I have some software that notifies me when an app crashes.
It occasionally pops up and says that NPVR has died.
At the time, nothing is happening - no recordings or anything, and NPVR is minimised.
Its no big issue, it restarts (in fact, sometimes, I recall it doesnt even go away).
I had a stable install of NPVR 2.03 on XP SP3 for several months and just recently encountered errors regarding the starting of the recording service. I decided to update to 2.15 and encountered problems with the install (NextPVR.exe -upgrade, NRecord.exe INSTALL). I followed the uninstall instructions found in the posts (deleting program file dir, public dir, scrubbing registry), stripped back the .net installs, reinstalled .net 2.0 and the prerequisites. Install of 2.15 went well. Rebooted and the recording service and Ntray start. I launched NPVR and went to settings. Clicking on Devices throws an unhandled exception and the Device Setup button does not bring up its screen. Same thing happens when I select Channels. All other setting options bring up their screens. The logs and error messages are attached. Any thoughts? Am I just missing something? I've repeated this uninstall/reinstall process 3 times with the same result.
martint123 Wrote:Not having a clue what a Sage encoder is or how it works, but the words "tuner plugin" begs the question (for me) "could a 'tuner plugin' work with something like a DVB tuner in a networked PC?"
For the next version of NPVR I have written a tuner plugin that uses the SageTV protocol to talk to network encoders.
A network encoder using this protocol provides the means to capture video from any device on your network (including localhost) and the tuner plugin allows you to control this with standard NPVR EPG and recording, scheduling and livetv mechanisms.
There are four distinct network encoders available.
SGraphRecorder. - Provide remote access to recording using GraphEdit graph's as the recording mechanism. This works great when the remote capture is with a HDPVR/Collossus or svideo/composite, because a remote tuner is called. Currently no method to tune internal tuners analog or digital, but it would be nice to use an old XP box in the attic and run CAT 5e/6 to the NPVR host
SageDCT - Control digital cable card tuners from Ceton, SiliconDust and Hauppauge
SageMCTuner - control any Windows Media Center tuner device for playback in NPVR. DRM'd recordings can be scheduled but not viewed in NPVR.
r5000 - hardware implementations of the SageTV protocol
Other possibilities. It would not be extrememly difficult to
- create an interface to control a second instance of NPVR or even GBPVR on the network
- write a simple linux server controlling most /dev/video devices.
I searched the forums and can't find a answer so here goes: I often record races and ball games and add post padding for 60 to 120min in case of rain delays, extra innings, overtime etc. I'm running into problems with overlapping recordings failing. For example, say game A is scheduled for 1pm to 3pm. If I add 2 hours post padding, then the recording is 1pm to 5pm. The problem is in both NEWA and NPVR it still shows as just 1pm to 3pm, the post padding isn't added on the displayed time. If I then schedule another recording for say 4pm to 5pm I get a failed recording as the tuner is still in use.
The problem is, the conflict isn't detected until it actually craps out due to the tuner being in use. I know, keep track of your recordings stupid... the problem is when the other half schedules something and I don't catch it. That leads to discord in the household and if she ain't happy, nobodies happy!
So, my question is, is there some way to actually see the full record start/stop times? It would be nice if NPVR would automatically detect the conflicts, but I'd be happy with just being able to see the full recording times. I know I could do a manual recording, but doesn't that kinda defeat the purpose?
I'm trying to launch/control NPVR with Eventghost. I'm running into a few strange issues (in Win7):
1) If I use "Start Program" in Eventghost NPVR is launched but for some reason does not get focus. Other programs launched in this way seem to get focus properly.
2) If I do a "Bring To Front" in Eventghost for the NPVR window it does get focus but the NPVR window is blanked/blacked out until I press the down/up arrow?
Just got my npvr system going and what a nice thing it is.
A couple of things I thought might be candidates for the wishlist....
- One for fat fingered numbnuts like myself..... when you are watching tv from the buffer (ie you are in 'live tv' and have wound it back a bit) it would be nice if there was an 'Are you sure?' style popup when you try to change channels. At present npvr will obediently change channels without hesitation and the buffer is in the bit bucket. Doh!
- Still on the subject of the live tv buffer.... would it be a good idea to have a small housekeeping function in npvr where it cleared out the buffer directory? It works perfectly as is but when npvr is running with other applications on a htpc, depending on your implementation, if you exit 'live tv' in a less than graceful fashion to run another app then the live tv buffer directory starts to fill with junk.
- A concatenated recording directory would be great. I have a nas that's not always up. It would be very nice if I could specify a directory on my nas ahead of a local directory. If the nas is up use that, otherwise use the local directory. For some folks the other way around could be good... eg if less than x% remains on my local drive use the network drive?
I just attempted to get my really old WinTV-GO card to work with NPVR. After several tirations I've come to
the conclusion that it isn't going to work so I'll wait for the HDV-1600 I've ordered.
In the mean time I uninstalled the NPVR kit and reinstalled the old WinTV software. In the process I discovered that the NPVR uninstall removed all the directories and the software very well. HOWEVER it left
the NPVR service in the registry, in a stopped state, and left it configured as automatic. This should be corrected as it may cause strange errors in future installls. I'll manually removed it for now (as soon as I remember the @#$% command).
Been using gb-pvr for years and loving it.. now I gotta relearn everything with npvr, oh well that's computer stuff ain't it
Apparently, I am missing the obvious, but I can't find out how to scan in my Dish Network channels. I have a Hauppauge 1600, and the digital over the air channel scan in, but when I scan in the analog receiver, I only get the generic "analog channel 3". The scan did attempt to change the channels on my dish receiver (well, from 2-158) using the ir blaster.
The WinTV 7 app from Hauppauge does recognize the Dish Network channels. So, what am I doing wrong, or not doing that I am supposed to do?
