I have a fast gaming PC in one room with DVI out and a plasma TV in the next room. What are my options for connecting them up?
Currently I'm thinking a long DVI cable and a long 3.5m stereo cable but it seems a shame to need to run 2 cables through the house every time I want to play.
Any single cable or even wireless options?
Hardware used:
Graphics card: XFX HD 5770 1GB
Motherboard: ASUS M4A77TD PRO 770 (with built-in sound)
TV: Panasonic Viera VIERA TXP42S20
I am trying to setup the Universe plugin. When Im starting the plugin the message Discovering UPNP servers comes up for approx 10 sec and then I get am Unhandle Exception error with the message "Values does not fall wihtin the expected range". I do have Upnp activated on my Win XP and I have several Upnp servers activated including PlayOn.
Strange enough I did mangage to get it to work one time when it listed my Tversity upnp.
in v1.5.36, it seems that it's possible to start multiple instances of the NPVR application, even if no video is playing (and the application's title changes).
it seems that I'm not able to set the video player's metadata with the new "PluginHelper.SetPlayerMetaData(Hashtable args)" method.
I guess that the hashtable should contain the corresponding values as used in the "Video.xml" skin ("@title", "@description" and "@coverArt"), but it does not show up in the OSD afterwards, no difference if I set the metadata before or after starting playback via "PluginHelper.PlayVideoFile(string filename)".
I'm not sure if this is an mvpmc issue or an npvr issue so I just thought I'd post here.
I'm running npvr 1.5.36 and latest dongle.npvr.bin (also tried previous mvpmc dongle). I have a recording (made with npvr) which is causing problems on playback, specifically skipping (unsurprisingly).
I start playing it and if I hit the Blue button on my remote, the timeline correctly shows the start time up until about ~18 seconds into the recording. At this point, the start time on the timeline shows 00:-52:-55 (the end time on the timeline remains correct).
The recording plays perfectly with npvr on my PC and shows the correct timeline and will skip forwards/back without problems and without losing AV sync.
I encode my DVD's using Handbrake's high profile setting. They look great, except only when viewing a uniformly dark scene. Then, blockiness is visible. I use DXVA and tried several DXVA-enabled codecs; Divx, Cyberlink, ffdshow, and the one I typically use, mpc-hc. All showed the blockiness. Then I tried the "standard" ffdshow encoder without DXVA and it looked great; no blockiness. Is this a typical result of using DXVA? I'd like to use DXVA, as some of my videos cannot be played smoothly without it.
Edit 1: CoreAVC doesn't have any artifacts for me in dark scenes, and with CUDA the CPU usage is "almost" as low as with DXVA, so I can play anything...ta da!
Edit 2: CoreAVC had it's own problems, namely panning was not smooth. I solved the problem with DXVA this afternoon and I'm stoked. I figured since all the decoders had the problem, it must be a driver problem. It turned out I had enabled a "feature" called "Dynamic Contrast Enhancement", which caused the blockiness problem. Hope this helps someone with a similar problem.
I'm trying to set up an IR Blaster that came with the Microsoft MCE Remote 2004 (version 1). The wiki states that GBPVR is compatible with this version but I am getting nothing from the blaster. The remote works fine for controls but the blaster does not flash at all. When I select the MCE 2005 Plugin as my channel changer and then try to edit the settings, I don't get any instructions to do key presses. The little box just says waiting and then claims all my instructions have been learned. Is this feature not natively supported? Do I need to setup HIP in order to make this work?
After installing nPVR 1.5.36 any video played through TVListings, either Live TV, in progress recording, or completed recording, stutters very badly. The same file watched through default TV guide or with recordings, plays smoothly. Are different decoders used?
Logs attached. Don't know if this is for Alibert or sub, but hope someone can offer some advise. Thanks.
The current server that runs NPVR is a bit of beast and happily consumes 120W idling, it also runs Windows 2008 R2 as the OS as it is my lab server. I'm looking to move to a dedicated NPVR and DVD library server that runs Windows 7 and is easier to support. What would be a recommended spec for running NPVR with Live TV yo a maximum of 4xPCH clients?
Which out of CPU, memory or graphics card is most critical to overall performance of the NPVR server?
