Hello all,

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:

http://www.ebuyer.com/255113-msi-hd-5450...md1gd3h-lp

and a quick search around these parts highlighted the blackgold BGT3602 dual dvb-t2 and dvb-s2

http://shop.blackgold.tv/epages/BT3159.s...ts/BGT3602

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?

Any/all advice appreciated.

Cheers

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.....

Greetings to all.

This is my first post here and I just wanted to say Hi to everyone using these forums.

I have been using NPVR for about 3-4 weeks and there is one issue that I have seen twice now and appears to be a bug of some sort.

For reference, it sounds like it could be the same thing as this person's issue:
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...this-error

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:

Hi all

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)?

Many Thanks

What is this error?

"No errors, but no data delivered. This is usually because the device failed to lock a signal."

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.

A couple of irritating trends in programme titles in the UK making recurring recordings much more difficult.

1) Several channels have started adding "NEW:" at the start of the title so existing recurring recordings will ignore it. As my EPG is created from an XMLTV created by EPG collector I have the option to process the file to remove the word from the start of any title before loading it into NextPVR.

2) Some channels mainly the BBC I think for some programmes use the title format "Sub Title:Title". So creating an ordinary "Recurring Recording" wont work so you would have to make a Manual Recording with "title like %Title". The NextPVR "Search" and "Find All" wont find others in the series.

Chris

I’m very new to NextPVR. I installed the software on Windows 8.1 Pro 64 Bit without any problem. But every time I start to scan for channels the NPVR quits. And there are no lines in the log file. BTW I have a TBS 6618 tuner card.
I tried with Windows 7 Pro as well – same result.
What to do?

Very new at this. I got an ATI wonder card to work once, then nPVR tells me it can't find the device. It has never worked again. No sound, no picture. Is this a problem with this card? It's an old one. Any help would be appreciated.

Just discovered that the card was somehow uninstalled. I don't know if nPVR did that, but I have several years of using windows media center without a single hitch.