Hi I try to use NVPR on a Windows 2008 R2 Server (64bit)
The installation went well and I have applayed all pathes.
The TvTuner card is a TechnoTrend Budget 1501 DVB-C card
I have installed drivers for it (BDA drivers) but I cannot find them under Settings-devices.
What should I do to fix this, or is the TvTuner not supported???

Regards
Henning

v1.0 is now available. Enjoy!

• Wiki page (including download link)
  
• Support forum.
  

As I am in the process of switching to NPVR from GBPVR, I am having a problem with the old XMLTV Extras (version 1.5). On a side note, I really like the new version with the linking of TV series to The TV DB.

When I run the old one, I get the following error: "Error reading C:\Program Files\EPG\MA-QAM.xml: There is an error in XML document (2, 11)." I've tried different XML files, different PCs. I'm getting my XML from MC2XML. I tried both Microsoft & Microsoft Legacy settings. It just seems like all of sudden I can't get it to work. Any ideas or suggestions for what I could submit to help diagnose it?

Sometimes when I watch 1080p dxva videos on my xp gbpvr box it crashes gbpvr. Then when I try to load any video (even from other players) it hangs the whole htpc.

systems notes:
cccp codec pack using ffdshow dxva, haali splitter, ffdshow audio decoder

I think it crashes when I try to switch either subtitles or audio streams. It's pretty consistent. If I don't switch streams/subtitles then I think it's stable.

I don't know if it's gbpvr, ffdshow, haali splitter or something else.

Any help would be appreciated.

I've written a couple of plugins and I've always used the Default skin as the gold standard but I suspect it may not be the most commonly used NPVR skin. Now that Hairy is passing Slate to the community and we can also Wave goodbye I thought I could help the community best by supporting the most commonly used skins

Martin

Slate is the update I've been working on. It better represents what I had originally planned when I first started developing for the new app. It also hopefully explains some of the overall design decisions I made with the Wave skin.

Slate consists of two different layouts. Two-Tone will be familiar to anyone who has used Wave before (although it has been completely redone for this update) and Overlay is a new alternative layout. Both of these layouts are designed so that users can simple change the background image, to customize the look. Slate come with 10 original images to choose from, so there should be something in there for most people.

It supports the following plugins:
Searchlite
Netflix
Weather
Webradio
System

Given how my skin plugin suggestion landed, any changes will have to be manually made.

Install Instructions:

1. Extract out the contents of "Slate_v1.zip".
   
2. Install the "DroidSans" and DroidSans-Bold" fonts (usually just right click and select install).
   
3. Copy either or both of the Slate layouts (Overlay / Two-Tone) to your application skin directory (usually "...Users\Public\NPVR\Skin").
   
4. Select your prefered background image for the relevant layout, from the (Slate_Overlay/Slate_Two-Tone/)"_backgrounds" folder.
   
5. Copy your choice to the skin layout root folder (i.e next to the global.xml) and rename this image to "background".
   

Hi,

I am just setting up networked TV in my house and I am having problems with playing back Recordings on a client PC. The files play back fine via the Videos menu but I would rather play back via Recordings as you get the EPG program summary info and What's new etc. On the Recordings menu I get the list of programs etc OK but when I try to play one I get a black screen. The time bar shows 00.00.00 at both ends. No error messages.

The Server and client are connected via a wired ethernet network. I do have different decoders on the client and server (I am using the ATI decoders that came with the server graphics card on the server and Mainconcept on the Client). Could this be an issue? It is puzzling me as playback is perfect via the Videos menu on the client and the server plays recordings back fine locally too.

I am also running Serviio on the server to share NPVR recordings to a Sony TV via DLNA. This works well and the two programs don't seem to clash at all.

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Thanks

Hi,

I set my Windows to fall in Hibernate after 2 Minutes but with NPVR it keeps runing. With gbpvr the PC felt asleep - any sugestions?

tnx

Hi,

Sorry for the title of the thread having nothing to do with this post; I was having a different problem and wrote a post about it, then figured out how to solve it on my own. But I couldn't figure out how to delete the post or change the title. So I adapted it to the new issue I've encountered.


I've just got npvr set up with a hauppage hvr 1600 card, got the video and audio going after downloading some codecs and it looks beautiful!!!

Now -- and I realize this is probably a very dumb question but I can't find an answer in the documentation -- I can't figure out how to change channels. When I press the scroll wheel on the mouse the channels appear in a window at the bottom of the screen, and i can scroll the wheel and see the names of channels cycle through. But nothing I do -- clicking etc. actually causes the channel to jump to the one I've selected. And once I have gotten the channel names and numbers to appear, I can't get them to go away.

When I right click while in live TV and select "channel" nothing seems happen.

The only way I can change channel is go out to the main menu, go into the TV Guide, find the channel I want, click on a show, then click on "watch." Is there a faster way?

The remote isn't working either.

Also - Should the WinTV software be installed before the nPVR software, or should the WinTV software be uninstalled before nPVR is installed? I wasn't clear on this.

Thanks,
David

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Dell Dimension 4600 running Windows XP SP3
750MB RAM 2.4 gHz Pentium 4
Radeon 9600 graphics card (AVG)
nPVR version 1.5.33
Hauppage HVR 1600 PCI card
Using ffdshow for mpeg2 video decoding and AC3 for audio.
U.S. location – OTA only

I'm starting to tweak my htpc again and would like to find out how you guys are hiding the cmd window for batch files.

In particular, I'm using ffmpeg to convert my recordings and I'd like to know how to hide the daughter window showing the progress and stuff like that.

thanks.