I have 2 colossus tuners and 1 hd-pvr and no matter what i do i cannot get all three tuners set to use component video / spdif as input settings.

If i get one to work the others revert to some wacky setting for example

colossus 1 = component / spdif
will make
colossus 2 = component / hdmi
hdpvr = s-video / front rca

hdpvr = component /spdif
will make
colossus 1 = component / rca
colossus 2 = component / hdmi

colossus 2 = component / spdif
will make
colossus 1 = component / rca
hdpvr = s-video / front rca

This happens whether i use Arcsoft showbiz or npvr. Arcsoft only remembers the last tuner set and will revert the other tuners to their crazy values. Npvr seems to use the Arcsoft showbiz values as a default.

I am using win 7 x86, npvr 2.26 with the latest patches and i have the <ForceSPDIF>true</ForceSPDIF> in my config.xml. Is there a registry setting / ini file where i can set these values independent of Arcsoft showbiz?

Hi there,

I've had a failed recording tonight, and the error is: Unable to get 'NPVR TS Mon'. In the logs before that line I see: FindFilterByName failed to locate filter: NPVR TS Mon. BTW, great to see that it's trying to do the recording on another device if the first one doesn't record!

Chris

This is an announcement for ALPHA testing and feedback only. This plugin is not fully functionally and is not ready for general release.

If the content rate (in frames per second) of your media does not match a multiple of the refresh rate (in hertz) of your video output, then you may notice the video playback juddering or stuttering. AutoRefresh uses MediaInfo to inspect the framerate of your media (just before playback begins) and then sets your video output to a suitable matching refresh rate.

You can get the plugin from its wiki page.

I'm mainly after feedback at the moment:
- does it work for you?
- how does it work with multiple monitors (if it even does)?
- is it correctly identifying the framerate of your media? (check the logs)
- what additional features does it need?

Ironically, it isn't working for me! Switching to 23.976Hz playback seems ok, but switching back to 50Hz for Live TV or PAL media files is *causing* stuttering that isn't there if I start NPVR with 50Hz already set.

I need to know how it performs for others. I need to know if different mechanisms for switching the video output rate make a difference (although there's only one way coded for now). I need to know if sub might have to implement something to allow the plugin to work correctly.

Please also note that switching for DVD playback is not implemented yet. And it also doesn't check to see if the refresh rates you've entered are actually valid, so be careful telling your old CRTs to output 600Hz - I take no responsibility for any damage, no matter how big the resultant explosion

Iain

Help

Going potty over this. It was fine but due to excess CPU use (suspect through using Tight VNC) I decided to do a clean install of Vista.

Have installed the new version of NPVR and done the necessary amendments to recognise analog and DVB-T for Hauppauge HVR 1300.

Since doing this I cannot get a smooth channel change - it freezes up NPVR and then when able to do so it responds wth "Tuner for Live TV now unavailable!.
The only workaround I have fathomed is using the channel list, select channel, revert ack to main menu before selecting the next channel.

Is there a way to overcome this and reach normality?

I have since acquired Medion/Creatix CTX953 V1 PCI card and installed this. I now have 2 sets of Tuners DVB-T/Analog on Vista. PC is single core AMD Sempron 1.8GH.

Rather than pester the NPVR-universe I did try sourcing the answer in wiki and the community but to no avail - hope someone can help!!

Thanks

Giggsy

I am working on a plugin which should help with recording around problems caused because of of a sporting event. My experience is with the North American Eastern time zone so it might differ by event by timezone and by country. The main things that I am considering are

- extending recording time for sporting events that go longer than planned
- changing times on Sunday night prime time tv when the late games goes long
- record baseball double headers separately

I'd like too read your challenges too. Some that come to mind:

- with one tuner early game on one network goes long but the late game on the other network is the one you want to watch. How do I indicate this? Maybe favourite NFL teams?
- only NFL games cause a schedule change
- Monday and Thursday games don't cause me any problem what about in the west?

Martin

Our channels have been shuffled today and doing a rescan failed to find BBC1 and 2. I needed to add a further MUX (650000) to the ini file which is in NPVR\Tuning\DVB-T, so mine now reads;

[TERTYPE]
1=United Kingdom
2=Central - Sutton Coldfield

[DVB]
0=6
1=1,634000,0,0,8
2=2,650000,0,0,8
3=3,658000,0,0,8
4=4,682000,0,0,8
5=5,714000,0,0,8
6=6,722000,0,0,8
7=7,746000,0,0,8

I have a channel that won't show up in the list of scanned ATSC channels. I can see from the log file that it scanned and was found but it is not in the list of channels so I can't map it to the EPG. I have attached npvr.log that says the channel was found and a screen shot of the scanned channels with the channel missing. The channel in question is KUCW-DT 30.1 & 30.2

Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks Chad

[ATTACH=CONFIG]31584[/ATTACH]

I've downloaded XMLTVextras and placed the file in the scripts folder and the postupdateepg bat which is included in the download in the npvr folder but I don't think it's working. I don't see a postupdateepg log file like I have for postprocessing. Do I need to change something in the postupdate bat for it to work? I use SD, does it work with the native SD support? I'm trying to get it working so I can start using the tv listings plugin.

Following a link to here - http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?....Recording

I got the following page a couple of times. Odd??

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I have Hauppauge's HVR-1950, GBPVR v1.3.11, and WinXP, SP3. Over the past several months (perhaps since I installed the HVR-1950), I have noticed that several recordings have some annoying distortion when the actors speak loudly. It sounds as if some analog circuitry was being over driven and clipping the audio peaks. I never noticed this problem with my previous WinTV PVR-250. I have tried reducing the audio levels in as many places as possible but nothing seems to help. I've fiddled with the SoundMax Volume control but that doesn't do much. Is there a volume control in the WinTV7 v7.0.29160 software? I can't find it. What have I missed?

Can anyone suggest a way to clean up this distortion?

Thanks for any help.
Paul.