Minor issue but I thought I should post it. Each time I enter and leave the settings menu it is adding another entry for RandomPhoto in the plugins. I am deleting the entries from config.xml to clean it up. Anyone else seeing this one ?

For the second time in two days, my HDPVR just stopped working and I get an unable to find available capture device. The only way out yesterday was to reboot.

Here is the time when it first stopped working.

2012-01-21 18:28:51.064 [INFO][6] About to start graph
2012-01-21 18:28:51.100 [DEBUG][6] Removing filter NPVR Writer2

Logs attached.

Martin

Hi! I am relatively new to NPVR and have run into a few issues that I cannot seem to find answers to elsewhere.

First - I have a Sabrent TV-USBHD tuner (USB Stick) that seems to work well watching live TV or recording programs after I have recently watched TV. However, when I schedule a recurring recording and leave the computer overnight, it seems that the USB tuner sleeps (I don't have XP set to sleep or hibernate that I am aware of) and then cannot be found when NPVR is ready to record at the scheduled time the next morning. I saw a post about the EPG update possibly causing an issue, but the EPG update is set for 2am, which is a good 5 hours before any scheduled recordings, so I don't think this is the issue. I have posted log files, just in case they are useful. Does anyone know what might be happening and how I might resolve this?

Second - The Sabrent tuner is a hybrid device, so it also has an analog tuner and capture device. I also have an old, analog ATI TV Wonder Pro PCI card installed in my computer. I was able to follow the analog installation instructions, as well as add these two devices to the AnalogDevices.xml file. NPVR successfully recognized both analog devices. When I try to run a channel scan with the Sabrent device, I get a message that reads "Unable to start device: Device failed to start." When I try to run a channel scan with the ATI device, I get a dialog box that reads "Unhandled exception has occurred in a component in your application." It then provides a long text of details, which I attached to this post. Unfortunately, clicking "Continue" just re-opens the dialog box, which then seems to get stuck in an endless loop that never allows it to close. I have to force NPVR to close with Task Manager to get the dialog box to stop popping up. Since a channel scan does not work, I tried manually setting up Ch 3 and Ch 4 for both devices to see if I could get them to pass a signal through in Live TV. Unfortunately, both devices give me an error when I try to open the manually created channels through the Channels screen in Live TV (device failed to start). I have included the FilterCheck log in the logs file attached to this post. Can anyone help me determine if either of the analog devices that I am trying to use are compatible with and can be used to record analog pass-through (VCR, digital set-top box, etc.) video?

I am running NPVR 2.3.6 on Win XP SP3, P4 3.0Ghz, 2GB RAM

I used the following entries in the AnalogDevices.xml file:
<Device filter="ATI TV Wonder Pro A/V Capture">
<Name>ATI TV Wonder Pro</Name>
<Type>SOFT_ENCODE</Type>
</Device>

<Device filter="Microtune Dongle Analog Capture">
<Name>Microtune Dongle Analog Capture Device</Name>
<Type>SOFT_ENCODE</Type>
</Device>

Thank you!

Update: I started having issues viewing Live TV with my digital tuner card. I think this is related to the analog tuners, as it did not happen before I added them. I posted a second set of log files, just in case these provide any insight. Removing the analog tuners from the Devices list and the AnalogDevices.xml entries resolves the Live TV issue. I scheduled new recordings after removing the analog devices, but am still having trouble with my digital tuner device failing to start at the scheduled recording time (this time only 2 hours or so after I successfully watched Live TV and scheduled the recordings.

If I want to convert a path (for example) to the escaped characters used in an HTTP url are there any easy conversion methods to do this in code rather than manually using 'replace' on strings?

For instance...

D:\folder\some filename.abc

would be passed as

D%3a%5cfolder%5csome+filename.abc

Any quick and easy way of doing that?

Cheers,
Brian

I've installed nPVR today and everything works ok.
I had to change the renderers for both video and audio to those which came with my Kworld DVB-T card as the default ffd did not work on my XP SP3 PC
I'd like to view two channels at the same time. Something I can do with KWorld HyperMedia.
I have set the registry setting (AllowMultipleInstances) to allow more than one version to run but this doesn't work for me.
Ideally I'd like a command line option like nprv 1 and nprv 2 to launch LiveTv in a window for each tuner.
Is any of this possible?
Chris....

I was thinking of tweaking the System plugin so that it could show when updates to NPVR are available.

However, I'd like to keep it simple () so would prefer not to do the actual online check. Can I assume that <CurrentVersion> and <LastNotifiedVersion> in config.xml are all I need to be looking at, ie, if they're different, then a new version is available?

Iain

The settings for RCA Back in device HDPVR settings still doesn't stick. It reverts back to SPDIF, so no sound in live TV or recordings.
NPVR 2.3.6.

Paf

I noticed this morning that my recording service was recording: c:\devxxxxxx\null.ts on tuner1. This is not my recording folder or buffer folder and it doesn't even exist. NPVR was idle and had no active recordings. i restarted the recording service and it went away.

anybody know what this is?

I'm trying to use the NScriptHelper with the parameter -inuse to see if npvr is idle or using a tuner, but I can't seem to get this work. How should I use NScriptHelper -inuse in a batch to determine if npvr is recording or showing live-tv?

Just noticed that when I delete the last recording within a group you are no longer taken out to the list of recordings.....the deleted recording still shows but it is actually deleted....hitting return takes you back to the recordings list and the group no longer shows. Previously....when you deleted the last recording you were returned to the recordings list automatically. This is experienced via NMT access.