Why would you want to do this i hear you ask?
Reason is that I let my NPVR machine go to sleep when not in use for a while
Obviously mvpmcx2 and the rest won't run if the NPVR box isn't up
So it struck me that I could run NPVR.cgi from my linux machine which is always up, and patch in a loop to the cgi which would check whether the NPVR box is up and if not send a wake-up-on-lan message, then wait a few seconds before proceeding
I got it to run npvr.html from the linux box (set up a new share), but the cgi script which the html calls doesn't seem to work.
It still works fine if I run it from the NPVR box.
Is this mission impossible???
Steve Hodge
With some help from Martin Vallevand I am developing a linux/unix client for NPVR. I wanted it for a thin ION/atom based client. It is almost in (I would say) an alpha stage and I post it here to see whether it is any interest to develop it further and to maybe get some testers.
Current prealpha version provides the basic functionality beeing also able to play music and video with some features still missing. It has only been tested on Ubuntu 9.10 based XBMC live installation so I do not know how it will behave on other distributions.
For playback it uses mplayer, so anything mplayer plays well on your system should play well with xnpvrcli. (On my ION only SD material plays OK with mplayer while I still have problems with HD, especially when interlaced.)
It is unfortunately not possible to seek the media files with the stock mplayer due to NPVR http server bug. I can provide a workaround patch for mplayer to resolve this issue temporarily. I hope however that sub will soon fix NPVR to enable seeking with the stock mplayer.
Sources (prealpha stage) can be found from http://xnpvrcli.git.sourceforge.net/git/...-index.cgi. Only experienced linux users will be able to compile it, mainly due to lack of any detailed documentation. (Any help with documentation would be appreciated.)
Today, I decided to make the leap to nPVR. So far, I LOVE nPVR. I'm actually running it on XP. Question for me to decide is: Am I ready to upgrade to win7????
This question is about DVD playback. I've tried a variety of combination renderers, decoders and all I get in playback is a purple screen. I get audio but no picture... thoughts?
I had to reinstall Windows and GBPVR 1.4.7. I can get GBPVR to show up on the PCH-A100 but the screen goes black for a moment then goes to the NMT menu when I try to play a recorded video file. The video files are on the D drive, but I tried to play a video on the C drive in video library and it wouldn't play either. I tried it with the firewall and antivirus off and Simple File Sharing is on. I have the recording service set to start with the admin's username and password. I can play the videos through the NMT file browser just fine. I can't think of anything else to try.
Here's the NMTchecker output
Quote:Checking for mvpmc share on GBPVR
mvpmc C:\mvpmc
Checking GB-PVR.html links
<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/NETWORK_SHARE/GBPVR:mvpmc/gbpvr.cgi">GB-PVR</a>
<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/NETWORK_SHARE/NETWORK_BROWSER/browser.cgi">GB-PVR via Network Browser</a>
<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/USB_DRIVE_A-1/mvpmc/usb_a.cgi">GB-PVR via USB</a>
Having some issues getting smooth deinterlace with h.264 files. My machines not exactly high powered (3600x2, 1gb ram, 7600gt).
CoreAVC is working well, but has interlacing issues; if i create a custom graph using ffdshow to deinterlace post avc it works well, but how can i get npvr to use this custom graph?
I've just taken my first dip into NPVR, and it looks really good. I just have two(ish) questions ( ), does it still map UK Freeview channels by their numbers correctly? I added some DVB-S channels first and they assumed all the usual numbers. Also, is there a way of downloading a Freesat Channel Map so that I don't have to manually sort through the 446 channels it found? Is this what Bulk Map is about?
Really really impressed by the new software. Took me a while to work out where the "config" was, but as soon as I twigged to that it was really easy to use! Awesome piece of software, sub.
I am using the latest cumulative patch for NPVR as of writing this post, with an hd-pvr connected to a cable box. Mostly using this setup for livetv.
After a lot of headaches of getting the arcsoft decoders working I have npvr mostly working.
During livetv sometimes the video will begin to stutter and audio stops. I've noticed that this usually occurs when a commercial starts or a show is resuming after commercials. Sometimes the video will go to an all blue screen/no audio for a few seconds and then recovers, I'm guessing this is related as it occurs during similar times.
Perhaps this is related to aspect ratio/resolution changes? I'd appreciate any ideas, I've tried using different renderer options. I had an older install of NPVR working flawlessly, but I reinstalled windows and put in a new video card(hd5870). I'm somewhat tempted to try to get an older version of npvr and see if that makes a difference.
I'm getting guide data using mc2xml and the xmltv.xml file it produces has guide data through 2011 01 14 . But the guide in NPVR shows "no show details" starting later today. Apparently even though the file is updating and even though that same file is the one that NPVR is set to look at, NPVR is not getting the new data.
), does it still map UK Freeview channels by their numbers correctly? I added some DVB-S channels first and they assumed all the usual numbers. Also, is there a way of downloading a Freesat Channel Map so that I don't have to manually sort through the 446 channels it found? Is this what Bulk Map is about?