My cable company provides HD and SD versions of some stations on the same analog channel number. As an example on the analog tuner channel 7 is SD and on the STB channel 7 comes out as HD for capture for the HDPVR. I do want to be able to record both HD or SD at my choice
What I also want to do is keep channels 1-60 as analog, and an analog.xml file works fine. If my HDPVR is recording 7 can I tell it that it is a different channel 7 and pick a different channel number? The guide info will be the same too, if that makes a difference.
I am wondering how often does NPVR go through the epg guide and adds/updates recordings in the database? My impression is that it does it once after epg update, but I am not sure.
I am asking because I may have to update epg (outside npvr) more than once a day, and if new/changed recordings show up I would like to know if NPVR would pick them up automatically or if I need to restart the service or do something else.
I decided to challenge myself and see about building a HE-AAC remuxer inside mvpmcx2 to allow native playback from NPVR. I have a limited number of short captured samples from around the world and so far I have been succesfully able to play captures from NZ, BBC, Denmark, Norway, Sweden (AAC LC) and Brazil, (AAC SBR what a bit of work that was!).
The remuxer does have to convert each audio bit so there is a good opportunity for error, after all that will be a minimum 24000 conversions a second, so I can't really say how will this will work, and I'm sure it will fail on some files, but do it will improve over time as I understand the process. Even at this point the files play better on my PCH the on my PC.
Please let us now how this works for you. If your country is not on the list (or there are differences in your broadcasters) provide me with an update.
If a file doesn't work, I would certainly like to get a sample, so a 50 MB chunk on megaupload or mediafire would be very helpful. I have found that I have had to tweak something for each country.
Based on the success so far this is now the production version of mvpmcx2 and is available through the normal sources (NMTInstall 1&2, CSI, and online, currently mvpmcx2o.7z) the benefits outway any problems that may occur.
Any help? It's crashing every time I try to watch a channel through my HD-PVR live. Recordings work fine and my HDHR channels are working fine.
The HD-PVR live playback was working OK at some point in the fairly recent past, I am not sure what might have changed to break it. The audio comes through but the video never starts.
any know if/when they are going to show that last Human Target on fox? they yanked a 2-hr episode last night to show a rerun of 'raising hope' and the memorial [or should i say photo-op] service...
i can't find it relisted or any info in epg...anybody hear anything?
looked on fan sites but they were just pissed as well..rumors about it returning later that night didn't happen, still kinda po'd they'd yank it last minute and not give any info about it...guess they think we're just watching cuz we agree with their politics and the product isn't important..lol
well if they want our money to fund their laughable politics, then they better stop doin this crap..
i bet they'll cancel it for some stupid reason since it's peaking..which would be typical..
As I recall, there was some sort of already viewed indicator on the recordings. I don't seem to have that anymore with NPVR. Is there some option for turning that on with NPVR?
The guide in the NEWA is completely blank. I attached the logs. The web.log file shows a bunch of errors when I was trying to set recordings with Searchlight. Then at the bottom of the log it shows an attempt to access the guide which fails. I am not running the schedules direct add-on for NEWA yet, is it required or just gives extra features? I have applied all the patches in the NPVR sticky. Also I'm running Windows 7 64bit if any of that matters.
I have been trying to understand why sometimes recordings are fine, and occasionally very poor.
I have three tuners, a WinTV Nova T stick and a WinTV Nova TD stick (containing two tuners).
In order to get the signal strength displayed on the setting>status window, I deleted the contents of C/program files/NPVR and installed version 1.5.31 (I had version 1.5.36 running previously).
If I record three channels which are on different frequencies (e.g. TV1, TV3 and Prime) I find that two tuners show 100% signal, but one shows a low signal, often 40%.
I have eliminated the aerial cables by swapping them around during recording.
I noticed that it was always tuner 2 on the dual tuner stick which had the low signal. Then I tried changing the priority of the tuners in settings>devices, and found that it wasn't always tuner 2, but the second of the dual tuners to be used.
If it was always the same tuner, I would suspect a hardware issue, but as it is not, it could be a driver issue, or an NPVR issue.
I do have the latest hauppauge drivers installed.
The log shows starting NPVR, going into the guide and setting tree recordings going. The settings>status showed
dev1 path0 100% (dual tuner 1)
dev2 path0 100% (single tuner)
dev1 path1 40% but varying (dual tuner 2)
Any clues from the log as to where the problem lies?
Ever since I switched to NPVR I keep getting lots of duplicate recordings. Is there a way to prevent this?
Here is an example from my xmltv.xml file (I am using mc2xml for guide updates) for two consecutive scheduled recordings for the same show that has already been recorded before.
