I have used the old GBPVR for several years without any issues. I actually hadn't been on the forum in a long time (years) and decided to see what was new. Long story short I have downloaded the new program. Everything seems to be OK except the recorded file format. In the past I have used Realplayer to watch the recorded shows. However the new program saves in a .ts format which does not seem to be supported. I have gone through the settings in both the new program and the old and have not found a fix. Any thoughts. I searched this morning and it appears there is a program called VLC which will play hte .ts format, I may try that next. I can play the recording through the new program but the quality/controls do not seem as good Realplayer.

NPVR has code to keep the PC awake while recording, right?
Does this code also keep it awake when running PostProcessing.bat?
I do a conversion to .mpg, which can take a while, and I noticed the PC was asleep in the middle.

Any chance of keeping the PC awake until post processing completes?

I have 2 DVB cards one setup for TVNZ and the other setup for other channels and got 2 analog cards setup with all analog channels on both
I had 2 dvb recordings start at 8.30pm to 9.30pm and one at 9.30pm to 11.30pm
Started witching one 8.30 recording at 9.30 with nmt (was still recording) at 10.00pm npvr (in pending) said 3 recordings were still recording (only one should have been) couldn’t stop 2 recordings so went to computer and tried there couldn’t stop there
Checked the files the 2 at 8.30 recordings wasn’t increasing and the 9.30 recording was 0kbs
So copped logs (logs 1) then stopped recording service. In pending the 2 8.30 recordings said they failed (but they were 90% there). The 9.30 recording said it was still recording so copped logs (logs2)
So restarted computer

Is there any way to change the TV Guide from guide2.aspx to guide.aspx? I prefer the simpler version especially when looking at it on my phone.

Just a confirmation that the digital side of this tuner works no problem in NPVR 1.5.36
This card is not presently listed on the Wiki.

I haven't tried the analogue as I have no need.

Happy man, as the PCIE was appealing so I took a punt picked it up cheap on ebay!

I run NPVR in one of my computers and GBPVR on another one. My NPVR is set for analog channels and I can choose the right lineup in schedules direct. Using an STB with my GBPVR, I did not find a way to choose the digital lineup (they seemed to merge together) so I had to cancel the analog lineup at Schedulesdirect. Any solution?

As I discovered yesterday Hairy included the droidsans fonts in his release of the Slate skin unfortunately this is a 26Mb download just to get some fonts & as they are needed for the correct display of default in 1.5.36 I did some Googling & it looks like they are free to distribute from what I can gather here http://code.google.com/webfonts/family?f...s#download so I was wondering would it be a good idea to include the link in the NPVR sticky? Here is a copy of the license as well.

Hey,
I've been wanting to get NPVR running since I"m still using GBPVR. I just installed the latest version and my AVC-3610 dual tuner is not showing up.
I also have a Hauppauge PVR-150 which shows up fine under devices.

Any suggestions on how to get NPVR to recognize the AVC-3610 dual tuner?

Thanks

Hi all. My eyes are literally falling out onto the desk as I type this - I've done so much reading. OK, not literally, but... :-)

Anyway, I'm finally taking a real look at DTV as there are three decent ATSC OTA channels in my area. I'm using my Haup HVR-1600 card for this.

I should also say that I'm trying all this with GB-PVR 1.4.7. So far I don't think I've come across anything that is really app specific, so I'll stick with the 'opponent' I know..

I'm kind of disappointed that the wiki doesn't have a more straightforward walkthough. I suppose I might try to tie it all together as soon as I understand it better... (the codecs page is missing some stuff!)

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In the analog days, I knew that I could have a fairly weak Recording Server, record a show (with the hardware encoder PVR150)... even if that same machine couldn't playback the show..

I'm pretty sure I've fallen into the same boat here. My server can record a TS file, though it really doesn't like playing back the file...

I'm pretty sure that the TS file is OK, as it will play on a faster machine..I've also tried the cyberlink mux and output to MPG.

Well, here are my questions...

The digital files are huge, specifically in dimensions (1920x1080).. either as TS or MPG output. Is there a mux, where one can set the output dimensions. I suspect that that would require more grunt from the server.. the stream is probably 1920x1080 and so if there's no downsizing, then less work... But is there a real time solution?

Asking people about codecs, is like asking them which team to cheer for, or which gas station has better gasoline (petrol)... But it seems my system is having trouble viewing the large TS (or MPG) files, whenever I use the usual codecs (like available in SAF)

So aside from getting a faster machine, what would be some ideas to get more grunt...? I've done quite a bit of tweaking already

And finally, post processing: I am AGAIN looking at post processing the TS file, to get a smaller MediaMVP friendly file...

I'm able to transcode either a TS or a muxed MPG at about 17fps with either Mencoder or ffmpeg... That's slow...

Of course, I really should be thinking of demuxing the file (which involves me learning about what I just said) so I wonder if anyone knows of a fast commandline tool that will make my large files small.

Thanks...

Just thought id post my findings for people using npvr and xp playing mepg2-ts recorded files

If you are having ghosting issues or generally crap playback
Download the latest FFdshow-tryouts decoder
look for the newest file the download link on the webpage does not link to the newest version
(ffdshow_beta-rev3152_20091209.exe)

under codecs set mpeg to Libmepeg2(its set to disabled when you install)
go down to overlay tick the box
inside the overlay>output>untick all apart from NV12
set interlace flag to force bob(may be different for you so try weave also)
set field order >topfield first
I also set allow output format changes during playback for fiddling


Interesting things i found
ffdshow playback in evr cpuload was only 7%
where as cyberlink or nvidia with hardware decoding enabled using vmr cpu load was 14%
plus vmr aspect ratios dont work with the nvidia driver bug

So if you are worried about load on cpu dont be
This is the first time i have ever found the ffdshow decoder to be as good if not better than either cyberlink or nvidia

Please post back with your findings or if you have anything to add good or bad