I have four tuners, 2x DVB-T and 2x DVB-S2. There are many instances of the same channel being available across all four of them.
However, when I try to apply the auto-merge, NPVR pops up a dialog that seems to suggest it's detected candidates for merging, eg:
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"Channel 4 has two matches"
But no merge actually takes place. Both the bulk mapping and channels screens continue to show two separate entries for Channel 4 (and all of the others).
Merging them manually works fine though. There's also doesn't appear to be anything in the logs about it.
This is probably an incredibly stupid question, but how do I disable thumbnail mode for video and music libraries? I'm sure I've looked everywhere. I just want a list of files.
Noticed tonight while My Kitchen Rules was recording, that it wasn't showing up as recording.
Was listed under pending (but you couldn't play it) - ended up having to go through the Video library and play the recording manually from there. I think this has been going on 2.0.3.
Ever since I have upgraded to NPVR I have not been able to get into the config screen on NEWA. I am just now upgrading to 2.1.5 and I see that I still can not access the screen. I have tried IE 7 & 8 and Chrome. I am currently using version 12.0.742.112 of chrome. Really the only reason I wanted into the config was to change the skin of NEWA. I was hoping for something that would do better on Chrome. The search screen is all jacked up. It was just the search2 but ever since the 2.1.4 update both are not right.
I have left all of the login stuff alone to make sure I don't mess up anything for my nmt.
Twice now, I have noticed that the tray icon is stuck on red.
Status shows recording a show, long since finished.
The log is FULL of "Got 12 epg events" messages, basically forever.
Restarting the recording service seems OK, and it looks like it is recording other shows as well, even while stuck (other tuner).
You can download 2.1.5 from http://www.gbpvr.com/NPVRSetup_2_1_5.exe. This is largely the same release as last week's 2.1.4, but includes a couple of additional bug fixes I thought were important.
If you're new to NextPVR, see the list of pre-requisite software at: http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...requisites (directx runtime, visual c++ runtime etc). If you're upgrading from an earlier build, you need to make sure you stop the NPVR software before installing.
Please post any support issues in the support forum.
From the change log:
Quote:2.1.5
- fixed a recording issue that could cause recordings that wouldnt stop (on multi-tuner, back-to-back recording).
- fixed issue with viewing Settings screen while 'stay on top' was ticked.
- fixed a memory leak with popups.
- fixed a language translation problem that occurred in a few places
- fixed a problem that could occur with auto skipping of commericals (using comskip files) on the NMT
- search screen now uses slightly different current make it clear which list is selected.
- fixed a problem with keying four digit channel numbers using the numeric keypad
2.1.4
- added analog channel scanning
- added blu-ray support to both 'video library' and 'DVD' in main menu. To play Blu-Ray you need AnyDVD-HD installed, aswell as the LAV Splitter. This will get you playback of the main movie, not menus.
- added support for more than one Hauppauge Colossus
- added Teletext support. Ctrl-T to start in live tv.
- added Teletext subtitle support.
- added support for 3rd party IRecorder plugins for those that want to implement their own recording plugins.
- added logic to enable playback of TS files that have PAT/PMT entries for channels that dont exist in the .TS file.
- added simple search screen, much like the old search screen in GBPVR. Users upgrading from earlier versions may need to go into Settings->Plugins to enable it. New install will already have it enabled.
- fixed an issue that was stopping an Australian channel from working in live tv. Other channels may have had the same issue.
- displaying channel names slightly wider in tv guide if channel icon doesnt exist.
- OSD timeouts now configurable in config.xml
- added a 'Use Reverse Priority For Live TV' for the tuner ordering, for those that prefer it to work like GBPVR with top-down priority for recording, and bottom-up priority for live tv
- fixed a crash that could occur with manual recurring recordings (where 'keep' was set to something other than 'all')
- fixed an issue with typing a channel number in the TV Guide and selected show details wouldnt update (aswell as selected show highlighting).
- fixed issue with 'Record All Episodes, All Channels' (relating to shows with single quotes in the title)
- fixed an issue that could cause an MVP server to not clean up correctly after disconnection
- fixed a DVB-S diseqc issue with low band channels.
- fixed an issue which could playback to hang on client if the recording was played right to the very end of the file.
- added support for folder.png. Previously it'd only look for folder.jpg.
- fixed issue that could cause previously loaded preview artwork (like folder.jpg) to sometimes disappear after viewing a couple of hundred other items with preview artwork
- fixed a problem where sometimes NPVR window would start too large (in previous windowed location, but with the size of the desktop resolution, and bottom right of window hanging off the screen)
- added support for .m3u playlist files in the Music Library
- added support for Windows directory shortcuts in Video/Music/Picture library
- fixed a problem with the recordings highlighted in the TV Guide timeline when skipping back/forward a day
- fixed a problem with recording shows that have names ending with dots "..." etc
- fixed a problem where app would sometimes start fullscreen sized, but in windows position, so window pushes past the bottom/right of the screen
- fixed a problem where it could take a while for the song name at the bottom of the screen to update after switching songs.
