I'm using N-PVR 2.0.3 on XP in full screen on a 1080 TV.
When I pause, the programme title and summary info are displayed on the bottom quarter of the screen for exactly 2 minutes. I would like a way to return to the full paused picture without waiting for the 2 minutes to expire.
I can't find a keyboard or remote control short-cut to do it, and I can't find a variable in the config file to reduce the default time this info stays on the screen.
Sub, in looking into this problem http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post407160 which I thought was NEWA I think i found that you can't create recurring recordings without EPG data even with NPVR. Is that correct?
As I am getting totally fed up with having "heated discussions" with the boss about which shows were recorded by/for which of us & as the Recordings setup leaves a HUGE amount to be desired when there is more than one user using the system & there are no alternative plugins that are any better in this respect I have been trying to figure out how I can use the videos screen for my personal recordings.
I have been trying to work out how it uses/displays metadata in videos & this is what I have observed...
1. If I have an overview for a recording in \NPVR\Media\Shows it displays this when I select the directory.....Brilliant & just what I want......but it also displays the "overview" when I select any of the episodes & NOT it's own hidden metadata ...This is totally NOT what is wanted!!
2. I have tried <StoreSeparateMetadataXml>true</StoreSeparateMetadataXml> which I though was there so I could move Recordings around without having to worry about what sort of media they end up on & they should still display the metadata no matter where they end up....doesn't work for me as it doesn't display any metadata if this file exists but if I rename it to xxxxx.xml.old they it starts displaying the hidden metadata??
3. Damn I'm sure there were other things but my brain has gone on hold again
The wife would like the shuffle button back in the video library. She used to shuffle a folder till she got a show she liked at the top, and then hit play all before going to bed.
Now we just do play-all so I keep seeing the same 1st show over and over.
I sometimes re-name the files to mix it up a bit, but the shuffle button back would be great.
Instead of the present scan system which adds new channels, but doesn't purge ones that are no longer broadcasting (e.g. "Channel One" in the UK), I'd like to see a "rescan" option that will purge the EPG of channels that don't broadcast anymore.
I just upgraded to Windows 7 and NPVR 2.0.3. Have done a bunch of Windows udpates and just using what MS supplied for the nvidia graphics card.
The NPVR install went fine (best ever compared to XP/GBPVR) and everything pretty much works out of the box. BUT ... NPVR does not have any video when playing recordings or live TV. The sound is there, but no video. MCE is working fine.
I used to be a GBPVR user and have only recently rediscovered the project as NPVR! I see great things and can't wait to see what you do with it! Right now I'm trying to do something a little unorthodox so let me explain my setup:
I have a HDHomerun that serves my TV channels as streams. I got one because I wanted all of my connected devices to have access to tv content without requiring tuner hardware. The obvious choice would be to use GBPVR in client mode. After trying it out, I discovered that it was way too choppy on client computers. Likely, this is because the host computer is reencoding the live stream and then trying to transmit it to the client on an already congested network. Could you consider adding special behavior to the npvr client code such that if the user is tuning a channel from a HDHomerun then it will just transmit the stream url to the client and the client can pull the stream directly. Hopefully that makes sense.
Until such a feature exists, I'm trying to cobble together a workaround. I am syncing the program folder and the database folder between all clients. This works well for syncing settings, database, and tvxml.xml but one thing it doesn't do is share the channel list between all clients (which is desirable in my case since all computers are identical and they are sharing an identical source, the HDHomerun). How do I transfer (or sync) the channel list from one computer to another? Secondly, is there a better way of doing this that I'm missing?
I installed a PCH2 with an analog TV. Everything works: shares, script, but only up to the gray screen saying "mvmcx2 is loaded killall: gay".
Here is the syntax check. Note: I do not use GB-PVR, and renamed the HTML in the mvpmc folder.
Code:
Checking for mvpmc share on HONCHO
mvpmc C:\mvpmc
Checking GB-PVR.html links
C:\mvpmc \GB-PVR.html not found
NMT IP Address: 10.0.0.158 MAC 0006DC816A74
GB-PVR Installed C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\
WebServerEnabled true
WebServerNMTStreamingEnabled true
WebServerPort 7647
Kan geen verbinding met de externe server maken ("can not connect to external server")
N-PVR Installed C:\Users\Public\NPVR
<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/NETWORK_SHARE/HONCHO:mvpmc/npvr.cgi">N-PVR</a>
<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/NETWORK_SHARE/NETWORK_BROWSER/browser.cgi">N-PVR via Network Browser</a>
<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/USB_DRIVE_A-1/mvpmc/usb_a.cgi">N-PVR via USB</a>
config.xml entry found Client Type PCH2
MVPSendIncrementalUpdates true
MVPClientType PCH2
MVPWidth 800
MVPHeight 600
MVPOffsetX 0
MVPOffsetY 0
Enabled true
Port 8070
Checking NMT Version
Checking NMT Display
PAL
Calling NMT Source
I run Win7-32bit, and used the WSM1.2_Setup to check the shares, and to easily set the registry for the necessary patches under Win7 to get shares to work.
