Just started my newest NextPVR install and ran across something I haven't seen before. This is my first NextPVR install on Windows 7 (completed two others on Windows XP during the past year, and never saw this issue). I installed all of pre-requisites, including DirectX runtime, but when I go to the Settings screen, the first thing I see is the message: WARNING: The DirectX runtime is not available on this machine. Software rending instead. I have run dxdiag and it shows that I have DirectX 11 installed. I have even run directx_Jun2010_redist.exe from the link on the getting started page and still get the message. Anyone have any clues as to why I can't get DirectX to be recognized by the most current 2.5.9 install?
Hi everyone. I am attempting to install NextPVR to replace my no-longer-developed Beyond TV. I'm installing on a Win 7 Professional SP1, 64-bit machine with plenty of memory and hard drive space. The machine currently runs Beyond TV just fine. My eventual goal is to use NPVR as the PVR backend, with XBMC as the frontend to everything.
The machine has an Hauppauge HVR-1850 dual-tuner card in it, with a HD antenna for HD and SD provided through a DirecTV STB which is connected by a low-speed serial cable for changing channels. I've got MC2XML, ComSkip, and the DirecTV channel changer installed. Each works as expected from the command line.
I installed NPVR 2.5.9, applied the R2 patches and NEWA 1.31.
Here's the problem...
When I try to watch Live TV through NPVR, it is apparent that the tuning isn't set to channel 3 (which is the channel on which DirecTV comes in). I don't know where in Configuration to set the default tuning so it's always on TV #3, and changes channels via the DirecTV low-speed cable. Can anyone help to shed light on how to fix this?
Please be as specific as possible -- I'm new to NextPVR!
I am running a client machine on Windows 8. I have selected the option to open NextPVR when the green button is pressed on the MCE remote. I have also selected the option to open in fullscreen. When I do so, the application launches, but the Windows taskbar covers the bottom of the screen. Because NextPVR is not the application in focus, it does not reply to further button presses. I have to grab the mouse and click on the UI before it will respond.
Last night we were watching a couple recordings in progress. A few times, at some random point, the playback stopped unexpectedly and we were returned to the list or recordings. When we went to playback again, there was no 'Resume' option and playback started from the beginning. This is while doing Transport Stream recordings from OTA.
I have not seen this behavior with completed recordings leading me to believe that this a 'recording in progress' issue.
I recently bought a new PC (Windows 8) and installed a PVR-2250 card. I opted to stay with GBPVR - version 1.4.7 - because I use it almost exclusively with my four MVPs. I also only enabled analog channels.
Although the system works flawlessly when viewing on the MVPs, I can't watch anything on the PC. The program immediately closes when I hit "play". I suspect the problem is on the recording side, rather than playback, since I get the same results when I attempt to view a recording on WinTV, i.e., the program immediately shuts down. I can, however, watch shows on WinTV that were recorded on WinTV.
Before I try reinstalling the program, has anyone had this problem?
No idea if this will help anyone else out there, but given it took a bit of work, thought I'd share it in case it helps anyone else. For all those in the UK that quickly want to have up to date and pretty channel logos and who use Digiguide for their EPG
I've attached to this file a CSV mapping file of Digiguide channel IDs to NPVR Channel names (based on the Digiguide -> XMLTV). I've done this for most of the common channels - I haven't done the very specialist channels, however.
You can use this to turn the channel logos in digiguides chlogos folder (which are numbered by digiguide internal ID) and turn them into channel_name.png files that NPVR likes and can use.
You can then just run it through Perl (or something similar) in the chlogos directory, I put together something quick like this (note, this is horrible, like most perl) which creates an out directory and drops everything in there:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use File::Copy qw(copy);
mkdir out;
open($map,"map.txt") or die("Unable to open mapping file called map.txt in current directory");
foreach $line (<$map>) {
chomp($line);
@bits = split(",",$line);
$id = $bits[0];
$channel = $bits[1];
copy "$id.ch", "out/$channel.png";
print "$channel DONE\n";
}
Hope that someone finds this useful, if not, it'll just be me coming back to this thread in a few years time when I've forgotten how I did it the first time!
The question is...are there common resolutions and bitrates that people use for transcoding files (for example) that would also apply to live tv transcoding? I want to provide transcoding for nDroid and thought having a number of preset options would make sense.
Long time xbmc user swapping out my backend for Nextpvr (from Mediaportal). I had to scratch my head quite a bit to get it all up and running. On my LAN i use private addresses in the 172.16.0.0/12 range. With this setup my frontend cannot connect to the backend. The weblog says "Not allowing internet based streaming request from: 172.20.x.x". My frontend and backend are on the same /24 subnet.
If frontend and backend are on 192.168.0.0/16 everything works as intended. I didn't have to change addresses on my LAN to verify this since i have a vpngateway running on my backend using the 192.168.0.0/16 range. So if i route the traffic via my vpn (source and destination in the 192.168.x.x/24) it works.
I even tried to change binding order on my NIC without success, still can't connect when on 172.16.0.0/12
Do i really have to change the network address on my LAN to be able to use Nextpvr as a backend? It seems like the Nextpvr is listening on both ipaddresses of my server.
This issue only effects watching live tv, i can browse through the channels and get the EPG.
Br
Lengis, happy to have found a pvr backend that runs on Windows Server 2003!
MVP.log:
[...startup]
2013-01-17 21:59:47.508 [INFO][4] ServiceLocatorThread() Hostname: servern
2013-01-17 21:59:47.524 [DEBUG][3] MVP Service Locator will resolve media port: 6337
2013-01-17 21:59:47.524 [INFO][3] MVP Control thread Listening on port: 5916
2013-01-17 21:59:47.539 [INFO][4] IP Address 172.20.0.180
2013-01-17 21:59:47.539 [INFO][4] IP Address 192.168.249.1
2013-01-17 21:59:47.539 [INFO][6] BOOTPWorkerThread IP Address 172.20.0.180
2013-01-17 21:59:47.539 [INFO][6] BOOTPWorkerThread IP Address 192.168.249.1
2013-01-17 21:59:47.602 [INFO][7] MVP Streaming thread Listening on port: 8337
2013-01-17 21:59:47.602 [DEBUG][7] MVP Service Locator will resolve media port: 8337
