Hi guys

I'm just in the process of upgrading to NPVR on Windows 7 Professional. (long time user of GBPVR)

It's looking great.

I seem to have a problem however with Plugin's

I have copied the system and tv guide plugin's to the c:\users\public\npvr directory. But when i run npvr i can't see them on the screen.

When I look at the log it has the following message "Skipping non-existant plugin directory: C:\Program Files\NPVR\Plugins" (log file copy enclosed)

Why would this be wrong and what can i do to fix it.

Cheers

ptw96

Hi.
My HTPC is set to output 50Hz (PAL here) instead of 60Hz. If i run NPVR, it stay at 50Hz, but if i run video in VMR9 FSE mode, screen change to 60Hz (return to 50Hz after stop).

So this 60Hz is hardcoded or it is possible to change it somehow to 50Hz by default?

When new recordings are completed whilst NPVR is running their status is not updated until NPVR is restarted on my system.
ie they don't move from Pending to Whats New and Ready. Also they cannot be played from the Pending screen whilst they are in progress. I think this used to work ok in the past? If I use the NPVR default recordings instead of Tv Listings plugin behaviour is as expected.

How does deleting recordings from networked PC clients work? Does it need to be able to resolve the file path? I ask because I recently noticed that my recording drive was quite full and it turns out that many of my recordings were not deleted from disk as expected when selecting delete in the NPVR interface on a client PC. It also seems that the response to the "Ok" in the delete message on the client PC is often delayed with no response for up to 10 seconds. This seems to be the case for only the first delete - the message closes quickly on subsequent deletes.

Decided to use the DCR-2650 last night for our regular recording and doing so, I ran into issues.

I attempted to record the following shows:

Time Channel Name
20:00 - 21:00 906 Minute to Win It
20:30 - 21:00 908 The Middle
21:00 - 22:00 906 America's Got Talent
21:00 - 21:31 908 Modern Family
21:31 - 22:02 908 Modern Family

So, with two tuners, one would tune to 906 to record "Minute To Win It" followed by "America's Got Talent" and the other tuner would tune to 908 to record "The Middle" and both episodes of "Modern Family". It almost worked.

Everything seems to have recorded except for the last episode of Modern Family. While the log shows it started on time, all the file has is the last 2 minutes of post-padding First episode is 2+ GB, the second episode is 83MB. No errors in the log.

I've had no problems installing a Hauppauge HVR-2250 with NPVR in a new system. I wanted to try my old ATI Theater 550 Pro as well because it gave me better analog picture quality on GBPVR on a WinXP machine than my hauppage card is with NPVR on my Win7. So I installed all the prerequisite software, installed WinTV7, and inserted the ATI card in the machine. The card was recognized by my machine and NPVR (ATI AVStream Analog Capture). This is where I run into problems.

I am able to scan for channels with my HVR-2250 (62 channels found for my analog cable) but with the 550 on scan it only scans 11 channels with none found. I can manually enter channels and get my epg to list the programs in the channel guide but when I go to watch them all I get is snow and static audio. I've set the channels up as both "tuner" and "fixed channel" and get the same results.

Can anyone offer any advice as to what I should do to get picture and sound with this card?

I have been a long time BeyondTV user but I am looking to migrate to a newer platform than supports the new and upcoming tuners. Found NPVR and would like to consider but had a few questions
1. Support for HD-PVR
2. SUpport for HDHomeRun
3. Support for Adaptec USB Dual Tuner AVS-3610 (not a important long term)
4. Support for USB-UIRT
5. Support HDHomeRun Prime

This is for a ystem that will be running 24/7 by a family of 4 so reliability is at a premium.

I am also looking at MediaPortal. I consider myself an expert user but getting the tuners I have to work with MePo was a bear. I am still not sure I ahve it configured correctly

Appreciate any comments.

Greetings to all.

GB-PVR (or N-PVR) are probably the only great freeware applications in the world which have the remarkable capability for users to utilize 04 TV cards simultaneously in a single desktop computer (as I am using myself; 04 Hauppauge PVR-150 PCI TV cards in my old Dell Optiplex GX270; a P4 machine with humble specs).

Now I am thinking of upgrading my desktop as its having too many processor speed and memory issues with heavy applications. However, many new desktops I have reviewed in the market and on the net have only 01 PCI slot (and probably one AGP slot).

Can you please provide any advice on how I can continue my multiple card usage through GB-PVR in a modern high end desktop computer?

Thanks for your kind words of advice.

Best Regards.
Amer Shiraz

Hi, people.I'm from Brazil and I can't tunning my USB digital TV( AVerTV HD PRO) using nextPVR.

anybody some idea?help me please

thanks

I have had this happen twice. I let the system go to sleep,with a recording scheduled. When it goes to sleep, the DCR looses its connection to the PC. NPVR wakes the PC, and the DCR reconnects. BUT, it does not seem that npvr communicates with the tuners again. The recordings try to start and from the logs can tell there is a problem, but then think they have found the tuners and start recording. The problem is the tuners really are not active (their lights are not on at the DCR.) At that point, I can go in, kill the recording (zero byte files), and then to manually tune a channel. As soon as I hit WATCH, npvr locks up and I have to kill it from task manager. Logs are attached
[ATTACH=CONFIG]31504[/ATTACH]

This appears to be a DCR bug since it WMC can't find the tuner either. If I cycle power on the DCR it will then work.

My only concerns are that NPVR thinks it is recording when it is not, and it fully crashes when you try to manually tune under the "dead tuner" condition.

I will contact Hauppauge about the tuner resume issue