Does anyone else get this glitch with the video player? I'm playing on a secondary monitory, that's TV resolution. When I start a video, often the screen will be incorrectly zoomed in. If I click the 'aspect ratio' button, the problem is always fixed, and the video returns to fill the screen properly.

I think it might have something to do with playing a high-res video on a lo-res screen. It looks like when I first start, the videos are playing the center of the video, as if it was playing full-resolution cropping off the edges and only showing the center.

When I upgrade the Oct 15 version to 1.5.36 I have no Tv. A scan at this point finds no channels. When, as I have just done, restore system image the previous version reinstates all channels and works perfectly.
I will select live tv now and post logs then install 1.5.36 and post logs at that point.
Thanks, in advance,for any help.
Waynesm
P.s I don't want to have to reinstall Windows 7 if poss.

All done. Now have no channels

What is VMR9? I just reinstalled XP due to a motherboard upgrade and now GBPVR gives this message when I try to open it.

"Sorry, this system does not support the required VMR9 video render."

All drivers and updates are installed and up to date as far as I can tell. I've tried all the suggestions posted in other threads but nothing is working.

Graphics on the old board was the onboard HD4200, new graphics is onboard HD4290. Not a lot of difference.

If I use Overlay manager GBPVR opens and seems to work OK.

What's the difference between VMR9 and Overlay manager though? Should I be looking to fix VMR9?

Thanks for your help.

I tried every combination of renderers and decoders (focusing on MPEG2) to play a recorded show from the host computer.

Vido renderer options: EVR, VMR7, VMR7 custom, VMR FSE, Overlay

MPEG2 Video decoders: FFdshow, microsoft mpeg2 video decoder, CBVA DMO wrapper filt, cyberlink video/sp decoder (HP), and P2G decoder

Right now, just trying to get video working. Then I'll work on audio.

Think with GB, I used the ffdshow, but that's just not working now.

I did get the client working on another PC (as a test case) and was successful there.

I assume the video renderer isn't that important, the key is finding the proper mpeg2 video decoder? Is it safe to assume that the shows are recorded in MPEG2 format?

Using Hauppage 1950 if that makes any difference.

Next PVR is working ok on a dedicated spare computer so the next step was to setup a client on another spare computer. I had to first move the NPVR data directory to somewhere XP would allow to be shared. The EPG works and can add and delete schedules on the server. I can watch live TV and play back recordings but only for around five minutes before it locks up. Changing channel seems to be a good way to stop it working after several changes. Under Task Manager Next PVR is listed as “Not Responding”. No clue in the log as everything just stops.

Chris

I know there used to be a callerID plugin using this program

http://sunflowerhead.com/software/yac/

Is it possible to make one for NPVR?

I've just gotten a WinTV-2250 to replace 2 analog PVR-150s. Got it installed and it's working fine. I'm having a problem understanding exactly how channel-mapping should work though. this gets kind of involved, so pls bear with me... Here's the situation:

With the old analog tuners, I had analog channels available, from 2 to 105 or so, and they all mapped to my EPG source with no problems. So I never needed to do any channel mapping since they were all set up correctly.

Now I have 2 analog tuners and 2 QAM tuners with the 2250. When I scan for channels on the QAM tuners it finds 230 channels, all labeled something like "Unknown 66.2". I can view those channels OK, so they're valid, but no station data is present. Each of these is also assigned an integer channel number, so in Live TV I can go to channel 268 and I see what's on QAM channel 66.2. So far so good.

However, the integer channel numbers assigned to the QAM channels do not correspond to the integer channels from my cable provider. In fact, there is no channel 268 defined by my cable provider. QAM 66.2 is actually the TOON channel, available at cable-box channel 62 (it's the digital counterpart to analog channel 62).

So, I figure, no problem, I can just map those channels to the ones I want. So if I were to want to view the TOON channel (for some reason), I would want to go to Channel 62 and see QAM channel 66.2, not analog 62, because the picture is better with the digital channel.

(what I want to achieve is that in NPVR the "familiar" channel list is available, i.e. the channels we're all used to selecting on the TV or cable box. By selecting the "familiar" channel in NPVR, I want to see the "best" picture available, whether that is an analog channel, its digital-QAM-480p counterpart, or its HDTV-QAM-1080 counterpart.)

So, In Settings->Channels, I can see the full list of analog and digital channels present on all my tuners. If I select channel 268 (labeled as "Unknown 66.2") and click Details, I can change the channel number to 62 and I can change the EPG source to Schedules Direct, select channel 62, and I should be in business. I click OK.

