I am thinking about getting a NAS enclosure (gigabit-connected) and was wondering if anyone has tried recording directly to a NAS? This will be potentially 4 ATSC (MPEG2) streams simultaneously which are delivered over the network anyways via 2 HDHomerun devices so I think this should work but I was wondering if anyone has actually tried this. Thanks.

I have used NextPVR for some months now on my main PC with so much success that I have just built a dedicated HTPC running with an Hauppauge TD500 Dual Digital Terrestrial tuner with the output via the HDMI port on an Asus 210 silent graphics card to my Panasonic LED HD TV. This setup replaces a Virgin V+ cable box and a Panasonic Freeview recorder/DVD player.

As this tuner has no HD capability I am considering buying a TBS Dual DVB-S2 High Definition Digital Satellite Tuner and putting up a dish.

I have 2 questions
1. Will NextPVR record and playback in HD?
2. Can I run both cards side by side in the same setup, and what happens if I AutoMerge Channels of the same name in the Bulk Map under Channels?

I hope someone can answer these questions before I part with the cash for the parts and go to the trouble of the installation.

Thanks for your answers in advance
Bob

Hi,

I am using Next PVR 2.4.3 on Windows 7 64bit, connecting to DVB-C channels through a Hauppauge 5500 PCIe card and using the Arc Soft Codec for H.264 decoding. All (of which 2 HD channels) but one channels are working properly, so I am quite sure the codecs are running ok. However, one HD channel, the German ZDF HD, is only playing sound with the video remaining black. If I play the ts files of this channel in another player (VLC, Media Player Classic, etc...) these files play without issue both video and sound. I can't see any errors in the log files. The only thing I noticed is that, as opposed to the other HD channels, for ZDF HD channel, I am missing the sequence:

2012-05-06 18:04:55.572 [DEBUG][1] Aspect ratio now: 16x9
2012-05-06 18:04:55.572 [DEBUG][1] Resolution is now: 1280x720
2012-05-06 18:04:55.572 [DEBUG][1] Source Aspect Ratio: 16x9

I attached the log files where I switched to arte HD (which works: video and sound) and then switched to ZDF HD (sound, but no video). I you want I can provide a short example to a ts file.

Is this a know issue or could somebody have a deeper look into it?

Thanks in advance,
Frederic

I recently changed the Port the main NEWA service from 80 to 81.
I can browse to this quite happliy from internal and now the internet.

However I can't now use watch live from my nDroid player, ether internally or on the internet.
I can still schedule recordings etc, and still view recordings.

Any ideas?

I use mc2xml to get the microsoft epg data to populate C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Epg\xmltv.xml Channel mapping points to this file for epg data. I can see the data in the xml file, but the guide in NPVR reports no show details.

All has all been working fine up until the glitches with Microsoft not serving the data recently. However this time, when MS resumed updating the listings, NPVR has not been getting the data from the file. I haven't been able to solve this one on my own. Please help.

Logs attached.

When I try to update the channels I often get the below error messages. I right clicked on a watched channel and chose SET CHANNEL EPG SOURCE. Generally closing NPVR and reopening and I'm able to continue to edit channels but not while watching live recordings, right click the desktop, settings, channels and choose the channel to edit will then work. If I just go right to editing without watching first, it's fine.

I have 2gb of memory, with 805mb available. Win 7, 64 bit

I'm using MC2XML. On another note, when does UPDATEEPG.bat run? It never seems to run on my computer I thought it was automatic. If I need to I can create a task, but that doesn't take care of the import process. Here is my .bat file;
c: /d c:\epg
mc2xml

thanks, Jake
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I switched from GBPVR to NPVR when I decided to upgrade my tuner and machine. NPVR looks much improved over the old software, but in two important respects doesn't work as well so far.

First, the new tuner can pick up HD channels. In my area, these channels are 7.1, 15.1, 15.2, etc. NPVR remaps these channels to 205, 332, 334, etc. which is fine. But there is no programming data loaded for these remapped channels, so I can't record anything on them. Is there some way to get the information mapped for these HD channels?

Secondly, and this is a major problem. Apparently this is happening during recording. When I play back anything NPVR recorded, there are skips and hesitations in the video which make them more or less unwatchable. Whether I view them in NPVR itself or Windows Media player, the skips are there, so I'm assuming this is happening during the recording. Is there some setting or optimization or something I need to do so these recordings are smooth?

I'm running NPVR 2.2.6 under Windows XP Pro SP3 on a Dell Inspiron 530 with 2BG of RAM, Radeon HD 5450, Hauppage WinTV HVR-1255, Hybrid ATSC/QAM.

"use out of process recording" and "use background recording service":
what are these options for in the recordings menu? and how do I determine if I have them set correctly on my system?

I'm kinda made the guide look the way I want to but I still would like to tweak it a little more. I'm trying to make the channel logos a little bigger and reduce the distance from the logo to the name/number. This is what I have so far.



Here's the code. I'd rather wait some guidance before I mess it up

Any idea what would cause this? It's started happening two or three times a night. The only thing I can think of that has changed recently is adding a recent patched version of unmanaged.dll - could this be a cause???
From server below. client log attached.


2012-05-03 20:54:49.112 [DEBUG][19] CLIENT-READ: 169200 bytes from offset 458382728
2012-05-03 20:54:49.112 [DEBUG][19] RollingFile.Seek(458382728)
2012-05-03 20:54:49.112 [DEBUG][19] about to read 169200 from location 458382728 (current length = 1406214808)
2012-05-03 20:54:49.112 [DEBUG][19] READafter read
2012-05-03 20:54:49.112 [DEBUG][19] READabout to get length
2012-05-03 20:54:49.112 [DEBUG][19] READafter get length
2012-05-03 20:54:49.112 [DEBUG][19] READ: data read, about to send
2012-05-03 20:54:49.112 [DEBUG][19] READabout to send
2012-05-03 20:54:49.128 [DEBUG][19] READ: complete
2012-05-03 20:54:49.128 [DEBUG][19] File length: 1406214808
2012-05-03 20:54:49.128 [DEBUG][19] CLIENT-READ: 169200 bytes from offset 458551928
2012-05-03 20:54:49.128 [DEBUG][19] RollingFile.Seek(458551928)
2012-05-03 20:54:49.128 [DEBUG][19] about to read 169200 from location 458551928 (current length = 1406214808)
2012-05-03 20:54:49.190 [DEBUG][19] READafter read
2012-05-03 20:54:52.217 [ERROR][19] Unexpected exception in ClientConnectionHandler: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags)
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags)
at NShared.ClientConnectionHandler.WorkerThread()
2012-05-03 20:54:52.217 [DEBUG][19] CLOSING file (client connection gone)


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