They're funky. Had a conversation with some folks here once upon a time about that very thing, but can't find it just now. I can watch them fine, but should I strip the commercials and try to compress, things go funky. AutoGK finds way more frames than it expects and sometimes refuses to continue. If it finishes both passes, the resulting compressed file consistently has weird audio issues. Sometimes it has background audio (like car noises, wind, music etc) but no dialog. Sometimes the sync is way off (like 30 minutes, not milliseconds). Whatever happens, it doesn't happen to my Fox or NBC keepers, just ABC. I remember these issues going back to Lost and more recently, V.
If I ever had a solution I can't recall what it was. This weekend I've been working with some files. I've tried VideoRedo Plus' quickstream fix, no help. I tried using videoredo to reencode the audio track (helps when there's a signal interruption and slight audio sync issues), no help. I tried mpeg2repair, no help. Now I've demuxed and remuxed with tsmuxer and am awaiting results.
Anyone else ever run into anything like this, or have any suggestions?
I've been wondering why have multiple recordings occasionally and I think I have found the reason. I use Ctrl-K to save live TV regularly but on ATSC (and I assume any multi-rec) this just creates a new instance. I have found that as long as you keep holding Ctrl-K multiple records are made, in my testing that can be as little as 63ms after the first key stroke is pushed, which is not a lot of time for the confirmation to make it to the screen. I held it down for a second and I had seven copies. It would be nice if Ctrl-K would only record once.
I used the SageTV Import Utility to import my recordings into NPVR. They are MKV (MPEG-4) files that play fine on my server in NPVR. However, when I try to play them on a client PC it shows a black screen for a split second and then goes back to the recording list. They play fine from the "Videos" section on the client so I can only assume there might be an issue streaming MKV files. There are no errors in the log files.
Hello everyone,
Have had NPVR installed for about 2 months, all was well. Then I started having a problem during the last week with the EPG not being updated when pressing the button in settings-channels. All the correct channels were listed but it wasn't updating. Checking the logs, I was getting my nightly update from mc2xml, it just wasn't being "used" by NPVR. After a week I had "no details" on all channels. I tried the easy step first by deleting the xmltv.xml file and the mc2xml.dat file, then running the mc2xml. exe again. This didn't change anything. Out of desperation, I went to settings-channels and deleted all channels and reran mx2xml again. This time the channels didn't come back to the channels setting. I finally uninstalled NPVR and reinstalled. No change. No channels showing in settings.
Any help will be appreciated
malc2
Hi all,
Just want some info about this GBPVR or NPVR.
Right here we go had a look at mediacenter in windows 7 ,good but need a client/server type setup and looked at mediaportal also and GBPVR and NPVR (reson i choose these three is live tv is must) mediaportal on paper looks like a winner cos it has movie plugins and a tv series plugin like xbmc,but cant find anythink like a movie plugin and a tv series plugin where they both get meta data from IMDB,the movieDB,the TVDB site's so thats why if anyone can give me info on that please cos at mo im ready to install any of these htpc front ends or mediacenters software .
This morning I programmed a recording to last from 7:20 to 9:55 with pre- and postpadding (not sure how much). Now there's only a recording of 00:54:27. I've had no crashes. Logs attached.
I have seen the message "Async stop taking way too long" mentioned elsewhere with hints that it is a bad thing.
My reception is dodgy and variable especially on one specific mux. I recorded a channel on this dodgy mux. The playback showed a good recording at first but eventually the playback showed only a black screen.
I went to NPVR Settings and clicked Status and NPVR froze.
The nrecord log showed
011-10-08 15:32:00.171 [INFO][7] No more streams active. Stopping device.
2011-10-08 15:32:00.171 [DEBUG][7] About to request async graph stop
2011-10-08 15:32:00.171 [DEBUG][14] About to stop network provider
2011-10-08 15:32:08.171 [DEBUG][7] Async stop taking way too long
2011-10-08 15:32:08.171 [DEBUG][7] Removing filter MPEG-2 Sections and Tables
I have done this or something similar several times in recent days. I should be able to reproduce the problem.
For me, when a recording ends on a mux with dodgy reception and if the recording had stopped capturing video properly then I will see "Async stop taking way too long" and it's all downhill from there.
I'm owner of WinFast DTV2000 H Plus Video and I've got interesting issue when trying to use NextPVR. Firstly I had to change name of video pin to "Analog Video In" in registry to make NPVR see it (even new Unmanaged.dll didn't help). Then I tried to search for analog channels, it returned nothing. So I tried to search for channels in Windows Media Center and it found all of them. It seemed to be working for now. But interestingly when I reboot my pc NPVR shows blue screen (in all channels). So i need to start Windows Media Center, click "Watch live TV", close it and start NPVR and it works great.
What's interesting log before starting WMC is nearly the same after doing this.
Anyone knows how to solve this problem? Thanks.
I originally posted some of my batch files here. But I've since made quite a few changes. The main one is the ManualRenameRecordings file that I will explain about here. You can download the file from my site here. As before, if it's useful to you, clicking on an ad on my site or using the site search will get me a fraction of a cent from Google!
Now that my PostProcessing.bat only renames files that have a title AND a subtitle. I wanted something to give me control over changing the names of the other recordings that don't have (or need) a subtitle. This can still be used to rename those files after processing as long as they are still referenced in the NextPVR database. It gives you total control to quickly give your recordings sensible names with easy access to the information NextPVR has stored about them. The ManualRenameRecording.bat is my solution to this.
The first job is to allow your video files to easily open in it:-
Just right-click on a video file in Windows and choose "Open With"
Then click on "Choose Program...".
In the new window that loads, click the "Browse" button and go to the folder below (for Windows XP):-
C:\
Documents and Settings\
All Users\
Application Data\
NPVR\
Scripts\
Double-click on the ManualRenameRecordings batch file
VERY IMPORTANT: make sure "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" is NOT NOT NOT ticked. Otherwise it will try to rename a recording instead of playing it when you double-click on it.
Then click "OK"
Now you can right-click on your recordings, click on "Open With" choose "ManualRenameRecordings" and it will open in my batch flie.
Once the video has been opened by the batch, it will look-up the subtitle, title and description in the NextPVR database. If it finds a subtitle it will automatically suggest the name "title - subtitle". If you don't want this, just press n and then you can choose what the name will be. If you do want it like that, just press Y! If there is no subtitle found, it will automatically skip to the step below...
The batch will then display the title, subtitle (if there is one) and description and you can write or copy & paste the new filename in. It will double-check you are happy with the final name before renaming so there is no danger here.
I have it setup to automatically put the title at the front of every new filename. If you don't like this, you will have to edit the batch file. If it's a movie & you don't want it to be called "title - blah", just press enter when asked what you want it to be and it will just call the file "title".
Once you have confirmed the full filename displayed to you (either that you have written or automatically generated with a subtitle, the NextPVR database is updated to point your new filename and your file renamed.
I've put quite a lot of time into the error-checking and so it should be pretty easy to see what is wrong when running on different systems to mine and what it is that needs to be changed to get it to work for you.
