I've been in contact with Arcsoft regarding Total Media Theatre 5 freezing on most of the Blu Rays I try, this can happen at any point in the film and not always at the same point if I re-watch a film.
Arcsoft support has told me that my PC is too old for BluRay playback:
Quote:the graphic card is not well enough for playing Blu-Ray, especially the 3D file. I would recommend you use HD5500 or above
Are they right? Is HD BluRay plackback too much to expect from this 3 year-old hardware?
Operating System
MS Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit SP1 CPU
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5050e 25 °C RAM
2.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 373MHz (5-5-5-18) Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-M56S-S3 (Socket M2) 30 °C Graphics
Panasonic-TV (1920x1080@60Hz)
ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series (ATI AIB) 42 °C Hard Drives
733GB SAMSUNG SAMSUNG HD753LJ ATA Device (SATA) 33 °C Optical Drives
SAMSUNG DVDWBD SH-B083L ATA Device Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio
I am getting the following error when first running nPVR and clicking on the Live TV option. Using Windows 7 Pro 64 bit SP1 and WinTV PVR PCI 2. 4 GB RAM, AMD Phenom II X4 945 3 GHz. XFX NVidia GeForce 9600 GT. My WinTV card does not appear in the Devices screen.
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System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index
at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException(ExceptionArgument argument, ExceptionResource resource)
at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException()
at System.Collections.Generic.List`1.get_Item(Int32 index)
at NextPVR.Players.LiveTvPlayer.StartLiveTV(String& reason)
at NextPVR.ControllerForm.PlayLiveTV()
at NextPVR.ControllerForm.liveTVToolStripMenuItem_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.RaiseEvent(Object key, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleMouseUp(MouseEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEventInteractive(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEvent(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
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What's the best plugin for NPVR for moving/copying files around different directories? I've tried the Files plugin but I'm not sure how to use it - any ideas?
First, how do I get NPVR to startup in "Stay on Top" mode? I get an unwanted taskbar at the bottom of the screen and have to right click everytime I reboot (with the NPVR shortcut in my startup folder).
Secondly, NPVR seems to have a short delay when skipping when viewing videos/recordings. Previously GBPVR was almost instantenous, you could hit the skip button on the remote and the playback would skip 10secs and the video/audio would instantly revert. Now in NPVR there is a small delay for the video to kick in. Kind of annoying when skipping through adbreaks etc, and also that I'm used to it being instantaneous. I've read a few threads on this but can't seem to find if there are any resolutions. Any ideas?
I have a newer AMD video card and it has its own decoder which seems to work super fast and stable - except when I stop playback there is an unhandled exception.
Now I've never been an ATI (Now AMD) fan precisely because of crap drivers and software so I'm wondering if anyone is running the AMD decoders without issue? If so, I'll do some log and exception requester captures and see what can be figured out. I'd love it if it worked because everything is far faster with that decoder.
Oh yeah, the same issue has been there through several versions of NextPVR, it's not something new.
Posted by: TomServo - 2012-09-05, 11:16 AM - Forum: Wishlist
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Post-padding:
'Ask This Old House', 'Victory Garden', PBS in general, put multi-minutes of advertising at the end of the show. My current PVR (GBPVR10016, upgraded from previous GB*) lets me set a post-padding of -2 minutes. I'd love to see that in NPVR.
LAN channel changer:
I have a Directv PVR. They've removed the 'autotune' feature. My workaround is to use my home Linux server to send a channel change command via cron as: 10.0.0.58:8080/tv/tune?major=269 over the LAN. I'd like to see NPVR auto-send the command.
And what the heck...this is a skin problem, but I love the last-century look and simplicity of GBPVR10016. One of you damn kids should get off my lawn and go make a skin to replicate that.
I have come across a couple of videos where it now always asks if you want to resume from the same point.
On checking the database with sqlspy it appears that the file naming has changed with NPVR2.5.5 in the playback position table. Before it contained the full path (//Tower/Adult Content/Video name.mkv)and now only contains the file name (Video name.mkv). I think these files were partly watched before upgrading to 2.5.5.
Would deleting all the entries with full path names in this table be the best way of dealing with this? - i.e. pre NPVR 2.5.5 entries.
Think I might just back up the database first
The windows defrag utility does not do a good job so I'v been using Defraggler but it is slow... Does anybody know of a wuick and good defragmenting program that is free or fairly cheap?
using HDHR prime tuner in clear QAM mode - I did a channel scan to find 498 channels found! however 95% of these are unwatchable, and the hdhomerun status program shows them all as locked and high signal, but encrypted. I wonder why the hdhr program can figure that it's encrypted but the npvr channel scan can't?
Been playing with NextPVR and it looks pretty good. I would like to get it working right in order to replace BeyondTV. Here is a brief description of my computer:
HP Quad Core Processor
6GB RAM
1TB Hard drive
Hauppauge HD PVR USB box.
ATI Video Card with 1GB RAM (can't remember exact model number)
Firefly remote
USB Uirt
Blu Ray Drive.
For the most part, I have NextPVR working, it records fine, but it will not change channels on my Starchoice Satellite tuner. Nothing comes out of the USBUIRT. Tried to find USBUIRTSend.exe, but cannot find it anywhere. Not even sure if that is the correct way to get it working.
Anyone have a solution for this? I even got the guide updating with Schedules Direct.
