My DVD rip folders are treated nicely in that they have only one "file" listed in the folder named "Movie.dvd". I just select this to play. My Blu-ray rip folders are not treated similarly such that I have to drill down all the way into the BDMV folder and select "index.bdmv" at the end of all the subfolders in the list. Is there any way for these to be treated similarly to DVD folders or is this a wishlist item? Thanks.
I installed npvr yesterday on a machine that has been running pvrx2 without problems for years.
The recording service appears to hang after recording for about 10 or 20 minutes.
None of the several recording that I attempted yesterday evening completed successfully.
I scheduled a bunch of recordings at 12.06 today with some to start immediately and some to start half an hour or an hour later. None of these worked.
Eventually the recording service and Windows offered to send a dump to Microsoft - the Send / Dont Send dialog box. I have attached the dialog box and some of the files created when the dump was created. The dump is at http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7NZ7T0HK
On the PCH, TV Listings doesn't change guides when I press the Yellow button. I think it is because NextPVR defines the Yellow key as Alt+Y instead of Ctrl+Y & my configuration remaps that key. I am using lircd1 & it doesn't seem to be configurable. Even if it were, other parts of NPVR that I use expect the Alt+Y. Would it be possible to have TV Listings respond to Alt+Y the same way as Ctrl+Y?
I've just got round to setting up a PCH A110 for NPVR but I can't seem to download the NMTinstall. The link from several posts and the wiki direct me to http://www.mvpmc.org/~mvallevand/NMTInstall2.exe which doesn't seem to work, nor does the website for that matter.
Has the download location moved or is the website just down?
Other threads on this topic suggest the Recording service not running at recording time error often results in an error message and and the recording mostly works, but for me it always fails (at least three recordings in the last week), all digital channels.
Like in this post, I did (accidentally) delete a channel, and I did have to rescan my two FTA channels. I assigned BOTH tuners to BOTH channels and merged the 2+2 channels into just 2 (could this be an issue?). How does this work, when I test it and look at the tray icon Device status window I only eever see it doing anything on Digital TV:1 , never Digital TV:2. How can I be certain both work?
btw, oddly the rescan produced different frequencies for the SAME channels. Is this normal?
hey guys,this is a rough guide to get this working, ill edit it and tweak it over the next few weeks. but some people have asked how to get this working and instead of PMing everyone, here it is (very rough, i will improve it, and writing all from memory so my terminology might be a little off).
I'll start with this: This is not meant to help you steal cable/paid television, i have no idea how you would do that, I have no desire to do that or help anyone do that. This is meant if you want to "have one box to rule them all". I dont want have to change inputs on my tv, not be able to stop watching a recording in the lounge and continue in the bedroom. I want a sexy interface and be able to view that on every machine/tv in the house.
Hardware
im using a "OMNIKEY 1021 USB" as my card reader that I bought off ebay for $17.99 + $2 shipping. http://www.ebay.com/sch/tuutu5/m.html?_n...m270.l1313
only one I used and works well with Sky Digital in NZ.
I got a TBS card reader when I bought my quad tuner card from buydvb.net, but that burnt out the chip on my smart card. i think the settings/switches were wrong on it. The omnikey one doesn't have any settings, so no options to "fry your card" like the buydvb one.
Step 1. Oscam
oscam is a windows server with a web frontend. this handles the card reader side of things. you can use this instead of newcs (i found oscam easier). MDAPI plugins will connect to this service for decrypting the signal.
You need to setup users oscam so an mdapi plugin can connect to the server, much like a gmail account, username and password. My setup is i have a username/password for each instance and card. so I have 4 instances and a quad tuner, my usernames details are
tuner1a password
tuner1b password
tuner1c password
etc
Step 2. NextPVR
next pvr uses a mdapi plugin to do some magic, you need to enable multidec/CAM for the cards you want to tune decrypted channels. and specify how many streams you can record at once, I used 4.
