This may be another great feature in GBPVR yet to be implemented, but it does not appear to be there ( I have livetv set to 1 in comskip.ini and use parallelprocessing.bat)

Also, while watching a recording in progress, comskip cut points do not get updated unless the recording is restarted. It would be nice to have them updated on a regular basis.

I miss GB-PVR

Possibly a minor tweak. I've had to call my channelchanger.exe from a bat file to work around a problem with my cable provided STB going to sleep mode and not honoring the first keypress once it awakens. Seems to be an emerging issue with providers trying to save bandwidth with switched digital channels.

ANYWAY, by default, searching for your channelchanger defaults to .exe only and one would have to manually type the .bat file name. It would be handy show/allow or select a .bat or .exe.

Not a big deal for me, just thought this might help newer users.

First of all
On Xp still so using vm9
Npvr 1.5.36

The ui zoom feature doesnt seem to do anything
on pvrx2 i had the zoom control set to
horizontal/ vertical zoom both set 0.95
and overscan of 25 on all boarders

I have to have this because stupid tv doesnt let me run 50hz on its native resolution so I have to oversize the picture to get smooth pans
1280x720

Hello,

there are a few problems with the version, i think some are because of the changes by the Patch 4.

1. Since initial version DVB-s channel-scan finishes with an error, the prog hangs completely and needs to be restartet; the channels are written into the db3 although (Logs in my last post)

2. Where in the nPVR.db3 are the DVB-s frequencies coded? i just found tuning but there is no frequency inside; this leads to problem 3;

3. three channels on one transponder are missing since sunday (the day i installed Patch 4, 12545/H/22000/SID:17500-17502 Astra 19.2°). The system delivers these channels because on the other computer and on my tv the channels are where they are supposed to be. NPVR just shows blank in Live TV and does not actualize the EPG. Manual Recordings lead to 7MB/45mins, not playable so i think the channel is missing anyway

4. A Proposal for manual recording:
If i want to start new manual recordings, it is very uncomfortable to change starting time; when the broadcast starts at 9.30 p.m. and it is 07.30 a.m. i need to go through more than 60 click forwards each 10mins. In GB PVR i was able to enter "21" and it took this starting time, maybe you can change it when there ist some time.

5. Another proposal:
Maybe it is possible to put in a fast switch (daily, like Combo Box oder just one day ahaed) in TVGuide
Background: if i program broadcasts i sometimes do in between somethin else, after a few minutes npvr starts at the actual day at the actual time; if it is thursday and i want to program sunday i need to go e few minutes just forwards to reach sunday broadcasts; i choice to go directly to another day would speed this up enormously


In general: Very Big thanks for developing nPVR further, i think you're on a great way, the software mostly works quite well!

Best Regards

Probably me doing something stupid but i'm getting this error when using the manual record and when I delete (or try to delete) a recording. I just installed searchlite and it adds recordings fine but the recordings a created from within npvr won't cancel.

Thanks in advance

I was having issues when recording more then 2 shows at the same time. I had BDA Multiplexer set to TS Mux and had Enable Multi-Record Support checked. So I switched to DVR-MS and it seems to be working. Although when I try to play back the recordings all I get is a black screen. If I play back the recordings using Windows Media Center they play back fine.

Hello All,

Back in the day I used to be a Java Programmer. Over the years the amount of actual coding that I've been doing has dropped off to almost nothing.

So in an attempt to prove to myself that I "still got it", I was trying to write a simple Java client for the EWA web services.

I am stuck on Creating Credentials. Can somebody help me out with what is going on in CreateCredetial.cs so I can go off and Google it all and try to come up with a Java implementation?

Thanks!
Joel

I'm not exactly sure what a stream count is that I keep seeing in the logs - used for tracking multiple recordings coming from 1 tuner perhaps? - but it's causing some trouble for my HD-PVR.

While testing my channel change/box reset issue I mentioned earlier, I've found that when a recording is canceled or finishes my HDPVR is being left in a recording state afterwards - HDPVR's little red recording light is on and the file continues to be written to even after the recording finishes. Here's an example of the problem from the logs:

I have occasional trouble with my HD-PVR, and it seems to be resolved by occasionally turning it off and on again. Since I have the occasional recording fail I want a way to reset the box at the beginning of every recording and I almost have it, but not quite.

Using some X10 software I can turn the power to the device off and back on programmatically, and adding the calls to the batch file I use for changing channels seems like a good means to do it. The problem is npvr tries to create the graph for the recording before the box is finished resetting, so now it fails consistently and reliably.

I thought I'd be clever and add a delay to the channel change script, giving the box about 10 seconds to finish resetting before continuing. Using the TIMEOUT command, I can indeed add a 10 second delay to the batch file and I've verified that it's taking that long since I cycle the HDPVR, wait 10 seconds and then issue my firewire command to change the channel. I can observe the delay. However, something a little peculiar happens when I do this.

Looking at npvr's logs, without any delay npvr goes from calling the channel change script to trying to setup the filter in about a second:

Hi Guys,

My old GBPVR box has been chugging along nicely but now that we've upgraded to widescreen hdtvs the recordings coming from my PVR-150 & 500 aren't cutting it. There are many shows that I would like to record in hd widescreen. I thought about a hd homerun but several of the channels I want to record are digitally encrypted on our system. Our cable boxes do have component red/green/blue outputs though and they do work as i hooked them up to one of our tvs just to be sure.

I'm now thinking I would like to get a cable box just for the htpc and use an ir blaster to control it and an r/g/b encoder card to record from it . . . does anyone have any suggestions for appropriate encoder cards?

Thanks!

Steve