Hello, just wondering what peoples opinion of windows media center is. I feel windows media center on windows 7 is somewhat useless because if your setup consists of a stb connected to a tv card via composite, windows media center insists you have their ir receiver and remote in order to complete media center setup using an stb connected via composite/s video. I think that's ridiculous. A simple option to skip using an ir receiver would have been great. One would have to manually change channels on the stb but so be it. It's not that big of a deal. Downloaded GBPVR configured the epg with mc2xml and everything is good. Using the ir blaster/receiver provided with the HVR 1950 and it works with GBPVR so I can even change channels on the stb via GBPVR. Why does media center have to be so picky. So as it stands now, I use GBPVR to watch and record tv programs and media center to listen to the fm radio from the tv card. Who said windows media center was easy to set up. Sure maybe there is less things to do to setup media center but it is not easy by any means. Your thoughts. Happy Holidays everyone.
- new Shoutcast API 2.0
- fixed parsing of new layout for Live365 genre pages
- uses new NPVR-Slate hybrid styled skin in 1.5.36
- Winamp player support
- a few code cleanups
Note if you are using an earlier version of NPVR backup the skins in the Default folder, these Default skins will only work in 1.5.36+
I only ask because I might be doing something wrong installing the new release.
I thought I saw Win2k is supported, but the DirectX webupdater requires Win XP as minimum, and running NextPVR I got a runtime exception calling
RegisterRawInputDevices from user32.dll which also expects Win XP.
My gbPVR box is happily working with 1.4.7, and I would understand if nPVR moves on to more modern OS versions. Please let me know if there is an expectation that Win2k should work. Otherwise, I'll stick with gbPVR on this older machine.
Sub, you mentioned that "There is no DVD playback support in NPVR on the NMT devices. It'll probably get it in some future release though". That doesn't include ISO files does it? In the last version of NPVR I was able to play them.
I live in Belgium.
Using NPVR 1.5.36 and it cannot find this tuner. My case doesn't support any PCI-e tuner like HVR2200 (micro case)
Attached log.
Do I need to add info in analogdevices.xml ? What should I add then ?
Need to load filter(s) ?
If you're upgrading from an earlier build of 1.5.x, you need to make sure you stop the NPVR software before installing. In future releases I'll make this automatic, but thats not the case yet.
Quote:1.5.36
- new Default skin, from Hairy's great work on Slate.
- now able to click on time line to skip during playback
- added Schedules Direct support. Has nicer integration that GBPVR did, allowing you to select the lineup etc. (I'd only recommend it on clean setups at this stage though, rather than trying to move existing xmltv channels to schedules direct)
- now runs [DATA]\scripts\wakeup.bat when resuming from standby/hibernate, before performing any new recordings.
- added ability to disable DVB/ATSC EPG updates that happen when watching live tv.
- fixed a problem with the daemon tools browse button in the setting screen.
- fixed a problem with resuming playback of a recording, where playback position would report as 12:48.
- added support for -direct command line like GBPVR had.
- added QAM support or a couple more devices
- added ability to explicitly specify the DVD drive (or leave at AUTO).
- fixed a problem with manual recurring recordings.
- fixed a memory leak that could occur when using the EVR renderer
- fixed a problem with DVB EPG that could cause gaps
- reloading recordings screen if left in-active, so that potenially stale results are not left on the screen. (updated further since patch that provided this)
- added logic to remember top level selection in media libraries if multiple directories are defined.
- added ability to use AC3Filter as an MPEG1 Layer II audio decoder.
- Overlay video renderer option now working (previously it always fell back to using EVR)
- added translation support
- fixed bug that causing only audio when playing .avi/.mkv files etc on MVP
- removed resume prompt on MVP in Video Library when playing file types that will require trancoding (since resume wont work in that scenario anyway)
- added logic to make sure machine doesnt go to sleep when using external IR software like IR Server Suite.
