I am a current SageTV user and have enjoyed it for many years. I have been reading about NextPVR to see if it could be used as a replacement. So far it appears this product is primarily geared towards the EU and not the NA market. Is this true or am I missing something?
I would like to see cable card support and an extender option that could be purchased and used in NA. Maybe Boxee Box could be used as an extender or something similar so Online content could be accessed as well.
I just changed my system from gbpvr version 1.1.5 (I needed it for hardware-decoding on Hauppauge PVR 350) to nextpvr version 2.2.6.
This change was neccesary among other reasons because I have to archive some of my over 940 recordings. Now I am a little bit surprised, that NextPVR does not seem to have an archive-function.
It would be sufficiant for me to store at least the metadata in seperate xml-files. Unfortunatly if I set the flag StoreSeparateMetadataXml in the config.xml to true, NPVR does this only for the new recordings. Is there anyway to store the metadata for the old recordings in xml-files as well?
Anybody else still using VS 2008 Express been prompted that they need to enter a registration key? I last used it just over a month ago without problems but now it won't open until I enter a reg key.
Bloody annoying as I can't remember my Windows Live ID password (which I need to register). I requested a password reset about 10 minutes ago and I'm still waiting for the email. Bah. :mad:
From digitalspy I gather that C4HD has now moved to the new 1N bird at 11127,V,22000. I'm not sure if the existing EB1 version has been turned off (I'm not at home to check), but I guess it will soon if not already, thus a re-tune is needed.
I've not played many mkv files on my PCH but I have 2 that have no audio at all. They play fine on the PC. I think it might be due to the audio being DTS and I'm not sure of the best way to convert the audio to AC3 or something else.
I'd like some suggestions for conversion without any loss of quality to the audio.
It's also sold under Yuan Expresscard Analog TV Tuner. I bought this and it's working fine with Sagetv but I only have the trial version of Sagetv and apparently one can't buy new licenses. I installed Nextpvr but no devices show up in the device selection area of settings. Thanks for any info on either making my card work with this program or an alternative program to use with XP to record tv shows off analog cable. I would also be happy to use Titantv to set up my schedule for recording.
I did search, and I suppose someone has asked already, but there's 24K threads in this forum alone!
Are there any steps/suggestions to migrate from GB to Next? I'd perfer to keep GB running as I setup and tweak Next and then switch when all meets the W.A.F.?
Can the two recording services/settings/databases co-exist? Can I simply shut down one service while working on the other version, and then switch back by restarting the other service?
Can I just backup the old directory and restore if needed? (I did this during previous updates, but installs were in the same folder.)
I just remember it took a few days to get Closed Captioning working (required) and then tweaking comskip, transcoding and file renaming and pushing to the NAS.
Once all is good, I'll then shutdown (uninstall?) GB, but until then, I'm told I can't miss recording an episode of Criminal Minds. :o
Been using various versions since 2006 but hesitated jumping into the NPVR pool since my 1.4.7 setup was working so well.
My curiosity about NPVR has resurfaced, so before downloading the installer I've a few questions for folks:
- My stored recordings collection is pushing 2TB and I DO NOT want to lose any GB-PVR metadata. Does NPVR provide a GB-PVR database import step? I don't mind having to recreate all my recurring recording entries, although it would be nice if NPVR simply slurped that stuff in, too.
- I am used to manually hacking the GB-PVR database to do things like change recording filenames, change recording descriptions, etc.. Are these data available in NPVR in a similarly-accessible SQLite format?
- I use 3 third party tools fairly regularly, are they available for NPVR as well?
* MpegImport
* Wiz Episode Tweaker
* WizRenameRecording
- Is it possible to run GB-PVR v1.4.7 and NPVR in parallel to compare & contrast?
I have stopped using NEXTPVR because I get up in the morning and the NRecord.exe has activated a channel on the HDHomerun Prime. I have never setup any recordings and seldom used NEXTPVR to actually watch TV. I have noticed this happening on both my Vista and XP notebooks.
Has anyone else seen this?
I will post logs latter after recreating the problems.
