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.
Hi all ... i did a search for literally MythTV Alternative for Windows ... and here i am.
So let me describe what i am trying to do and where i am at....
I have a spare PC running WinXP SP3. I have a Hauppage PVR 150 installed.
I had problems with GB-PVR (.net errors) so I uninstalled and loaded the latest NPVR Beta.
I can successfully access a remote PC share
i can successfully browse the remote share using mouse or keyboard ... and I can successfully play the remote XVIDs.
Second step for me is the recording portion... First step is to stream these xvids from the other PC.
WinXP drivers for the hauppage are loaded, I have my IR "button" installed ... but I can't use the hauppage remote to control the interface.
is my expectation wrong or my setup. I know under GB-PVR I added the Hauppage as a device... but in NPVR ... the add device button is greyed out. But I suspect this is set up for capturing and not remote control....
When I back out of a recording I'm watching, back to the "What's new" screen, is the selection supposed to go all the way back up to the newest recording? I notice that sometimes when I back out, the recording I was just watching is the highlighted item, which makes more sense to me.
I'm trying to get guideplus working on my windows 7 x64 system to rename all my recordings. I downloaded the modified Guideplus that was built for x64 systems. I've successfully called guideplus in my updateepg.bat and output a .xml file. When I try to load that XML file into NPVR as an EPG source for my HDPR, I get the following error. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
I have been requested to do a BlueRetroVE+ skin for TVListings & as I have very very limited time at the moment I have stared with the TV Recordings skin.
I must admit while I have looked at the old GBPVR version a couple of times in the past I never realised how much (with some skinning) it "should" do exactly what I want so I never continued with it but I feel this new version will replace the built in Recordings for me.
I have run into a space problem because BRVE+ is based on bigger fonts & I only have 4x3 TV's I would really like to use "@longPeriod" but it doesn't quite fit in the list box so I was wondering if you could add a @shortlongPeriod as in something like "Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. (30 min)"
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