I just thought I would pass on my experience going from a 33" top of the line 4x3 CRT to a middle of the line full HD (although I don't record full HD stuff) 42" 16x9 TV using the NMT (as that is the only way I hook to our TV's)
I have been holding off for years replacing the main TV (33" CRT) as it was a good size & gave a good picture until a number of months ago when it finally stopped working after measuring the vertical height of the old screen I decided a 37+" would do the job (the old eyes aren't the best these days & having come from 20/20 vision it is hard to take not being able to see/read stuff) but as no one stocks that size now 42" it was...... MAN what a HUGE difference it is to read stuff on, it is really indescribable how much better it is to see/read.....
I would recommend if you are just hanging off replacing the old BIG CRT until it blows up don't wait, start working on the wife & get the old sod replaced as soon as you can afford/convince the Boss (it would make a good second set/back up etc. you know the drill) as the difference is HUGE. (I'm still not convinced the picture is better but seeing it is!)
Just thought I'd throw this out there in case anyone has seen something similar.
My wife has a cordless optical mouse (Logitech "Cordless Click! Plus") which a day or two ago (she can't remember exactly) started to 'freeze' after a short time of inactivity.
Example, she'll open her email client, select a message and click 'Reply'. She then types her reply and then goes to move the mouse cursor to click 'Send' but the cursor is frozen on the screen. Clicking either left/right mouse buttons or using the scroll wheel re-instates cursor movement again.
I've been playing with it for a while and it doesn't seem to freeze as long as it's moving - I spent a minute or more just moving the cursor around the screen. Leaving it alone for perhaps just 15-20 seconds, however, causes the freeze.
I've searched Google and found a variety of things but none seem to apply. In most cases, the freeze is either temporary and the cursor will move again after a few seconds without intervention or, alternatively, the freeze is permanent and requires a reboot. Nothing like her problem where a click of a button or scroll of the wheel resolves things.
I've checked the driver and it's the same as she has always had and she hasn't installed any new software or hardware. Very strange - any ideas? Anybody seen anything similar?
On my client I've been using PVRX2 and it works fine with hardware acceleration using Cyberlink PowerDVD h264 decoders on Windows XP. So I installed NPVR hoping for a similar result, but the video skips and jerks using the same cyberlink decoder, and the CPU usage is a whole lot higher than with PVRX2. So hardware acceleration isn't working. I've tried to make registry changes as I did with PVRX2, replacing PVRX2 with NPVR and also NextPVR, but that doesn't help either. Any suggestions welcome.
I have mulitple tuners but am havin ga reoccurring problem where I get no video but audio. If I follow the logs correctly the recording for Daily show was scheduled to record at 10:00pm on capture source 26 which is composite in. However it was moved to 25 which is suppose to be svideo input but NPVR built the graph using composite. Both devices a PVR150. Capture device 26 is using composite and 25 is using S-Video.
Quote:2011-07-19 22:00:00.199 [DEBUG][7] Required:
<channel>64</channel><country>1</country><input>cable</input><source>Composite</source><fixed>2</fixed>
2011-07-19 22:00:00.199 [DEBUG][7] Was allocated to capture source26
2011-07-19 22:00:00.208 [DEBUG][7] Found another available tuner for new recording. Now allocated to 25
2011-07-19 22:00:00.294 [DEBUG][7] Recording successfully moved.
Quote:2011-07-19 22:00:03.163 [DEBUG][7] About to tune graph to:
<tuning>
<type>Analog</type>
<locator>
<channel>64</channel>
<country>1</country>
<input>cable</input>
<source>Composite</source>
<fixed>2</fixed>
</locator>
</tuning>
I'm reluctant to post a more general cry for C# help, rather than something NPVR specific, but does anyone have any simple examples of using data binding to reduce the amount of code required when buildings forms (for the Settings dialog)?
The stuff I've done so far has always been (old skool java style):
Code:
class MySettings
{
static string someTextValue= <read from xml file>
}
And then the form is built with:
Code:
SomeTextBox.Text = MySettings.someTextValue;
And when it's time to save everything:
Code:
MySettings.someTextValue= SomeTextBox.Text;
Data binding sounds like it might be a simpler way to do this? But I'm not sure if it can work without complex datagrid this or bindingsource that, rather than my micky mouse collection of statically declared variables (that makes it easy to get at them elsewhere in the actual plugin).
Could you list what the behind-the-scenes procedure you use for mounting ISOs is?
I point at Daemon.exe from VirtualCloneDrive rather than DaemonTools, and it doesn't seem to matter what drive letter I tell NPVR; I can give it the wrong one and the mount still succeeds and the DVD plays.
I'm trying to add ISO support to Videos+, and I'd prefer to use your existing config.xml settings to save duplication, but I wasn't sure if the drive letter (or unit number?) is required for DaemonTools.
Oh, and two quick follow up questions:
- I can't test it just now, but does NPVR support blu-ray ISOs (in conjunction with the LAV splitter)?
- The "Please wait...mounting" message looks like a blocking message box. Is it, or does it just appear that way because NPVR's process is waiting on the result of running DaemonTools?
