Ok.. So I tried our older PDP display (a 6-8 year old Pioneer plasma) with a newly installed Nvidia GT430 (with latest drivers) connected via HDMI.. The behavior of the video is super odd -- interestingly enough it was more or less the same way with the onboard Intel graphics HDMI output as well..
The symptoms are a very spastic video output in live TV -- frame rates vary from 60+FPS to usually more like about 3.7fps per the XBMC debugging features -- much like a roller coaster -- very slow -- then super fast like its doing a catch-up and then slow again.. While this is going on, CPU never goes beyond 10-20% tops -- no network to speak of here as both NPVR + XBMC are on the same machine -- no outside network aside from the content that NPVR is getting from the HDHomeRuns (1 channel over gigabit)
I'm attaching the XBMC logs in the off chance it might have some clues.. I did try using NPVR directly and after fiddling a little I get video that looks great (w/o issues) and audio that is OK as well..
If it matters, when viewing live TV from within XBMC, the mouse is super jumpy -- very hard to control and there is no audio..
Help! I just recently started experimenting with NPVR with the intention of using it as a TV backend for XBMC. I was able to install it on my deskotp computer without any major issues, however I ultimately want to install it on my HTPC. Both computers are running Windows 7 x64. My issue is that on my HTPC install I am not able to connect to the webserver. This is also seems to prevent the XBMC client from connecting properly.
I have tried just about everything including: disabling the Windows firewall, changing the NPVR service username, changing the webserver port and installing all of the avaliable patches. The regular NPVR software seems to work just fine, and all of the normal ports are created with the exception of 8866 (or whatever port I happen to pick). I have not seen any strange errors in the windows event viewer, and I have been able to run a port listening program on 8866 and observe connection attempts. This computer does run SabNZBd on port 8080 and Sickbeard on 8081, althrough I belive I've tried it with these off.
I have attached a copy of the NPVR logs, and a partial printout from "netstat -a". I imagine I could figure out what is happening if there was some way to increasing the debugging output from the NRecord client, so I can see what happens when it tries to open port 8866. Is there anyway to do that?
So, yesterday was my first time getting NPVR + XBMC working together (albeit on the same machine).. One thing I noticed that I thought was a bit odd was the I was not able to pause/rewind live TV like I can do on various other PVRs (Tivo/SageTV,etc).. The buttons were on screen but were greyed out.. I did a quick search and wasn't sure if this was correct or not.. When using the Frodo build + the NPVR plugin, should I be able to pause/rewind live TV?
First I would like to say KUDOS to all that have contributed to this project. I have been going back and forth for years between MP Myth WMC GB never getting the system I want. Could not believe how fast I was able to configure NextPvr. Great job guys. which now leads to my first of a number of posts.
I didn't like how Next handled my movie library. Not all covers displayed. Have to click folders to get to files. Wasn't keen on the display. What suggestions does anyone have. Is there a plugin better suited. should I have the movies in a specific file structure/tree ( i admit my files are a mess). Can I somehow link IMDB. Just curious to see what others have done.
Recently I've started having problems with with short recordings. Not always, just intermittently, there doesn't seem to be a pattern other than all of them are short. Not getting zero file size, all are at least a few min long in the 2-10min long range. I've looked at the longs and it looks to me like NPVR thinks it recorded correctly, but then I really don't know what I'm looking at. Attached are my logs and the most recent recording that came up short.
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Should have mentioned, I'm running 2.59 with all the patches.
I've just installed NextPVR 2.59 along with a PCTV System 290e DVB-T/T2 USB reciever.
I get EPG info from all the other DVB-T channels which the card receives, but for some reason, I do not get anything from the 4 DVB-T2 HD channels.
I have tried the PCTV Systems application which comes with the card called TVCenter, and that gets EPG info for these channels (from the same transponder).
Is there a change somewhere which will allow EPG to be recieved from the 4 HD channels. I have read that its maybe possible to use the EPG sourced from another channel with the same lineup, but one of the channels has a uniquie lineup.
I also realise that I could go down the XMLTV route, but am reluctant to do so.
Ok.. So I re-installed Win7x64 yesterday and loaded up all of the Asus drivers for my motherboard -- an Asus P8Z68V-Gen3 using onboard HDMI (but will update some of them direct from chip mfg's site later this evening) -- when I plug in the HDMI cable between our Pioneer Plasma Kuro 50" display, I get audio & video w/o issue and can fire up XBMC (on the same server as NPVR for now) and it works.. albeit with some buffering issues on occasion (I gather I might be able to fix that with a BIOS memory adjustment).. Anyway, if we turn off the display without touching XBMC (leaving it streaming) and come back later, we find super choppy video (like at <1/4 normal frame rate) and no audio..
If I restart XBMC, the video is fine again but still no audio.. I did not try unplugging the HDMI & replugging as I now read others have done elsewhere. I can go into the system tray and adjust the volume slider (for the Realtek HDMI audio out) and it moves but I get no sound.
So, the question comes up in my head -- for those of you that are using this combo -- if you're going to step out for a little while, do you shutdown XBMC or leave it running and just switch off the display? Does it come back fully functional or is fiddling required to get it up again? I'm just trying to figure out if I've got some sort of driver issue or perhaps my hardware doesn't like my display,etc.. I'm thinking that when I switched off the display, XBMC+Windows7 got a bit perturbed and...
Eventually XBMC will be installed on a dedicated PC that will be next to each display and they will in turn communicate over gigabit ethernet to the NPVR server elsewhere within the house. For now I'm combining things due to tight $$
Hi - I have an RTM version of Windows 8. Possibly my first mistake.
I have done a clean install of nPVR 2.5.9 & set up channels
I can hear audio for each channel, see programs listed on the EPG, but get no video, with any combination of video renderer and decoder settings.
Logs attached
I tried installing WinTV - and got the same result - sound but no video.
I understand that windows 8 RTM is missing h.264 codec out of the box (or that it is crippled), and so installed the LAV decoder - but this makes no difference, and should not be affecting all the channels we have here anyway - to my knowledge only TV3 uses it.
(I can also play back h.264 encoded mov files with no problem)
My location is Christchurch, New Zealand, and recently the Freeview frequencies broadcast in our city changed (frequencies seem not to have been updated in Device Setup - though , doing a full scan of New Zealand frequencies still seems to have populated all the channels ok - though I only get audio from any of them).
Can any kind soul take pity on a poor benighted Windows 8 user ?
Been using GPVR for many years and I am very happy with 1.4.7. I have this running on 2 machines with 3 tuners each.
For people that have made the jump form GBPVR to NextPVR - is it worth it? What are some of the major benefits?
I'm hesitant to do this as I am not having any issues with my current setups, just wondering if there is any real benefit to upgrading?
Thanks - it's been a LONG time since I've been on these boards - and that is a huge compliment to Sub as his code has kept me (and more important - the wife) very happy for a long long time!