- made some additional settings (used by the the recording/web server) dynamic so that nrecord didnt need to be restarted
- fixed bug where hot keys wouldnt work when music playback was active.
- added support for Turbosight CI (TBS devices)
- pressing 'play' with a folder selected in the picture library will now do a slide show of files contained within that folder, including nested folders it contains.
- if a recording fails to start due to an error, the recording service will attempt to find a another available device that can do the recording
- improved tuner usage logic to make it more likely for recordings to include padding in multi-tuner setups
- tray icon now goes red when recording service is using a device
- fixed a problem with high CPU usage in the screen saver
- slightly changed the way cover art is loaded in the Video Library to give better performance and background loading of images.
- added API for plugins to block/unblock screen saver
- added API for plugins to check if music is playing
- updated the tuning files for DVB-S, and for a most UK DVB-T regions
- improved handling of errors when attempting to enter directories with no permission to do so in Video/Music/Picture library. It'll no show a 'directory unavailable' message.
- fixed DVB EPG issue with 'epg updates during live tv' that could duplicate entries in the TV Guide
- improvements for live tv skipping on NMT.
- fixed an issue that could cause customized library directory settings to be lost during upgrade.
- music playback now toggles pause status on multiple presses of the pause key
- added "-export" and "-import c:\somepath.xml" command line options for importing/exporting recordings
- fixed a problem that could lead to duplicate channels on setups with more than one HDPVR
- in the bulk map screen I've added an 'auto-merge channels with the same name' button, which might be useful for users with channels on different types of device that would like channels with the same name to treated as the same channel.
- fixed an issue with HDMI audio on Colossus capture devices
- added ability resume DVDs
- added checkboxes for enabling/disabling resume prompting for DVDs or Video Library.
I want to be able to rename my recorded files based on the episode subtitle eg "American Chopper_20110530_20002100.mp4" (after processing) becomes "American Chopper - Fire Bike (Part 1)".
Of course, I'll also need to update the db3 and xml file afterwards. I played around with the db3 file and realised that the episode information for recordings is not stored in there, but in the "recording-backup.xml" file (Sub correct me if I'm wrong here) using the Subtitle tag for the episode title.
So basically, after my postprocessing.bat has finished encoding with handbrake I want it to:-
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search in npvr.db3 for %~f1 & replace it with %~dpn1.mp4
[COLOR="blue"]search in recording-backup.xml for %~f1 & replace it with %~dpn1.mp4
search in recording-backup.xml for %~dpn1.mp4 and output [showname] to a txt file
search in recording-backup.xml for %~dpn1.mp4 and output [subtitle] it to a txt file[/COLOR]
check if the subtitle txt file is empty and if it is end the bat file
get the showname from the txt file and into %showname% variable
get the subtitle from the txt file and into %subtitle% variable
Put "%~dp1%showname% - %subtitle%.mp4" into %newfilename% variable
Check if %newfilename% already exists, if so, put (2) after it
rename recording to %newfilename%
search in npvr.db3 for %~dpn1.mp4 & replace it with %newfilename%
[color=blue]search in recording-backup.xml for %~dpn1.mp4 & replace it with %newfilename%[/color]
The commands in blue are the ones I'm not sure how to do! Any help would be awesome.
I've had a look into "XMLStarlet", but I wanted to know if there was anything easier to use or that's recommended. I've used sqlite3.exe with no issues, but not tried to manipulate XML files before.
With gbpvr I could connect to the web interface on my Android phone from anywhere and setup recordings etc. Whilst I can connect to the web interface with Pvr on my phone there are no vertical scroll bars so can't see all channels or set recordings.
I have been looking for a thread that explains how to do this for a less techie person like me but couldn't seem to find one here? I understand that NPVR can be controlled from other computers both in and outside my home network to schedule recordings (and stream playback?) (via NEWA I think?) and I have seen the tab under NPVR settings which seem to enable this.
However if I enable and then type http://localhost:8866 on a computer on my home network I get an error (cant seem to find the address). Any ideas?
Also for access outside my home network I understand I need to do something with DynDNS and forwarding ports on routers and through firewalls. Is there a simple step by step guide explaining what these terms mean and how I can do all this?
Does anyone know how to configure the irremote.ini to use the NUMPAD keys? Hoborg has given the following I'd like to setup on the remote:
CTRL+ALT+NUMPAD0 - next subtitles file / track
CTRL+ALT+NUMPAD1 - next audio track
But am not sure how to tell it explicitly that it's the numpad0/1 I want.
