The feature did work on the previous version and still does work with one-off recordings.
This problem occurs when recording parts of a much larger show. For instance, TVOne shows an overnight stream from the BBC entitled 'BBC World 2012'. I only want some programmes from within this 'show' such as 'Click' and the 'News' and create individual recordings naming them with their programme names. It is these manual season recordings which are not being recorded.
The scheduled recording appears in the 'recurring recordings' once and the expected number of times in the 'pending recordings'.
I am sorry but I haven't attached any log files - she who must be obeyed wants to watch the tele. If you require them please tell me which ones.
I am running the latest version 2.4.3 but without the patches.
Everything with nDroid works well besides that I cannot schedule any recordings. Updating channel listings, streaming LiveTV, streaming music and videos works well both over Lan and Internet but any attempt to record causes errors in the logs that I am not able to interpret.
When I watch Live TV, I rarely pause or rewind. Having the option to turn off Live TV buffering would allow NPVR to work like the old GBPVR "Live TV".
Why would I want to turn off buffering? Two reasons:
1. when watching some sports, I find my Live TV video to be a little bit jittery... not jerky, just not totally smooth. I think this MAY be because the overhead of recording the buffer results in some CPU starvation that results in not-totally-smooth live TV. There could be other reasons, but I did not find this jittery behaviour with GBPVR. This brings me to my second reason for wanting to turn off the Live TV buffer.
2. I use my PC for other tasks (on a second monitor) while watching Live TV. Those other tasks also consume valuable CPU cycles, and read/write from the hard drive. I have encountered situations where my CPU is running consistently between 95% and 100% due to other (unrelated) background tasks running while also trying to watch Live TV. It would help both my Live TV viewing and my other (non-NPVR) processing if I had the option of turning off the buffering.
This seems to me, perhaps naively, as if it should be an easy option to bring back. Since NPVR is actually doing two things at once in "Live TV", i.e. it is both displaying the true live feed (through all the processes that entails) and recording to the buffer (through the processes that entails), is it not fairly simple to just give an option to disable the buffering and its processes?
My system is a Dell Vostro 1320, Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz, running 32-bit Vista. I am using a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 950q and viewing and/or recording analog NTSC (cable) only.
I know there's "kind of" support for Blu-rays in NPVR now via the LAV splitter and audio decoder, but I've never really managed to get it working that well, and you're still left without support for subtitles, never mind full-menu support if you want that too. Therefore, I still play all of my blu-ray discs via TotalMediaTheater.
Not that I really have the drive space for it, but I started looking at options for ripping some of them (to iso, and using ClownBD to make them movie-only), but wanted a nice solution for launching TMT via NPVR direct to the mounted ISO. Turns out the solution is reasonably simple:
Rather than tell NPVR the location of VirtualCloneDrive's daemon.exe, I changed the config file so that it called a batch file instead:
This batch then calls the daemon to do the mount using the parameters NPVR gave it. From there, it just has to call my normal launch script for TMT but with a different drive path now:
Batchrunner is something I wrote to run batch files without the dos window appearing.
NPVR-BluRayISO.bat does a whole bunch of stuff to get ready for running TMT (like killing NPVR), but ultimately it calls the following, where y: is the path to my virtual blu-ray drive.
Of course, if you have DVD rips as ISOs (I don't), then this would mean they'd play via TMT too rather than in NPVR, but you could probably work around that.
I have the aspect ratio option set to remember last mode. I also have a couple of custom ratios; let's just call them 0 (auto), 1 and 2. Fill has been disabled.
When playing Live TV or recordings (of .ts files) then everything works as expected. I want '1' as the ratio and it sticks.
When playing any other type of video file (eg DVDs, mpegs from gbpvr, mkv, etc), then NPVR doesn't start the video using the last mode. If I had '1' active in Live TV, and then start a DVD, then the ratio now looks like '0' (auto). Note though, that a single press of F7 changes the ratio to '2', as if NPVR thought it *was* still using '1' but didn't actually activate it.
In all cases, the logs always show "restoring last aspect ratio" before the graph is built, but only Live TV ever shows stuff like:
Code:
2012-04-12 06:45:23.780 [DEBUG][1] Aspect ratio now: 16x9
2012-04-12 06:45:23.780 [DEBUG][1] Resolution is now: 720x576
The problem still occurs if Fill isn't disabled. TV shape is set to 16:9, but I've seen the same thing on my laptop at 16:10.
There's also a secondary problem related to this, in that with any video (including Live TV and recordings) if you activate the video inset then the aspect ratio always falls back to auto, and again NPVR continues to think it's still in one of the other modes. I don't mind it using auto if that's the best way to make everything fit in the cut-out rectangle, but it would be nice if it could restore the actual ratio that was being used once you go full screen again.
I can't get java applets to run - for example, the Java Test on the java website fails immediately. It's a 64 bit Win7 Sp1 machine with all service applied and I've tried both the 32 and 64 bit versions of IE9. It seems to install OK and the Control Panel applet works fine.
I've switched on and off: Windows Firewall, AntiVirus, ActiveX filtering, Compatibilty Mode, Uncle Tom Cobley and All.
I've screwed something up... Anyone got any ideas?
Not sure if anyone else has reported this, and I have no logs as it was last night, and my new machine suspends/wakes up and overwrote the logs.
So not on the latest mvpmcx2, I'll update that first, but was watching on PCH via my plex plugin an AVI file. After about 10 mins the "Could not play" message came up. Tried another episode and got the same thing.
Exited npvr and used PCH interface, and played the episode all the way through.
Is there something that could send a stop command to the PCH? or would this just be a network issue? Any ideas on cause?
Had to rebuild my machine and went for AMD FM1 x4 A8-3870 Llano, Gigabyte GA-A75-D3H - this combination makes an AMD ATI 6550 video card connected to my tv with HDMI.
If npVR is full screen, and I switch the HDMI to another device, or back to the regular tv, when I return, windows is still full screen, but npbr seems to have dropped to 1024x768 (I'd guess) resolution. I have to Alt-Enter (to restore), Alt-Enter to get it back to full screen.
