Hi,

I've just uploaded the first NPVR-compatible version of the TVListings plugin at the wiki. There's also a new Version of the XmltvExtras utility.

Screenshots:




Wiki page: http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...TVListings
Support forum: http://forums.gbpvr.com/forumdisplay.php?f=45

-alibert

On my client machine is a Dell laptop with a 2 Ghz P4 mobile processor 512Mb RAM and a 7500 series ATI video card with 32 Mb dedicated video RAM (I believe it also can share main RAM too) Not exactly a powerhouse especially compared to my tri-core server with a ATI 4830 vid card.

Anyways I noticed what I cansider to be strange behavior although not necessarily a bad thing, but I;m getting the best performance using the EVR renderer over the VRM9 or VRM7 which is the opposite of what I'd except on my laptop client. CPU usage using a .TS SDTV stream is about the same for all 3 when just watching a movie but with the VRM7 or 9 I get stuttering when the transparent overlays drop down while with the EVR renderer it barely increases the CPU usage in the same scenario. I was expecting to see the exact opposite behavior and figured the VRM7 renderer would give this laptop the best performance since it's really a DX7 card and doesn't support all the DX9 functions. (It does seem to support hardware acceleration under DX9 though)

I just thought I was kind of weird but I think people should give the EVR renderer a shot even with an older less powerful box. You may find it performs best overall with only a slight (looks like less than 5%) increase in CPU usage during playback but a lot better handling of overlays.

Title says it all really. If anyone is interested in developing a skin plugin for NPVR, I'd be interested in handling the skin part .

If there are any takers, fire off an e-mail to me: thm_gb@yahoo.co.uk and I can pass along what I've been working on with my skin.

Cheers.

I'm having a hard time keeping trach of all patches and fixed for the latest version. Sub, can you make a .zip in a sticky thread with all the latest patches, like the old survival guide?

Nothing too major but definitely affecting the WAF (especially since none of these things were a problem when I was still running 1.4.7)

Setting up a recurring recording through EWA using "This Time Slot" & "This Day Only" Fails (works fine through npvr's TV guide)
Recurring recordings setup for Sunday somehow end up as Monday instead (in both ewa and npvr)
When watching recordings, they don't always exit back to npvr when then end, sometimes they just freeze on the last frame until you hit stop
Recordings sometimes freeze at comskip cuts until you hit skip forward or stop
Cancelling a recording in progress crashes nrecord
Streaming a live show from ewa crashes nrecord when you stop the stream
Small skip forward doesn't always advance the recording on my PCH through mvpmcx2.

I want to transcode the recordings of NPVR with an external conversion processor that I'm developing (to queue and distribute jobs to Handbrake nodes), and I'd like access to more info about the recording, such as channel, episode description, start of recording time (to the second), interlaced/progressive, size, etc.

It would be great if, like MediaPortal, if NPVR could have an option to save whatever recording info is available to a similarly-named XML file. This would allow me to incorporate more parameters to be used by the "rules" for my conversion/renaming/archiving processor.

Thanks

Been using gbpvr for years now and have decided to migrate to npvr. For the most part it hasn't been too painful. I ran into two snags...getting npvr to recognize my Hauppauge PVR150 and finding a syntax error in the html file for starting npvr via my popcorn. Not sure if I found a bug, but I installed npvr using the nmtinstall2.exe and the html file that the nmtinstall2 provided had the first syntax below and changing it to the bottom one got npvr working on the popcorn.

nmtinstall2 syntax

I had been running PVRX2 successfully with one eGreat outputting to an HD television. I now added a second eGreat via NMTInstall and it outputs to the second set (an SD NTSC TV) as if it were 16:9.

Is there a way to independently set up the two eGreats so both sets are driven at their respective aspect ratio and use appropriate skins on each? Did I miss something in the setup?

When and how does GBPVR update the recording database with future shows? The reason I am asking is if I go into the Recording Schedule and delete future schedule entries to resolve conflicts, will they be reconstructed automatically? If not, is there a way to trigger that event to occur?

Thanks,

My Hauppauge Nova-T 500 lost one of its tuners recently and so the media computer has been unused, I'm looking for a new tuner card (for the UK) to bring it back to life. I've only used DVB-T so far but am considering trying satellite (DVB-S). Or both.

Do all cards allow the multi-record I now find essential in GB-PVR/NPVR? (recording >1 program per tuner).
Is multi-record only available for DVB-T (terrestrial freeview?)

Any comments on the Compro E 750 (Scan.co.uk, £55) or the Blackgold BGT3595 (Blackgold, £110)?
Thanks.