Im not sure where to post this maybe someone here could help me

The problem is I have 2 tuners in my PC a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1250 and ViXs PureTV-V-48

I have a Channel Plus 5545 Modulator with 4 outputs to CATV channels I have channel 44 and 55 with Video cameras on it and they show up on my house antenna cable and when I use my digital TV scan I get all the Digital OTA channels plus the 2 CATV channels on my TV's but on my PC with these 2 tuners cards with NextPVR the CATV 44 and 55 does not show up after scanning It would be nice when watching TV to use PIP to have security cameras working.

Has anyone tried using this setup ? what do I need to do ?

I used to use GBPVR and it seemed to automatically hibernate at the end of a recording (assuming there wasn't one following on).
In reality, this was a bit of a pain because it would shutdown while I was watching a recording via the web interface.

Does nPVR have an internal hibernate function in the same way? or is it up to the user to tell the machine to hibernate when idle?

I have used a screen saver called "Hibernator" that will hibernate only when the CPU/DISK/NETWORK activity drops below a certain level .. just wondering if that may be the best way forward.

Dave

Has anyone recorded from the HDMI port on the Shaw Satellite receivers? (meaning have Shaw digitally protected all items comming out the HDMI or just the movies (as the industry said they should)?)

I dont want to record movies, however i would like to record other items like History channel and National Geographic, prefer not to have to use the Composite if possible (i have the small receiver with 1 HDMI and Composite output).

I am planning on use the Hauppauge HD PVR 2 (which will do HDMI).

Hi
I've built a new HTPC running Windows 7 with NPVR (or course )and I have an odd issue. I'm using a standard Hauppauge remote which came with the Nova-TD Stick tuner and it's great... until Windows goes to sleep. After waking up (the remote doesn't wake the machine btw) the remote does nothing. nadda. not a sausage. Reboot the machine and it's fine again. Since the HTPC is intended to be on all the time and sleep when not needed this is an issue.

Anyone got any ideas why the remote works fine after a restart but is non-functional after waking from sleep?

After upgrading I am having issues with recordings. The mediainfo is saying the stream is "Encrypted". However, there is video (albeit 4:3 instead of 16:9) and sometimes no video, just audio. This NEVER happened prior to the update. It is also not consistent. It doesn't happen on most recordings. They are just fine including having a normal mediainfo. Also, my channels are NOT encrypted.


Mediainfo:
Video
ID : 1984 (0x7C0)
Menu ID : 752 (0x2F0)
Format : MPEG Video
Codec ID : 2
Bit rate : 4 639 Kbps
Compression mode : Lossy
Encryption : Encrypted


System:
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
HDHomerunPrime CableCard device
NPVR 3.1.1 (upgraded from 2.6.2)


Just wondering if anyone has seen this yet? Also, is there a good way to completely uninstall NPVR and install 2.6.2 without losing my channel config or recurring recordings? I can put everything else back in.

Thought this might be of interest to a few NPVR users:

Woot has the HDHR Prime for $99.99 plus $5 shipping in the US. It's a one-day-only sale.

Perhaps this means that the long-awaited 4-tuner model is finally about ready for release?!?!? :eek:

Firstly, apologies if this is the wrong forum for this, but I couldn't find anything more appropriate.

I am running the latest version of nPVR + all the dependencies and it seems to be working OK :-)

However, when setting up the EPG I ran into a problem with dbvguide - I use the Freesat EPG batch file and it runs OK but when I try to import it nPVR complains that it is "miss formatted".

When I try to view it under windows it complains about the xml version number.

dbvguide seems to generate the XML file with version 1.1.

Editing the file and changing it to 1.0 makes it all work.

Is this a short-coming of my Windows XP +SP3 setup ?? a problem with nPVR ?? or dbvguide ??

I don't really want to edit the file each time, though I guess I could use SED.

Is there a better solution??

TIA
Dave

Could someone explain XBMC's Genre feature and how it ties into NPVR? I've seen bits and pieces in threads here (and over at the XBMC forums) but not a real what to do.

I've messed around with it - what I think was the 1.8.5 version of the NextPVR plugin on the Margo build of Frodo months ago. Recently, using Martin's version with Gotham while testing it from another thread here. I never got it to work.

My Genre works on NPVR.
My Genre works on XNEWA.

I've gathered, I think, the xbmc-genre-translation.xml needs to be placed in the "XMBC data directory", but I'm not sure exactly where that would be.

Loose in the .../AppData/Roaming/XBMC directory?

...XBMC/userdata/addon_data/pvr.nextpvr?

Somewhere else?

I've blindly tried to guess, and either it isn't working or I'm just dropping it in the wrong place.

I've attached my xbmc-genre-translation.xml in case anyone wanted to take a look at that for something broken.

Thanks!

I thought I remembered an option to transmit a zero before the channel number and other IR blaster options, but I can't seem to find them. I'm having trouble with a lot of missed recordings because my Dish box misses the 1st number in the channel if the channel is more than 2 digits. For example, if it's supposed to record channel 172, the Dish box misses the 1 and ultimately records channel 72. I checked the recording service log and verified it blasted 172. I'm using the USB-UIRT executable and nothing has changed with the Dishreceiver.dat file. I haven't upgraded to the lastest version yet. This issue started when I upgraded quite a few months ago to the version from April(?) of this year. Changing the channel number in the channel setup to 0172 doesn't work. What is weird is it never happens when switching channels while watching live tv.

Are there still options to tweak the blaster?

Thanks

I just can't get that tab to go away. I've disabled it in the config screen, but it never goes away and the checkbox for it re-enables itself when I refresh the config page. Is there a file I can hand edit to remove it?