Int32 duration = new Int32();
int position = PlaybackPositionHelper.GetPlaybackPosition(path, out duration);
PluginHelperFactory.GetPluginHelper().PlayVideoFile(path);
IPlaybackProxy proxy = PluginHelperFactory.GetPluginHelper().GetPlaybackProxy();
proxy.SetPosition(position);
But like most code pulled from the innards of an API I don't really understand, I'd like to know if it's ok?
I have GBPVR running and wanted to try out NPVR. The Guide says to not have both programs attempt to use the same tuners. How do I turn off GBPVR so there is no conflict?
This may seem an ancient story for some of you, but a part of the world, even if there's already some form of DVB broadcast, still uses an analog system. (As for me, it's analog cable service with some 50 channels.)
A major portion of the channels are widescreen now, but lazily developed drivers and/or factory software are simply ingnorant, so I just get black bars watching widescreen (16:9) programs on a widescreen monitor.
I've been looking for some PVR application, and found NPVR. I was able to set up the analog reception with SoftPVR on my hardware, which is Leadtek Winfast PxDTV 2300 H, so far so good. (It has configurable aspect ratio and letterbox handling, yay)
It's very inconvenient that there isn't any possibility for scanning. In my case setting up 50 channels manually, well, it takes quite some work and determination. But it's okay, I would do that - if I have to do it only once in a lifetime.
But how could I make a backup of the tuned channels? If the OS (WinXP) is reinstalled or changed, I will just lose the settings... I can't find it in any files, so I'm clueless now.
I'm receiving my signal from the Kapiti (Ngarara) transmitter.
Last night I tried to watch "Going Postal", and NPVR wouldn't play it (no audio or video or duration on the time bar). PowerDVD10 wouldn't play it either, but smplayer would.
Today, I have three more programs recorded off Prime, and none will play in NPVR.
Top Gear Australia will play in PDVD10, but I can't navigate the time line. If I play it in smplayer, I can step forward, but the display shows the total duration as zero.
Fifth Gear plays OK in PDVD10 and smplayer, but again the display shows the total duration as zero.
QI won't play at all in PDVD10 but will play in smplayer, with a duration of zero again.
Most channels seem fine, only Prime, Maori TV,TVCentral, TV33 and Parliament TV (all on frequency 762000) seem to have the problem, and I can't even watch them live. It's as if they have changed something in the transmissions. NPVR logs don't show anything odd at recording time,
Anyone else having problems with Prime? Or maybe its just from this transmitter?
One feature I miss greatly is the ability to play large videos of type MPG through the web interface (NEWA). If I try to play these, I get an error in the Windows Error log:
Exception type: ArgumentOutOfRangeException
Exception message: MemoryStream length must be non-negative and less than 2^31 - 1 - origin.
I was wondering if any other Australian NPVR users could confirm this for me?
I need to transcode my recordings with ffmpeg in a postprocessing.bat script but I am having problems with Gem, Mate & SBS. I am unable to successfully transcode these channels, however I have no problems with the other channels.
For each of the "good" channels, ffmpeg reports the video as 720x576. For my "problem" channels I have very different sizes: Gem is 1920x1080, Mate is 1440x1080 and SBS is 1280x720.
The other difference I have found is that "good" channels have video on stream 0.0, audio on stream 0.1, subtitles on 0.2 and data on 0.3. Gem has audio5.1 on 0.2 with subtitles on 0.3 and data on 0.4 and Mate is all over the place, with subtitles on 0.1, data on 0.2 and audio on 0.3. Gem is the only channel that shows AC3 sound in NPVR Live TV, all others are MPEG1.
I use NEWA to successfully record ALL channels but to make things even more interesting I don't get anything displayed on NPVR Live for any of the Channel 7 (Prime7, Prime7Two & 7Mate in my area) or Channel 10 (10 or Eleven).
I am assuming that the channels are consistent in their broadcast parameters.
I don't know how to get ffmpeg to deal with these variations when transcoding but if I could confirm that they are "real" and not a figment of my imagination, that would be a start.
On the video library of the web client I have file types (m4v) that do not show up in the list. I have looked through some of the xml files and see the m4v extension in the <VideoLibraryExtensions> part of the config file. I am assuming this does not apply to the web client. Is there another file I need to edit so show m4v files (or other file types) in the web client?
