Posted by: Granddad - 2011-03-23, 10:18 AM - Forum: Hardware
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Because my Hauppauge PCI 250 decide to pack up on me I have bought a Hauppauge 2200 for the composite input from my Virginmedia cable box, but I can not get it to work.
I don't think it's the usual type of NPVR configuration problem as the device is recognised and I can set it up and I can get the S-video input to work (but with awful picture, because of the composite to s-video converted that I use)
With the composite feed, which I know is good, I can only record a blue screen, using either of the two tuners. Have I got a duff card? I'm starting to think I have.
Has anyone had any problems with a similar set up?
1. Can someone help with the firewall settings for my Windows 7 pro machine? I configured it too allow all traffic through npvr and all apps on 8080 and 8866, but outside the localhost EWA was blocked. I opened the firewall and everything was good. What ports and apps/services do I need to allow for this to work?
2. Would anyone mind if I created a theme for NEWA?
Maybe this is a "feature" of nPVR, but it seems that when you're watching live TV and you decide that you want to record the show and hit record, it knocks you out and then re-starts the recording, and you lose anything that has been seen thus far.
Even if you rewind to the beginning of the show and then hit record, it still discards the buffer and starts over. (I've set the SlipSeconds registry key to something sufficiently high to keep the whole show on disk)
is this something that just won't work in nPVR anymore?
I have all GBPVR translations in an Excel sheet.
Now I have imported the translations into the Hello World Web Projects, Language function.
I can generate language files for nPVR and GBPVR in 50 languages.
Online editing of translations is implemented, but I will use Excel to update database table for some time.
I have plans to make a download function for nPVR that will download all language files.
I have attached a screenshot of the System plugin. This shows three shows being recorded.
ABC2 is on a different frequency to SBS2, but is shown on the same tuner.
SBS HD is on the same frequency as SBS2, but is shown recording on a separate tuner.
The logs say The Moon was recorded on the tuner WinFast DTV 2000 DS, and dont seem to state what tuner is used for the other two shows.
I have also attached a screenshot of the Status screen. This shows the same shows, but on different tuners.
I have also attached the logs. All shows appear to have recorded correctly (subject to pre-padding issues)
OK here I am, across my trek from the NMT to SageTV to NPVR Forums. Thanks to support from others, especially Martin….I am almost there. I wanted to explain what my environment looks like, and what would like to “fix” – and hopefully you good folks can tell me if mvpcm2 is going to work for my setup, or what I need to change, if anything:
1) I have a single little server, with relatively small fast SATA drives for core storage. This local storage supports WinXP/Pro OS, and runs numerous services for the house (file/print/fax), including Audio(squeezeboxserver), Video (NPVR) via HDHomeRun (wired connection) for local TV – and some others too.
2) When large video files come into NPVR, I do not view them from the NPVR video files directory. I would run out of space if I did. Instead, every night(very late when nobody watching/accessing USB storage) I run Robocopy and move all the Video files to the USB storage, call it drive X. This drive is large and perfectly fast for streaming video, and sleeps when not in use. This drive wouldn’t be fast enough to be the native NPVR Video directory – as multiple TV/PCHs will access it for reading only through the day. The PCHs are in use in my house all the time, and take the place of any cable or set-top boxes.
3) Drive X is NFS shared(over UDP) to the PCHs over Wifi-N via some Ethernet bridges. I use Microsoft Services for Unix to provide the NFS server function on the Win XP server. I have tried native SMB/CIFS – but the Samba NMTs use is not as efficient over wireless, and I have trouble streaming MPEG2 HD streams otherwise. NFS works well for me over Wifi, and is a good reason why PCHs work well in my house (versus most others that don’t support NFS)
4) All Videos from various sources appear in different NFS shares on the PCHs. All Videos from the NPVR source are filed away in a directory called PVR which is also NFS shared.
5) PCHs have no local disk added.
6) NPVR never has any videos or files to manage, as they all get moved to the USB connected NFS shared storage. As far as NPVR is concerned, there are usually 0 available files for viewing at the end of each day.
7) PCH/TV viewer watches shows…then deletes them from the remote, which delete them from the NFS share….
8) For TV sources, the EWA interface works well enough …and we use that from PCs or whatever to schedule recordings.
9) This all works fabulously so far. But one problem…
10) The problem is about 50% of the Tuner/NPVR sourced content has difficulty playing on the NMT. I can manually fix them so they play by remuxing them using ffmpeg (thanks again Martin). But this is a manual process….unless I somehow automate it with other batch files or scripts with NPVR. My understanding is that mvpcm2 improves the native stream-handling capabilities of the PCH NMTs, so I wouldn’t need to worry about remuxing them.
11) Based on my limited understanding, mvpcm2 is running on the PCH (A110), and provides a user interface into NPVR and streams video over HTTP (not NFS). If this is true, can mvpcm2 look at this separate drive X(normally NFS shared), and stream from there, even though NPVR doesn’t know about these files or location? Or will this not work because I move the files away from NPVR each night?
12) Does mvpcm2 change the normal function of the A110, where no longer see the NFS shares that have the bulk of my video content, or does it augment the features and just provide another Web Services selection under Sources on the PCH interface? I have been looking for exactly what it changes in the NMT interface and cannot find that too easily in the threads
13) Being diskless, on the PCHs……does this present challenges or sacrifices for full mvpcm2 function?
14) At the end of the day…. I only want to fix the remuxing issue, and this is main reason I feel compelled to try mvpcm2. Is this a good reason?
15) If I do install, In the Installation instructions (Dummies), the link that shows the installation GUI has options for installing the software: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post337156 Since I already have NPVR installed, is all I need the first two checked boxes as shown in the link? Or do I also need to install Skins/Plugins and/or NMT Setup?
Based on the description of how things are setup, what, if anything, do I need to change to use mvpcm2, or should I just stop now and just remux when I need to?
I have seen this a couple of times. I checked an in process recording (about 20 minutes into an hour recording) and it was listed as failed. I then checked the recording directory and it was actually recording. Then today I checked it and it only recorded about 20 minutes. That means it died sometime around when I checked on it. The logs say it never started. The show was the Amazing race on 3/20. The logs also shows that the next show failed, but it actually recorded fine.
I have 2 apparently identical Acer R3610's with Win 7 and NPVR clients. Both play full HD quite happily from a recorded .ts from the server. However, If I try to play back an HD quality .mov file from my video folder, one of them plays it flawlesly, but the other stutters. Here is the log section for the good one
The config.xml is identical on both PC's (I copied it over to make sure).
ffdshow is installed on both PC's, but is only supposed to be used for audio.
I've tried to use graphedit to alter the merit of the MS DTV-DVD decoder, but it says it cant. It does tell me that it is set to a merit of normal-1 on both PC's though.
How does NPVR decide what decoder to use, or more importantly, how do I force .mov files to play with the MS DTV-DVD decoder?
A subtly annoying thing.... all the status of tuner shows HDHomeRun "Sleeping". When infact a recording is in progress using this tuner. The status doesn't change, ever, to my knowledge.
Is this because HDHR isn't officially supporting NPVR as a registered app? Or is this an issue on the NPVR side? It would be nice to see the status correctly reflect the state of the tuner.
