I am about to relocate for work and spend several days a week living out of an apartment away from home. I'd like to setup a PC using NPVR at home and be able to remotely stream Live TV and recordings at the apartment. Is there a way to do so simply using an NPVR client in the apartment and setting up the NPVR server at home to transcode on-the-fly? I'd like to avoid using the web browser based NEWA and simply use the dedicated NPVR application. Thank you.
After moving I no longer have a capture device I can use, but I'd like to be able to use nPVR for video files. Do I remember correctly that the setup for remotes is in the capture device setup menu? How do I set up my USB UIRT remote when I no longer have any capture devices?
I added a directory to videos to play mts files via NPVR (on the pch), but NPVR does not show the files.
Is there a file type I need to add to config.xml?
If this works, then is there a play all option available?
If not possible via NPVR, I did manage to add the share and play mts files natively, but I can't find a play all option in the NMT documentation. Is this possible?
I'm probably not Googling the correct things. Can anyone tell me what are the keyboard shortcuts for the color buttons on the MCE remote? If some even exist, might as well tell me if NPVR will honor them too. :p
Hi.
Just installed NPVR. (I also have GBPVR on my computer and have not deleted or uninstalled it yet. But I have closed its service before installing NPVR).
Now, I downloaded and installed latest WinTV 7 installer from Hauppauge site and have only updated my drivers from it (not installed the complete WinTV app).
However, I can only see 3 tv cards under Devices whereas I have 04 cards in my computer and they were detected OK by GBPVR.
Moreover, where is the logs folder in NPVR like we had in GBPVR? I want to post logs for your review.
Before I release this to the wiki, I thought I'd post it here for some feedback and testing first.
What's changed:
- Now uses the hidden menu style rather than a button list
- Only five buttons can now be visible because of this (use Settings to configure which ones and their order)
- Monitors CPU, memory, and network activity
- Detects updates to NPVR and changes status message at the bottom of screen to show this
- Major rewrite of the threading code - should be faster, use less resources, cause less problems (!)
- Settings now stored in /Plugins/System/System.xml rather than config.xml
- Logging level can be specified
- Change view with Blue/Alt+B or activate Shutdown with Stop/CTRL+S
- Lots of bug fixes
If you don't use the default skin, you'll need to delete your skin's System folder until an update for it is available. You also might want to delete the plugin's settings from config.xml as they won't be used anymore.
I am opening up a new can of worms here, but here it goes...
I have a Hauppage WinTV-HVR-950Q usb tuner with the ir on the dongle. Previously I have tinkered with getting things to work with the dinky remote that comes with this tuner, but could not get it to be recognized on a prior installation of WinTV. Fresh install of Win7-64, and npvr now. I only installed the Hauppage drivers for npvr to use.
The main system remote I have is a Logitech Harmony 520, which I have enjoyed for a few years in controlling my system. In moving to an htpc/npvr setup I ask whether I can make these parts work. In the remote software setup I see that every button is programmable, but realize that I need to fix pc communication first.
Where do I start? Are there utility apps that I can use to test each step? Need newer parts?
I thought i would post this question...., i have 2 clients (XP 64bit and 7 64bit) looking at the same server, both have identical video cards, but this problem is the same no matter what video card is installed. All settings between the installs in the NPVR are identical including themes
However the Windows 7 install has way larger fonts used meaning text overlaps just in NPVR (didnt matter what theme i used).
Why would this happen (its Windows 7, but what does the theme look at over the font size, both systems are 96DPI with no zoom enabled and 1920 x 1080.
Ideas?
Both clients work fine, just a font size issue, the UI zoom in the NPVR settings are both 0 and dont effect the font itself.
I'm playing with streaming using HTTP and when the client requests a file name which has 'space' characters in it they're replaced by '+' characters. Example...
So in my software I replace '/' with '\' and '+' for a space giving me a valid file name for the recording.
It occurs to me though that someone somewhere may have made a TV series or film or whatever which has '+' characters in the title. I can't think of any myself but does anyone know of any?
This is an ongoing issue that seemed to popup somewhere in the 2.2.6 release (hoped 2.3.6 would fix it). Any HE-AAC audio (all NZ freeview channels) suffer micro stutters in the audio that start out not much of an issue, but if the channel is left running grow substantially worse over time. Occasionally when the wife comes to bed last, she has just turned off the TV, and in the morning when it goes back on the sound is 50% on / off. A simple stop & start resets it.
Advice in the past is decoder selection. I have been through Monogram, DivX & am currently on Lav as part of SAF, and they all demonstrate the issue.... Currently HDMI to TV, but tried reverting to SPDIF straight to amp as original, and problem still exists.
As a test, I installed Media Portal, and running the same decoder setup, found no sound issues (on a sample of around 1/2 hr admittedly)....
So if all 3 decoders used work for other people (and used to work for me!!!), and the decoder I currently have works fine with an alternate PVR, it must be something with NPVR ???
Have attached logs in case they are any help, any suggestions appreciated... Let me know if more info is required.
