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.

Greetings Forum:

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
  

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.

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the reboot there was a bit of frustration with all kinds or warning from Microsoft update and my antivirus about being out-of date.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

Martin

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.

When I try to start tvlistings (or recordings) I get an exception, see attached text and log.

Hi All

I've made the switch to NPVR 1.3.56, with all the patches applied running on Windows Vista. I am using the System and ExternalDisplay plugins.

I have NPVR as a startup item, however it loses focus and so I can't control it using an MCE remote.

I tried using the Stay on Top feature but this doesn't seem to be saved, so everytime NPVR starts up, I have to select the Stay on Top menu item.

Is this a known problem or what can I do to fix?

Am new to Npvr.
Just installed and got everything running but have no keyboard controls over LiveTV. Have seen the keyboard shortcuts but none of these seem to work.
Have i missed a setting somewhere??
Cheers

Actually, I don't think it's my boring music that's putting my computer to sleep.

However, I'm running NPVR 1.5.36 + patches on a Win7 x86 box. I am able to reproduce it by setting my power options to go to sleep in 5 minutes, set NPVR's screen saver to kick in at 1 minute. Play some mp3's and wait. In about 5 minutes the system would go to sleep. As soon as I woke it up, NPVR would continue to play the music.

I'm hoping that this isn't by design and NPVR will prevent the system from going to sleep when it's actually being used.

The "1.4.7 Available" thread has a dead link, and the Wiki is gone too. At least the link from the front page of the NPVR wiki is. http://www.gbpvr.com/pmwiki/
I'm in the process of setting up yet another PC with Vista and 1.5.whatever on it, but I need to get the recordings from GB to N. Has the GB wiki been moved?

Dear all,

I've tried this by looking at threads but can't seem to get it to work so have had to resort to a post. Probably missing something really obvious

I have put this in config.xml