Hi,

at the moment I am using Argus TV since 1 year. Now I am testing NPVR as backend on Windows Home Server 2011 for its streaming and other great capabilities.

Everthing is running fine after setup, but my Lights-Out installation for Windows Home Server 2011 go into standby during recording.

For Argus TV there is a plugin, which is filling the calendar with time frames for wake up the server and preventing the standby during scheduled recordings.

As I know there is no plugin for NPVR. Lights-Out can also monitor files and processes to prevent the standby. Does NPVR maybe create a process or a file during recording?

Thx
JJ

Hello all. I have an HVR 1250 and was wondering if the Hauppauge ir blaster is what i should buy to control it. Also is it possible to watch an analog channel on the host and client at the same time? I am using a dn receiver and have everything set up but the channel changing. Should I buy another card? Thanks for any help in advance.

I have scripts setup to use comskip to mark commercials after recording, then use VideoRedo to edit mark points and strip/clean commercials.

As I like to use the "Recordings" view to stream/watch these videos on clients, I want to leave them as .ts files. My problem is, after cutting commercials with VideoRedo, the .ts files will not play in NPVR, they work fine with VLC though.

I noticed the timeline on the cleaned files were wrong, so I used the "QuickStream Fix" option in VideoRedo and the files were playable in NPVR.

My question is, does anyone have a similar process, and if so, are there settings within VideoRedo that can be updated so the "QuickStream Fix" step does not have to be run, i.e. the 'clean' step produces a file in the 'GOOD' format below.

When I compare the file attributes of the Bad and Good files I get the following:

BAD - output of 'Clean' commercial via VideoRedo step:

I was hoping to get newa transcoding working before going away so I could watch the formula 1 in france but I don't think I will be able to do it. As a backup I am trying to copy recordings into a folder for automated processing while im away.

I urgently need a simple postprocessing bat file that will copy all recordings while i'm away into a separate folder where they will be recoded for download.

I'm close but running out of time, so has anyone got any good examples of simple postprocessing files. I don't really understand how to call the file i want to copy-don't understand the syntax needed.

I have NPVR setup on two different systems, one everything is fine on, but on the other, in the settings for the plugin, the screen where you add items to a guide doesn't have the control for setting the channel position. See picture:

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Any idea what might be causing this?

Thanks.

Hello, I have a Hauppauge HVR-1250 and need to know which ir blaster I should buy to control my settop box through xbmc. The harmony ir extender or the hauppauge ir blaster.I also have a Harmony 1000. Thanks.

I am just setting up my new HTPC / PVR and I thought I would start with NextPVR. I am using MC2XML for the XMLTV file, and I am using the AEON NOX skin in XBMC.

However I was seeing a blank looking epg with white letters on a black background.
Similar to this.


I found a guide online to make a epg-genres folder in the addon/skinname/media folder and add a 256.png file to get a grid look.
Now it looks like this


I would like assistance making the genere catagory colors working in the EPG to make it look more like this.


MC2XML has catagories listed in it

In coming back to my Raspberry PI to collect the logs
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...-from-nPVR

I found my PI hung, pulled the power, restart
it would go only so far, like updating the EPG and then it would reboot by itself

I rebuilt the image on the SDCard
brought up RASPBMC from scratch
after enableing NPVR addon, same thing - it get's thru to the EPG and update then reboots itself, which continues in a loop, reboot, load, update EPG, reboot and repeat

I couldn't get the debug log set in the GUI, so found the instructions to do so via putty after hitting escape to get a command line prompt
(#2 in http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Log_file)

attached is debug log after the next reboot

I got the first tuner working great. Then I added the remaining 3 tuners in the NetworkRecorder.xml (stopped NPVR service first) and got errors when I clicked the Device Setup for the NetworkRecorder in Settings/Devices. Heres what my xml looks like:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Settings>
<PluginSettings>
<NetworkRecorder id="20" instance="1">
<FriendlyName>HTPC1</FriendlyName>
<host>127.0.0.1</host>
<port>6976</port>
<delay>5000</delay>
</NetworkRecorder>
</PluginSettings>
<PluginSettings>
<FriendlyName>HTPC2</FriendlyName>
<host>127.0.0.1</host>
<port>6981</port>
<delay>5000</delay>
</NetworkRecorder>
</PluginSettings>
<PluginSettings>
<FriendlyName>HTPC3</FriendlyName>
<host>127.0.0.1</host>
<port>6978</port>
<delay>5000</delay>
</NetworkRecorder>
</PluginSettings>
<PluginSettings>
<FriendlyName>HTPC4</FriendlyName>
<host>127.0.0.1</host>
<port>6976</port>
<delay>5000</delay>
</NetworkRecorder>
</PluginSettings>
</Settings>

I double checked that the ports are matching the ports inside SageDCT. Did I do this right?

With a new HTPC being built, I've been expanding my use of NPVR from just a recorder to a full system, and I have appreciated all the work done, not just by sub, but by many plug-in and utility creators - my thanks to the makers of ImageGrabLite, TV Listings, MusicMonkey, SubMenu, System, and Movies (hope I didn't forget anyone). With the help of these people, I have things running pretty close to the way I want them to look.

There were a couple of things that I wanted to do, that I didn't see anyone had done, so I put them together myself. As they currently exist, they are rough, simple things, since only I need to be able to mess with them. I had thoughts of cleaning things up a bit, and offering it here, but frankly I have no idea if anyone at all would be interested, and didn't want to go to the effort just to see no one much cared about the same things I had. So, I thought I would post here what I've done, and see if anyone else was interested.

One thing I like about the Titan TV listings available online is the ability to put together a list of favorite programs. Then you can apply filters to the listings, to show only favorites, or new shows, or favorites that are new. I didn't see any way to do the same with NPVR, so I came up with the best approximation I could. I add to the genre listings for each program, adding in a genre "New" for programs that the EPG indicates are new, and "Favorite New" for new programs that are on my favorites list. I can then use the built-in genre coloring to highlight those in the listings, making it clear at a glance what I want - or might want - to record.

So, like I said, not a big thing, and no idea whether anyone else would be interested. I figure a lot of people probably do recurring recordings, but I like to schedule most things every day in order to have more control over where it goes, so I like to be able to see this stuff. Anyway, if you might be interested, you can let me know here on the board, or in a private message, and if I get any interest I'll try to put something together in a prettier package than what it is now (text files, scripts, manual editing of database files, etc).

Thanks.