Now, I can go to the NPVR main screen, right-click, select Channels, and look for channel 62. There are actually 2 listed, the old analog one and the new QAM-mapped one. I can select either one, and I get what I expect (fuzzy picture on old analog 62, sharper picture on new QAM-mapped 62).

However, there are 2 problems that I can see. They are:

1. on the TV Guide, it shows me 2 rows for Channel 62 (as expected), but the one corresponding to the QAM channels has no show details. For most channels, this is the case, but sometimes it works just the way I expect it to (2 channels listed, both mapped to the same EPG data, both have the show details I expect.) I've tried emptying and updating the EPG data but it doesn't help.

2. During mapping, it's easy to completely lose the association between the "virtual" channel and the "true" channel (i.e. does "62" refer to analog-62 or QAM-66.2). When I mapped the QAM channel to "virtual" channel 62, I didn't touch the channel name of "Unknown 66.2", because that's the only way I can know that this is actually a QAM channel. I would like to change that to "TOON" so I know it corresponds to that channel. But, if I do that, it will be indistinguishable from the original analog channel. This is a problem for the following reason: my cable company likes to shift the QAM channels around from time to time, so there's no guarantee that TOON will always be on QAM 66.2. If it moves, I'll have a very difficult time remapping it. I can hunt for the new QAM channel and map 62 to that new channel, but how will I then "re-use" QAM-66.2? That channel is "gone", there's nothing left in the channel mapping to identify it. I'll have to re-scan the tuner for channels, and then I will also lose all the other mappings I've laboriously created.

Also, if I were to delete a channel mistakenly, how can I get it back? If I accidentally delete "Unknown 66.2", it's gone - I have to re-scan to get it back, and then I lose all my mappings and have to re-create my recurring recordings.

Am I missing something? Is there a better way?

Channel-mapping nirvana would seem to include a notion of a persistent "virtual" channel that's created via an association of a virtual channel number and description with an actual channel (whether an analog or a QAM channel), and an EPG source, all of which can persist if individual tuners are added, removed or re-scanned. Virtual channels should be able to be added or deleted easily, without affecting the "actual" channels on the tuners. Right now, it seems that "actual" channels can be mapped to EPG data (but it doesn't always work), but deletions from the list of channels are permanent and additions are impossible.

I would be happy to be corrected if I've got all this wrong....

Dear all,

we are pleased to announce a preview of the new main webpages for NextPVR.

They can be seen in action here:

http://npvrtest.cinkmedia.com

the design is fixed and approved by sub, there is still perhaps a bit of work to do with some page content.

All feedback most positively taken on board.

Thanks to all those that gave initial ideas and suggestions. Extra special thanks to Elite, Hairy and McBainUK for much hard work and many hours spent

steeb

Hey there guys,

I have a Gigabyte GT-P8000 and I'm from Portugal.
The software that came with the tv card is pretty lame, the interface sucks and the video quality of recorded stuff is a lot lower that the live view and well... here I am trying to find a better software.

So I installed nPVR, the device is listed on the settings, though it says it's 'Digital Recorder Settings' and I'm trying to use the analog signal (the tv card actually handles both). Anyway I tried to scan the channels, but as expected, I got nothing.
I made some digging and found that installing Wintv7 could help, but I couldnt install it, because it didnt detected any compatible hardware.

On this topic, http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...Tuner-Card, that mate said:

«if I use the KNC One TV Station settings plugged into the direct .ini I can tune all our local analog TV stations»

and:

«I modified the KNC .ini and played around with filters that came with the cards original software. The end result of my configuration is detailed in the attached file which may be of some use to other users of this tuner card.»


Can any one help me out, please?
Thank you in advance.

Hey all,

Not a problem with NPVR - happily using that without issue. I've been trying for a month now to sort out conversion as I can't dl too many 2 gig files at a time. I need a batch solution as I have daily recordings. My divx conversion in GBPVR worked seamlessly.

Think from what I've seen in general if I want to do this the best option is to convert to mpeg4 with TS files however I can't get the damn thing to stay in sync.

The TS is perfect though the recording is 2/3 seconds out. Has anyone had any luck converting ts files using postprocessing.bat and if so could you paste your ffmpeg or whatever you use command lines from the bat so I could try?

I'm using this at the moment - any suggestions would be warmly received:

Quote:REM Encode to mp4 changing file extension
"C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\ffmpeg.exe" -y -i %1 -f mp4 -vcodec mpeg4 -deinterlace -r 25 -aspect 16:9 -acodec libfaac -qscale 6 -ar 48000 -async 100000 -ac 2 "%~dpn1.mp4"