Running Win7 –NPVR
Can’t play music videos via NPVR -mpg files
Avi files run fine
Have looked for a setting etc but there isn’t one that stands out.
Have i missed a codec etc

After about a year of reliability with gbpvr, I have moved my card (Hauppage WinTV Nova 500) to a new PC (running XP). I also elected to load NPVR and although things are ok most of the time, I get occasional failed recording with:
2011-05-04 21:10:30.703 [INFO][6] About to start BDA graph
2011-05-04 21:10:30.703 [DEBUG][6] Starting graph...
2011-05-04 21:10:30.703 [DEBUG][6] Failed to start device: 0x8007001f
2011-05-04 21:10:30.703 [DEBUG][6] Removing filter MPEG-2 Sections and Tables

I also notice that sometimes a recording is split in two as if there was an interruption. I am not sure what the logs are telling me, so hope someone can point me in the right direction

thanks
Allan

I recently bought one of those avermedia duet dual atsc tuner cards. At the time I didn't understand their (stupid) marketing scheme and bought the "whitebox" version which requires xp media center edition, which I of course don't have. When you use that version, their own media center software doesn't work. I could rant excessively about what I think of that, but I'll spare you .

So anyway, I did a search and found out that you could use XP with SageTV and the "whitebox" card. But my requirements are basically to just record, so I can edit and watch commercial free later, so paying an extra $100 for Sage seemed excessive.

So I decided to try NPVR. I'd experimented with it a bit for other reasons.

NPVR isn't the easiest software to install, but with a bit of perseverance I got it done. BTW, this patch, which I found on this forum was required to get dual tuning to work. Otherwise I could only record at most 15 min. before a crash.

Anyway, the one thing I wanted was to be able to record shows with a bit of padding so I wouldn't lose either the first or last minute of a program. So I was mightily pleased when I discovered that when recording 2 consecutive shows on the same channel, NPVR was smart enough to pad both shows with an extra minute or two at both beginning and end.

I was also pleased to find that once I had selected my shows to record, I could leave nrecord.exe in the background and close the main window. That means while not recording there is 30 meg or so being used. Compare that to WinTV (I also have a hauppauge 1250) which needs 2 background processes using something more than 100 meg, just to sit there and do nothing until it needs to record.

I haven't actually tested recording 3 channels at once yet, but am confident that it should be fine.

Thanks for the good work.

I want to try to convert some video tape to dvd on my mothers computer.
Therefore, I'm not tuning channels and don't care about the program listing.
What I'd LIKE to do is start a recording, and enter a duration, at which point npvr would stop. Can NPVR do this? I sure can't find a way.
Do I have to set up some kind of xml channel info for this? I'd rather avoid it, if possible.
Some of the tapes are probably the 6 hr duration, and I'd rather just assume this and edit out the junk later, rather than just record for the show plus 89min post capture (which is the limit, I think) and then start again.
When channels are listed with no details it doesn't seem to want to record at all.


Notes:
I can use it to watch (or pause) live tv from the svideo input.
Therefore I know it can capture the mpegII stream from the card which is a diamond xtreme pvr 550. That has onboard mpegII encoder. The card came with beyondtv, which I can't stand, mostly because it doesn't work very well. So I decided to try npvr.
While I could hack an xmltv listing, I was hoping the process would be simple enough for my mother to handle, and that is beyond her, and I'm not going to visit her every day just to record a tape.
While I can do what I mention above with beyondtv, it WILL NOT show live tv. I don't know why. Probably a directshow issue. That makes it very difficult to queue up a recording to the correct spot. Plus beyondtv limits live recordings to 60 minutes unless you use the web interface ... did I mention I wanted simple?

Other things which people often want to know:
NPVR 2.0.3
XP SP3 up to date.
nvidia graphics card (6600 I think, not there right now).

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

Just got one of these- it's an absolute gem of the card- SD is excellent, HD pic quality is superb......BUT......there seems to be problems finding a codec that can cope with the AAC-HE audio.

Folks seem to have got it working in NPR, but I don't seem to be having much luck with PVR2 using similar solutions. Anyone got it going yet, and if so, how?

Daniel

One of my favourite features of GBPVR was the ability to do an alphabetical search on the EPG listings, I can't seem to find that function in NPVR ? If its not there is there another utility or plugin that will do the same thing ?
tia

Rory

My last recording of Fringe on 4/29/2011 seems to be magically missing part of the recording. According to the log, it started fine and ended fine. Looking at the .ts file, it was create at 7:58PM and ended at 9:02PM (60 minutes plus padding). However, the actual length is 32 minutes (which the timeline shows correctly as 32 minutes). When watching, I don't think I noticed anything really unusual. There was a slight audio glitch towards the beginning between two commercials but that was about it. Can anyone shed some light on this?:confused:

Attached is the log when this was recorded. It starts at 2011-04-29 19:58.

Has anyone else noticed that the title of the current music title playing lags by up to a minute? The titlebar of the app (when not in full screen mode) is pretty much instant, but the one displayed on the bottom of the screen isn't too speedy on updating.

Here are a some really minor items that I would like to see fixed/added in nPVR:
1) Center the settings window over the main window. It gets annoying at times when the settings window pops up on a different monitor.

2) For us keyboard junkies, fix the tab order in the settings window.

3) Add a restore window option in the context menu to take us out of full screen.

4) Use the system time format for displaying the time in the main screen, though maybe this can be done with the skin.

I have upgraded from GB-PVR. I have a 16 x 9 Samsung CRT TV which connects to my Popcorn Hour via HDMI. I have tried every combination of settings on the "General" settings tab, but nothing affects the all-round overscan which means on the home screen the date is cut off as is the D of DVD and the E of Live. More annoyingly, it is very hard to read the titles of recordings. I am pretty sure I have the MAC address correct, and connect via the NPVR menu (rather than via Network Browser). I cannot change the picture size of the TV (to 4:3 for instance), the TV won't allow me to. I have done a clean install using NMTInstall.exe. Recordings, Audio, and Live TV all work fine. The only other anomaly is it says in Red "Warning: the DirectX runtime is not available on this machine, using software rendering instead" even though I tried to install from the microsoft dxwebsetup link in the sticky/Wiki and it says "already installed"
any ideas, before I zip the logs ?
tia

Rory