In GBPVR, when you select a recording, the popup window's buttons are listed:
- Play, Resume, Delete, Close
In NPVR, however, they're:
- Close, Play, Resume, Delete
To me, playing a recording is the most likely thing a user would want to do when selecting one. I'd love to see "Play" back at the top please?
It would also be nice - as an option - to be able to hide the Close buttons (and the ".." up navigation icons in the libraries) for those of us who always use a remote to do this (via ESC).
So I've been thinking about what I'd like to do with my system.
Currently my PVR (as per the specs below) in sitting in the lounge in a pretty generic black case next to the tv. Looks like a sub TBH. Bwhaha I just laughed at my own pun - hi sub!!
Anyway. I also have a Windows Home Server 2011 server. Currently with 4 x 2 TB disks, 2 are RAID 1 mirrored, and 2 are standalone. Windows Home Server 2011 is the base OS, with Vmware Server 2 on it running a Windows 7 VM (my primary desktop), an ubuntu server (proxy server) and 2 windows 2003 servers (one for general utilities, and one for more media based stuff - plex, itunes etc).
As it's now maxed out with drives, my next move would be to add a Lian-Li 5 Drive RAID enclosure, giving me another 8 TB or storage (I'.d possible canniblise some of the other 2tb drives into this enclosure).
This led me to thinking about how well would a NextPVR recording service do either on the bare metal, or utilising a USB tuner and a HDHomeRun a nextpvr instance in a VM.
How much would the VMs both CPU and IO affect the recording capabilities of next pvr, would this be a stupid move, and should I keep both machines seperate or would it be fairly safe to combine the two systems. I generally have a couple of shows recorded each day, client access would be evenings and night times, server backups etc during the day (only because the WHS server is turned off over night - this would be moved to overnight with the server being on 24x7).
I have 3 tuner cards and all 3 of them are having trouble recording a specific channel. I have been recording this channel with these tuner cards for several years without any problems. Lately, it has stopped recording properly. I can still watch the channel live through GBPVR. Most other channels can still be watched/recorded without any problems (there are a couple that have failed in the past, but I rarely watch anything on them so it has never bothered me). I use dvr-ms files (with the Microsoft DVR-MS DBA multiplexer) because the .ts files do not play well on my computer.
When the recording starts on this problemed channel, a 6kb file is created and comskip starts. Several seconds later, a second file with the same name as the recording (plus a â-1â) is created. It usually stops at 6k in size as well.
Iâve tried several things to fix this. I started by rescanning and mapping the problemed channel to the new tuning info. I cannot see anything different in the tuning request data, but this work for a while. However, the tuner assignment always eventually went back to a copy of the channel earlier in the list of channels on the channel mapping and the problem would reappear (this happened without me doing itâ¦recording problems would happen and I would check the config utility to find the tuning request set to the first instance of the channel rather than the second, more recently created one). Perhaps this is a sign that the tuning info really was the same and it worked just due to coincident.
Given that there were multiple listings of the channels from multiple scans in the channel mapping program, I also tried deleting all 3 tuner cards and adding just one device. This did not workâ¦I still have problems recording even after completely getting rid of all the old data and only adding one device. Iâve attached logs in case they help.
I have major codec problems on WinXP that have prevented me from upgrading to nPVR, so sorry to post to a legacy programâs forum, but Iâm hoping someone can help me solve this problem so I can hang on with GBPVR another year before I upgrade (plan to get a Win7 machine then).
I am at a crossroad and am not sure where to go. I have long dreamed of being able to easily record anything I pay for and came close to getting an HDPVR. It kills me to tell my wife we can't record something or have to record SD analog (mine sucks). I did not really like the blasting/firewire solution and held out for the cablecard. On the surface, cablecard is the cleanest solution around. Two tuners and no blasters. Cool. But I did not understand the impact that the broadcast flags would be on my system. Virtually all channels on my system are copy-once except for the main networks. I am very impressed with the new built in solutions for the DCR-2650, but am only able to use it for a minumum amount of recording. I found a program, wtvwatcher to convert the non-protected wtv files to dvrms files so comskip will work. Martin's network recorder work is cool and a way to get the flagged files recorded. But to play them back, the only solution is to do it in WMC7 and then come back to NPVR.
Another long standing goal has been to use the PVR program as our gateway to live TV and recording. This worked in the analog days, but I have only been using GBPVR/NPVR for recording/playback and have had to use a STB for normal viewing.
So the dilemma. NPVR can do much of the recording, but not the playback of the drm stuff. WMC7 can do most everything I want, but I don't have an xbox for an extender. And, well,... its WMC7. I have spent so many years on this forum, I is REALLY hard for me to even think of using WMC. But the WAF is critical and the STB and PVR solution is kind of limiting and I just don't see a nice way at this point to go back and forth between WMC and NPVR. I own the DCR now, and probably should have looked into all of this more before buying it. With the new support for switched digital tuning adapters, it works really well in WMC7.
So for now, I am working on setting up the WMC7 system and see how the wife likes it. I will keep digging and testing the stuff on this great forum. I have learned so much over the years and your patience has been unbelievable. This is my hobby and it the thought of moving to WMC7 leaves me kind of empty. I will set up a test box with some old tuners and keep up with what you are doing but I will explore WMC for now. Hopefully we will get ATT or Verizon to offer stuff in our area. I hear they don't use copy flags at the moment. But who knows.
Thanks for listening to my tale. And thanks for all the help.
Sub would it be problematic if I was to add my own node to event_details in the SCHEDULED_RECORDINGS table after a file has been recorded? I'd like to be able to update Season and Episode to valid numbers, plus I'd like to add a new node to show that I have searched it.
I have been thinking about this for a long, long time. In fact I got frustrated about this in the GB-PVR days.
I could be wrong though so any posts saying steeb, it is your problem, OK, it is
I have recently been in talks with sub about this off forum.
I do not think that the current layout for plugins and skins and utilities works very well.
I would not be looking at this time for me to suggest what would work better. I could offer suggestions to the community but they would be pointless without even knowing what the community thought....
Any chance you might consider adding the recording schedule (detailed list of upcoming and currently recording programs) to the InfoXML data? I am thinking about modifying my SageTV Windows desktop gadget for NPVR. Thanks.
I am hacking my postprocessing.bat so that if a show has a subtitle and the file "%title% - %subtitle%" already exists, I want to delete the recording from disk AND from the npvr database
This seems like a practical way to avoid duplicates even if it is only removing them after the recording has actually been made.
I use Alibert's TV Recordings plugin and it doesn't remove missing recordings like the built in plugin does sooo.... would it be possible to have a -delete option for NScriptHelper.exe that will remove the recording from the database.
It's just so sad that my 15 year old 32" CRT died and now I had to buy an HDTV. I am curious what screen settings might work best for a 47" 1080 with my PCH. I'm interested in others who have a same or very close in size TV and what screen settings they use.
Advanced Rules with more than one condition are very difficult to enter as you can only see part of the rule when you are typing it in.
Can you make the Advanced Rules field 3 lines instead of one line to facilitate editing ?
This may be a bigger issue for those of us with 4:3 screens. Although I suspect even users with a high res widescreen would have difficulty entering an advanced rule that checks whether the start time falls between two boundary times.
