I deleted a channel recently, and (related or not, not sure) now have a TV Guide to NEWA Mismatch - FTA Channels gone from NEWA, but show in the NPVR TV Guide?

k.

Unfortunitely I am on Comcast (basic extended or whatever they call it) and the have of course converted all of my channels to digital. I am using npvr 2.2.6 and I have the DTA box. When I use mc2xml I have the option for Comcast basic which works fine, but only gives me 45 of my channels. I also have the option for digital which, if it's like my tv listing on my iPad will give me hundreds of channels and radio channels. I am not sure how many I really get as there are many duplicates but I only use 70 of them.

When I try to set up my device in npvr using the analog mc2xml file I click import and I get the screen where I can tell it I want the channels to come in on channel 4 and all, click import and e erythronium is good. When I create an mc2xml file for digital cable the ml file is about 150mb. When I am setting up my device I am setting it up as analog so I can tune them on channel 4. I click import and nothing, it just hangs. Task manger shows very little activity for nextpvr.exe but the memory usage is 150-400mb or more. After a half hour still nothing, no channel import, just hang app.

Any ideas what I should look at to figure this out? Is there any way to limit the number of channels it imports?

I've got to get this going and figure out how to get npvr to change the channels on the tuner or my wife's going to make me get a comcast DVR and that's the LAST thing I want in my house!

Thanks

sub,

I got this crash.mdmp this morning. It was time-stamped at 5:58am, about 2 minutes before a recording was to end, which then got the usual graph stop failure. I don't know if this crash.mdmp will be of any use though, as I don't have all the latest patches installed (just up to R2, patches 1-40). But here it is along with the nrecord.log, just in case it tells you anything.

I've made the text size of my HTPC bigger (150%) so I can use standard applications comfortably from the sofa. Unfortunately this has resulted in NextPVR no longer taking up the whole screen in "Full Screen" mode - the task bar remains visible. Is this a bug or just an avoidable side effect?

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Note: if I enable NextPVR's "Always on top" mode the task bar will be hidden, but this mode makes it hard to launch applications from NextPVR as they will show behind it's window.

Sub,

I originially reported the issue here (http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post423313) thinking it was a UltraXMLTV problem. However, after running a EPG update from the NPVR client I see that the behaviour is different from the scheduled EPG update which is run by the recording service.

1. The scheduled EPG update at 7:00 AM starts running the PostupdateEPG.bat file but the UltraXMLTV process gets stuck and needs to be forced closed.

2. Running an EPG update from the NPVR Client also starts the PostupdateEPG.bat but here the UltraXMLTV process finishes as normal.

Anyway, sorry about the double posting but I want to make sure I am adressing the correct sub-forum.

Logs covering both 1 and 2 above as well as bat files are attached.

Thanks,

\\Agerdin

Question on video size when playing content on the NMT (not the menus, I know about the config.xml settings) when running MVPMCX2, where is it getting the setting for the video size? I appear to have some overscan when either watching live TV or recorded content, so I have been into the native NMT player and using a DVB HD recording set each zoom mode to just fit the screen (96% for each as it happens), however dropping into MVPMCX2 it appears to still play the video at the 100% zoom setting. It's not actually causing any issues, just a nagging feeling that I'm losing some quality as the image is being stretched

Ta.

A.

Sorry guys,
I have read hundreds of posts and cannot find the answer to this. It looks like someone else has the same problem I have too. Recordings are working fine, scheduling and guide data from SD is working fine. Blasting using the blastcfg program works fine, but the setting doesn't "stick" when changing it in the settings profile for device setup.

I go into the settings and configure it to use the rca back inputs and the ir blaster instead of the executable. When i leave to save settings, it looks like they are never saved as I come back to the settings and they are back at default. In spite of this, it seems that the recordings work fine, but the tuner doesn't tune correctly. I know the blastcfg has it correct, because the test works fine, but the software command that it defaults to adds extra pauses and such that any number over a single number gets passed up. For example, 735 ends up trying to tune to 735 but it takes so long it ends up tuned to 5.

I looked in several config files to see if i could manually change the settings, but cannot find a place to do that anywhere and the interface obviously is not saving the settings correct.

I love this software and am so excited to get this working and it looks like others have fixed this problem, but i need a bit of help to figure out how. If you need logs or config files let me know, I think I have looked at them all.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Hi.
Since starting with GBPVR for myself and pushing friends in the same direction many years ago, one thing has been certain - my storage needs has been increasing - and so has energy prices. I have been through adding drives upon drives (many drive letters indeed), 6 port local HW RAID-5, unRAID as a file server. Now I want to consolidate my machines and streamline my setup, which will include my nPVR, unRAID, Weather-Display server among others.

Essentially, I am putting together a build with several ESXi 5 VMs on top of a SuperMicro X9SCM-F board, 16GB RAM, SSD for VM storage. The VMs relevant here is an nPVR on W7 32bit and unRAID version 5. My build thread is over at the unRAID forums here.

