Hello Everyone,

I've been a LONG time Snapstream BTV user and actually love the program. I recently decided to switch away from BTV (my wife is not happy) because while I love it's simplicity, I have literally lost some of my sanity trying to get it stable using two of the original Hauppauge HDPVRs. I tried all the driver, power supply, cooling fan, cable box setting and USB port tricks out there to no avail. When BTV, via forum members, acquired cable card use I was happy and switched to that but the setup is a pain and it wont work with premium channels. I finally decided to leave our beloved BTV for good and switch to 100% cablecard and Windows Media Center 7. While it does work and looks pretty, I just don't like the interface and it's missing some of the DVR features of BTV. I also don't like having to use WTV files by default and being shackled by all of the DRM. So now I discovered NextPVR and am going to give it a try. After all of my blabbing I guess my main question is: How well does it work with the HDPVR2 and also does the HDPVR2 continue to have the same stability problems that the HDPVR1 had?

Thanks Alot

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 have 21 ASTC channels currently.

If I run another channel scan it creates duplicates for the same channels that already exist.

Do you know what would be causing this behavior? Any way to prevent this without wiping my database and starting over?

Thanks.

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.

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."