All was fine until I installed 1.5.33. Now I have no live TV. It says "Unable to find capture defvice". The device is listed with enable=yes and present = no. I have tried to reregister hcw_mcmpeg2mux.ax but I can't find the file. I have tried to download WinTV 7 and get the file there but, it's not found. Any suggestions? GBPVR works fine.
Just trying to get nPVR setup and have got a KWorld USB twin Tuner (DVB-T 399U/UR) which nPVR recognises as such, but when I do the initial Channel Scan it throws the System.AccessViolationException
I have attached the log file with the error
I have checked the aerial and that is getting a signal OK.
Can anyone shed any light on this please?
Forgot to mention I have applied the patches in the Please Read message, and made sure that DirectX 9 is installed.
Another update:
Just tried the USB stick in a different machine, running Win7 and it all worked OK and found loads of channels, so fairly sure the USB stick is OK.
I have attached a shot of the status screen. There are two channels being recorded on the same tuner.
This is not multi-record. These are two different stations on two different channels (one is Sunshine Coast Ten, one is WIN).
Surely this is impossible?
After checking the .ts file, it looks like it has actually stopped recording The Good Wife, and switched to RPA. In neither case is padding (5/15) being respected, despite there being two unused tuners available.
Is there something I can do so that this does not happen?
I run a multi-track recording app that supports MMCSS (Multimedia Class Scheduler Service) which is supposed to help playback by giving processor-priority to the application and prevent other operations from causing glitching. For what it's worth, it does seem to almost eliminate glitching when running at low latency.
Sometimes things happen in the background on my PVR that cause GBPVR to stutter. I wonder if implementing MMCSS would prevent this?
It seems that about 1 out of every 4 times I wake the computer up NPVR is completely frozen and the computer ends up having to be cold booted. Is there any reason for this? I can never see anything in the logs. I do see this in the Windows application log:
Fault bucket , type 0
Event Name: AppHangTransient
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0
I am trying to setup NPVR for the first time. I am a long time GBPVR user. Normally, when I scan the QAM channels, my local network channels all are named. I have a lot of other channels that the name is unknown too. For example, my local CBS HD channel is called WRAL HD. This channel is at QAM channel 85.1.
When the NPVR QAM scan completes it seems to have found all my physical channels, but it has incorrectly aligned the channel names with the physical channels. For example, it associates some of these names to the encrypted channels. Others, it just associates with the wrong channel. It makes things very confusing when I go to map the channels to the EPG channel.
Is this a known problem? Am I missing a patch? I am using a hauppauge 2250.
I still use I-xmltv to enhance Schedules Direct data, which creates a tvguide.xml file in a different folder for each of my 3 lineups. NPVR does not seem to want to remember the different file locations when mapping channels to EPG data. Is there a way to map different xmltv file locations?
Is there any interest in having support for playback of recordings on consoles and other media extenders using the PlayOn supported devices shown here http://www.playon.tv/supported-devices?loc=pl1 ? If so let me know especially if you would be interested in installing the PlayOn trial and testing with me.
I am planning on installing the 14 day trial in the next couple of days (PlayOn is not free) to see how it work with the NMT and Boxee Box and while I was on the PlayOn site I noticed that they have a plugin interface. I figured I'd have time in those 14 day to write a plugin if others are interested. This does looks like quite a simple way of providing a UPnP view of NPVR recordings with device based transcoding. The look and feel would be an old school list box but they do allow the metadata including images so it might be interesting. This demo probably would give you a general idea of the look and feel http://www.playon.tv/playon/demos?id=ps3. In addition to playback, I might be able to add delete and cancel too.
I had to do a rescan of the DVB-S channels recently, and then remembered why I donât do this too often, the scan cache fills up with around 1300 tuning strings, which is a bit of a nightmare to sort out.
Having a look through the forums for anything to try to make a bit more sense of it didnât turn up much, so Iâve written a utility to trim it down substantially. Apologies if someone has already done this and I missed it.
It uses two input files, the scan cache, and one to specify which channels are of interest.
The channel file contains a list of pattern strings to match the required channel names to, minus spaces, and all in lower case.
For example:
Code:
bbc1
cnn
news
It compares each pattern with every channel name, which has had spaces removed and converted to lower case, in the scan cache and picks out those which match. So the above would match âBBC1 NE & Câ, âBBC 1 Londonâ, âCNN Internationalâ, âBBC Newsâ, âSky Newsâ, and so on. It does mean that you may get unwanted tuning strings, for example I have the channel pattern e4 for the channel name E4, but this also matches âCartoon Network Game 4â. It discards all strings which contain an alternate audio stream such as (Audio #1).
It removes any duplicates if the whole tuning string is the same, so this means you can combine scans from different satellites, in my case Astra and Eurobird.
The output is given in channel name alphabetical order.
