I'm a frustrated new user and I don't know where to turn for help. Maybe I'm not in your target audience because all of your documentation (wiki, "Getting started" message pinned to the top of this forum, etc.) is very unhelpful as it seems to assume *way* more technical knowledge than it is reasonable to expect of most people.
I have an HD HomeRun Dual connected to Charter cable. I know the device works because Windows Media Center sees it and shows live video with no problems. I think I finally got NPVR to recognize the device. But it seems that all of the channels it picked up when I scanned for them are encrypted. Obviously that isn't true because I can view them using other software. And I have no idea how to subscribe to a channel guide as your instructions in the wiki and in the "Getting started" thread are incomprehensible. I thought that "Update EPG" would find subscription information but it seems to have taken forever to do...nothing as far as I can tell.
I don't expect sympathy and I don't expect help. I just thought it might be useful for you to have some feedback from a novice user who spent several hours trying to make things work but eventually gave up.
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I just put together a brand new PC that I will use for my testing. Everything is installed, and the DCR works in WMC. I installed the Hauppauge driver from their website. The device does not show up in config, but the logs look like the program found it. I wonder if the Hauppauge site is not installing everything we need. There are no other tuners installed.
Does NPVR support Hauppauge WinTV-USB Live 2 device?
I have installed and see it working in TotalMedia Extreme 2, but can't see in NPVR Device setting.
On the same machine, I have also installed 2 Hauppauge HDPVR, they are working fine with NPVR. So now I just need to make it work either with USB Live2.
When playing back a recording, the skip and fast forward functions are not working correctly. I have them set to the default intervals. If I skip forward (or back) it jumps at seemingly random intervals. It will even go in the wrong direction. I've tried to discern a pattern but I can't find one. It never seems to do the same thing twice. I've had to resort to using a mouse to select a spot on the timeline.
I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit and NextPVR 2.2.6. My hardware is a Gigabyte 880GA-UD3H motherboard/AMD Athlon II X3 450 Rana 3.2GHz triple-core processor with onboard ATI HD4250 video and a Hauppauge Colossus capture card. I have all the latest drivers. The TV is a 46" Samsung UN46D6000SF 1080p 120Hz LED LCD using an HDMI input.
I would like to request adding the ability to display a TV show subtitle in the video screen. Currently, NPVR reads an xml file like this:
Code:
<Title>
<LocalTitle>Two and a Half Men</LocalTitle>
<SubTitle>Lookin for Japanese Subs</SubTitle>
<Descripton>Charlie begins stalking Rose (Melanie Lynskey); Alan becomes concerned when Eldridge and Jake begin videotaping dangerous stunts. (Original Air Date - 01/17/2011, Episode - 186)</Description>
</Title>
and can display the TV show description. I was hoping to also add the TV show Subtitle.
Does anybody have problems skipping back ? I am on 2.2.6 now but I had the same problem on 2.2.5
Especially on recorded programs, It just refuses to skip back beyond a point.
It only just jumps a few seconds back (and sometimes forward!!) regardless of how many times/fast I press the skip back button.
Skipping forward works ok (ish) , jumpin 30 to 1 minute a time.
Also just noticed the subtitles are out of sync (by half a minute or so) on recroded programs ... Need to investigate that.
Painfull, aarghhhh . Sorry not much details right now, just frustrated.
Last night I got a 0kB recording [The Rob Brydon Show BBC2 UK].
I note from the NRecord.log [attached]
2011-09-02 21:59:02.053 [DEBUG][7] Calling LockChannel()
2011-09-02 21:59:02.056 [DEBUG][7] locked=0, present=0, strength=80, quality=0 (took 0ms to check)
2011-09-02 21:59:02.056 [DEBUG][7] DigitalRecorderDVBT::Tune@8
2011-09-02 21:59:02.058 [INFO][7] DigitalRecorder.StartStream() allocated handle: 0x2
2011-09-02 21:59:02.059 [DEBUG][7] Temp at 02/09/2011 21:59:12
2011-09-02 21:59:02.060 [DEBUG][7] Started recording (12934:E:\Recorded TV\The Rob Brydon Show\The Rob Brydon Show_20110902_22002230.ts)
I don't know why the tuner didn't lock [may be my custom tuning freqs] but I am surprised that NPVR tried to record unlocked.
Download from Lyngsat Logo Pages
PreProcessing for auto matching with channel names
Manual Matching with the Channels with Graphical View of Logos.
Inject into NPVR installation (media\channels) directory
Backup Logos into a Zip File
Restore Logos from a Zip File
Differences from Old CLT (for GBPVR)
I've dropped support for TopupTV and Tivo Websites as Logo sources.
I've disabled the Logo Controls which control skin output
I've disabled the Channel Number Stamping into the Logo Feature (whilst it get a complete rewrite)
Drastic performance increase in the Matching screen so refresh is now about a second from about 25ish seconds with a long list of channels