- now not waking machine if EPG update time is set to 'none'
- changed recurring recording scheduling to include partial name matches by default.
- added schedule recording OID as third parameter to ParallelProcessing.bat and PostProcessing.bat
- added ability to bring up OSD TV Guide during playback of video files. Previously it was only available during live tv.
- when you use the bulk-map screen to map a first channel to xmltv, it'll prompt to ask if you want it to have a go a guessing the mappings for the other channels (based on the name).
- added logic for plugin api to play some types of HTTP video streams.
- improved video quality for analog soft encoder devices
- fixed a couple of bugs in the bulk map screen
- now possible to change a channel using another EPG source back to 'DVB/ATSC EPG'.
- fixed a problem where analog channel numbers would be wrong when imported from xmltv
- added config.xml option to use older 'MPEG-2 Splitter' filter instead of 'MPEG-2 Demultiplexer' for playback of .mpg files.
- slight changes to HE-AAC decoding to better support the ArcSoft audio decoders.
- added setting to specify the default startup activity on the PC (Main Menu, Live TV, TV Guide etc...)
- fixed a problem that caused the <dongle> setting to be ignored. Previously it'd always use dongle.bin.
- fixed a problem with live TV stopping on channel change on the MVP with Martin's mvpmc.
- hiding OSD when @title/@description not known (http streams)
- fixed a problem with skipping in large TS files.
- window's screensaver can no longer kick in during picture slideshow.
- fixed issue with sorting ready recordings by date.
- slight change to TS reader filter to copy with adaptation header in PAT, and improved AAC decoder compatibility.
- added subtitle into recording list
- fixed an issue with changing channels on MVP/NMT
- added API for plugins to set metadata (IPluginHelper.SetPlayerMetaData()).
- fixed an issue with skipping in in-progress recording on NMT
- fixed a problem where live tv temp files could be left behind when using NMT
- manual epg updates will also cause the recording list to be exported
- updated NEWA.
Syabas has released the 100 series firmware that among other things fixes a problem with mkv header stripping. I have been using the firmware on the A100 for a few weeks with no problems.
I wonder if this is just the start of a few "gifts" for the good NPVR boys and girls this week?
I'm new here and I've currently got two DirecTV HD10-250's (Tivo's) that I'll be getting rid of soon in favor of using OTA for all TV viewing.. To that end I've been looking for replacements and after looking into pricing (w/o monthly fees) of Tivo's I decided it might be better to roll-my-own.
So, I've got to build 2 boxes for 2 TV's run via HDMI cabling. I was thinking of the following hardware configuration for each box and wanted your inputs on whether this will work OK or not :
1) HDHomeRun Dual Port ATSC tuners (2 of them)
2) VIA Artigo A1100 Pico ITX PC's which have 1.2Ghz VIA Nano processors w/ HDMI output among other things -- would have 2Gb RAM, 500Gb 7200 RPM SATA drive. Here's the stats on the Artigo board here
I only found one reference on this forum to the VIA Artigo boards from back in 2008 but I don't think the board mentioned above is the same thing from 2 years ago.. I believe the A1100 was released in April 2010.
Does this have the horsepower to do the job? Also, is there anything special to do from a software perspective here? If I've got Windows installed, do I just install GPPVR or NPVR and I'm ready to go after plugging the TV into the HDMI port?
NPVR 1.5.33 works great with my EG-M34A as a front-end. Schedules and plays recorded TV with no problems (both newer TS files and old MPG files), and can play music and pictures from a shared drive with no problems. But, when I attempt to play MPG files from any non-NPVR source, NPVR crashes (more specifically, I think it's mvpmcx2 that crashes) and I get returned to the EG-M34A homepage.
These files play fine from NPVR on a PC, and also from the native EG-M34A UI.
I've tried various combinations of settings on the Decoder screen, including changing the Video Renderer and the video decoders, without success.
Logs don't show anything at all.
Any idea what could be happening, or how to further troubleshoot?
