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 âNot Respondingâ. No clue in the log as everything just stops.
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....
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.
«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.
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:
I'd like to centre the list on the screen but when I change the IconView's location attribute the list background moves but the list items do not. Is there another tag/attribute I need to modify?
Skin file contents (with modified attribute in bold):
I recorded Jeopardy tonight (found around the 19:00 hour in the logs), and I began to watch it while it's still recording, which gave me both audio and video/audio sync issues. So I waited for the recording to finish, then i watched it. I had lost some audio around the 5 minute mark, and had some issues where video and audio were not syncing and some time issues (where it would go fast then slow down).
There are two shows on TV here in the US: NCIS, and NCIS: LA. When I set a recurring recording for NCIS, it also catches NCIS: LA. But it doesn't label it as NCIS: LA, it labels it as NCIS, which is incorrect because of the wrong show title and recording the wrong show.
If I recall correctly, this is a modification in the schedule logic that you introduced a while back to catch shows that change title from week to week. Can you give us an option to set titles to exact match in recurring recordings, or at least in config.xml?
Not sure if you want these, but I got an exception with NPVR. I was playing back a video that was simultaneously being recorded. The sound and video went out of sync, so I stopped the video then attempted to play it again. I got this error here.
Quote:************** Exception Text **************
System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException: The given key was not present in the dictionary.
at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowKeyNotFoundException()
at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.get_Item(TKey key)
at NextPVR.Players.LiveTvPlayer.StartLiveTV(Channel channel, String& reason)
at NextPVR.ControllerForm.PlayLiveTV(Channel channel)
at NextPVR.TV.TVGuide.HandleCommand(String command)
at NextPVR.TV.TVGuide.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
at NextPVR.ControllerForm.OnKeyDown(Object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
at NextPVR.ControllerForm.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.
When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.