The unRAID disks will be running off hardware passthru IBM M1015 HBA's reflashed to LSI 9211. I have one card now and one incoming. That is 16 SATA ports that can be populated and with full SATA speed.

Now for the nPVR stuff and a couple of questions.

I haven't been too active in here for a while, as my nPVR, PCH A100 and still one MVP essentially just purrs along (thanks Sub &Martin). So forgive me if I have missed some great and obvious things. I have more or less been in an evolutionary state since 2004/5, so I may have missed the revolutions along the way. It's part of this posts purpose to be enlightened by Y'all :o

Background - bad habits and all...
I have for a very long time been moving files and folders to an identical structure and naming convention as nPVR is using. The ancient VideoArchive plugin helped when accessing files outside the original recording location, but as it died, I was too deep into my approach to be able to change, given GBPVR's and my capabilities. So I still move recording off my recording server to the file server whenever I need space. Then I just play the recordings through nPVR's "Videos" access to my file server on the A100, or directly in VLC.

I tend not to use nPVR interface for general cleanup. I use Explorer (actually Directory Opus, but that's another story) to delete or move recordings in bulk. I do however also delete files I have just watched from within the nPVR interface. As does the family (exclusively like that).

I have for a very long time not trimmed the nPVR database, so it still knows my old recordings - even the ones I have moved to my PVR file share or even deleted directly in the file system. They currently appear as failed recodings, but all metadata is intact. Stuff I hope to reuse (see below).

Recordings are cable .TS streams from Danish cable supplier Yousee.

My intention

Mirgation nPVR
I will copy the folders, database and setup to the VM in the same directories, install the latest nPVR that will then inherit the basic setup. This has been done in a test run relatively successfully.

I did have an issue with the latest download of the drivers for HDHR that I installed not being able to find all channels. But leaving the old devices from the previous machine seems to work for now. It is quite odd though. I'll retest and post specific questions if repeated.

With this in place, I will have the core functionality of nPVR intact, and all links to all previous recordings broken.

Change recording directory to be directly on the unRAID server
As nPVR and unRAID will be sharing the same hardware and have perpetual uptime :p, I will have nPVR record directly to my protected and expandable unRAID array. I think the best way is by addressing it in config like "\\Servername\Sharename" - in my case \\Tower\PVR ?

Questions - your input please
Any comments or input to the above is very welcome.

Beyond that, I have the following specific questions and doubts:

• Are there any specific issues related to recording to a SMB-fileserver like unRAID that I need to take into account?
  
• Will it be possible to amend the recordings database to properly refer to the files of the same name and structure as when recorded, but now just residing on the unRAID server. With this I mean, I can go into recordings, I select a recording, and it will display the description of the recording and play it transparently as if it was in its original location. I.e. it was originally recorded to D:, but now resides in identical folder and filename on \\Tower\PVR (or V.
  
• Will I be able to delete recordings on the fileserver through nPVR interface that war just recorded there? If they were placed there outside nPVR? I know that if I access through "Videos" I can't, but maybe if the fileserver ti nPVR looks like the native recording directory?
  
• Can I in any way have something equivalent to user access control on who can delete recordings?
  
• Will it be possible to have nPVR exporting information along with recordings, that makes it feasilble to access them and their metadata (description) through XBMC, Plex or similar frontend?
  

Hi Guys,

I have been trying for a while now to get NPVR to work with my Hauppauge HVR-1950. I'm using Windows 7 64-bit and the ATSC channels are working perfectly, audio and video. My problem is that audio from my Rogers STB sounds like chipmunks (high pitch with slight distortion). Video using the STB (S-Video) is fine. When using WinTV, everything is fine but I hate the lack of a EPG with WinTV so have to get NPVR to work for me. I have tried a number of codecs and nothing seems to make a difference. I have tried having no codec for MPEG 1 audio but that results in no audio at all. At least I know from that that it is using MPEG 1 for the audio. I am really stuck now so would appreciate any advice.

Video using the STB (S-Video) is fine too.

Thanks for a great program

Andrew

Need some advice please.

Currently using IR Server Suite software (IRSS version 1.4.2.3158 from Mediaportal) with the original Microsoft MCE USB IR receiver/blaster to blast a Sky STB (in the UK). This works well.

Building a 2nd setup for somebody and have bought (as the Microsoft kit is no longer available) the Logitech MC remote control kit and also as an alternative the HP MCE receiver kit (off eBay). I expected these to work the same way as the Microsoft one but neither work with IRSS though they are recognised in a similar way as devices in Windows 7 and work fine natively in Windows Media Centre. Spent the evening on Google and cannot find anything to indicate if this newer hardware can be made to work outside of Media Centre or not.

So, does anybody know:
a) If IRSS can work with these later USB receivers/blasters
b) Is there any alternative software to IRSS that can be used in NPVR for blasting (HIP, Eventghost?)

Thanks