very best

Steeb

How does ndroid te search work? If I select search from the left hand menu it says search top left of the screen, but there's nowhere to type anything.

Hi,

I've just set up a DVB-S2 card for receiving Freesat transmissions. NextPVR has picked up the channels and I can view them fine, but the EPG update doesn't seem to be working.

I've installed the update as per patch 10 here - http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...arted-Info - and set all my channels to EPG type 'Freesat'. Clicking the Update EPG button causes an 'updating' window to flash briefly on the screen, but it doesn't seem to have fetched the EPG. (I have current & next program showing for the current channel, but nothing further into the future than that.)

Log file is attached - let me know if any more information is needed?

Thanks!