Ive just picked up my dusty MVP 1000 from the loft which I used with GBPVR, but Im not sure how to get it working with NPVR - Windows 7. Can anyone guide me please???
I am still having issues where recordings are not ending after upgrading to 2.1.5. Attached are the logs from last night. The recording Alpha was still showing as recording this morning and is 27G. All recordings including Alpha still showed as pending and after restarting recording service show fail (Countdown With Keith OIlberman, Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Alphas, My Soul to Take). The only one that created a file is Alphas.
OK. My EPG updates. I go through the list of pending recordings and cancel the ones I don't want for the next few days. The next day when the EPG updates, those recordings that I cancelled are right back on the list to be recorded. This is very annoying! How do I keep a recording cancelled for the date/time I cancelled it? Yeah maybe I want to record it at a later date, but when I cancel something set to record at a certain date/time, I expect it to stay cancelled instead of uncancelled.
I need to update to capture more channels than are on clear QAM, so I am looking at either a Hauppauge Colossus or an HD PVR. I prefer the Colossus due to the lower price, but have seen some poor comments on some web sites. So my question, is the Colossus as good as the HD PVR at this time? Stability is key.
I rebuilt my server and just re-setup my PCH. It connects fine and plays recorded shows fine, but live TV only works for about 15 seconds, then loops back to the start of the 15 seconds and plays it again, over and over. I seem to remember something like this, but searched and could not find anything like this. Logs are attached
I've noticed a few issues with allowing the video inset with DVDs.
1) If you want to press Menu [Home] to skip to the main menu while a disc is still showing its pre-menu crapola (FBI warnings, trailers, etc), then you can't, because it just goes to the video inset instead.
2) You can actually start a second (or 3rd, 4th, etc) copy of a DVD running by choosing another file with the video inset active. The previous DVD doesn't stop!
3) With a ripped DVD (selected from deep within the Video library), if you're in a menu with no sound, and you press Menu, then you may return to a view with no video inset that makes you think playback has stopped. (This is actually how I discovered 2)).
I think the easiest solution is probably just to disable video inset functionality when playing a DVD?
I'm not sure where to start with trying to resolve my picture quality issues here.
TV3 is almost perfect, but TV One, TV2 are Prime are all unwatchable.
I've taken recordings off the media center and tried playign them on other machines, and also tried playback through VLC and Cyberlink directly.
Regardless of where/how I play the recording, the picture quality is rubbish and the audio is choppy which leads me to suspect my HDD, so I switched the recordings to a different physical disk. This didn't make any difference.
I have tried replacing my tuner card (HVR-2200), and that didn't help either.
The Freeview STB gives a good picture, so I think the signal is ok. It's also a brand new aerial, professionally installed.
What can I do to try and resolve my picture quality issues? Hardware:
AM2-5200+
nVdia 9500GT
Hauppage HVR-2200
Since installing 2.1.5, I thought the navigation buttons on my Harmony remote had gone bad, so I went back to my trusty HP MCE remote and have confirmed the problem is in 2.1.5 (I upgraded from 2.0.3).
Basically, navigating up and down seems fine, but it's often taking several clicks to move right one TV show at a time. Left is taking a few more clicks than it used to, but moving right is a real drag. If I go back to 2.0.3 the problem goes away.
So I've been experimenting a little with NPVR. Thanks to Martin I can now see the recordings made by SageTV in NPVR but they will not play. I've tried many combinations of MPG decoder and renderer but all I get is a black screen with no video or audio. I'm running NPVR on WindowsXP.
