Hi.
Any tip for EAC3 (DD+) decoder to work inside NPVR?
By some reason LAV audio decoder and FFDshow audio decoder refuse connection to MS demultiplexer.
Hi everyone. I have a single tuner ( not a dual tuner ) when recording freinds on Gem (HD) it records two copies of the same show, when it should record one copy. The tuner has unique channels. This doesn't happen on hd channels. any pointers ?
so it is a single tuner. I have another dual tuner, of a different brand and it does the same thing. so i disconnected this one and disabled it to confirm it is not the tuner.
nearly there...... thanks
I'm using DISH network receiver of models VIP722k and VIP222k. And i'm using Hauppauge HDPVR box. Unfortunately I can't see the above model in the blaster configuration for channel changing.
I would like to ask if someone knows which codeset, vendor/model should I choose in the configuration?
Greetings. I am trying out NPVR because sooner or later my SageTV setup will need to be replaced. Not in a hurry, but I like having lots of time to try out other options. I installed NPVR and am already recording TV shows. I tried adding Comskip with Dirmon and am not getting the results I expected. Comskip runs and generates .txt files for each recording. First problem is that NPVR doesn't seem to pick up this file as it plays the commercials anyway. Pressing Play to skip has no effect. 2nd problem is that the Comskip.ini is being ignored as several setting changes I made are not being picked up. The only fix I found for this was to place the INI file in the directory along with the recordings, but that seems a little lame.
OS - Windows 7 64 bit
NPVR Installation - C:\Program Files (x86)\NPVR
Comskip install - Started out in c:\programs\comskip, but moved EXE and INI to NPVR folder.
I also haven't found any good instructions for using Comskip with NPVR. Can someone point them out to me if they exist?
I have another question un-related to comskip. In SageTV I got very used to the library approach to cataloging my existing collection of movie and TV show files. With NPVR I can add metadata for file descriptions and backgrounds, but I don't see a way to progress past the "folder structure" view of the files. Is there a way to do this? If not is anyone working on it either through native functions or plugins?
I appreciate any help or advice you can give. Thanks.
I've had a few instances this week where recordings have failed with a "No error but failed to lock"
Trying a few things, If I selected BBC1 in TV Guide I just got a blank screen. Same for BBC2. ITV I can view and then if move up/down and select BBC, then it works, but still unable to view from TV Guide. Did a reboot and now seems to be working again
I've only seen this happening since upgrade to 2.1.4 but there's engineering work in progress on our transmitters in preparation for digital switchover so had assumed that was the problem but trying a few things I'm not sure.
I've attached logs in case there are any clues there.
Thanks
The System plugin currently tracks what's recording and how many tuners are active.
It does this by iterating over:
Code:
foreach (ScheduledRecording rec in ScheduledRecording.LoadAll(false))
This gives me the status of "proper" recordings, but doesn't let me know about tuners being used for Live TV. I know, however, that it's possible to dig those details out of the XML returned by:
I was wondering if the Live TV information is available by querying the API (as in the first example)? It doesn't matter if it's not, I just thought it might be a cleaner way of retrieving the information rather than having to parse the XML.
Short summary: many channels in the UK (and perhaps elsewhere) "timeshare" their bandwidth with other channels, meaning they don't broadcast 24/7. When NPVR tunes into a non-broadcasting channel, it acts like it's frozen, and usually shows either a black screen with no OSD, or a frozen picture from the previously playing channel, again with no OSD.
TimeSharer is a new plugin that lets you change the tuning information for these channels, meaning NPVR can tune into an alternative channel that *is* broadcasting during off-air times. This keeps NPVR nice and responsive.
At the moment, you can control channels by specifying what content they should show (from either the correct channel or an alternative) over a 24 hour period. TimeSharer "fudges" the NPVR tuning cache so that, for example, the EPG entry for "Channel A" can actually show the broadcast of "Channel B". The recording service maintains the correct tuning information at all times.
Posted by: Elmo Putney - 2011-07-13, 04:41 AM - Forum: Hardware
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I maybee should have added this to the other TBS card thread but I think this is big news for some that may not have been following the other thread.
TBS just released the 6984 quad card. http://www.tbsdtv.com/english/product/6984.html
I've been recording Falling Skies for a couple of weeks on 2.03. I upgraded to 2.14 and now I've got a1 hour show file that is 16Gb using a Happauge 150MCE. I thought it was just a fluke so I recorded the episode again and it came out at 12Gb. Would a quality setting of "Default" do something like this?
