For quite awhile now I've had an NRecord crash almost every night at 1:30am as it starts two recordings (but sometimes it does work). I had been hoping that maybe by some miracle the new version would solve this, but it has not. These same shows are recorded at other times during the day on the same channels without incident.
It seems that usually if the system was restarted during the day, the crash won't happen the first night; it waits until the second night.
The resulting .ts files for both shows are just a few seconds long, but playable. If I don't record anything at 1:30am, then the crash doesn't occur.
It did occur to me that maybe WMC was trying to take the tuners at 1:30am to do a channel scan, even though I had all it's services disabled, so I uninstalled WMC to no effect.
Just wondering if any of the following would be possible at some point:
1) Could ChannelMapping.tuning be made writeable?
2a) Could the EPG_EVENT table have a colour column added to it, used to store, for example, a #FF0000 style string?
2b) Could you make the TV Guide paint the background for each entry based on that colour?
2c) Not really needed, but would help... could your xmltv reader be updated to read a <Colour> entry that would populate the above if found?
3) Could you get NPVR to ignore plugins that are in a folder starting with (just as an example) an underscore, eg "_System"?
As an aside to the above, have you thought about trying a gradient paint effect to the current red/green colouring in the guide (eg go from dark green in one corner to light green in another)? Might not work (or look that great), but you never know...
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.
