Located in Northwest Florida, USA. I have a dual tuner ATSC HDHomeRun which is networked to a Lenovo Q-190 running Windows 8 and used solely as an HTPC. I installed NPVR on the Q-190, worked through various firewall and decoder issues, and now have everything working except - no closed captions on NPVR playback. While I can play the .ts files with captions on VLC, I lose the 10 second skip forward Lenovo remote control function that works with NPVR but not with VLC. I've read in the forum that I probably need the MainConcept decoder with CC pin. I've downloaded the MainConcept Showcase demo package which supposedly contains an MPEG-2 decoder that displays captions. (MainConcept literature says the Showcase "demo" files will work as normal but will add a watermark - I'd like to know that they work before making a purchase.) I don't know how to get NPVR to "see" the MainConcept decoder. I've used MainConcept meritme.exe to register the demo_dec_mp2v_ds.ax. Running cmd.exe as administrator, I tried to register the decoder's dll file with regsvr32 but received the "demo_dec_mp2v.dll was loaded, but the DllRegisterServer entry point was not found" error message. The MainConcept decoder does not appear in NPVR settings-decoders. At this point, I'm stymied. Can anyone offer step by step instructions to install/register a decoder that will display closed captions in NPVR. (Note - I've experimented with CCExtractor to generate a .srt file from a .ts file. The process is messy - timing/sync is off by as much as 10 seconds and varies from file to file, takes multiple trial and error extractor runs to get a working .srt file, and is not a practical solution.) Thanks.

I have the following problem:
While scanning for channels with the device TerraTec Cinergy 400 USB, I got an unhandled exception error.
I used WinTV-HVR-850HVR-950HVR-950QHVR-1150HVR2.2d.exe for the SoftPVR subdirectory. (http://forums.gbpvr.com/archive/index.php/t-49124.html?)

NPVR.log:

I am using EPGCollector to download listings and this data comes along with posters of the various programs, however it does not get associated with those programs i.e. is not visible. All of the information is put into two specific directories and has a unique reference number that EPGCollector references in an entry called Icon within the XMLTV file. This Icon however does not show up in the program guide so I am guessing something needs to happen to make this so. I initially thought that the XMLTV Extras utility might do something about that, but it does not.

Does anyone have any ideas?

My system was running well on 2.5.9 up through this afternoon except it was skipping some configured recurring recordings (separate issue). I had some time so I upgraded to 2.6.2. That seemed to go fine on my HTPC, but then I tested my PCH's. I have three A-110s and one A-100, none would load NPVR, the screen would flicker, go black, then return to NMT GUI. I installed all the patches listed in the 2.6.2 patches thread and rebooted my HTPC, then the A-100 would load NPVR and play videos. But my A-110s still failed to load. Having been through NMT/MVP troubleshooting before, I set the servers to 1 and connected with just the A-100. Logs are attached. I had powered off all the A-110s, and now they won't power back on! Well, two of them anyway, the third is in our BR and my wife is sleeping. I will try that one in the morning and see if I can get logs for the A-110. I was going to try a 4th A-110 I have stashed somewhere, but it's not where I thought it was.

The A-100 logs likely contain some info on the A-110 failures from earlier in the day, if that is of any use. I know with multiple servers/clients it is hard to determine what is going on for certain.

Any initial thoughts?

Thanks,
-Brad

Hello, I am new to the forum and would like some assistance regarding an issue with live tv playback through XBMX 12.1 Frodo (Margro Build)

I tested this tonight and discovered that around 13 and a half minutes into playback of live tv, the screen freezes and will not recover on its own. I can back out to the main menu and begin to watch live tv again, but after 13 and a half minutes the same issue occurs.

I'm running the latest version of NextPVR as a backend with XBMC 12.1 (Margro Build) as the frontend. I do have a Raspberry Pi running 12.2 but I'm focusing my attention on my HTPC which I use more often.

I have two Hauppage USB ATSC Tuners for OTA Broadcasting, plus one HD Homerun Dual OTA Network Tuner. HDHomerun has latest firmware. No cable subscription, just Antenna.



