Did some updates this morning, it had a couple to do (9mb) is was pretty up to date.
Later on today checking on some recordings and they'd failed. Was saying it couldn't access the recording service. Gave it a restart, and trying to record or live tv I get a DVB error (I may not be able to get the logs now have tried a few things in restoring) but essentially saying cuold start, or the capture device does exist.
Hi,
Ive noticed lately most of the newer DVDs aren't recognised by my computer. I have been borrowing a USB DVD rom which will read all the disks.
Now, thinking the problem was my old DVD rom couldnt read the copy-protection of the new disks, I bought a new internal DVD rom.
To my surprise it has the same problem.
I may have broken the "If it isn't broken, don't fix it" rule. GB-PVR was running fine on my Windows 7 PC with an ATI TV Wonder 650 PCI tuner (S-video input). But I decided I needed more room on my C: partition and so enlarged it and re-installed Windows 7. When GB-PVR was re-installed, I had audio but no video. I decided now was the time to upgrade to NPVR. Same thing - audio, but no video. I've tried different video renderers but nothing makes a difference. Any suggestions on what to try next? (I can supply logs if required.)
I only have 28 channels enabled for 4 identical DVB-T capture sources and use a single XMLTV file (no broadcast EPG data). Looking at recent logs, it takes anything from 50 seconds to 1 minute 10 seconds each morning for the npvr automatic EPG update to do it's thing.
Obviously other people have more complex setups with more channels, a mix of capture sources (terrestrial, satellite, cable etc) and possibly use a mix of XMLTV files and broadcast EPG data scans.
I'm just wondering what length of time it can take to perform a daily EPG update.
There was a section in the GBPVR config.xml that listed the decoders that could be used for this and that. It was the subset of the listed decoders that were installed on a 'puter that was presented as options in the config.
I can't find the equivalent list in NPVR. I want to try various decoders for he-aac for UK HD broadcasts. Currently the only options that I see are LAV and ffdshow (which are essentially the same).
I was hoping that I might be able to, for example, add Cyberlink to the list for he-aac and see what happens. Thanks.
PS. I can see why it might be a bad thing to have the hoi polloi (including me) faffing about with decoder experiments.
I can;t figure out what changes to make to the irremote.ini file in order to get all the buttons working. The main ones that don't work for me are the volume up/down.
I really miss this feature from Sage. You choose the recordings directory then when you play a file the options include watch all in directory or watch all unwatched in directory.
My wife somehow managed to get two recordings playing at once (you could hear both audios) and end up back in the recordings list. I wasn't there when it happened and she's terrible at explaining this kind of thing. I think it happened something like this:
She used the MCE play button (not the OK button) to play a sage import which ended up black screen with a length of 00:00:00 (see sage import utility thread for description). She pressed stop and tried again with the same screen/length but then she heard two audio tracks at once. She pressed stop and got the recordings screen again.
When I came in I heard the two streams at once. I hit OK to play the same episode and it finally showed video but now with three audio tracks. I hit stop and it went back to two audio tracks at the recordings screen. I had to exit NPVR to get it to stop.
My wife is used to SageTV and NPVR is a bit slower to actually show video so I suspect she hit the play button a couple of times before the first video attempted to play.
Wish I could provide more info. When I get home I can try and post the log if I can figure out which one it is.
My wife is having a heck of a time trying to use NPVR. She gets confused about how to find the recordings she wants to watch. I set the view to Ready Recordings then sort by date descending so she has the series by folder and in the folder the newest recordings are on top. When she goes back to the recordings screen it's showing "What's New" and when she finaly gets to ready recordings (which is rare) she can't find the newest recordings because the sort changed back.
I have to admit that even though I have no problems getting to the view/sort I want it is a bit annoying to always have to change settings to get the view I want.
Sykor Wrote:On this subject. Even after re-enabling WMP, right-clicking inside the empty space of the large textbox (under Collections/Paths) still throws an exception. Bug? Or is it something else I still need to correct?
I've moved this to another thread because I like to separate problems into more relevant threads that hopefully will help other users find a solution more quickly. I had a check and right-clicking the white space does indeed generate a trace error which I will fix in a future version of MB4, however that is not how Collections work. Basically you need to hit the + sign to open up the system collection of the Collections group and then you can use the buttons on the bottom or right click on the Text to Add a Path or Collections.
If you don't have "system" or Collection showing that might indicate another problem if so compress and upload your logs and I will have a look.
