Hi,

I am getitng this weird green bar on the screen with my 1100 in analog mode. It is not there on Win 7.

Also it is not static but flashes on and off. I had to do 10 screen grabs before I got a good one.

Regards

Matthew

Hi

I have during the last couple of weeks experienced failed recordings. Recordings that are recurring recordings and have worked previously.

One program that I record for my daughter is Mythbusters on Discovery Channel. That has failed quite a few times. And last night Top Gear failed to record.

It only gets a 0 byte recording file left. And in the logs it seems to lock the signal and reports OK.

Then I tried to scan for new channels to see if something was wrong. And it looked to work BUT at the end (at least it did not scan any more) it crashed with the error :

Hi,

I just noticed that I have around 55 gigabytes of data in my buffer directory.

Should NPVR have cleared this data automatically, and if so, under what circumstances does it do this?

Since I installed NPVR 2.0.3 Patches R1, I have the following problem:

After starting NPVR, the first time I try to play a recorded show, I either have a blank screen or the file plays normally (some files never work, some files sometimes work and some files always work, but I didn't find any pattern yet). What is always the same is what comes next: If I try to play something after this (either the same show or another one), I get an error message: Unhandled exception has occured in a compononent in your application ... Attempted to read or write protected memory.

Some details:
- I have isolated NPVRTSReader.ax as the culprit; if I replace this file with the original from before the patch, no problems whatsoever.
- I convert all my recordings to H264 ts files - I use ffdshow to decode it in NPVR. As far as I can tell, the above error does not happen with regular mpeg ts files (I only tested it on a few though, so who knows).
- in the zip file, I have included the full error message

Not having access to such a device, I have no idea how they work...

I was thinking of doing something that would rewrite a skin file based on the user's actions. On a normal PC (or even a client PC) this shouldn't be a problem, because the skin will be in a writeable location.

But what happens with other clients (popcorn hours and wotnot)? Can they even *have* plugins installed? Or do they just run "core" NPVR?

Iain

Enclosed as requested is updated ini file for the UK Ridge Hill transmitter with the new MUX frequencies in use from today. All channels tested ok.

This transmitter has an extra MUX broadcasting a second ITV1 channel for West region as well as the original ITV1 Central region.

We had Analogue switch off last night so most of the Mux have changed frequency overnight. I edited the transmitter ini file with the new frequencies, deleted all channels, did a rescan, updated EPG and all seems to be working except NO “Pending Recordings”. I check the logs and there is an error every time it tries to create a pending recording after the EPG update. Going back earlier in the logs there are numerous comments that “Frequency has changed so stopping recording from previous frequency”.

I setup a new test recurring recording the same as a failed one and did a recordings export. The only difference is that the “ChannelOID” has changed. I imported two recurring recordings where I had changed the “ChannelOID” to the new one and these now appeared as pending recordings. I edited the recurring–backup.xml and updated the “ChannelOID” of each channel, deleted all current recurring recording, imported the file and there were all the pending recordings.

Is there an easier way of doing this?

I have three USB tuners, and have been running NPVR for about 4 days now.

Every day I have turned on the PC and found the recording service crashed.

Today I caught it.

It appears to be trying to record the same show, twice, simultaneously, using one USB tuner. The recordings last for between 10 seconds and three minutes then the recordings stop happening. The Status window eventually becomes all white, and if a recording is in progress it might carry on indefinately... (I ended up with a 10GB "Simpsons" episode...)

Here's a screenshot...



Notice how the second tuner shows the same entry twice, yet it appears only once in the EPG. It might be worth pointing out that I used to use gb-pvr but had a similar problem because the ABC lists the same show three or four times overlapping on the EPG - see http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...highlight= - this is perhaps a related problem.

Attached is a 'dump' file that NPVR briefly mentioned as the service was dying.

Edit: I notice also that the channel 'numbers' are duplicated somewhat - is this normal?



Edit 2: I noticed under pending, Spicks and Specks was listed twice, so I removed it from recurring. I then added it once, and it appeared twice again under pending. I will try disabling one of the three USB tuners and try again

Edit 3 - Disabled one of the three tuners (the one with less channels since it has a weak RF section) and then removed, re-added Spicks and Specks.

Under Pending:

My movie collection consists of files generated by ember media manager:

<moviename>.nfo
<moviename>.jpg
<moviename>.fanart.jpg

Using the tool ThumbGen I am generating a new picture "<moviename>.thumb.jpg" which is a combined picture of the description, poster and fanart. See http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post409216.

Instead of displaying the default poster "<moviename>.jpg" in the Videos plugin I would like to display the picture "<moviename>.thumb.jpg".

Any chance for a configuration setting of which picture to display in the Videos plugin?

\\Agerdin

I moved my video files to a 2nd internal hard drive. Since I did this the MVP will randomly crash when doing a Play-All on a directory. Npvr is installed on C:, and my Videos are on D:. It looks like in the logs that the rolling MVP file can't be found. I just had the error occur at about 11:15pm on 4/19/2011. The MVP log files all look like they are from yesterday the 18th? I have attached the logs which were zipped just a min or two after the error.

Any suggestions? Should I just move the files back?