I have a Mygica A680B USB QAM tuner that NPVR is detecting, but not finding any channels for.
The device is detected as a Microtune Dongle Digital QAM Tuner, and Digital Tuner. But no matter what setting I use during the scan process it always returns 0 results. Any ideas or suggestions?
Sub, are you using awaymode? npvr really needs it while recording..
it prevents sleep modes and is made pretty much just for recording apps like this..
it's super simple to implement, just one call when recording, and another to clear those flags when done..
even if user hits sleep button it still enters away mode and screen blanks, but press any key and display comes back on...
if no user interaction and you clear flag when recording's done, system will go ahead and continue the sleep mode transition...so it kinda like pauses sleep mode till recordings are done, then sleeps...
also would prevent sleeping when resumed automatically for recordings....[not using enough cpu for windows to notice it still needs system..]
from rec service, call SetThreadExecutionState with ES_SYSTEM_REQUIRED + ES_CONTINUOUS + ES_AWAYMODE_REQUIRED [0x80000041]
to enter away mode when recording, and ES_CONTINUOUS [0x80000000] to clear it and let system suspend.. by using ES_CONTINUOUS, you only have to do it once till recording ends, when you clear it..works reliably from all my testing..
[actually i've been using this in a separate app i made, would be better built in]
and to prevent accidental shutdown while recording, use the ShutdownBlockReasonCreate and destroy which brings up that dialog so users do have a chance to force shutdown when need be, but it'll sit there forever till the reason is destroyed or user selects cancel or shutdown, and i was putting the name of recording in reason text so you could decide if recording was worth it..
i have working code for both, and it's not much to add..
works in vista/7 only, i know you were using ES_SYSTEM_REQUIRED in pvrx2, but it doesn't prevent sleep in vista/7..
since this app is best on vista/7, might as well make it modern...
let me know what you think..
I keep getting two errors when trying to enter Live Tv. "Unable to Communicate with Recording Service" or "Unable to find an available tuner". More often it is the communication with the recording service. This is all on one pc, no mvps, clients, or nmt's. I have 3 tuners, Hauppauge PVR USB2, Hauppauge 250, and Hauppauge 1800. The 250 doesn't work in Windows 7 64 bit so it's not in use. With just the PVR USB2 NPVR works great. However as soon as I put the 1800 in the computer nothing works. I get the above errors. The logs show sometimes an "Attempt to read protected memory" I have ran windows 7 memory test and re-seated the dimms. The same hardware works fine with windows xp and gbpvr. (dual boot). I have turned off windows firewall, and there is no virus protection or other such program running. It is a fresh install of windows with NPVR, and IRServer Suite. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am running the newest version of NPVR.
The NPVR.log file doesn't show much as right now the program crashes as soon as it opens. The NPVR.log.2 is the last time it ran and I was receiving the communication errors.
Caught wind that the fine tinkerers at gbpvr were hashing out a new project and thought after a 6 year hiatus in Windows Media Center Land, I'd try out the new, good stuff. Unfortunately, that is (after 5 hours of staring at a computer screen, blankly) where I am still at: in thought.
Here is my problem: My MVP is stuck at the loading screen saying "Connecting to Boot Server" with minor flashes ever 30 seconds or so to "Connecting to DHCP".
Here is my situation: 3 MVP D3 Revision boxes trying to get NPVR to load. I only hook up one at a time, since I am looking to troubleshoot here. Each one registers on my router with the correct MAC address and a good assigned by the router DHCP ip address. Pinging works good.
Here is my issue: I am pretty sure I am missing some kind of server application that is not installed with the NPVR program. Something along the lines a boot server. Unfortunately, since my aforementioned hiatus, I have forgotten what I need to get this guy running, and I am pretty sure that I can't use the old methods even if I do remember them because that was more than 2 OS's ago. Since I now have Windows 7 64-bit (for the ram), I am not getting anywhere with the MediaMVP software package from their support website. So even using these MVPs as stock is out of the question. I have found johnsonx42's sticky for newbs and I have downloaded in preparation mvallevand's dongle (which the MVP gets its OS from, I gather) but I just can't seem to find that last piece of the puzzle.
Here is what I would like: Tell me what I need to download to get this to work like I see others in forums talking about, so that I can get stuck on their more advanced issues as well.
PS
I should say that I have got the program to work on my actual PC/Media Server in windowed and full screen mode. It looks fantastic! I am just hoping to get the same results for the MVP.
I'm currently using WinXP but am toying with the option of upgrading to Vista or Win7 so that my tuner will work. Some other benefits might help me make the decision and ease the $ pain.
I'm interested in improving my Live TV time-shifting performance, I suppose cost vs. benefit is a big factor. Just a quick question about the internal temp cache for the Live TV Buffer...
GB-PVR had almost an "instant on" for Live TV, NPVR has a 4-5 second delay for starting live TV and changing channels.
I'd like to know how the buffer "behaves" if it runs out of drive space. I'm thinking that time-shifting will be a whole lot faster if I used a RAM disk. We don't pause an entire show, we'll pause and maybe get a commercial or two behind. 1 GB or 2 in a RAM disk would probably be plenty, and RAM is cheap. I can just set it up and point the Live TV buffer at the driver letter.
The question, of course, is what happens if it DOES fill up. With NPVR handle that in a graceful manner?
Am I overlooking something else, without all the above, that would increase that performance easily?
Hello, I want to record a program that will air at 6:00 AM Eastern Standard time but I will be sleeping by then. If I leave my computer on, it will go to sleep after a period of inactivity. If I set a recording at 6 AM, will the computer wake up out of sleep mode to record the show for me in GBPVR or will I need to do something extra for this to happen? Thanks.
I have two recordings in the same time slot one analog (pvr-150) and the other is digital (Dvico ATSC) they often get swapped. The analog recording will point to the digital one and vice versa. It does not happen all the time but enough to be annoying. I tried deleting both recordings and creating them again but nothing changed. Any ideas? Thanks.
