My A110 is nearly dead. Looking for a recommendation of a good media player that will stream over NFS shares .TS files from NPVR.

Any ideas on the Micca players, looking at the Micca EP600G2.

Thanks for any help and guidance.

I'm still a complete newbie to PVR's so I apologize in advance. I have comcast cable and would like to incorporate NextPVR into XBMC and use XBMC's Live TV abilities to watch and record TV Show's. Is this possible, or am I out of my mind?

If it is possible, I do not know what hardware I need to get the signal from the Cable Top Box to my computer. I have an Acer Aspire Revo 3700 which I use as my XBMC device which is part of my network. I have a Synology DS410 NAS that I use as a server for all of my media to my 2 separate XBMC identical systems.

Thanks in advance for the help

OK...here I am again....You guys on this board care about the things I do...sorry if this is somewhat off-topic post.

Shortly after my last post -- just my luck --- one of my PCH A110s started to die. It is locking up randomly now...and more frequently.....where only a power cycle can recover it. It is on it's last leg. But it has served me well for many years.

Question: The combination of MVPMCX2 and PCHA110 allows the NMT to handle .TS streams much better (more robustly) than native PCH playback. This is how I found this forum, with the help of Martin long ago on the SageTV forums. This is when I was having all kinds of trouble with .TS streams off my cable tuner.

Now I have to replace the A110 with something else. I know the new A400 and even earlier models don't support MVPMCX2. So my question to you all is ---- are the new PCH boxes like the A300/A400 better than native A110 at playing back .TS, and .M2TS streams? If they are improved playback of transport streams....then I won't need MVPMCX2 as much.....and can deal with NFS mounts off my NPVR directory to play everything instead. I will miss native NPVR on the MNT but can deal with that problem.

I really appreciate any advice......of what Media Streamer is the best these days at playing back .TS streams from video. The ability to playback .MKV and other common containers and formats is very important too. But I am zeroing in on the one weak point of the A110....its transport stream decoding performance/robustness.

If you would buy a media streamer today....which would it be?

Thanks everyone for your help and ideas...and happy holidays!

Warm Regards

Jim

Hi,
I have a Ceton InfiniTV PCI card installed on my Windows 7 box, and it's been working fine with Media Center.
I use Time Warner Cable for my TV service, and subscribe to the digital tier of channels. The Ceton card is cool in that
it works with a cable card supplied by TWC to handle the DRM encryption on all of TWC's digital channels, save for the local
broadcast channels which are "clear".

I thought I would give PVR a try as an alternative to Media Center, however when I attempt to configure it, I don't see
anything showing up in the Devices tab from the Settings option.

Will the Ceton InfiniTV card work with PVR? Has anyone else on the forum been able to get this to work?
Do I need additional plug-ins ?
Can't seem to find much on the forums about it.

Thanks,

This plugin matches your monitor, TV or display panel's refresh rate with the content rate of whatever media is playing. Playing media at the correct refresh rate ensures smooth video playback with no stuttering, dropped, or repeated frames.

http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...utoRefresh

The latest version was released on December 21st and includes the following changes:

- Settings are now stored in /Plugins/AutoRefresh/AutoRefresh.xml rather than config.xml
- Updated MediaInfo to version 0.7.61
- Added an additional option to control how much logging is produced
- Added functionality to support changing refresh rates when called by the MovieTrailers plugin
- Added EventBus handling for AUTOREFRESH_PATH and AUTOREFRESH_FRAMERATE

Note that as the settings are now stored in its own folder (rather than embedded in config.xml) you'll need to reconfigure the plugin because your old settings will be lost.

Other plugins can activate the refresh rate changing by using the new EventBus methods:

- AUTOREFRESH_PATH: eventArg is a string to the path of a media file to query
- AUTOREFRESH_FRAMERATE: eventArg is a string containing the frame rate of a media file (eg 23.976)

For feedback and support, please use the 3rd party Plugins area of the forum.

Iain

Hi

Have just started to move from GBPVR.
Have installed NetxPVR and TechnoTrend C-1501 which seem to work fine
I have some issues

I started a scen using Sweden and COMHEM (only choice after Sweden) and it did find some of my channels and also some channels called Unknown followed by frequency.sid.


I am not using COMHEM but a local cable TV supplier (SKTV) using DVB-C, in my TV I am supposed to use these parameters:

Frequence: 362 MHz
Symbolspeed: 6875 MS/s
Modulation: 64 QAM
network: yes

question how should I do when searching for channels with these parameters?