Once you have done that nextpvr will create a "MDPlugins" directory with a folder for each tuner and instance/stream. in every one of those folders you need to put the acamd and a configuration file using the server details of oscam, username:password for each tuner/instance and the port etc. [ill expand on this later]
next pvr also requires a ffdecsa.dll in the root npvr directory (the c:\program files one, not the c:\users\public one). not sure what this does, but it needs it (all pvrs seem to) http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post377803
you *may* also need to install "mdapifilter 2009 v3", for the record and mediaportal require this so I assumed next pvr does aswell.
Basic Overview
[CARD Reader] <--> [OSCAM Server] <--> [ACAMD Plugin] <--> [NextPVR]
nextpvr loads acamd.
acamd talks to oscam for decrypting
oscam uses card to decrytion keys.
then goes back down the chain.
the hardest part for me was the configuration file for the acamd tuners, that each tuner had a different user, what to put into those settings. i'll upload samples of my configuration files later (dont have them on this computer).
hope that makes a little sense....
err i hope this post is ok, if its not, and too much in the grey area, I understand if you need to delete it.
Iâve had the NPVR Recording Service crash a number of times since installing version 2.2.6. It has happened approximately once per week, but not on the same day each time.
The initial sign that something is wrong is that my PC hasnât gone to sleep following late evening recordings. Itâs still awake in the morning and the NPVR tray icon is red which would usually indicate a recording is still in progress. Further investigation shows a number of failed recordings.
3/10/2011 21:45:28 - Faulting application NRecord.exe, version 1.0.0.0, time stamp 0x4e5bf19a, faulting module mscorwks.dll, version 2.0.50727.3623, time stamp 0x4d8c187e, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x0002da41, process id 0x%9, application start time 0x%10.
3/10/2011 21:51:41 - The NPVR Recording Service service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time(s).
The final entries in the attached NRecord.log were:
Code:
2011-10-03 21:36:00.084 [DEBUG][7] Stopping recording (4679). Past end time of recording.
2011-10-03 21:36:00.084 [INFO][7] DigitalRecorder.StopStream() handle: C
2011-10-03 21:36:00.111 [INFO][7] No more streams active. Stopping device.
2011-10-03 21:36:00.112 [DEBUG][7] About to request async graph stop
2011-10-03 21:36:00.127 [DEBUG][14] About to stop network provider
2011-10-03 21:36:00.342 [DEBUG][14] Stopped network provider
2011-10-03 21:36:00.342 [DEBUG][14] Graph stopping... (async)
2011-10-03 21:36:08.112 [DEBUG][7] Async stop taking way too long
2011-10-03 21:36:08.410 [DEBUG][7] Removing filter MPEG-2 Sections and Tables
2011-10-03 21:36:08.410 [DEBUG][7] Removing filter BDA MPEG2 Transport Information Filter
2011-10-03 21:36:08.427 [DEBUG][7] Removing filter MPEG-2 Demultiplexer
I thought last week was just a freak event but this week, the same show kept recording way past the end time. A few others did this last week as well and I was not able to stop them without stopping the service.
I've removed the recurring program and added it manually again but it still went past. In one case, it was almost 30 minutes before I noticed it still recording. I'm thinking that it could possibly continue if not caught until there was no more space but that's just a guess.
Logs are attached.
Is there any designation of a show premier or new episode in the standard built-in schedules direct setup? I use mc2xml for my schedule now and it adds a * to new episodes. However I seem to get a lot of recordings of the same episode, ie; when the show is rerun, npvr will record it again. I read in one post that Schedules direct appends a unique id to each show that helps npvr avoid duplicates. I'm wondering if my mc2xml setup isn't passing this unique ID through and this is causing my reruns being recorded.
Essentially I like my new show or premier identifier, but I would also like to avoid using up a tuner for a show I've already seen and deleted.
I'm running the latest code of NPVR on my PC and my OS is Windows 7. The problem I have is that every 10 minutes or so, my PC wakes up. I check the event log and is says that NPVR was the reason for the wake up. I checked my scheduled recordings and I have nothing in the list. So something is causing the PC to continually turn on. It doesn't matter the day nor hour, it turns on within 10 minutes or so after I turn the PC off. This problem did occur with the previous version which I believe was 2.03
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
