I have long enjoyed my low cost Comcast basic analog cable. No need for set top boxes or channel changers. My HTPC has run GBPVR and now nPVR like a champ with several analog tuners - PVR 150, 500 and a 1600 (with dead digital tuner). Added a 2250 a while ago to step up to the digital HD world, tuning and recording the several local broadcast channels that Comcast so generously provides in clear QAM (because they must, right?). All for use with two Popcorns.
My family has come to rely on nPVR being able to record everything they want, without concern that there is a tuner available, even when there are 4 or 5 recordings at the same time.
I have been waiting for the day (first they said it would be last year) but I finally got the notice that Comcast will be switching our town to all digital and shutting off the analog cable "for my benefit" so I can enjoy everything Xfinity has to offer. It's been happening around the USA, in my neighboring towns, and I'm surprised it's taken so long to happen here. I'm sure many of you nPVR users have dealt with it, so that's why I'm asking here.
How will losing analog cable affect my nPVR HTPC?
Will my analog tuners become useless?
Do the digital tuners (2250) tune all digital channels or only clear QAM?
Will each digital tuner require a set top box/channel changer? 1 or 2 for 2250?
I'm so scared am I worried about nothing? :o
I will soon be receiving the one set top box and two digital transport adapters that comcast provides at no extra cost. I would certainly prefer not to pay more to comcast each month for more boxes.
Thanks for your input and advice from your experience.
I'm using 2.1.4 with the latest mvpmcx2 playing recordings via a PCH.
While playing recorded shows, I have noticed that at least part of the time when I manually skip forward or backward, the timeline is initially displayed completely green (as if it is at the end of the show), then after a second or two, it will update to show the correct current position. Additionally, the current position digital display shows something like 12 hours into a 1 hour recording.
I seem to be getting an intermittent problem with scheduled recordings. Whilst the show is being broadcast, the server says it is recording. Once the recording time is past, the recordings list shows it as having failed because the "Recording service was not running at recording time". However if I browse to the TV folder, the recording is there and will play perfectly well.
A restart of the server will allow it to work again for the next few recordings, and then it will start failing again for no obvious reason.
I thought that upgrading to 3.1.4 might alleviate the problem, but alas it didn't.
I will try and grab a set of logs the next time it happens.
In a Recurring recordings, doing an update on one set for all occurrences, it takes about 5 seconds, and increases the size of NextPVR.ex by 54 MB. While updating lots, NectPVR.exe got to over 1.5GB.
After changing a decoder, then attempting to restart playback, I get a message window saying:
"Unhandled exception has occurred in a component in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue.
Object reference not set to an instance of an object."
If I select Details I get:
************** Exception Text **************
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at NextPVR.Players.PlaybackProxyFactory.StartVideoPlaybackProxy(IntPtr window, String filename, String& reason)
at NextPVR.Players.VideoPlayer.PlayFiles(List`1 playQueue, Int32 playQueueIndex, String& reason)
at NextPVR.Players.VideoPlayer.PlayFile(String filename, String& reason)
at NextPVR.ControllerForm.PlayVideoFile(String filename)
at NextPVR.TV.ShowDetailsPopup.HandleCommand(String command)
at NextPVR.TV.ShowDetailsPopup.HandleButtonCommand(String buttonName)
at NUtility.Controls.UiButtonList.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
at NextPVR.TV.ShowDetailsPopup.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
at NextPVR.ControllerForm.OnKeyDown(Object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ProcessKeyEventArgs(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ProcessKeyMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmKeyChar(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
at NextPVR.ControllerForm.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
Hi sub, as discussed earlier I'm still finding the recordings plugin really slow.
Will enclose a Log and the XML file, as It should show you the sorts of times we're seeing almost 30 seconds or longer.
And that the xml file has those two "don't check missing recordings" options set.
Check around 2011-07-05 19:36:15.691 onwards where the wife was starting to watch my kitchen rules. When she hit the end of this recording it took a really long time to get back to the menu, and in this time she'd hit the stop button which resorted everything.
My operating systems crashed (Vista 64 with GB-PVR). Since I was not able to restore the system, I took the opportunity to upgrade to Windows 7 and nPVR. I got everything working and would now like to import almost 2TB of recordings into the nPVR. Although I can't execute the old system, I can read the data from the drives.
I found the Import Recording function but I do not know where to find the xml file from the old GB-PVR system. How do I go about importing these recordings?
I''m using the following command to mount a map in windows 7 that has some DVD's in it:
Code:
mount -t cifs //192.168.1.83/Videos /mnt/D:\\Videos/ -o username=guest,ro;
This works fine, just one little problem: after my windows machine goes to sleep and I wake it up with the nmt, the mount isn't working anymore. And I can't seem to unmount it or remount it. A reboot is the only solution that works at this moment. Any ideas how to script this issue?
I currently have 3 PCR-150 tuners and my cable company recently switched our service from analog to digital requiring a STB. Fortunately all of the channels I care about are unencrypted QAM so I think I can get a new tuner to get back in business.
Couple of questions:
- I read in a few posts that a single tuner can record multiple shows with a digital signal. Can I get a single tuner to record 3 simultaneous shows with a QAM source?
- I have a mix of remote devices including MVPs and PCs. I would like to have the option of recording high def shows to watch on my PCs. If I don't know which client will be used, I am assuming I would just have two recordings - one with hi-def and the other on the standard channel right?
- What tuner would you recommend as a good replacement and why?
am I worried about nothing? :o
