I got involved with NPVR and its translation recently. Weather information is quite a handy feature in a PVR app so I decided to include it too. Translation is done via XML files.

After a few days of work, I'd like to point out tiny issues in Weather that could be improved.

First an easy one: the string 'Weather Advisories, Watches & Warnings (1 of 1)' inlcudes '&' which cannot be included in a valid XML thus cannot be translated (brokes the whole translation).

Another one is wind direction. Would it be possible to put the directions into separate strings? (Unless it comes it comes from Accuweather in a whole line) Something like '9 m/s (17 m/s), WSW' is impossible to translate, 3 data fields give almost an infinite number of combinations.

I'm not sure what I did, and even more upsetting, I'm not sure how to fix it.

I updated to 2.1.4 recently and that went so swimmingly, I updated the NMT software too running the latest installer, then things went south. From the installer, I disabled the "Install/Update NextPVR" option and continued. Install says it completed fine, but every time I have the PCH attempt to load mvpmc, it hangs with a white screen and:

Mount //192.168.1.50/mvpmc i

on the screen. The IP address and the share name are correct. I don't know what the little "i" afterwards is all about.

I did by chance happen to install some Windows 7 updates around the same time, so I've thought perhaps that process screwed something up with my share, but if so I can't figure out what.

The share still exists and still allows full guest access. The share scripts are all there, and while my npvr.cgi script does show it was touched - based on the date modified - I don't notice anything that was changed. I load mvpmcx2 automatically via an index.htm and that still starts npvr.cgi fine, but of course hangs as shown above. The mount command in npvr.cgi appears as follows:
mount -t cifs //192.168.1.50/mvpmc /etc/mvpmc -o username=root,rw

I've tried username=guest and even hard-coded a userid and password too... no luck.

The firewall rules still exist for NextPVR and NRecord. In fact, I disabled the firewall completely just to be sure that wasn't it, but no luck.

Having re-run the installer a couple times now, I know the first time I ran it I did NOT put in the mac address suffix, clicking too quickly to notice I was asked for it. I've since removed the partial mac mvp settings from the config.xml and re-run with the correct MAC address. If there's anything else my first run might have screwed up, I can't find it.

Any suggestions as to how and fix things again? Admittedly, things have been working so well for so long, I'm sure I've forgotten a few things to check. It really seems like it's the mount command that's failing though and I can't figure out why it's not working all of a sudden.

Thanks,
Tim

I'm trying to put together a skin for the new search screen and am having trouble with the @controlSelected option.

Here is a simple skin that I've used for this example:

Earlier this morning, I encountered a new problem. I was watching Big Brother and things seemed to be playing fine. It was about half over, did a commercial skip, began playing again after the commercial, then ended playback and went back to the recordings list. I wasn’t paying that much attention, and thought that it was at the end of the episode and comskip had just cut off the last "teaser" segment. So I tried playing it again and skipping to the end. (I had to do it a couple of times, so you’ll see that in the logs.) Then I discovered, that it had NOT actually been at the end. I kept skipping back to find the point where it had ended prematurely, and found that it was just after the commercial skip at 28 minutes in. This time, when I let it keep playing for a minute or so, it went on just fine. I then stopped playback to get logs which are attached. I’ve also included the timing and comskip files.

Martin has already looked at the logs and his response is:

Quote:mvpmcx2 is doing what it was told and at ~10:46 in the MVP log, NPVR told it to seek to 3653 seconds, so I think NextPVR was using wrong comskip point, I don't see anything else there.

Attached is my login screen--i can't access my guide. I went through the WIKI's reinstallation of NEWA but that didn't solve my problem. I can confirm that this is what it looks like on Firefox, IE, and Chrome. Please advise.

Hello,

I am having difficulties playing DVDs from hard drive. Some play, some do not. VLC is able to play all of them. Is there a way to configure nPvr to use an external player such as VLC?

Thank you

Dear all,

FYI if of interest:

XMLTV Radio Times version 3.14.01 has just been released.
Windows Version:
http://www.birtles.org.uk/xmltv/xmltvgui_3.14.01W.exe
Linux Version:
http://www.birtles.org.uk/xmltv/xmltvgui_3.14.01L.tar.gz
The changes are:
-Fixed uk_rt crashing if cache is tuned off and a channel is empty -Limited data to today onwards when max days is specified -Fixed xml escaping for uk_rt -Fixed schedules direct not downloading the channel list if a station is in map but not station list


cheers

steeb

It would appear that since I have up upgraded to 2.1.4 my nova-hd-s2 card will on scan a few channels, I think they maybe S2 ones.

i have attached the logs.

If you need screen shots of the scans let me know.

Hi Still looks like weire having issues after 2.1.4 with multi record and multiple tuners.

Have a look at NZ next top model, being stopped I think for trinny and susanna - both fom about 7:30 pm on 08/07/2011 (don't hate me for my wife's recordings ).

The problem seems to manifest with back to back recordings on different frequencies. Even though there are possible tuners to use, only one is being used.

1. Click on episode title in TV-Guide. 2. Select Recording Type: Record Season (All episodes on this channel). 3. <OK> out. 4. Go to Main Menu/ Recording, scroll to Recurring Recordings and note for example, episode is scheduled for recording at 11:00pm on 12th and perhaps again at 11:00pm on 14th, etc. Whoops...what about the repeat episode broadcast a 5:00am the following mornings? Nope, not present. So, step 5 is to repeat steps 1>4 again, and select the 5:00am morning broadcast (13th + 15th) "all episodes."

6. Now, scroll to Pending Recordings and note that ALL identically titled episode record times and dates are simply duplicates of original 11:00pm record session. 5:00am sessions and dates, although apparent in Recurring Recordings, do not appear in pending, anywhere.

I suspect that this may in part be a conversion discrepancy in the DateTimeGroup routines, but have only glanced at the logs, and have no idea why, if one selects "All episodes," repeat episodes should be ignored.

My expectations are that when one selects "Record Season (all episodes on this channel), regardless of episode time/ date it will be recorded, even if repeat performance.

Hope all this makes sense, but I am really old and tired so, go easy on me...

There are only 3 very small screen caps within the attached "All Episodes.zip" for anyone interested in visual aids.

Attached Logs, db3 and screen caps (All Episodes.zip)....