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.

I receive some channels via DVB-T and DVB-S. However in the TV guide they get given different channel numbers. Is it possible to merge the channels together and use the DVB-T epg data?

Hi,

Thanks everyone for your initial suggestions on my other thread asking for what card to get.

I picked up a Hauppage HVR 1600 and installed it in a Dell 4600 system which has a 2.4 GHZ P4 CPU and a Radeon 9600 graphics card. It works ok alot of the time but sometimes it stutters, particularly if the video content has a lot of panning in it.

I'm wondering what is the best strategy to get some more performance out of this system -- or if I'm just kidding myself, and this PC needs to go to the junk heap. Here are my options, I'd appreciate you thoughts on what approach would work best.

1.) Upgrade the ram which is currently 750MB to 1.5 or 2.5 GB. (How much does gbpvr really want to see?)
2.) Upgrade the hard drive (presently the original IDE drive, to a SATA model -- bigger and faster)
3.) Install an inexpensive SATA 2 card - about $20 on ebay, to get to 3 mbps transfer rate.
4.) Replace the Radeon 9600 with something newer/faster (what card has good price/performance & fits an AGP slot?)

Is it possible with a two-drive system to have gbpvr put the video on the "D" drive and just leave the OS and app on the "C" drive? Would that provide better performance?

Basically, I don't know if the system is CPU-bound or Disk-bound or RAM-bound. However, when look at the CPU usage chart, it's pretty much staying in the range of 25 - 40% so that suggests that the CPU is not the problem.

Any suggestions are most welcome. Thanks in advance.

I've decided to get on the Roku/Netflix bandwagon and found a simple way of using it as a GBPVR frontend too. The script should work for both GBPVR & NPVR. I'm hoping it will help someone enjoy their Roku even more!

*** NOTE: the attached file contains a bundle of my latest setup with brief instructions ***

first follow the instructions here, setup apache and prepare to load the application onto the Roku: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ROKU_HD_Frontend

next set up perl and copy roku.pl & RokuSettings.pm into the cgi-bin folder of the apache (see attached zip file). Update RokuSettings.pm with your DB path & version.

enable apache to execute scripts in the httpd.conf:

Quote:Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI

Quote:Alias /dvr "O:/temp/dvr"


<Directory "O:/temp/dvr">
Options All
AllowOverride Options
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

Quote:LoadModule h264_streaming_module modules/mod_h264_streaming.so

Quote: AddHandler h264-streaming.extensions .mp4

Quote: item.StreamFormat = "mp4"

item.SubtitleUrl = records[0]@srt_url
item.HDBifUrl = records[0]@bif_hd_url
item.SDBifUrl = records[0]@bif_sd_url

item.IsHD = true

Quote:Function GetScriptURL() As String
return "http://192.168.x.x/cgi-bin/roku.pl"
End Function

Been using GBPVR for years, just started dipping my toes in the NPVR pool. When I scan on my QAM tuners, it only finds a few unencrypted channels and none of the ones I care about. On GBPVR or TSReader Lite, it finds everything expected. The tuners are a 1600 & 2250. Same results on both cards. The expected channels are listed here: http://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/lin...up_3785843 (Select "Verizon FiOS" for the provider). I attached my log from NPVR's scan & a cache fie from a previous GBPVR scan. One interesting thing is that the sub-channels that Verizon users are mostly 5 digits. It seems like NPVR can find the ones with 3 digit sub-channels. (When I did the scan on GBPVR, I probably had a custom qam.ini to restrict it to the channels I watch to save time.)