I don't know if any of you know of the web site called Grooveshark, it's actually a pretty good source of music with a web search engine. I've wanted to get this into NPVR for a while but since someone already has done it for the PS3 Media Streamer (PMS) and it works pretty well, I thought it would be welcome by a few in Universe. I did have to make a fix for PMS but after that smooth sailing.
sub...not sure why when I do a channel scan I am now only getting a few channels.....log attached. It appears in the log my missing channels are being detected....but just not showing up in the end results (i.e. channel 63 freq .1600, 1601, 1602, 1604 and 1606 are all valid).....yet 63.101 is what shows up as found.
I am sure I must be doing something stupid or have something set incorrectly.....
I've used GBPVR for a few years, but my system crashed a few weeks back and started the process of getting the box up-and-running with Win 7 Pro, a new hard drive, and NPVR. So far, I like the NPVR upgrade and think it's a fine piece of work! Comcast/Netfinity made their changes to digital here in my area around November 2010. I have a TV with a QAM tuner, and I am able to get many Comcast channels on that TV, including the "music" channels. I had initial troubles scanning for channels, and then went through the process of getting some of the Hauppauge software on the computer, which seemed to make the tuner card be able to tune digital channels. In NPVR, I can scan ATSC and get ATSC channels around 15-20, but when I scan for QAM channels I don't get anything. When I scan with WINTV 6, same results, some ATSC channels, but no QAM channels. I've tried several different drivers, but have not been able to install WINTV-7 because it says my disk is not the disk it wants. Called Hauppauge support and they no longer really support WINTV-6, and are recommending due to my current situation that I purchase the WINTV-7 disk. Thought I would check here to see if anyone else has had a similar issue and if it's necessary to purchase the WINTV-7 disk. I was thinking the money might be better spent on a HDHomerun or some other card that may have better support and actually send you the software you need when you purchase the tuner... Thanks!
mvallevand Wrote:Jaggy, that could be simply be bad mapping in the lircd driver for the Hauppauge remote. I know the Subtitle key on the NMT remote works fine for WebRadio. Open a new thread In the NMT forum, reminding me that it is the lircd driver and include the logs when you hit the Radio button, I want to see what button is being sent. The Picture key should actually load Recordings by default now too.
Logs attached after trying the Radio button three times & nothing appearing to happen, I have no idea which version of the lircd driver I am currently using.
I installed NPVR last week, and rec'd assistance from the forum to confirm proper installation of all updates & patches.
I had to leave town for awhile & now am back to play with the my temporary HTPC I just set up with NextPVR downloaded, installed & now trying to set it up to work!
FYI:
I did recognize & set my tuner device - HVR1600
I did scan & set all channels - OTA
I did (for now) set up EPG, basic OTA
When I opened NPVR, and went and clicked on "Live TV" a message (error) popped up that said: "Live TV buffer directory does not exist: c:\tem"
What did I miss?
Also, when I went to the: Settings - Decoders page, I think there are some problems there as well? Under "Renderers" EVR is in the box for Video & default is chosen for Audio. But... Under "Decoders" for all options - "Disabled" is what shows in the box and the drop down menu does not provide any other choice but "Disabled"! :confused:
And it is true for the "Decoders" options under DVD of the Settings page, as well - they too say Disabled.
I thought that Windows XP Pro, SP3 would have had these within it & NPVR would automatically find them & then populate the drop downs for the decoders? Am I incorrect in this thinking? Do I have to locate & download the proper decoders. Should I be looking for a "Codec" package? If so, what is the most common suggested?
I would truly be grateful for some direction. I tried to look for another post/thread with my similiar problem, but did not find one that helped. I thought I may have found something in Johnsons "Help" thread, but I think I got a little more confused. In a quote from there, he mentions:
Quote:Digital video in the USA requires an HD-Capable MPEG-2 Video decoder and an AC3 Audio decoder. The Microsoft DTV-DVD Video decoder works well for many users, however the Microsoft DTV-DVD Audio Decoder will not work for AC3 Audio. Use AC3Filter (http://ac3filter.net) instead. In other countries H.264 Video and various other forms of Audio are in use; you should familiarize yourself with the format(s) used in your country.