I tried again using all frequencies and 6875 which seem to give me a lot more channels - is this the way or should I add my parameters in some config file?

regards Janne

Good afternoon,

I have 4 LNBs via DiseQ 1.x switch (ABCD): 9E,13E,28.2E,36E. LNB for 36E is Ku-Circular and I can't scan channels. Maybe I have to put different LOF1, LOF Switch, LOF2 for 36E?
I can scan and watch channels via other software, so everything works fine, but I want to use XBMC for sat channels via NextPVR.
And also I have a question concerning adding transponders to ini files - I have at the moment:

Have windows XP SP3. Hauppauge 88xx card installed with latest drivers from Hauppauge downloaded last night. DVB-T tunes and works and records ok but DVB-S crashes after finding just a couple of channels. I'm using the Freesat 28.2 setting for my location in London.
When tuning after a couple of sat channels are picked up the microsoft box appears on screen which states
"Nextpvr.exe encountered a problem and needs to close."
NPVR then crashes every time I try to retune.
DVB-T works fine.
I have attached zip of log files
Please can you help

Recordings occasionally fail in the middle. The SageDCT log file contains numerous GetSize has not changed errors. NPVR never recovers after this and I have to recycle SageDCT & NPVR server. Every attempt to view live tv or record fails until this is done. Besides this being a bug, are there any suggestions about how I might detect and recover from this condition? I'm thinking of a watchdog script with the power to restart the services. It will have to run with admin privileges in order to restart services. Has anyone tried this? The script will have to wait until x seconds/minutes of these messages occur before it takes action, but it seems that the size check is performed every 30 seconds, so perhaps one message is enough to restart.

2012/12/17 11:47:07.22 : RTP Sequence Number: 51585 Timestamp: 9780823 Size: 7896
2012/12/17 11:47:07.24 : RTP Sequence Number: 51586 Timestamp: 9780823 Size: 7896
2012/12/17 11:47:07.24 : RTP Sequence Number: 51587 Timestamp: 9780823 Size: 7896
2012/12/17 11:47:10.02 : After Accept: 6980
2012/12/17 11:47:10.02 : 6980 Bytes Received: 6
2012/12/17 11:47:10.02 : ProcessMessage 6980: NOOP
2012/12/17 11:47:10.02 : SageDCTTuner 6980 Send: OK
2012/12/17 11:47:10.02 : Before Accept: 6980
2012/12/17 11:47:15.18 : After Accept: 6980
2012/12/17 11:47:15.18 : 6980 Bytes Received: 91
2012/12/17 11:47:15.18 : ProcessMessage 6980: GET_FILE_SIZE L:\NextPVR\Video\The Singing Marine\The Singing Marine_20121217_11151315.ts
2012/12/17 11:47:15.18 : GET_FILE_SIZE for L:\NextPVR\Video\The Singing Marine\The Singing Marine_20121217_11151315.ts
2012/12/17 11:47:15.18 : SageDCTTuner 6980 Send: 3162288968
2012/12/17 11:47:15.18 : Before Accept: 6980
2012/12/17 11:47:15.85 : SageDCT.exe PrivateMemorySize: 41807872 WorkingSet: 31584256 PeakWorkingSet: 32567296 TotalProcessorTime: 01:17:44.9915036
2012/12/17 11:47:20.30 : After Accept: 6980
2012/12/17 11:47:20.30 : 6980 Bytes Received: 6
2012/12/17 11:47:20.30 : ProcessMessage 6980: NOOP
2012/12/17 11:47:20.30 : SageDCTTuner 6980 Send: OK
2012/12/17 11:47:20.30 : Before Accept: 6980
2012/12/17 11:47:25.48 : After Accept: 6980
2012/12/17 11:47:25.48 : 6980 Bytes Received: 91
2012/12/17 11:47:25.48 : ProcessMessage 6980: GET_FILE_SIZE L:\NextPVR\Video\The Singing Marine\The Singing Marine_20121217_11151315.ts
2012/12/17 11:47:25.48 : GET_FILE_SIZE for L:\NextPVR\Video\The Singing Marine\The Singing Marine_20121217_11151315.ts
2012/12/17 11:47:25.48 : GetSize has not changed: 3162288968 - 12/17/2012 11:47:15 AM
2012/12/17 11:47:25.48 : WARN GetSize has not changed: 3162288968 - 12/17/2012 11:47:15 AM
2012/12/17 11:47:25.48 : SageDCTTuner 6980 Send: 3162288968
2012/12/17 11:47:25.48 : Before Accept: 6980
2012/12/17 11:47:30.54 : After Accept: 6980
2012/12/17 11:47:30.54 : 6980 Bytes Received: 6
2012/12/17 11:47:30.54 : ProcessMessage 6980: NOOP
2012/12/17 11:47:30.54 : SageDCTTuner 6980 Send: OK
2012/12/17 11:47:30.54 : Before Accept: 6980
2012/12/17 11:47:35.66 : After Accept: 6980
2012/12/17 11:47:35.66 : 6980 Bytes Received: 91

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