Web Radio has been updated with a few features to enhance usability.

- improved image search quality
- don't display "bad" album art
- locate Radio.png in Skin
- remote plugin interface (call WebRadio from other plugins)
- QAM video preview scanning
- scan and play digital radio without adding NPVR database
- Alt-B to toggle view (was Ctrl-B)

Download from the NPVR wiki http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...n.WebRadio

Martin

The SearchLite plugin has been updated to fix a few bugs and address changes in v2.0

- Alt colour key support
- Home key activates top menu
- new 2.0 Recording option (Record All Episodes, All Channels)
- improved channel icon support
- Inset video support
- Backspace on the Rewind key works on NMT/MVP
- Dot (.) movies search improved.

Download is available from the NPVR wiki http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...SearchLite

Martin

As title, in the PICTURES menu, a Slideshow sub-menu, with these options:

1. "Play All in Folder in name order"
   
2. "Play All in Folder in date order"
   
3. "Play All in Folder in random order" (shuffle first)
   
4. "Play All in Folder and all subfolders in name order"
   
5. "Play All in Folder and all subfolders in date order"
   
6. "Play All in Folder and all subfolders in random order" (shuffle first)
   

Thanks for this plugin Martin - I just loaded it yesterday to check it out and see if would handle a particular style of searching. Alas, it doesn't appear to, but maybe 2.0 will (wishful thinking!)

At present, the better half regularly goes through the EPG TV Guide in nPVR, looking for movies to record from her favorite channels. In the old days when we used paper guides, she'd go through the channel listings containing an alphabetical list of the movie title with descriptions and time, put a ring around the ones to watch.

What I was hoping SearchLite would be able to do is to display a list of shows on a selected (favorites?) channel(s), (ie search for all shows on a given channel, rather than search for a show name) from which one could read the description (as we can now), and chose which epsiode/time to record when there are multiple screenings of the same show. Even better, if the show had already been programed to record, this would be highlighted, so that it won't be scheduled a second time.

Any chance this can be added to the wish list if there is one. I'm willing to offer to help code if it helps

I have a problem as the client won’t communicate properly with the server even after trying all the suggestions in the forum so have done a clean install of XP and NPVR V2 on both. The server worked first time as usual when used locally after “Importing” recordings. The only none standard thing is the NPVR data directory was moved to “all users\documents” so it is accessible over the network.

The other computer is set as a client to the server. Using the “Open File” menu I can play recordings correctly from the “Recordings Directory” which is a shared directory on the server.

If I select “Live TV”, “Please Wait” is displayed for 1 ½ mins, then for a few seconds displays “Unable to communicate with recording device” then returns to the main menu. The NPVR.log has an error message :- “Unexpected Socket Exception calling startstream()”. I have enclosed the full log message.

If I select “TV Guide” I can view the programme listings. If I select a programme then select “Quick Record” then NPVR locks for about a minute then produces an “Unhandled Exception”. If you select “Continue” the new item appears on the server “TV Guide”. The error message seems to be identical to the one in the “Live TV” log. I don’t seem to be able to cancel recordings.

If I select “Recordings”, then select a programme, then select “Play” NPVR locks for about 30 seconds after which the programme details and time bar appear at the bottom of the screen but nothing else happens. The log displays up to the point where the recording is selected and the options are displayed but logs nothing else. However it is not locked up as “esc” returns to previous menu. There are no errors in the log.

The first server I built did work with the client but tended to crash the client after about an hour but the motherboard failed. The second server was underpowered so was only temporary. It didn’t work with the client at first but after reading through the forum added NRecord.exe to the firewall exception and the client worked but still tended to crash.

Both current computers have NRecord.exe and NextPVR.exe in the firewall exceptions but disabling both firewalls does not seem to help. The “Server Name” and “Database Share” are in the correct format and copied and pasted into “Net use” and “Net view” and worked correctly. I have the same problem with V1.5 and 2.0. The Data Directory is writable over the local network.

Chris

Decided to upgrade my tried and trusted 500GB Samsung HDD to a 2TB model so I could finally rip some DVDs, but since doing so I've had the following issue with GBPVR (not tested it with NPVR yet).

When playing HD video files recording from UK television (mainly BBC HD) I'm getting random playback freezes every 10 to 15 minutes. After a minute, it unfreezes and catches up on itself. Windows (7, 32bit) itself hasn't frozen, just the video/audio playback within GBPVR.

There's no way this is a GBPVR problem though, because if I play the same files from my SDD boot drive, or the old 500GB drive then everything is fine.

- Tried a different video decoder but it still did it
- I've swapped both its sata cable and the port it's plugged into
- I've swapped it for another drive (same model) but the problem continues
- It's been scanned for errors and comes up clean
- Its performance looks fine via HDTach and appears faster than the old drive too
- Windows has been told not to let the drives idle
- Other files I've tested with a smaller bitrate (SD, 720p mkv, etc) all play fine
- Tried NTFS and exFAT formatting: no difference

I'm now beginning to wonder if it's some sort of built-in auto-idle that the drive might have, but if that was the cause, surely it would screw up with all files.

I'm pretty much out of ideas now. Help!

Hi,

I'm hoping I can use the window class to target NPVR for remote commands, using IR Server suite.

Is it a constant, and if so, what is it?

I can't seem to find any easily available application that will tell me.

Hi,

I've just set up a PC client, all working very well with tv playback starting massively faster than on GBPVR. I'm not getting any channel logos in the guide though.

I copied the media\channels directory from my main PC to the client. Is there anything else I should be doing?

I have one remaining niggle that I get moaned at about.
With NPVR the channel name is truncated whereas with gbpvr it went to a second line as shown below. With the "Discovery" ones, it shows it to its worst.
Any thoughts of a tweak for this? I've looked at the skins, but what is in them is a touch beyond me as a newbie to what all the keywords may be.

thanks for any ideas.

...it broke the ability of my NPVR box to go into standby.

SP1 for Windows 7 has been pretty widely reported in the online media as being a bit of a nothing update. Apart from a couple of obscure fixes, it's basically just a roll up of all the fixes that have been distributed over windows update since 7 first came out.

My PVR is running NPVR 1.5.36 with all the hotfixes on Windows 7 x64 and used to run flawlessly, until SP1. I can only recommend that you don't bother installing it.