I am using Vista and running NPVR as administrator.

I've noticed that after running a channel scan on my DVB-S tuners NPVR stops responding after the scan is complete & I click on "ok" to exit the scan window.

Vista then closes NPVR and after relaunching NPVR the channels details are fine, so not really a problem but I ought to mention it.

After having done an initial scan yesterday using Freesat only, I chose to do a re-scan today using Astra 2. All was fine until I got to the last tuner when NPVR now comes up with an error message saying that the device failed to start.

I've checked in device manager and all looks fine and it was obviously ok yesterday. I've also shut down the pc and restarted but still the message persists.

Does anyone have an idea whether this is really a hardware problem or is it a software/driver problem?

For reference I have 2 dual PCTV Sat Pro tuners numbered 1 to 4 in the devices screen. It is PCTV Stargate Tuner #4 which fails to start. I have attached all NPVR logs - could someone have a look please and give me some pointers?

Thanks as always, I really appreciate the assistance of the board members.

Graham :confused:

Is it possible to delete a device from the list of Tuners? I've removed one that will never be reinstalled. It is listed as not present and not enabled, but ideally it should just not... be.

Forgive me for not posting this on the PCH board. I figured that Martin or others here might know this answer.

OK, I just moved my PCH to a different TV. I use Harmony remotes for my systems to help the WAF. Typically, after watching on the PCH, I exit npvr and it dumps me back to the PCH start screens. At that time, I hit the off button on the PCH remote, or the Harmony off button. The green light on the PCH then turns orange and that is the way I leave it.

I set up the Harmony like normal for the new TV so the PCH will work. I used the Harmony Sybus setup for an a-100. Everything works fine, but when I hit Off, the PCH actually shuts OFF and goes completely black on the front, like I pulled the power. No button on the PCH remote (that I have found) will wake it up. Is there an "ON" button that will wake it from this state" Using the PCH remote, it just turns orange, the Harmony turns it off. Is this some function that I should know about or should I just teach my Harmony the correct "standby" mode from the a-100 remote "off"????

NPVR does not seem to be able to deal with channels which are “off air” and only transmitting a MHEG signal. I don’t recall ever seeing any mention in the forum but it was the very first “problem” I saw after my first install. Whereas the TV will display the message NPVR just displays the last frame from the previous channel. It can give the impression that NPVR has locked up if you are not aware you have tuned to a channel which is not broadcasting. However it is not a “Problem” for me as I currently don’t watch live TV via NPVR.

Chris

Sorry if I am missing the obvious

I have 6 tuners with a bus load of channels each, I want to limit those which appear on TV Guide & which I collect EPG data for.

I can see that I can go into device setup for each tuner and delete the redundant channels but this is time consuming and I guess that they will come back when I next scan anyway.

If I remember correctly, in GBPVR we had a channels tab in MISC where we could simply globally tickbox channels we wanted.

Does this feature still exist please?

Many thanks - Graham

I've installed Haali Media Splitter, FLV Splitter, and ffdshow. I have an assortment of .mkv, .flv, and .mp4 files that all use the AVC1 video codec that all play back fine using Windows Media Player. However, I can't get them to play back in GBPVR or NPVR. They both crash. The last few lines in the PVRX2.exe-native.log were:

2011-03-09 21:22:55.164 INFO DirectShowPlayerBase::playVideoFile(Z:\Videos\1-Pussycat Dolls - Sway.mkv)
2011-03-09 21:22:55.172 VERBOSE Creating new graph
2011-03-09 21:22:55.176 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredAudioRenderer)
2011-03-09 21:22:55.177 VERBOSE getSetting(TvShape)
2011-03-09 21:22:55.177 VERBOSE 16:9 television
2011-03-09 21:22:55.265 INFO SetVideoPosition: (0,0,1,1) (0,0,1680,1028)
2011-03-09 21:22:55.265 VERBOSE doing default rendering
2011-03-09 21:22:55.265 VERBOSE getSetting(PreferredMpegPlaybackDemux)

The last few lines in the NPVR.log were:

