Does anyone have step by step instructions for renaming recordings automatically? I have two channels recording non-stop and I need the episodic information, which is provided by schedules direct for about 90% of the shows. I need it to be set up ShowTitle - EpisodeTitle. If I don't get this to rename automatically, I will have to watch enough of each episode to find the title for hundreds of episodes, not fun. Please someone save me from countless hours of boring work.
I have been using NPVR with NMT for a while and I am encountering some issues that I am hoping Sub would have the time to look into. I have 3 NMT devices with heavy use of live TV and Recordings. I tried all sorts of tweaks including acquiring a new HDhomerun tuner but little changed. I would be happy to do any needed testing.
1. Live TV hangs randomly and only a hard reset of the PCH would fix it.
2. Live TV lack of seek and skip support. I can tell my family to not to do it, but it is hard to avoid and it often hangs the PCH requiring a hard reset
3. NMT would not start sometimes. Apparently this is caused by old connections hanging from another PCH device and not being released. A restart of the recording server is needed to fix this issue
In the TV Recordings plug-in, when there are multiple recordings with the same show name, the top level listing groups them and creates a "summary" entry which includes the number of recordings and the "Last Recording" date. However, the "Last Recording" date is one day later than the actual recording. (It is sort of fun to see listings showing the last recording as "Tomorrow", but it should probably be fixed. ) I'm guessing that this is another place where there is an issue with converting from UTC to the local timezone.
I'm trying to share the NPVR folder on my 'server' system so that I can get my client machine updated to using NPVR as well. I'm running into an issue that when I go under the sharing tab for the folder and select the option to share the folder and try to add the everyone group and click ok I get the message "your folder can't be shared". I'm doing some searching on it today but was just wondering if anybody here has run into that issue before. Thanks.
I upgraded my setup from GBPVR to NPVR this weekend, and generally it was painless. sub, I've been using GBPVR for about 8 months, and it's worked quite well; thanks for all your hard work on it.
I ran into a few issues with NPVR that I haven't been able to work out, and was hoping someone may be able to help.
1. I don't see how to do GBPVR's equivalent to "play all" in videos. This is absolutely crucial for kids videos
2. I miss "shuffle" on videos from GBPVR.
3. The info button doesn't seem to work when playing back recorded programs or videos (this is on an MCE remote on Win 7). Other places in the GUI recognize Info fine, and CTRL-B works while playing back, but not the Info button.
4. Skipping forward/back doesn't display the timeline bar while you're pressing the skip button-- you let go, and it displays. Means you have to press & guess, and then let go to find out if you're right.
I ran into a couple of glitches too that I'm not sure I want to make a big deal of until I can come up with a reliable repro scenario. In case these may be known issues or they're of interest:
5. Recorded a 1 hr program that I added 90 mins to the end time. Started playing back while it was still recording, and the timeline was totally wrong (showed as several hours), and skipping around was way too short (i.e. 1 min skip was like 20 secs, although the timeline showed that it skipped 1 min). The timeline on the completed recording seems to be fine, except that the recording hangs at the 1 hr mark. Maybe the OTA recording recorded some garbage around 1 hr that messed things up?
6. I'm not sure recurring recordings are reliable. I used the searchlite plugin to make some recurring recordings, but even a forced EPG update, they didn't show up in the pending list. I noticed that the recurring recordings I scheduled with searchlite show up differently in the recurring list than ones I schedule from the Guide, so maybe this is a plugin problem. Need to investigate this some more...
Thanks again for all the work on this app, and thanks in advance for any help.
I have a sparkly new Kitchen extension that's just begging for a pc client to run npvr, iTunes and a browser.
At the moment I holding off for AMD fusion products to come to market for the box but I've also been looking at some of the multitouch monitors knocking around and I'm very tempted.
Currently 2 things are putting me off, firstly none of the monitors I've seen have HDMI (only DVI), this is not a deal breaker as it would be on a separate amp so I can live without audio coming out of the crappy built in speakers.
Secondly and more importantly I don't know what level of support nPVR + Win 7 has for touch screen input.....anyone tried it that would like to share their experience?
I have been a user of digiguide for about 3 years now. They have very good listings and cover some channels that RT do not. If you like an XML EPG as opposed to an OTA EPG it makes for a very good source, and at this price it is a bargain (and no I am not affiliated with them in any way, I just really like what they do )
Used in conjunction with Alan Birtles most excellent XMLTVGUI and one extra file to enable importing into XMLTVGUI it is a very good choice for a UK based XML EPG source.
When recording a show, I can't watch a second show (from analog or QAM). I have two Hauppauge 1950's plugged in, shouldn't have any issues watching a second channel...
But, when I try, I get "Unable find capture device" for a second analog channel (while recording a analog channel already) and when I try to watch a digital channel, I get "device failed to start".
I was about to post a support question...then I fixed my own problem so I thought I'd share if only to remind my future self.
The problem was watching recordings, the more skips I did the longer it took to carry out the skip (5 sec+) and would also eventually result in audio sync issues.
For some workaround that was reccomended way back on GBPVR I had "re-init sound card after skip/pause" enabled in the ac3 filter options.....nPVR don't like it much.
I'm still kicking (semi) old school & running PVRX2, so I'll understand if you don't want to spend to much time looking into this, but hopefully something this is something that may have an answer off the top of your head:
We just replaced our bedroom set with an HD we had been using downstairs (which in turn was replaced with a newer set) set & thus switched the PCH from NTSC via composite to 1080p via component.
In a nutshell, the PCH A100 downstairs with the new set (1080p via HDMI) works fine, but the upstairs set (1080p via component) shows the menus in what looks like 720x480 in the upper left corner & neither the menus nor skipping work during playback. Unfortunately, due to the relocation, I had to switch to using a wireless bridge setup to connect the PCH, so that may also be in the mix (I can't really move it back to see if the wireless is the problem - if I find a really long patch cable, I'll give it a shot though if you think that may be the issue).
I've included my config.xml & starmeup, but I thought everything was correct. I never had issues with component hookup before when it was downstairs...
Again, if you can't spend much time on older software (w/ NPVR being out and all), I understand, but any ideas are welcome. I just upgraded to mvpmcx2 version o (was running m) but the problem persists.
) I'm guessing that this is another place where there is an issue with converting from UTC to the local timezone.
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