Hello

Have just given NPVR another try, and it seems to be more stable than last time I tried it.

My videos looks to be played nicely, but then I play livetv it still either hangs completely or the picture freezes from time to time.

I have a WHS there NPVR is installed, only for managing recordings, EPG and NPVR-WEB.

Installed NPVR on a win 7 as client. Version is 2.03.
I haven't installed patches yet, could this be the problem, are they there for v2.03, could not find them.

Another question, I have been spoiled with the possibility to make different recording folders in my old setup, with 4therecord. This means that then I record a cartoon for the kids it is placed in the folder KidsTV, then my wife is recording a boring documentary it is placed in BetinaTV, and then I record a movie it is placed in a movie folder(this is manually chosen then you make a new recording schedule). This makes it easier to fx. find kids related tv for the kids, then they want to use this.
Is this possible in NPVR?

Best regards
Rantzau

I have GBPVR setup using the Analog HighDef Recording Plugin and the Hauppage HD PVR as the source.

How do I get the Sky channels/numbers into the config so that I can change channels with the built in blaster and record from Sky?

I have the blaster working OK in Windows Media Center but that software is way too processor intensive and I want to record in a non-proprietary format.

If I have on A110 logged in/running MVPMCX2 --- the other NMT fails to launch and ends up back at the NMT spash screen after trying for while. If I go to the other one and exit, then everything is fine for the first -- and visa versa.

I changed the mount command in the .cgi script to open read only(ro), thinking this was a file locking issue with the rw setting:

mount -t cifs //192.168.1.100/mvpmc /etc/mvpmc -o username=guest,password=xxx,ro

Yet this didn't work. Any other ideas on what is causing this single NMT only issue here?

BTW....if I leave open for ro -- does MVPMCX2 try and store any bookmark or other state info on the share that this will break?

Thanks

With mvpmcx2 It seems most files in my library work fine with both FF and Seek (navigation button to time stamp). Yet with HD .ts files, I cannot seem to get more than few second jump...and this requires a repeated pushing of a button...and not faster or significantly faster than just allowing it to play due to the hesitation each time button is pressed. Time seek with these files does not work at all. So far it seems all the .ts HD files captured via my tuner to NPVR suffer from this through mvpmcx2. Now if I go to my normal NMT interface, these same files (if they are streamable at all), are all able to seek just fine (very important), and FF( slightly less important since it is really just fast play). But without any effective way to move past commercials on these .TS files in mvpmc(again other types work fine), usefulness is greatly diminished. Commercials are long and boring, needless to say

Thanks for any help........is it a config problem? If so, which logs should can I zip up?

Regards

I am currently using a single tuner DVB-T USB stick and was looking at a DVB-S card to add to my setup. The question is how does NPVR handle multiple devices? Does it create a "TV Guide" for each separate device or are the channels combined into a single EPG?

Today I lost a recording that should have taken place at 12:00. Because of the switch to DST it suddenly was sheduled for 13:00.

At the first moment I thought it would be GB-PVR's fault, because it should have treated
"12:00" as local time instead of global.
Also, it seemed to be a very small issue, a result of the adaption of the times already in the gbpvr.db3. But reimporting the xmltv file did not help.

Than I examined the xmltv file and re-downloaded a new one (with xmltv 0.5.59).
In both, the one from yesterday and the one from today, I found:
<programme start="20110327120000 +0100" channel="xy">

My conclusion is that xmltv and gb-pvr assume global times - which I consider to be a good idea -, and the fault lies in the web page xmtlv grabs from. The web page uses wrong times, CET instead of CEST (Central European (Summer) Time) or local time.

I'm looking for a simple way to work around the problem.
First I thought there would be a time correction option in xmtv, but I didn't find any. Instead I found that xmltv seems to be prepared to use local time:

>xmltv.exe tv_grab_ch_search --capabilities
Timezone is +0200
baseline
manualconfig
cache

(c.f. <http://wiki.xmltv.org/index.php/XmltvCapabilities>)

Can I set a time offset in GB-PVR?
What are other recommendations?

-- Well, I found the option in GB-PVR...

GB-PVR Configuration > Capture Sources > Edit > EPG Source [XMLTV Plugin] Settings
"Apply offset when importing listings [00:00] (Dont use this unless you have to)"

-- Hmmmmm!
Different values for the time offset (-01:00, -02:00, +03:00) didn't show any effect in the Program Guide after "Empty EPG" and "Update EPG".
Actually, sometimes when entering the guide the shows seemed to have transformed times - which immediately reverted to the old ones.

What am I missing?
What else could I do?

Top of the day all,

I shall pass this up for discussion and see if we can get a consensus of opinion

I feel slightly out of my depth here on this thread:

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...ture-Cards

with regard to what is a hybrid or combo device?

Hauppauge would appear to use both appelations depending on their cards/devices. From what I can make out Pinnacle just use the term hybrid for a device that also has Analog.

And what is the difference in terms of NextPVR use between an Analog Tuner and Analog Capture? If a card has an Analog Tuner does that make it a Combo. And an Analog Capture a Hybrid? Hmmmmmmm...... :confused:

looking forward to some words of wisdom

cheers all

steeb

Hi,

Before I spend time trying to work this out, does anyone know the 3 digit number I need to add the 282.ini so it can see the new DVB-S2 FTA Channel 4 HD (UK)? I'm using the old PVR2, but I thought it might be good to publise that all of you who bought DVB-S2 cards for the UK (and didn't really need them) do now!!

Daniel

ReClockOrNot is a simple plugin to allow ReClock to work correctly with NPVR, by disabling it when using .ts files, and enabling it for all other video types.

You can read about why it was needed in this thread

The plugin itself is available on the wiki:

http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...ClockOrNot

Iain

Hi,

I searched around about this topic, but couldn't find anything (I'm guessing b/c most users don't set up manual recurring recordings more often?). I'm using NPVR 2.0.3 under Windows 7 and I'm trying to set up manually recurring recordings "Weekly" for programs that start on a specific day of the week in a specific time slot. The recurring recording is set up properly, but only the first instance of the show is displayed under "Pending Recordings", even though there is enough EPG data to cover the following week as well (although, since this is a manually recurring recording, I'm not sure this even matters). Are manual recurring "Weekly" recordings only for a week at a time? That wouldn't make sense to me as the option would have no meaning.

Background to this is that recently I lost my analog channels (Thanks Comcast!). I had to switch over to digital and I have a DTA connected to my tuner card. Of course, the only frequency that comes out of the DTA is for channel 3 or 4 (I set mine to 4), so until I have time for a more elegant solution, I wanted to set up the manually recurring recordings to tape shows (always recording ch 4 from NPVR's perspective), but manually changing channels using the DTA's remote to the channel I'm really recording (not a huge issue right now since I only record 2 analog channels).

Is there something I'm doing wrong (or missing) in the whole process?

(I've attached the NPVR.log zipped.)

Thanks,
tiger