2011-03-09 21:50:53.973 [DEBUG][1] CheckCache() indicates:C:\Users\Public\NPVR\skin\Default\Videos\folder.jpg is not cached
2011-03-09 21:50:54.162 [DEBUG][1] CheckCache() indicates:C:\Users\Public\NPVR\skin\Default\Videos\default.jpg is not cached
2011-03-09 21:50:54.162 [DEBUG][1] CheckCache() indicates:C:\Users\Public\NPVR\skin\Default\Videos\default.jpg is not cached
2011-03-09 21:50:54.514 [DEBUG][1] PlaybackPositionHelper.GetPlaybackPosition(Z:\Videos\1-Pussycat Dolls - Sway.mkv)
2011-03-09 21:50:54.514 [DEBUG][1] File not previously played (0)
2011-03-09 21:50:54.531 [DEBUG][1] Adding EVR renderer

I've tried setting the H264 codec in config to both the Microsoft DTV-DVD codec as well as ffdshow. Windows media player must be using the Microsoft DTV-DVD codec since disabling the AVC1 codec in ffdshow has no effect. Again Windows Media Player plays all of the files fine. What are GBPVR and NPVR doing differently ? I thought if Windows Media Player played the files so would NPVR.

Thanks,

Kyle

Oh how I've missed you guys... Lost my DVR about a year ago and have just now been able to get a new one up and running and I see that sub has been really busy.

Nice work on NPVR

amongst some hardware Issues I'm having with the digital tuners I've been able to get my old analog tuner back up and running and it's recording shows pretty well.
but I can't seem to get/find the settings to activate commercial skipping and browsing the forums i thought I read that npvr has a new way of doing things.

Is comskip (or a variation) installed in NPVR? Should it already be running or do I need to initialize it some how?

Thanks for your help guys.

Gren

Tonight I tried adding a new channel, using the Composite input on my HDPVR - which I otherwise have set up to tune a bunch of channels using the Component input. Was hoping to be able to connect my VCR to it, in an ongoing effort to digitize all my VHS tapes so I can throw them out - so no EPG source or channel changer was set up for this channel.

Long story short - I wasn't able to "watch" what was coming in on that "channel" (via the composite input) and NPVR was acting oddly and I had to kill the program manually to get out of it. I restarted the recording service and removed the channel from the HDPVR device. Now I am experiencing intermittent issues with trying to use the other channels (from my cable box via component input) and am intermittently getting "Device was unable to start" errors even after cycling the power on the HDPVR.

Help? I just want to get back to where I was before attempting to use the composite inputs on my HDPVR.

So I was looking at some forum posts of people not knowing that some feature exists. I was thinking that it could be good to have a list of things like sub puts in his release post. But going back with all the past npvr versions. It would be nice to see those features that have been in a few versions but new people may not know exists.

Something like:

2.0.3
- fixed an issue with VMR9/VMR7 aspect ratio
- fixed a couple of PC client issues (rough channel changes in live tv, sometimes hanging when stopping).
- fixed a bug that could cause high network utilisation when streaming to client PC.
- fixed issue with 'HDPVR IR Blaster' option.
- fixed a QAM scanning issue.
- added 'VMR9 Custom' renderer option.
- added ability to get DVB listing from another device. For example, you might get tv listing for an DVB-C or analog channel, from a DVB-S device in the same machine (even if the channel isnt listed on the DVB-S capture source)
- fixed a problem with manual recurring 'any channel' recordings.
- fixed a schedule direct problem when multiple lineups of the same name exist.
- fixed a problem with custom screen savers being forgotten
- fixed a database lock error that could occur when recordings are renamed from .ts to other extensions.
- added ability to press 'Play' key on recording and have it play without the popup.

1.5.36
- new Default skin, from Hairy's great work on Slate.
- now able to click on time line to skip during playback
- added Schedules Direct support. Has nicer integration that GBPVR did, allowing you to select the lineup etc. (I'd only recommend it on clean setups at this stage though, rather than trying to move existing xmltv channels to schedules direct)
- now runs [DATA]\scripts\wakeup.bat when resuming from standby/hibernate, before performing any new recordings.
- added ability to disable DVB/ATSC EPG updates that happen when watching live tv.
- fixed a problem with the daemon tools browse button in the setting screen.
- fixed a problem with resuming playback of a recording, where playback position would report as 12:48.
- added support for -direct command line like GBPVR had.
- added QAM support or a couple more devices
and so on.

I have updated to 2.0.3 including the latest mvpmcX2o. The update works fine apart from that I'm unable to watch TV4, one of the free-view channels in Sweden. This is a new behavior after the update and I can watch TV4 on the NPVR server without a problem.

As soon as I try to watch TV4 live mvpmcX2o reboots, this is 100% repeatable. All other channels work including TV6 that is on the same mux.
A file is created in my live TV directory on the server and that file is watchable in the media player.