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I'm using NPVR with Windows 7. My problem is that whenever I click on the Guide button it brings up NPVR's guide but the Windows Media Center also pops up. Is there a way to disable WMC popping up when NPVR is active?

In the GBPVR plugin there used to be an option to have the guide listings show different colors based on the genre. Is this possible with TVListings for NPVR?

Can't offer Rush, I'm afraid but for the rock fans on here with access to the Astra 1 satellites at 19 E they have 24hrs of concerts - some old, some new, starting at 06:00 CET on 31st December; keep some disk space free

h__p://www.3sat.de/programm/?viewlong=viewlong&d=20101231&dayID=ClnDaN31&cx=47

When he released the Slate skin, Hairy also made a comment about how isolated a lot of the development for NPVR is. He does have a point.

I don't really know how we go about being more of a "community" when it comes to development - more shared plugins perhaps? (scb147 and I are working on one together; it's a start) - but one thing I did think of is perhaps it would be nice to have some sort of plugin manager, bringing all the plugins, skins, etc together in a single integrated tool, where the user could just tick boxes to say which ones they wanted, and it would pull them down from the web and install everything automatically.

Doing this would probably need some agreements between all the developers about the best way to manage/handle files, installs etc. Again, it might encourage a bit more interaction between everybody.

Thoughts?

One thing that I missed after migrating to nPVR, was an on-screen volume display when watching TV. It was also a bit of a WAF killer.

So I decided created my own!

Tested on Windows XP SP3 (32 bit), Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit) and with a number of keyboard volume buttons. Mainly used with a Hauppage 45 button remote control which has been configured to change the Windows system volume.

I assume nPVR will be blessed with a built-in volume OSD in the future but I've decided to share the plugin now, in the hope that others will find it useful in the meantime. Simply download from the wiki page and unzip to the nPVR data directory. A skin for the current default skin is included in the zip.

DON'T PANIC, is what I thought first. and second...

I have a auvitek tv stick, it came at one time with presto pvr, it did not install properly no disc.
So this looked, like an option.

It did not seem to want me to work it, in fact it would not close, I had to do a restart to kill it.

Anyone brave enough to explain this beast to me?

Would like to request the ability to be able to use visible="selected" in the CoversView elements for music, pictures and videos .xmls similar to the IconView. Also wonder about using it in the main menu .xml for the menubutton element.

ie..

<RoundedRect visible="@selected" location="1,2" size="98,96" bah bah..."/>

Thanks.

Just installed NPVR today and having a few problems...

Installed NPVR (with no patches), fired it up, configured the decoders, devices etc, scanned for and found channels, etc.

Selected to watch live TV and successfully got a picture and sound. Hit escape to go back to the menu, then tried to go back to live TV and I get "unable to communicate with recording service".

NPVR.log shows:
[INDENT]Unexpected error calling StartStream(): System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.

Server stack trace:
at VariantClear(tagVARIANT* )
at Native.DigitalRecorderBase.GetCaptureFilter(IBaseFilter* pTunerFilter)
at Native.DigitalRecorderBase.BuildGraph(String deviceFilter, Int32 deviceInstance, Int32 commonInterface, Int32 commonInterfaceInstances, String& message)[/INDENT]

Logs attached from this point.

If I quit, restart and try again, I get a message "Device failed to start" (secondgo.zip set of logs attached). Bouncing the NPVR service resets the issue back to the beginning.


Been a long time very happy GBPVR user on XP but on the new Windows 7 media PC I built I couldn't get it restarting from suspend or hibernate properly as it wouldn're restart/connect to the Nova-T (USB) device, so I've been using other things until NPVR became stable (couldn't wait any longer...). I'm keen to get back to the application I like!

Any help gratefully appreciated.

Cheers,
Ed

30 years ago today John Lennon was murdered. Seems like it hasn't been but 10. I grew up on the Beatles and it was their first Ed Sullivan show on TV in 1964 (when I was only 6) that started me on my musical journey. The only reason I wanted to play guitar was The Beatles. Even today, when I jam with my mates, 70% of the songs we play are Beatles songs. Guess I should have moved on but while I enjoy a huge variety of music, I never tire of listening to the 'mop heads'. Just 'Imagine' if John and George were around today and it they were still playing. I bet they could whip the Stones you know what in iTunes sales. Heck, based on the latest iTunes numbers, they are.