Could someone please add the following to this page (with better words than mine): http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...adata#toc3

folder.jpg/folder.png
Will override the appearance of the default folderimages from the used skin.

<filename>.jpg/<filename>.png
Will display coverart of <filename> on the screen.

fanart.jpg/fanart.png
Will change the wallpaper according to the saved fanart.jpg/fanart.png in a subfolder.

Difference between .jpg and .png
The most interesting differences between both compression formats are, that .jpg is better suited for photos and .png has better capabilities for non photorealistic graphics.
The second difference is, that .png support transparency what can be useful in some situations.

I had a failed recording last night. "Recording service not running at recording time". I looked in the windows logs and I see something strange:

[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]
[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]

So there's a power event from the recording service and at the exact same time the system goes to sleep? I should mention I'm no expert in reading Windows logs . The npvr logs show "Requesting wake up for 'RecordingOID3968' at 23-1-2012 22:53".

Chris

I noticed the error message this morning by chance as the recording was not marked as “failed” or having a problem. The programme ran from 08:00 to 09:05 so the recording starts as expected at 07:57 but stops before 08:00 and only generates an 18MB file. There are no “errors” in the Window logs at this time but the “NPVR Recording Service” starts at 08:01 and the starts recording a new file as normal.

I cannot see anything helpful in the log files but the last entry in ndigitalhost.log.1 at 07:58 is:-
DigitalRecorder.StopHost()

Enclosed are the logs all of which seem to have restarted just before 08:00

I had been checking out the Skip forward and back on the Server and Client to post on a thread on the subject and noticed that the picture had a tendency to lock with the sound continuing more often than on the previous version. For some reason which I cannot remember I decided to try the LAV decoders on my client so removed the Cyberlink decoders which came with my tuner and all others installed. The LAV decoder seemed ok playing MPEG2 video until I tried skipping forward or back when the picture would freeze most times.

If the LAV decoder made it worse perhaps a different one would cure the problem. The ffdshow decoders were the next obvious choice but I previously had lots of problems with these, but that was when I was using XP. However changing to the ffdshow MPEG2 decoder seems to have cured several minor but irritating problems with my NextPVR client and server:-

1) Skip Forward and back now seems far more reliable and have yet to see a picture freeze.
2) Failed playback of recordings at first attempt no longer happens.
3) Resuming a recording no longer plays a second or so at the start of the recording first.

I am using Vista, the EVR renderer, the Vista MPEG audio decoder and all the recordings are SD MPEG2. I think Sub has said that decoders were going to be cause of some of these problems but the Cyberlink decoders had previously seemed the most reliable.

Last night I did some test recordings and it looks like none of my scripts (postprocessing.bat and parallelprocessing.bat and maybe updateepg.bat) didn't run. Paralellprocessing just had comskip and postprocessing just had one line to output %1 to a text file. Is there a switch in the config to enable this or is it done automatically?

I seem to be having a lot of problems setting this up

OTOH, I've been stealing backgrounds from xbmc and they work great using submenu!!

HD DirecTV STB
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800
MCE Blaster

I have always wondered this. I know with my current setup that I can only record using analog so my recordings are at 720x480. Is there a different setup I could do to have HD recordings using my HD DirecTV STB?

I think I found a bug. If you go to your list of recurring recordings and select one on the list and click UPDATE then click OK then REOPEN it, the record quality resets to DEFAULT. I always set mine to BEST but they keep reverting to DEFAULT.

I recently installed a fresh copy of Windows XP on a Pentium 4 system and and fully updated it to SP3. I then installed NPVR as the only appliction and a SkyStar2 + BDA driver and all appeared OK initially - apart from a disecq issue, but it did tune ok and produce video and audio. However after a reboot, it now won't tune, crashing straight away with:
Unexpected error in scanning form:System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. - please see attached log file.

Also, if I try to view live TV from the menu, it immediately crashes with a popup window saying " Unhandled exception has occured in a component in your application........Index was out of range...."

I've reinstalled NPVR and C++ runtimes several times now, but no difference.

Does anyone have any ideas please?

Only about 3 weeks ago I discovered NPVR would play DTS wav files using LAV splitter and audio decoder, so I started ripping my DTS CD's to disc.

NPVR 2.3.6 no longer plays these files with either a wav or dts file extension. They still play fine in graph studio (Lav Splitter - LAV Audio Codec - Default Audio Renderer) I presume its to do with the new music renderer option.

If it is awkward to fix, I will fully understand - vlc was the only program to ply these files previously and I only have about 10 surround sound cd's so no big hardship.

I have two hauppauge tuners both set up and enabled. However NPVR only seems to want to use one. If I schedule a recording on TV 1 and TV2 at the same time it accepts them and uses the one tuner for both recordings. If I then add in a recording on TV3 (different mux) at the same time it says no tuner available even though there is one. This never happened in GBPVR so what have I missed. Does NPVR keep one in reserve for "live" TV or is there a config setting to use all tuners or something.

Ignore the sig it is grossly out of date