Being in the USA - Portland Oregon, and somewhat of a newbie to this stuff, I don't mind learning & apologize to the forum for what may be considered as a very stupid question, but... :o
Thanks in advance to all who can provide some help & assistance
There's a refurbished computer store about 10 minutes from my place and when I was there last, I saw a ATI 650 card for $40 and I thought what the heck why don't I see how hard it is to set up a PVR? At the same store they had a 4-bay ATSC antenna for $20 which had been tempting me anyway since I was only on typical indoor antenna, so I bought the two for under $70 with tax.
I got home, renamed my npvr.db3 just in case, powered off the PC, installed the card rebooted and after a longish 15 minutes of plug and play installation of the card drivers and rebooted I was ready to try the next step. I didn't even bother installing the ATI software.
After the reboot there was a bit of frustration with all kinds or warning from Microsoft update and my antivirus about being out-of date. After a bit of annoying trouble shotting I found my BIOS reset during the install and it was 2006 again. One more reboot.
I started up NextPVR and clicked the config and under devices ATI ATSC, QAM and Analog source were detected automatically. I clicked ATSC, did the scan with the defaults and five minutes later our local 6 HD channels showed up nicely. It had found two stations I was not able to get before on the other antenna.
Next onto the EPG setup. As a test, I thought I'd see what the ATSC data looked like. At 2 minutes per station it isn't quick but at the end I did have a fully functional PVR. If you scheduled this for the middle of the night, it wouldn't be too much of an issue.
I also tried the optional step of getting real guide data. I was already using whurlston's great MCE tool and it turned out be trivial, I created a 6 channel input file and 30 seconds later I had an XMLTV file. Most users will do the same thing by clicking on the stations they want in Schedules Direct but it's not difficult. After creating the XMLTV file I went back to the NPVR config and did the channel mapping, only 1 of the 6 was automatically detected so it took a few minutes to do the mapping. I did mix up OMNI1 and OMNI2 in the XMLTV guide with their broadcast call letters so I did have to remap and update the guide data again.
Finally I connected a PCH and LiveTV just worked. However when I connected a second PCH, multi-rec didn't work, so I made a post and within minutes sub had posted a patch on the forums. I was then able to watch LiveTV @ 1080i on 3 PCH's and my PC simultaneously. At $105 a room I can't imagine a cheaper multi-room solution.
Since then I have watched many hours of ATSC broadcast, without the pixelization and dropped recordings I had before. I am 100% satisfied with this system for our local broadcasts. The digital transition is August and there will be more than twice as many stations then, now I'm ready.
This whole process confirmed what I knew, NextPVR is ready. Adding this capability that to my already working HD-PVR (which is really easy to setup with working XMLTV file), I think I have a dynamite HD setup. During all this time I couldn't think of a better way for sub to do things more, the jump from GBPVR to NPVR had the improvements in scanning and mapping. I had hoped that it would be faster but I think it will take patience and an hour when you know what you are doing. I saved some time because my PC was already working, and I use PCH's and don't worry about client issues, decoders or renders most of the time so I expect new users will need much more time and patience. If you have any technical skills the rewards are worth it.
Lessons learned.
1. a good ATSC antenna is really important.
2. get your station call letters right before mapping
3. ATSC guide data is better than I expected but definitely usable, but it is nowhere near as complete as the data you can get from Schedules Direct.
4. NextPVR is ready for primetime
Hi, I converted my PVR to Windows 7 and it is working much better then Windows XP. The one issue I'm having is with the video lagging or stuttering so I'm wondering if I need to install a video/audio codec? I installed AC3 audio codec, maybe thats my problem. My motherboard is GA-MA785GM-US2H which has an ATI 4200 onboard video. I'm also using EVR.
I tried to look for another post/thread with my similiar problem, but did not find one that helped. I thought I may have found something in Johnsons "Help" thread, but I think I got a little more confused. In a quote from there, he mentions:
