Hmmm, I'm not sure what to make of this http://blogs.forbes.com/ericsavitz/2011/...r=yahootix

I wonder what this means for WMC?

Is there a way to share the tv tuner card that is in my desktop over the network so that my laptop can use it? What i'd like to do is to be able to watch live tv on my laptop using NPVR. If it is not possible to share the tv tuner card over the network, is there a way to set up the desktop as a server and then my laptop as a client? The end goal is really to watch live tv on the laptop.

I looked at this: http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Manual.NEWA, but that only allows me to schedule recordings and watch them...there's no live tv option there.

Thanks.

I have an ATI HD TV Wonder 650 PCI card. In addition to a ATSC tuner and a QAM tuner, it also has an analog capture port with composite and s-video connectors. I set up the analog capture sources last night using the methods here:http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...ugeSoftPVR and here: http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...alogDevice.

I got NPVR to detect the ATI AVStream Analog Capture no problem and when I configured the input sources, i was able to see video. I hooked up my video camera to the analog inputs as a test and while I saw the video, it was lagged by several seconds (maybe 5). So if I repositioned the camera to look at something else, I would see the change I made in NPVR 5 seconds later. I don't know if this is because of the live buffer or not, but I would like to be able not have this lag at all. If I hook up a vcr to this, it is very annoying. I have tested this with other software (ATI Catalyst media center) and there is no lag there. The problem is that particular software from ATI is very old and only works on XP.

Any ideas on this? Please let me know if I need to provide my AnalogDevices.xml file.

Thanks

Aside from controlling which directory live tv streams are stored in, are there any other settings we can control? I would love to be able to:
1) Control how big (file size) or how long (minutes), the live buffer can be.
2) Turn live buffer off (very useful for analog composite and s-video capturing where live buffer doesn't make sense).
3) Control how often the files in this directory are emptied. This obviously is easily done myself with a scheduled task, but the top two ones have no workaround.

Thanks

Hi,

I've been asked to set up NPVR on a spare machine in my office using an old Hauppauge Nova s card.
We have a satellite on the roof with several lnb's connected to a 3 way diseqc switch (or so I'm told), but no-one seems to know which satellites they are set up for.

My expereince with DVB-S is limited, and I've never encountered diseqc before, so I'm not sure how to proceed.

Does anyone know of any way of finding out what to scan for, preferably without getting on the roof?

HDHomeRun users: Below is a program I use to notify me via email when when my cable provider's QAM lineup changes and I thought others might be interested in it. Probably not of much use to an ATSC user and I'm not sure about dvbt and dvbc users.

The script works by running the HDHomeRun's command line scan utility (hdhomerun_config.exe) to get the list of current unencrypted channels, reformats the data for processing and compares the current results to the previous run's output. If any changes are detected, it emails you.

Here's an example of what an email looks like when a new channel is discovered and a couple disappear from the line-up (a screenshot from my phone).


Instructions for setup are included in the attached zip file. Let me know if you find the script useful. I've had it running for about 2 years and as annoying as it is to have lineup changes, it's at least nice to know about them before you lose a week of scheduled recordings.

If you have any ideas yourself on how to improve it, by all means share them.
Tim

qam_scan.1.8.zip

Release Notes
1.0 - Initial release
1.1 - Added support for other ports, besides 25.
1.2 - Added -testmail flag; support for multiple attachments; better handling of email failures; changed status messages to write to stdout instead of directly to screen so output can be redirected.
1.6 - Converted email body to HTML table
1.7 - Added ability to ignore complete channel, regardless of PID; fixed bug with empty email being sent when there were no changes detected.
1.8 - Fixed bug with multiple lineup changes in email introduced in 1.6.

Hi,

I need a recommendation for a new video card. My old one is a pcie16x one, but with humongous cooling sinks. You can barely make out the pcie1x slot below it in the picture, and there is one above it also that you can't see. Now I need to use one pcie1x slot, so I need a new video card. Could you recommend me one? The computer is only going to be used for playback of videos, so I pretty much have few requirements:

1) It needs to be able to play 1080p without problems.
2) Well, that's it, really.

I have a few more wishes, though.

1) Fanless would be nice. I have no idea if that's possible to get without cooling sinks that are in the way of the pcie1x slots?
2) Hdmi output would be nice. The tv has hdmi in and old fashioned RGB in. My current video card has dvi out only, so I'm using a dvi->rgb converter, but that uses more space behind the computer than I'm really comfortable with.
3) If I'm using hdmi out, I need the graphics card to have a sound in where I can connect my sound output, right? Or can I still connect my sound out directly to the sound in on my tv like I do today when I use the RGB input on the tv?

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Hi all . I am running WIn7 64Bit. I try to install .net 2.0 redist and I get a forced setup exit. Basically the installer sees that I am running the 64 bit OS and will not install .net 2.0

I am simply running through the pre-reqs. My machine is current enoguh (dual core unlcoked sempron 140, 4 GB ram). Should I insall .net 4.0?
I have tried to search the forums, but I think somehting is wrong with my search. I could not find any hits using the phrase .net

Thanks in advance
Tony

I received an email from someone who said his account is pending approval. How long does this process take?

Martin

When I create an All Channels recurring recording, it creates a recurring recording entry with a begin and end time. However this time range is ignored - no matter what I change the time to, it still records all the episodes during any time. I'm assuming this is acting as intended, it's not exactly a bug - I gather there's a hidden flag that tells it that it's an 'any timeslot' kind of recording.

What I'd like then is a way to make an All Channels recurring recording, but have it record only episodes that occur during a range of time I set.

My current problem is some kids' shows that play a half-dozen or more times a day including a couple of 'primetime' slots. I'm happy to let it record those during the wee hours of the morning or during the day, but I don't want it recording kids' shows during the evening when I have more important things to record. I know it will eventually be possible to re-order the priorities of the recurring recordings, but even then it would be a pain to have to keep moving the kids' shows to the bottom of the list every time I want to schedule a new primetime recording.