I have noticed that I have a reoccurring recording fail with "device failed to start". It occurs on one of the analog tuners in my 2250. This error only seems to occur if I have show scheduled to record on one of the QAM tuners just prior to it starting.
For example, I have the scheduled recording of "The Daily Show" at 11 PM every week night. This recordings appears to work most nights, but it always fails on Thursdays when I have the "The Mentalist" scheduled to record at 10-11 PM on a QAM channel.
I wonder NPVR is correctly handling the dual tuners of the 2250. It shows up as 4 devices, but only 2 tuners can be in use at any single point in time. It seems like is may chose the wrong tuner device for the second show not realizing is was already busy with a QAM recording.
Any idea when SD support will be coming? I've fiddled with bat files and I can't get it to work so I deleted Npvr until there is SD support. I reformat every year around new years and would probably install Npvr instead of GBpvr if it had SD support.
So this is kind of an odd problem and i couldnt find anything truely similar in either gbpvr or npvr sections.
So important pc info i suppose
AMD 4400+
nvidia 8600gt
ASUS A8N Premium mobo
2gb of ram
TV is a panasonic TC-P42C2 if it matters (with an onkyo 607 receiver)
Basically i have npvr just for media playback. Dont use it at all for tv. In fact the only plugins that are "active" is Movies, DVD, and exit. What happens is i use the computer for normal day to day things and leave it on 24/7. I have found that if i restart my pc npvr plays back the files just fine. Perfectly infact. I usually watch tv at night with sleep mode to turn off the tv. When i wake up in the morning and get on the computer it is slow and the mouse doesnt track smoothly but rather "skips" a bit as it goes across the screen. Its like itll move half an inch just fine then it sort of lags and ends up skipping to catch up. Once i close npvr it works just fine with no skipping. Now if i load up npvr again and try to play a video file it is stuttery (is that a word?). For instance if there is snow falling rather than a straight smooth fall, the snow falls for a second or two then jumps down a bit rather than being a smooth straight fall. Its kind of like the mouse problem just with video instead.
I have tried using both the Overlay and EVR. VR7 and VR9 didnt show anything but black on my tv. This problem occurs on both 1080p and 720p HD files (encoded with x264) as well as plain SD (xvid) files. I use CoreAVC for HD and ffdshow for xivd. I also tried ffdshow for hd but saw the same results. I also installed all the patches (especially the evr memory leak on and ntray cpu one) and didnt see any difference.
Also of note, even when npvr is doing this i can close npvr, fire up pvrx2 and it works flawlessly. To get npvr working again i have to reboot the pc which is kind of annoying to do just for watching videos.
I seem to not be able to get this to work. I have a Hauppage USB MCE receiver (Which came with my WinTV-HVR-1600 Media Kit), that has two ports on it.
If I use IR Server's Translator or blast.exe to send a command to both ports, it works. If I send to port_1, it doesn't, port_2, it does.
For one brief moment, unless I hallucinated, it worked to both ports separately. I then rebooted, to make sure it worked, and it stopped working.
I read somewhere that you needed something plugged into both Blaster ports when you install WinTV, and I did that. And it did help, a bit.
However, there must be a way to make both ports work. Does anyone know if there is a registry setting I can edit, or what I need to do?
Thanks
My setup is a small computer with an Hppge 1600 and an Hppge 250 card in it, connected to two Telus Optik CIS330 STB's. At least, that's the plan whenever it starts working. Currently running GB-PVR 1.47.
It would be cool if there where a way to control ffdshow from within NextPVR.
Like changing audiostream or turning Subtitles on, off or switching between them.
I've benn looking for a way to let my remote control ffdshow in the background and maybe I succeed. But it would be nice if it were possible to do directly from within npvr.
I found this page with code examples for the ffdshow API
Is there anyone that surf the web on the TV with a wireless keyboard?
If so I have something that might be interesting for you. I have been (trying to) learn PHP and MySQL for the last year, by working on this project.
I have made a website, Hello World (for use on a TV) that is a personal portal with a lot of links to webcontent, like newspapers, radio, tv and video … for the most countries in the world.
I’m also working on some other functions that I use. (see picture icons)
I might include current GBPVR translations, for online editing and generation of language files.
The site could also work as a source for logos and links to a plugin.
The site is in an beta-alpha stage on my home server, but it is fully working and I use it everyday. It would be nice to get some feedback on the usability of the site.
I have a strange niggle, when watching a recording, video or live TV every so often the TV screen goes blank for a second or so then comes back. Its like the when the monitor goes off after inactivity, the TV displays seraching for signal for a second then finds a signal and comes back on. It happens every 10 - 20 mins but can be more random than that.
The HTPC is currently connected to a Samsung HDTV via HDMI.
Initially I thought it was a problem with the system setup, ie drivers, settings etc. but after some investigation changing cables, using a different TV and using VGA output instead of HDMI I haven't been able to cured it. Finally I played a recording with WMP in fullscreen mode for an hour and the problem didn't occur.
Can anyone shed so light on this?
It's not a massive problem but it detracts from the otherwise good user experience.
NPVR 1.5.33 is installed on Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit.
Just on a side note I think NPVR is excellent, GBPVR was good (my parents still use it) but NPVR IMO takes good leap forward, initially I thought it looked quite restrictive campared to GBPVR but I realised after using it for while that the features I use were built into the main program and just worked from the start. Basically I think Sub and the other developers have produced an excellent product with a good feature set and capability for a modern PVR/HTPC system. Well done and thanks
Anyone have the Snapstream Firefly remote working in Windows Vista or 7? When I did the test install of Win7 (32 bit) the Snapstream software install didn't seem to work.
Seems Snapstream has discontinued support for this remote control...
The Recording Status window is suppose to (and use to) show the number of tuners (2) and what was being recorded on each tuner. Now, after reinstall, it shows all the tuners (2) and all the programs that are being recorded show up under the first tuner. Why?
Additionally, GBPVR use to indicate when you were trying to record more programs than you had tuners. Now it doesn't. I will see 3 programs being recorded and have to guess which 2 of the 3 are actually being recorded. Again why?
