i'm only getting 7 days data with mc2xml from microsoft...anybody else having same problem?
Schedules Direct users as well? mine cuts off day after xmas, has for several days updates...same cutoff date for several days now..
a look at the xml shows the data just stops then...data all in good shape and imports fine..
This would be very usable when hunting rare issues that does not occur regularly. Like shortcut recordings that it may pass a day or two before you notice.
I've been a user of Beyond TV for years, but recently, I've been unable to make it work with my Hauppauge HD-PVRs. I tried GBPVR a while back ( 2003 ish ), and found it interresting, but it wasn't stable for me at the time. Now that BTV is not longer an option, I decided to give it a try again.
My setup is as follows:
an Asus P5K motherboard ( can't remember the exact model)
Intel core 2 quad q9540
4 MB memory
Windows XP SP3
3 HD-PVR
one IRBlaster and 2 ACT-IR200L RS232 ir blasters
NextPVR with one HDPVR works very well. I'm using the IRBlaster that comes with it to change channels on the cable box, and it works fine.
Now, when I setup a second HDPVR, I need to configure NPVR to use a channel changer script for the ACT-ir200L. I can't figure out for the life of me how to get that to work. GBPVR used to have drivers for the IR200L, but not NPRV.
I search the forums and the internet, and couldn't find a method to drive the IR200L. I'll admit that my programming skills are not remotely good enough to write my own.
For the brave and the foolhardy (I make no judgement either way)...
NOTE: This is only of use to users of Alan Birtles XMLTV GUI program and will not work with the xmltv files of other grabbers.
BACKGROUND:
Radio Times have handed over the generation of their TV listings files to MetaBroadcast. One side-effect (possibly the only one so far) is that films are now categorised by genre (e.g., Comedy, Drama etc) rather than 'Film'.
This is a command-line utility which will process the XMLTV data file generated by Alan Birtles' XMLTV GUI utility to rewrite the <category> element to show as 'Film'. It will also rewrite the <title> category prefixing "Film:" if you have this setting enabled in your XMLTV GUI 'PrgDets' post-processer preferences.
USAGE:
Extract the RT_FilmFix .exe and .pdb files to a location of your choice. Extract the channels.dat file to the XMLTV GUI installation folder.
...surround the paths with quotes if there are spaces. You MAY optionally include a trailing '\' to the paths.
NOTE: For both parameters, specify the folder path ONLY. Don't supply the name of the XML data file in the second path. This behaviour has changed since the initial releases of this utility.
Examples...
Default installation location of XMLTV GUI with default configuration
Default installation location of XMLTV GUI with alternate configuration
As above but provide the path to the alternate configuration folder as the second argument. NOTE - DO NOT supply the xmltv data filename - path to the folder ONLY.
This relies on you having the 'Use cache' setting enabled for XMLTV GUI as it requires the cache files to identify which programmes are films.
DISCLAIMER:This is a temporary fix and I give no guarantees and don't intend spending much more time on it. Error checking has been improved in this version but it may simply just drop out if there are problems. Let me know and I'll try to patch it up.
Cheers,
Brian
PS It does backup the original XMLTV file before attempting to modify it so all is not lost if it goes wrong.
I've been using GBPVR for years now and it has been working so well that I hadn't bothered to look into NextPVR much. I finally decided that perhaps I was missing out on the exciting new work and started doing some testing of NextPVR. My main issue is with configuring the capture and EPG source. My card is listed and if I choose live TV, I can see and hear a channel. Under GBPVR it seemed fairly intuitive for my setup; my cable company's set top box broadcasts three streams which are found on channels 10, 23, and 39. All the channel changing is handled by the STB and GBPVR controls it with a MCE IR blaster thing. That being said, if I scan for channels under NVPR with my capture device those are the only three channels found. How do I get my entire channel line up set? I use schedule direct for my EPG source. I searched the forums quite a bit, but I'm probably not using the right search criteria. Thanks.
I recently rebuilt my HTPC and finally made the switch to NPVR from GBPVR (if it aint broke, don't fix it). If memory serves me correctly I could schedule the file conversions (for an ipod) of anything that recorded that day to run in the middle of the night so nobody would be using the PC at the same time. I do not see this option in NPVR. I did quite a bit of searching and it seems all the file conversions are done usint the PostProcessing.bat file. I can do this but I prefer it to run in the middle of the night. Did I miss something or is this no longer a feature (or is my memory of GBVPR incorrect)?
I was going through my recordings directory and noticed that several directories were empty except for jpg files left behind from various episodes of recorded tv shows as well as a few folder.jpg files (one in each directory). They all appeared to be the episode images as linked from TheTVDB.com.
Also, they were directories with no current recordings in them. When the last episode in a series is deleted, shouldn't the directory itself be deleted too?
We use TV Recordings exclusively with Recordings disabled in the plugins screen.
User dljones8053 contributed a nice pdf file showing in simple steps how to configure SageDCT and NetworkRecorder for use with the digital tuners that SageDCT supports (Ceton's, HDHR Prime, and Hauppauge DCR).
The file is available via the wiki, the direct link is
I recently had to reinstall Windows 7 64-bit and NPVR. I had a few recordings scheduled while I slept. All of them ranging from 30 minutes to 1 hour only recorded for 1 minute and 57 seconds. I looked through the log files but none have the date and time the recordings happened. Any ideas why that happened?
worried..
