I'm making the switch to npvr and I can't get a screen to show the video while mapping my qam channels. What do i do to get the screen it was always there when you scanned in gbpvr.

Not sure if this has been reported yet, but in npvr 2.0.3, it appears that the live TV timing.info files are not being deleted. I'm starting to get quite the collection in my live tv folder.

I normal watch 4x3 pillar box, but I can see the benefits of using the panoramic view that sblueeye talked about here http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post403763 because I definitely don't like seeing fat people.

I have created this YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6z0mPefueE to show how the effect works. What you see will be short 15 second segments with

1. Pillar boxed
2. Full screen stretched
3-5 Various levels of wide angle.

You might want to zoom full screen and step back to get the effect.

I used a tennis game since figured the court would give you some perspective of the fish bowl effect of a non-linear stretch, broadcasts don't look quite this extreme.

The purpose of this thread if it is worth adding to mvpmcx2 as either a default or command line replacement for the normal full screen stretch.

Martin

Now that I got recordings working, I have 2 other problems.

1. During playback of NPVR recorded files (.ts), I have a hang when skipping. Usually for 5 seconds or so the playback hangs and then continues whenever I skip.

2. On a livetv channel change, NPVR hangs and after a while returns to the Menu saying device not available but I can go back to livetv and it is now on the new channel.

Attached logs show the 2 problems. I played a file with 3 skip pushes and then went to livetv changed the channel and after the return to the menu when back to livetv. I then exited the program.

Thanks for you help.

I have been catching up watching some older recorded shows today. (These were recorded with versions of npvr prior to 2.0.3 and the fix for switching channels during the post-padding, if that matters.)

I was using the built-in Recordings screen and noticed after both the last 2 recordings of "The Cape" that the Recordings listing didn't display the watched indicator. However, if I select the recording, it gives me the "Unwatch" option.

Logs are attached.

I am just moving to NPVR, and working to set up my IR Blaster (need it to talk to comcast box).

GBPVR has an included .exe; NPVR does not seem to.

I have WinTV installed, but the HCW.exe in that dir doesn't seem to work, and the IR.exe isn't the right thing to use. the NPVR config still requires me to pick an external exe it seems.

I don't have anything on c: that has "blast" in the name other than the GBPVR blast .exe that was used previously.

I checked the setup posts etc but didn't see anything. What am I missing? If the winTV executables are what I need to use I'll play with that more, but I sure want to troubleshoot the right one : )

Thanks!

Dear all,

I am finally getting around to building a new back-end server dedicated to a NextPVR set-up.

Due to money limitations (as always!) and what I can get my hands on I am customising this around an old Dell 1600SC server. Any budget I do have I would prefer to pump into new DVB cards (and another donation to Sub ).

I've chucked in 2 x 3.2 (HT) Xeons and have 3GB RAM installed. Though I have read that some appear to have had issues running XP with NextPVR I haven't noticed any issues while testing NextPVR on my current GB-PVR server and given that microsoft now look to be supporting XP until 2014 I would prefer to stick with XP rather than fork out for Windows7 (once again preference in spending on new DVB cards).

I would hope that this system is as 'future proofed' as possible until the end of the life of XP and could handle the advent of more HD channels etc.

Question 1: Any of you good people see any reason as to why I may have problems with this set-up?
Question 2: Given that the 1600SC is a server by design the onboard/integrated graphics leave much to be desired and have a wopping 8MB of memory I stress this would be a back-end only server and not used to watch TV/Recordings etc directly. Any issues I am not aware of if I run with the very limited integrated graphics? A test install of an XP system shows that the integrated GPU supports DirectX. I could of course install a separate graphics card but this would eat up a nice PCI slot waiting for a new DVB device

many thanks in advance

steeb

I'm using NPVR and have 2 HVR-1600 cards. One is QAM and one is ATSC. I am using Schedules Direct and choosing the same channel for the TV guide information for the same QAM and ATSC channel. When I update the TV guide, the QAM time/content is correct but the ATSC channels are offset by 4 hours. I am near Washington DC and my time zone is (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).

Any ideas how an offset can be put on the two channels?

Bigbus

Hi guys, I have come accross NVPR and wanted to give it a go. I have a Gigabyte P6000 TV tuner card but when I run NVPR it shows nothing under Settings -> Devices. Does it support only some special cards or is good for general use? More precisely, is there a way to use NVPR with my Gigabyte card?

When i tried to test my previous problem (where two simultaneos recordings crashed npvr recording service) I deiscovered another problem.

I started a second recording with one already running as a scheduled recording. I opened the status window open on the nPVR recording server via RDP and started the second recording via TV guide in web GUI. The recording started fine BUT when I cancelled the recording (also from TV Guide in web GUI) something failed, the status window showed the recording stopping on Device 2 but the status window hung and when I tried to close it I got an error message sayng nPVRtray had crashed.

The other recording looked like it was running fine but when I restarted the nPVRtray and tried to right-click on it no menu appeared. So I closed recording service and rar:ed up my logs and added a crash.mdmp that had appeared in my c:\temp directory. Not sure you need the latter but it's there anyway.