I tried steps such as adjusting timeshifting to on and off
Moved Live TV Buffer to different Drives within my system. (Currently on a 2TB External Drive connected via USB. This is where I store my recorded TV shows)
Checked drive integrity for any issues, all drives are error free
Uninstalled and reinstalled both NextPVR and XBMC

Log files are attached

Thank you

Earlier this week my cable company moved around some of the clear QAM channels. I discovered it in the evening during a set of several scheduled recordings. So, for a quick, work-around, I tried simply un-checking the Enabled box for each of my clear QAM tuners and restarting the recording service. I thought that would cause NPVR to use the other available tuners for the already scheduled recordings. However, what seemed to happen was that recordings which had been assigned to a tuner during the EPG update still used that assigned tuner (which was still physically available on the system) even though it was now not Enabled in NPVR (thus resulting in the wrong channel being recorded). In an instance where the tuner assigned at EPG update time was already in use (i.e. for post-padding), NPVR did seem to adjust and move the recording to a new tuner and only used the tuners that were Enabled at recording time rather than those Enables at scheduling time.

Presuming that I am understanding what happened correctly, I'd like to have NPVR do a check when it begins a recording to make sure that the assigned channel is still Enabled. If not, then it should try to move it to a tuner that is Enabled at recording time.

Every once in a while, what actually gets recorded doesn't match the guide data/what was supposed to be recorded. This situation can happen when the station makes a last minute change (like "breaking news" as was the case with the Boston bombing recently) or (as happened to me earlier this week) if the cable company decides to move around the channels. (Or for other reasons, I'm sure you can think of more. )

Anyway, when this situation occurs, I would like to have a menu option that would remove the guide data program from the already recorded history. That way if/when the episode actually airs or re-airs, it would get recorded rather than skipped because NPVR thinks it already recorded it.

XBMC seems to recognise DVBT radio channels and list them separately in their own little EPG, but playing any of them doesn;t seem to do anything - I just get the working... pop up followed by a tuner no longer available message a few mins later.
Is this a known bug / setting I need to change / just me....?

Can anyone help me?

I have been experimenting with my new Colossus board and NPVR to record HDTV from my satellite set top box (both component video and HDMI) and the recorded quality is excellent. All the channels on my satellite box are 1080i and AC3 so setup was vary straightforward.

I also have a another satellite box that has a R5000 modification so my experimental setup allows me to compare the quality of the R5000 1080i mpeg2 TS captures to the Colossus H.264 captures -- and so far the quality is very close.

The one problem I am having is that it is not possible to seek forward or reverse or FF or REW when watching the Colossus H.264 recordings. The picture freezes although the sound indicates that the jump has completed -- but with no picture. The only way to recover is to stop playback and then immediately resume -- the resume point is at the new jump point. The same recording from the R5000 MPEG2 file works perfectly with seeking and FF or REW.

I am using the Pure Video decoder for R5000 mpeg 2 files and CoreAVc decoder for Colossus H.264. I have experimented with just about every H.264 decoder I can find and the CoerAVC decoder by far gives the best picture quality -- but with the seeking problem. All the other H.264 decoders I have tested (ffdshow, Cyberlink) give terrible screen artifacts (although they do seek OK). I have tested the same NextPRV Colossus H.264 recordings with Zoom Player and the same CoreAVC H.264 decoder and everything works perfectly (seeking , FF and REW).

I have also tested the LAV H.264 decoders as well as the MPC-HC H.264 standalone decoders but they both give a blank screen in NPVR with the Colossus H.264 files -- these same decoders work perfectly with these files using Zoom Player

I am using Windows XP and moving to Windows 7 is not an option -- and so far the only acceptable H.264 decoder from a picture quality standpoint is CoreAVC.

From past experience I have seen seeking issues caused by the file source - splitter filter and I suspect that it has something to do with the splitter used by NextPVR (the Microsoft default one and I believe and it can not be changed) whereas the splitter used by Zoom Player is Hallii which works quite well.

Can anyone give me an idea as to where sole this problem?

Michael

Hi,
I have narrowed down my issue of NextPVR killing the video streams as multiple XBMC clients cut out simultaneously pointing to NextPVR backend being the root cause. I have subsequently used NextPVR front-end an experienced the same result.

I have tried a couple of different DVB-S tuners (DM04 and WinTV-Nova-HD-USB2) and had he same results. Any pointers on whether NextPVr is kiklling the tuner, or the tuner killing NextPVR would be greatly appreciated. I have attached logs for both NextPVR and XBMC so you can see whatever you are interested in.

Thanks in advanced, truly grateful for any support
Steve