I think I've hit the end of the road with my patience for Time Warner.
I know there are a few Direct TV folks here. Which of you, if any, are doing IP channel changes? Which model Direct TV receiver do you have to support this?
I had the odd experience of seeing some freshly recorded re-runs showing as "Watched" with resume positions set when it was impossible that anyone had watched the shows. At first I was really puzzled, then realized that because all my shows are now renamed by imageGrabLite, the new recording has the same name as the last time it was recorded a few months ago, so it picked up the same PLAYBACK_POSITION record leftover from before. With default naming of course this is generally impossible since no two recordings could ever have the same name.
I had a peek in the PLAYBACK_POSITION table in my database, and found 3922 records. The first ones are from June 27, 2010, the day I installed NPVR 1.5.21.
So clearly these records aren't deleted when the recording is deleted. Should they be? Any reason they shouldn't be deleted? Any downside to having nearly 4000 records.... what about several years on when I have 10,000 records, or 20,000?
A) should NPVR delete the PLAYBACK_POSITION record when a recording is deleted? I vote yes.
B) is there a command to dump my whole PLAYBACK_POSITION table so I can start fresh?
I've been using NPVR for quite a while and had very little trouble. Recently the computer I was using crashed and I was forced to upgrade to a Windows 7 computer. At the same time I also installed an HD-Homerun as my tuner. In my location I have about 15 QAM channels but that is all I need for what I want to record.
The install went well and I got everything set up and running fine pretty easy and everything appeared quite fine. All the shows I have scheduled have worked great and there have been no issues at all. But these were all one hour shows.
Recently I wanted to record some soccer matches and without exception the soccer matches recorded all the way through but when I went to view them they were only about 30-45 minutes long and the file size was shortened. That is I checked the file size about 3/4 of the way through the recording from another computer and saw it was well over 6gb and growing steadily as NPVR continued to write to it.
After the recording completed I went to watch it and it started exactly right and played beautifully for about 40 minutes anf then stopped as if it reached the end of the file. I checked the file on the disk and found it was only about 560mb. That is it was a LOT smaller than it was when I checked during the recording process.
This never happens on shorter recordings and to test I set up a series (3) of manual recordings to cover a soccer match in 40 minute intervals and the match recorded fine in that manner.
My questions are:
1. Is there a file size limit somewhere I have not located in NPVR?
2. Is this something in Windows 7 that I don't know about? BTW: I have many video files that are as large or larger that the ones that seem to give me problems.
3. If it is a file size problem is there a way to limit it without costing too much in quality? (These are .ts files)
4. Is there a way to tell NPVR to break up a recording into segments without using the, pretty clumsy, manual recording process?
But it would also be nice if the setupbox (14W in sleep mode), the HDCP stripper (lets say 3W) and the HD PVR (12W) would switch off when not used. They use together 250 kWh/year.
With this USB relay you can power on/off a 230V device using the commandline. So I would make an "Power_Tuners_On.bat" file and an "Power_Tuners_Off.bat" file.
Wakeup.bat seems like a good place for "Power_Tuners_On.bat"
"Power_Tuners_Off.bat" is something else, there is apparently no "Gotosleep.bat". So PostProcessing.bat seems to be the best place.
But this is not the only place "Power_Tuners_Off.bat" is needed. If NextPVR wakes at 02:24 to get the EPG data, then the tuner would also get powered on, so I would also need a "Power_Tuners_Off.bat" in UpdateEPG.bat.
This should work fairly well with 1 tuner, however, it would get a real mess with 2 or more tuners.
PostProcessing.bat is called after a recording stop, even if the other tuner is still recording/is used for live tv (I think). How do I know which tuner to power off? Is there a way to know which tuner has stopped recording? If I power both off, then the other recording is aborted.
So I would like (my wish) :
- "Power_Tuner_On[x].bat" and "Power_Tuner_Off[x].bat" files that would power tuner[x] on/off.
- some way to link these scripts with the correct tuner (determine the "x").
___2 suggestions:
______* use device priority in the Configuration/Devices settings page (can/will give problems when the priority is changed)
______* give a device a fixed "power number" (extra column where you can set the "x")) (I think best solution)
- a timer setting for how much seconds before recording starts the "Power_Tuner_On[x].bat" should be called (global, not needed on per device) (give the setupbox enough time to boot-up, would be different with each make/model)(can not be bigger than WakeupPreRecordingSeconds!)
- prevent possible problems when the first recording stops, and the second recording comes directly after the first (need time to boot the setupbox/etc..., so if possible don't call the "Power_Tuner_Off[x].bat" if you know that the tuner is needed in x seconds)(maybe a non-issue with the pre- and post-padding minutes)
I don't know how easy/difficult this is to implement, but I, and maybe many others (powersaving is getting more and more important as energy prices rise), would be very happy.
I would like to record local TV. The local cable provider has a setup box with HDMI output.
Is it possible to use NextPVR and a HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition Plus to record (the HDCP free) tv signal (ie is the HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition Plus supported by NextPVR)?
Is channel switching supported with NextPVR and a HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition Plus?
Hope someone has already tried this, would be my preffered setup. Otherwise I would buy the old HD PVR and use a HDMI to Component convertor.
Haven't spend the money yet, and would like to do it right from the start...
Has anyone found an XBMC skin that provides a usable EPG in table format (channel vs timeline) on an Android Tablet ? I have tried a few but none seem to handle EPG well. Some will not scroll and will not show many channels or much timeline. Some show very little text in each cell of the EPG table.
As I've mentioned previously this tuner does not play nice on Windows Home Server and NPVR.
So I just did a clean install of 3.1.1 (prev 2.6) and moved my mentioned tuner back from ArgusTV to NPVR. And it didn't take long until I had my first BSOD. I don't know what it is this, tuner works fine on W7-NPVR/Argus/Mediaportal and WHS2011-Argus/Mediaportal but WHS2011-NPVR = BSOD.
Ofcourse Hauppauge newer release new drivers, and don't care to help on the issue.
