I have started to record HD tv shows on my windows vista media center computer. When I try to read the files with my windows xp / nextpvr computer, the file starts normally and stops after a few seconds. The same thing happens when opening the files with media player 11. I wonder if it could be because the xp computer does not have the HD capabilities. Is there someway to convert the files in real time without having to launch a converter, wait for the file to convert and then watch it with nextpvr? Is there something else that would fix the problem?
Aspect ratio changes (F7 or selecting AR's from the right click menu) have no effect on my client machine. All recordings play in 4:3 dimensions and F7 does nothing. Not sure if this is related to my "Directx not available - high CPU" thread? It's an old Lenovo Thinkstation but it worked fine on this box under GBPVR - F7 worked and recordings displayed nicely in 16:9 on my 3:4 monitor (which is what I'm after).
If you press ctrl+k on the recordings screen, where the list actually contains "folders" which contain the recordings themselves, you get "object reference not set to an instance of an object".
Works fine if you go into the program's "folder" and ctrl+k individual recordings.
Just installed 2.2.6 on server and client. Got the 'directx is not available' message on the server, reinstalled directx over the top of itself and tested OK.
The client is an old Lenovo A50 thinkstation with an Intel graphics card embedded. It runs GBPVR and NPVR fine and plays TS files fine. But NPVR has always shown this message about directx and runs at about 30% CPU all the time. If I open settings and leave NPVR in the background, it drops to almost 0% CPU. I have tried changing the UI resolution, reinstalling directx and reinstalling the graphics drivers (saw that worked for someone else), but no change.
I saw that this new version of NPVR was to have a fix for the high CPU problem where directx was not available but it doesn't seem to be working on this client.
So I don't keep starting 50 new threads, I will post the little things I find in this thread.
Tonight I have been watching live TV just to see stability. All was good for about 45 min. Then I tested pause/resume and it worked great. I left the room and came back and the sound was on, but the screen was black and the Encrypted Content note was on the screen. I escaped out and restarted and all was fine. It is a clear QAM channel so I am not sure why the encrypted note. Logs attached It was somewhere around the 20:45 mark
The Device Status screen from the NTray app lists the DCR-2650 tuners, but recordings which are happening on them are not listed. (And consequently, the tray icon doesn't turn red if recordings are only happening on DCR-2650 tuners.)
