I am currently using a Haupauge Nova PCI DVB-S card under GBPVR with Freesat in the UK.
I would like to shift over to nPVR and I would like to be able to record from two transponders at the same time - or watch one while recording on the other.
The machine I use as a PVR is a beefy little box with 2G of memory and 500G of disk that manages to record multiple streams via the Nova without breaking into a sweat.
However, it only has ONE conventional PCI slot - so I cannot add a second card (unless it is USB).
I have read the various threads about dual tuner cards and I am thoroughly confused.
What DUAL DVB-S or S2 tuner, PCI (*NOT* PCI-EXPRESS), cards are known to work with nPVR??
I'm sure there was a matrix of cards known to work with GBPVR - but I dont seem to be able to find it now (and I guess it may be out of date).
I started the npvr via network browser and it opens (blue background, time shown on top) but it looks like the resolution is wrong because I can't see anything on the screen besides that.
I am assuming the scroll bar with options is at the bottom of the screen but can't see it.
How do I fix it?
FYI...I checked my video output on th PCH and it is set to 1080p 60 Hz and when I ran the installer, I chose the defaults.
Also...I was playing around with it and was able to pull up the guide listings, selected a channel and was able to watch live tv.
With GBPVR, mkv files were passed through to the native NMT player from GBPVR. This functionality does not seem to work for me on NPVR. Is this a known problem? Is there something special I forgot to configure for this functionality?
I just get the buffering screen from the NMT that seems just hang.
Anything in the works to allow sub-menus or multi-level menus? I haven't installed all the plugins I might like, nor all the custom tasks I want, because the main menu already has too many items. I even removed LiveTV and TVGuide (and access those by remote buttons), and it's still too cluttered.
I think a 2-dimensional menu similar to windows media center would work well. Left and right select different items on the current menu, then up and down arrows access other menus. That way I could have the main TV, Recordings and Video functions on one menu, streaming services on another, music & photos on a third, and so on...
I my area of sweden I can watch both Swedish and Danish TV.
I'm in the process of moving to NPVR but I have the following problem.
Swedish television uses MPEG 2 SD, if I want to watch these channels I need to select EVR. If I use VMR9 I get a picture that is 2/3 of the correct size. This picture is offset up and left, the rest is "noise".
If I try to watch danish SD H264 I only get to view the top left part if I use EVR and get a correct picture I need to use VMR9. Watching the danish HD H264 channel works in EVR thou.
I use the CoreAVC decoder for decoding H264 and ffdshow for mpeg2. The PC used is an ION based Asrock 330HT
Hope you can help. I am just trying NPVR. Looks good so far but doesnt have all the bells and whistles of GBPVR as yet (plugins etc).
My first problem is that menu clicks (using mouse and keyboard) are ok but same functions with Haupauge 45 button remote takes about 10 seconds a click.
Is this some problem in the configuration in the Windows IRconfig file?
It is too slow for usefulness at the moment as it stands.
Is there any remote key that will allow you to jump directly to the recordings menu when using NPVR with the NMT?
With GBPVR, I could do this with the MENU key. As I recall, this was not the default behavior. By default the MENU key would take you to the pictures menu directly as I think is happening with NPVR. I don't recall the setting that managed this in GBPVR, but I know it was something that had to be manually edited in the config file.
I set up a Windows XP machine with NPVR as a client. I can see the TV Guide fine. But whenever I try to watch something it gives me the error: "Unable to communicate with recording service".
