My thesis is this: we are moving away from an all-broadcast model towards a world where we will be watching TV from many many sources, including (and especially) streaming video over the Internet.
nPVR, great as it is, only caters for one type of source, the rest is handled (kind of) by plug-ins. I think this needs to change. I believe that if nPVR is not become sidelined, it needs to handle content from the web such as Lovefilm, Netflix, iPlayer, etc. This is something that should be built into the core of the app not a plug-in.
What do you think, people? Can we prevail on sub (and maybe help him in the big development effort required) to make this happen?
Just wanted to say that I think 2.3.6 is the most stable release of nPVR out of the box to date and the fixes and new features are welcome additions. Pausing and then fast-forwarding live TV is working better than ever and I love the highlighting in the EPG among many other things.
So thanks to you and your testers for the best release yet.
I've noticed that when I have several recordings scheduled back-to-back on the same channel that padding gets dropped from the "middle" shows due to the same tuner being used for all the recordings. Is this a bug or has the recording logic changed since GBPVR? GBPVR would switch to a different tuner for each show but NPVR thinks no other tuners are available (2 more are). All the tuners are working as I have no problem recording 3 shows simultaneously across all 3 tuners.
The server has 3 analog tuners, one on a PVR-150 and two on a PVR-500. The EPG's for them are cloned and they all have the same channels configured.
As a test I searched through the EPG yesterday to find four 30-minute shows in a row, then scheduled them to record (Channel 39) At timeline 2012-01-30 12:29 you can see that NPVR thinks there are no other tuners available, even though 2 of the 3 tuners have nothing currently scheduled. The error message "Recording due to start pre-padding, but tuner not available" is listed. Logs attached.
With earlier versions, I had to transcode .ts files to something else, because playing back .ts recordings lost audio sync after minute or so.
jki Wrote:Only way to watch recordings with Npvr, is do some transcoding. If I use PostProcessing.bat to change file format to .avi or .mpeg, audio sync remains ok.
This worked fine, until I made update to 2.3.6. All recordings made after that, audio sync is lost again, even transcoded to .mpg. But funny thing is, now original .ts file playing allmost
well, so audio sync is good enough.
In the video.xml the line <Image name="timelineBar" source="@timelineGraphic" location="15.45,24" size="69.1,24.81" /> mentions timelinegraphic. First, is this graphic the green bar used to show the current position during video playback? Second, if so where can I change the color of the bar/graphic.
Never sure where to post these requests so it ended up here.
sub or any forum mods that can do this...
Well the title says it all (mostly). If I could have a sub-forum in 'Add-ons' for nDroid I'd be grateful. I'd like to be able to create Sticky posts in there too.
sub I know we have discussed this before & couldn't find a solution but after the discussion in the "Bling" thread I have been thinking about it again & "before" I start making alternative Video skins & batch file to change them I thought I would bring it up again...
for the three different Views & in the past you said that it reads the fanart first so there is no way to have a visible=@fanArt type thing...
My thought was if it could display an alternative/default fanart image (from the skin\video directory maybe?) if it didn't find one in the directory the video file was in may get around my problem & also be of use to other users??
Ive just bought a kworld DVB-T USB tuner from Maplin. Installed everything and all went fine, but the bundled software is awfull, so I downloaded nPVR to use instead.
Installed nPVR, but when I go to settings, the first thing I noticed was it said that "DirectX is not available on this machine". The device is indeed running DirectX 9.0c.
The second problem is that when I scan for channels, none are found. The Tuner is detected by nPVR, and I have set the location correctly, but it finds nothing. The software that was bundled with the tuner, however, finds all the channels, so its not a signal strength issue.
If anyone can help me sort this out i would very much appreciate it, as i am getting more than a little frustrated with this project!
My power supply and motherboard were fried due to power surges. I swapped out our client pc we had in our bedroom until I could purchase new hardware and after installing drivers from windows update the tuner worked fine on windows 7 ultimate 32bit
Issue:
I have had a vbox DTA 150 tuner for a while for over the air transmissions of ATSC antennae tv. With the new windows 7 pro 64 bit, windows update still finds drivers for it but the device seems to show up in NPVR as an IPTV device. It shows up in device manager as a vbox dba tuner.
Question:
So can I add the tuner manually or replace the new npvr database with the older one that had the tuners configured correctly?
My thoughts are that the 64bit driver is somehow not working correclty with NPVR for some reason.
