After playing with mediaportal streaming TV for about a month and finally given up, I decided to give NPVR a go. So far I have had much more success than with mediaportal. Video quality is great from my server streaming to clients. Mediaportal was plagued with many problems including stuttering/stalling video which always forced a restart of their tv service (in another room).
I have one problem though. I cannot change channels (or sometimes navigate the guide while tv is playing) without NPVR semi-crashing. (I say semi crashing because the program itself does not crash, just the stream stalls and I get the message "The tuner being used for live tv is no longer available")
The great thing about this problem is that I can always go access the guide and start the live tv again and it starts no problem, avoiding the trip to the other room.
Setup details:
Server
Athlon 64 3200
2gb ram
ATI TV Wonder HD 750
MSI TV Anywhere Plus
Client
Athlon II X3 3ghz
4gb ram
I have tried some different decoders, problem occurs on all.
Now that I've switched in to using NPVR full time, I'm starting to get issues.
I'm getting alot of failed to record (included the nrecord and npvr log files).
The last item on the log is the strangest.
It was supposed to do a recording from 5-6.
I started watching, and noticed that it hadnt stopped recording when the time was up, I think the recording service crashed about 6:30 or so, and the device list was empty until i restarted the recording service.
I have noticed a number of times, device unavailable as reasons for failed recordings.
This log is full of failed to start, error codes, exceptions and the like.
This may seem strange, but after upgrading to 1.5.36 from 1.5.33, the quality of my analog recordings seems to have dropped (the bitrate is definitely lower). The only thing that changed, however, was the update to 1.5.36. This doesn't make sense to me, but does seem to be the case. Also, regardless of choosing <default>, <good>, <better> or <best> for the recording quality, the bitrate of the recordings seems to always be the same. I'm using Windows 7 on the PC and a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250. I can post logs if you like, but wasn't sure if recording quality bitrate was something that went into the logs. If someone needs more information, please let me know.
If someone asked me what if anything I could ask for in EWA, this would be my wishlist in order:
1. Ability to prioritize shows
2. Way to specify only programs that EWA had not recorded previously
3. Way to search only specific days (or can you do this already?)
I would think #3 would be easy and seems like a no brainer, but if it's there already I can't figure out how. #1 and #2 would probably be somewhat more difficult I imagine, but hey, can't blame someone for asking!
GBPVR being working perfect for ages but today I started it and the epg is empty, all channels work fine with picture and sound just no emg. So I updated the EPG and it seems to update as normal but it's still empty, not even the time slots have been inserted.
I reinstalled GBPVR on another HDD and still the same, then I tried NextPVR but can't find the epg, the screen is black and I can get live video to play but there is no sound or picture, the video is being recorded though and the .ts has sound and picture.
Can you help me fix GBPVR please? I'm using DVB EPG, I'll post the logs if you need them. Thanks.
Although I have seen references to this card in this forum I cannot find the answers to two questions:-
1. Is this card supported by NPVR?
2. If so, in what format(s) are SD and HD recordings saved?
I am located in UK where SD is DVB-T, and HD is DVB-T2
I've been meaning to ask this for a while, and apologies if it has been asked before and I missed it!
With GB-PVR I spent ages when I 1st set up my XMLTV sources changing the channel numbers to suit my configuration via post processing of the .xml file before updating the EPG. GB-PVR would recognise these channel numbers and allocate them accordingly. With my NextPVR set-up I scanned my 1st DVB-S device, selected the channels I wanted and to use the .xml source, then updated the EPG (from the identical .xml that GB-PVR uses). However the channel numbers do not appear to be recognised and just remain on a default numbering allocation starting @ number 1 and appears to simply reflect the order in which the channels have scanned. Have I missed something?
Get working/batch/file dirs from one line[any dir of it's path too!]
here's a little tool to use from batch files, how to get the current dir only, or any level of it's path.. [2 dirs up,3 up, 4 etc] not the whole path, just one part...
so if in c:\winnt\system32: "for %%A in ("..") do @echo %%~nA" would echo "winnt" [one . would =system32]
Code:
for %%A in ("[color=blue]..\..\..\..[/color]") do set dir4upworking=%%~nA
@echo %dir4upworking%
goes up 4 dirs from working dir.. go up as many as you want... or relative to batch file itself:
Code:
for %%A in ("[color=blue]%~dp0\[COLOR="deepskyblue"]..\..\..\..[/color][/COLOR]") do set dir4upbat=%%~nA
echo %dir4upbat%
to get a part of path for a file, call a ubroutine inside batch with above line and filename as param, but use %~dp1 instead...[and of course a set statement or something instead of echo]
it's:
.= file's/current dir [or ".\" ]
..=1 up, parent dir [or ".\.."]
..\..=2 up [the parent dirs parent dir] [or ".\..\.."]
..\..\..=3 up etc etc..
that one surprised me..nice n short too..
from cmdline try it out:
Code:
for %a in (".\..") do @echo %~na
for %a in ("%~dpn0\..\..") do @echo %~na
use "set somevar=" in place of echo to use it for real in batches..
can be used to say, keep your dir structure when copying/encoding files to another location, among other things..
basically, easy relative paths for batches..
Enjoy
[one . would =system32]
ubroutine inside batch with above line and filename as param, but use %~dp1 instead...[and of course a set statement or something instead of echo]
