I created a recording from NEWA and selected "First Run Only". When the recording is saved it shows the title followed by "First Run Events Only". That seems fine. When I click on this recurring program to edit it, the "First Run Only" checkbox is unchecked. So I click on the checkbox to enable it and clicked "Update Season Recording". Now the title no longer shows "First Run Events Only". It seems like the "First Run Only" option only works the first time the recording is created. Any ideas or logs that I should attach?
Thanks.

I had NPVR running great on a 32 bit XP pro box for quite some time, but the OS drive finally died last week. I wasn't really too upset though, it was the perfect excuse to upgrade to WIN7x64 and a SSD! Win7 installed fine and I'm working on getting NPVR back up and running now.

I'm having some problems trying to get everything working again though. I've turned off all the anti-virus and firewall to eliminate those from the equation.

So, I'm basically having 3 problems right now:

Problem 1.
Whenever I exit settings and click the main screen in NPVR I get an unhanded error message. When I click continue it seems to be ok, but it's probably got something to do with problems 2 &3. A screenshot and the text from the error is in the zip.


Problem 2:
When I run RegisterFilter.bat I get an error for every one a screenshot is in the zip. I ran FilterCheck.exe and attached the log in the zip too. I think everything is right, but obviously not... hints? tips?


Problem 3:
I have 3 tuners installed:

1. Silicondust HDHomerun (QAM)
2. HVR-950 (shows as a 980) (analog)
3. AVerMedia H826 hybrid (QAM/analog)

The HDHR and 950 work fine. The H826 QAM works, but I can't get it to recognize the analog side in the devices list much less scan channels. I've double checked the drivers and it works in media center, but NPVR doesn't see it.

I'm half guessing most of this probably has something to do with the 64bit and my lack of experience with it. I'm just a bit overwhelmed right now with all the problems. What's my best point to start here?

snag

Sub,

As it seems rather quiet around here for technical issues with 2.4.3 (clearly an excellent release), perhaps it's a good time to ask for a small new feature. Many DVR/PVR's and even VCR's in the last century had a single-frame viewing mode. Sometimes there'd be a dedicated button on the remote for a single frame-skip while other times hitting the pause button while already paused would simply advance a single frame and pause again.

I propose the latter solution for NPVR - if the user presses Pause while already paused, advance one frame and pause again; show only the timeline but not the show details box and clear it if it's already showing. Pressing Play while paused would resume normal playback.

Also, while I'm at it, in the 2.4.3 announcement thread I asked to have the old "short skip" moved to the left/right arrow keys if FastPlay is enabled on the traditional ff/rw buttons. That way I could have all three navigation methods at once - Long Skips, Short Skips, and FF/RW.

Finally, is it technically possible to implement a slow-motion playback mode? If so, perhaps implement it so that if the user pauses first, then presses FF or RW, enter Slow-Mo; if the user presses FF or RW again, switch to FastPlay.

Thanks for your consideration.

Is there a way to increase the brightness level during recorded playback only?

My recordings are darker than normal television viewing.

Thanks.

Situation:
2 Colossus on the same machine (same description for the cards in the settings)
3 different listings from schedule direct (Dish Network, BELL, Videotron)
My Free to Air boxe use Dish Network and BELL and have a setting to automatically modify the channel number for BELL to 2xxx (exemple channel 781 will appear as 2781 in my FTA after a scan) and he will keep the original channel number for Dish Network.
I have another Scientific Atlanta cable box using Videotron Provider.
In the tuner settings regarding the channel import function there is no way to import the Dish Network channels in a dish network group and the BELL channels in a different group.

I have a lot of work to do manually:
1. I need to modify all the BELL channels one by one to add the 2xxx in front of the listing number.
2.Need to sort all the channels in 3 differents groups (Dish Network, BELL, Videotron)

1.Could be practice to have a additionnal settings regarding the channel import function under tuner settings for the different schedule direct listing providers (Dish Network, BELL, Videotron...) and create a different group for each provider.
2.A tick box to auto convert 1 provider channel numbers to 2xxx (exemple all the bell channels will be change from ex:781 to 2781) like the FTA protocol.
3.Name the 2 tuners with a different name like : Colossus#1, Colossus#2
4.Add 1 column for providers (Bell, Dish Network...) in the devices settings in the channels import area.

WHen i record i always set to record all seasons and keep all recordings.

When i have a number already stored, it doesnt seem to record anything unless its new (or maybe not, without checking every single show its missed).

This weekend is Big Bang Theory on Comedy Channel, after setting the above, its not going to record anything, i have 1 stored, and seen the others before, does it store that fact it has been recorded or is there a bug?

Other shows seem fine (and ive seen duplicates sometimes in the same day as certain shows are duplicated in the day).

Hi - Could someone confirm the tuning numbers for Freesat Channel 4 HD and the Channel 5 channels (5 USA, 5* etc)? Channel 4 HD has worked for me in the past but now isn't working on one of my PC's running NPVR. On the second PC I have I've upgraded to the latest version of NPVR and neither Channel 4 HD or the the set of Channel 5 channels were picked up doing a scan using the FreeSat only list of tuning numbers. The number I'd previously been using for Channel 4 HD was 11127,V,22000,23,198 and for the Channel 5 channels was 10964,H,22000,0

Thanks in advance

Whitters

Not strictly an NPVR issue, but every 5 days or so I notice the menus not scrolling correctly. If I go into settings it tells me the directx runtime is not available...re-installing the runtime fixes it, but the same happens a few days later. I've tried the web installer and the full download but it's the same either way. Anyone got any ideas....how can I check if the directx runtime is there and working to cross check the NPVR message?

I was rescanning freeview channels due to changes at Crystal Palace. I deleted the existing channels and find them all during a rescan but they do not get saved. Looking at the logs shows the "SQLite error no such table: CHANNEL_GROUP_NAME" followed by others.

This seems to be the cause of the problems. Anyone know how to fix it?

THIS GUIDE HAS BEEN REPLACED!!! The new guide is at...

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...-TS-To-MP4

IF YOU TRY ANY OF THIS YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK! I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR LOST RECORDINGS, ETC...

I really like MCEBuddy. It is well-written and works pretty well for making .MP4 files from .TS files.

Now on my .MP4 files, I like to use 160 bit rate for the AAC audio and 1000 average bit rate for video. My converted .TS files look GREAT and are a lot smaller in file size with almost unnoticeable loss of quality.

To set up MCEBuddy...

1. Download MCEBuddy from http://www.mcebuddy.com/ and install it. There are both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. After the install, DO NOT RUN MCEBUDDY!
   
2. Open NOTEPAD as ADMINSTRATOR.
   
3. In Notepad, browse to "C:\Program Files\Tyrell\MCEBuddy\mplayer".
   
4. Open "mencoder.conf".
   
5. Hit the ENTER key twice to make two blank lines from the top of the file then add the code below to the top of "mencoder.conf" and re-save the file.
   
6. Open MCEBuddy.
   
7. Select "H.264 MP4 1000/160 TV (No Resize, 2 Pass)" from the drop-down list.
   
8. Check the boxes in front of DELETE ORIGINAL (at your own risk and only if you no longer want the original .TS files), SORT BY SERIES, and SUB DIRECTORIES.
   
9. Change FILE SELECTION to *.ts and change the VIDEO PATHS SOURCE and DESTINATION to where GBPVR saves recordings to.
   
10. Click START to start the MCEBuddy service.