Working:
- Activate Live TV, and change to whatever channel is first in your EPG
- Bring up the TV Guide as an overlay (F1)
- The green highlight should be over the current programme for the current channel
Not working:
- Now change to any another channel
- Bring up the TV Guide again
- The green highlight is gone (at least until you press up or down; it doesn't show with left or right)
Hi all,
New user here.
I am trying to install NPVR with a Winfast tv2000 XP card for analog channels. Based on the attached filtercheck.log file, I put the following in the AnalogDevices.xml file:
<Device filter="WinFast TV2000 XP WDM Video Capture">
<Name>Winfast TV2000 XP</Name>
<Type>SOFT_ENCODE</Type>
</Device>
Whenever I try to use an analog channel, i get the following error message:
unable to located capture filter's 'analog video in' pin.(2)
I also have an ATI TV WONDER 600 card (which I use for digital channels), and the analog tuner on that card works with npvr, so I assume I installed the required softpvr components correctly.
Also, the winfast card works perfectly with DScaler, both with using the "WinFast TV2000 XP WDM Video Capture" DShow filter and without using directshow.
I'm trying to migrate from GBPVR to NPVR, and I can't set up my HDHR tuners, which are working in GBPVR. They show as enabled, but don't yield any channels on scan. Turned off the Windows firewall just in case. Are there special settings required for these tuners like with GBPVR? All the relevant posts I've found are in the GBPVR support thread.
Will attach logs, but first thought I'd see of there is a step I need to take that I'm missing.
I was wondering if there was a way or method to allow me to adjust or change the file name of recordings.
Regardless if I use the Guide or Manual recording, the file name always follows this convention:
"ProgramName_Date_StarttimeEndTime.ts" or "Family Guy_20101204_16001630.ts"
Using utilities such as UltraXMLTV, one is able to set additional information displayed in the guide, such as Season and Episode numbers (ex. 607...season 6, episode 7), which would be handy to have if you collect a large external media collection and you want to integrate the recordings with the collection.
Is there a setting somewhere in nPVR that will adjust the output file name to include other fields?
This might only be a problem for UK users, with our silly half-and-half shared frequency channels, such as BBC Three/CBeebies and BBC Four/CBBC.
In GBPVR, if you tried to view BBC Three during the day, it would actually show CBeebies (with the OSD/EPG showing the details for BBC Three). Not ideal, but more than easy enough to live with.
NPVR is much cleverer now though, and knows not to do this. However, you get a slightly worse problem because if you change to a channel when it's not broadcasting then nothing happens. If you were channel flicking, you're left with either a frozen picture from the previous channel or a black screen. If you jumped to it from the Guide, then you just get the black screen. In both cases, no OSD appears to tell you what channel you're on.
It's particularly bad if you have a couple of these channels back to back. For example, my channels go:
- Channel 4
- Five
- BBC Three
- BBC Four
- Dave
As you go from Five to BBC Three, NPVR acts like it's hung, because the picture freezes, and no OSD appears to let you know you're on a new channel. If you're lucky, you can then channel-up to BBC Four (even though there's nothing to let you know it worked). Normal service only resumes once Dave is reached. In very rare occasions, NPVR *will* actually hang and needs to be restarted.
I'm not really sure what the solution should be. At the very least, I think the OSD needs to appear to let you know you've changed channel. Beyond that, perhaps a way for us to tell NPVR when these channels are active, so it could display a custom banner (eg "channel not broadcasting") when you switch to it.
(The only time I've noticed a visual indication of what's going on is when using Windowed mode, and you'll see, for example, BBC Three appear in the title bar.)
I've attached a log file that shows loading NPVR, going to the Guide, selecting BBC Three, then channel flicking to BBC Four, and then Dave.
Sorry for the long post, but I wanted to try and explain it properly
I'm trying to get my remote mapped (via HIP) for controlling NPVR, but some things seem to be the reverse of how they were in GBPVR. For instance, channel changing...
In GBPVR, PageUp meant Channel+ (so you'd go from channel 1 to 2 to 3) and PageDown meant Channel- (3 to 2 to 1). You could also use those buttons to skip a page at a time in the Guide or in lists.
In NPVR, they still skip in the guide/lists as expected (in terms of direction), but they're now reversed for channel changes, ie, PageUp now moves down a channel (3 to 2 to 1), and PageDown goes up a channel (1 to 2 to 3).
To me this is wrong. Have I missed something? If not, is there any chance we can have it back the way it worked in GBPVR please?
+ and - on the numeric keypad do change channels in the direction I'd expect, but they have no effect in the guide. I'd really like to be able to map my Channel+/- buttons so that I can have both bits of functionality.
