I transfer all the .ts files recorded with NPVR to a WD TV Live media player. There is a problem fast forwarding these files when playing back, with the player jumping around, sometimes backwards or forwards by a random amount.
There was a suggestion on the WD forum that this was due to "sequence headers" being spaced far apart.
Are these headers part of the broadcast stream, or does NPVR generate them.
If so, is it possible to make them happen much more frequently.
If not, could I post-process the file, and generate more of them?
I have just upgraded to Win7 Home Prem and installed Npvr 1.5.33
Awesome truly awesome thanks SUB
All my video timestamp issues on live TV have disappeared however yet to record anything
Now for some fine tuning
Picture is great but no sound
Walked through the set up document and installed all the codec's etc it suggested.
Installed K-late standard pack
Due to problems with duplicate entries in the EPG, I'm no longer running the inbuilt EPG update within NPVR, but am running it from an external script - In NPVR, the EPG Update time is set to 'None'.
Unfortunately now NEWA chokes with:
Code:
Server Error in '/' Application.
Input string was not in a correct format.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.
Source Error:
Line 301: XmlNode EPGHour = SettingsHelper.GetInstance().GetSettingsNode("/Settings/General/EPGUpdateHour");
Line 302: Logger.Info("Checking if it is at least one hour past the EPG update for today.... ");
Line 303: if (DateTime.Now.Hour + 1 > Convert.ToInt32(EPGHour.InnerText))
Line 304: {
Line 305: Logger.Info("It is greater than one hour since todays EPG update.... ");
Source File: c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\NPVR\web\Login.aspx.cs Line: 303
Stack Trace:
[FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.]
System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyles options, NumberBuffer& number, NumberFormatInfo info, Boolean parseDecimal) +7471479
System.Number.ParseInt32(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info) +119
System.Convert.ToInt32(String value) +63
N_EWA.Login.CompleteLogin() in c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\NPVR\web\Login.aspx.cs:303
N_EWA.Login.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\NPVR\web\Login.aspx.cs:85
System.Web.Util.CalliHelper.EventArgFunctionCaller(IntPtr fp, Object o, Object t, EventArgs e) +14
System.Web.Util.CalliEventHandlerDelegateProxy.Callback(Object sender, EventArgs e) +43
System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +73
System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +52
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +2184
As a workaround, I've set NPVR to do a dummy update just before the external script kicks in, but NEWA should handle valid settings from NPVR.
External script is nothing special - it just forces the db to empty before the update:
"C:\Program Files\NPVR\NextPVR.exe" -emptyepgonly
"C:\Program Files\NPVR\NextPVR.exe" -updateepgonly
EDIT 2: OK! Some success... I set it to "analog recording source", picked the 1600 from the list, chose "SVIDEO - External Tuner" as the source and now it works (i just can't record high def I guess), but the channel changer isn't working. I don't see the Hauppauge IR Blaster as one of the listed choices. What IR Blaster do I use?!?
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I have a GBPVR box (it was running 1.4.2 or some version around there) and had a Hauppauge PVR-150 capture card. It's been running for a number of years with various versions of GBPVR. Today I finally got into the modern age and bought a high def TV. This of course meant I had to get a cable box that supports high def. I figured since I now had HD capabilities I should upgrade my capture card so that I could record in HD (plus my PVR-150 had problems changing channels so I was using the serial port, but the new cable box doesn't have a serial port I can use). So I uninstalled the PVR-150 and installed a Hauppauge PVR-1600.
I installed the drivers for the card and verified Windows sees it. I then hooked everything up. The cable box I have (Motorola DCX3200) has HDMI, Composite, RCA, and SVideo out. The HDMI is hooked up to the TV, so I opted to use the SVideo for the link to the GBPVR PC since the PVR-1600 has an SVideo input. I tested this setup with WinTV 7 (it came with the PVR-1600) and it worked fine (aside from having to manually set the input to NTSC-443 so it wasn't in black and white). So then I went to GBPVR configuration and deleted my old capture source and then added a new one for the PVR-1600. I chose "Digital Recording Plugin" for the recording source and it found 3 adapters it could use (1500MCE, 1600 ATSC, and 1600 QAM). I picked the 1600 ATSC and then configured the EPG source (xmltv plugin) and then updated the EPG. It found all of the channels it should have. I then selected "Enable All" and every channel was checked. I clicked OK to save and tried to check it all worked by going into PVRX2 and choosing "Watch Live TV", but nothing happened. When I checked the log it said there were no channels configured. I went back to the configuration page and none of the channels were checked! Nothing I do will get it to enable the channels.
I then tried upgrading to the latest version of GBPVR and I have the same result. I can't tell it to use any channels and so I can't use any of the recording features of GBPVR! Does anyone have ANY idea what's going on? I have attached the recent logs from the log directory.
Help!
EDIT: I also tried adding a high def analog recording source and picking SVideo as the input source. The only option for a card was WinTV HD-PVR and when I tried to test PVRX2 with that recording source it gave me an error in the logs about null reference or some similar error. I guess the big question here then is "How do I make GBPVR work with my HVR-1600 using SVideo Input?"
I just reinstalled GB-PVR on a different box. It is running Windows Server 2008 X64. Everything seems to work fine except when it goes to actually record a show, it just doesn't. All devices are detected, and my old recordings imported just fine. It did say something about the mpeg2 demux not being installed so I just changed the setting to something else. I'm only using this to record the TV not to play it back.
The card I'm using is a PVR-500 MCE and it's detected fine in both Windows and GB-PVR. I went ahead and installed the BDA drivers (http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/114549-b...er-2008r2/) in case that was a problem. I saw no improvement.
I really don't want to take this thing back down and re-install windows 7 on it.
I have started using NPVR with my NMT but the pageup/pagedown (on NMT remote) during livetv are reversed. I have them mapped to channelup/channeldown on a universal remote.
With GBPVR pageup=channelup and pagedown=channeldown as is Up and Down arrows. However, in NPVR Up and Down arrows show the mini-guide from which you can choose a channel, but pageup and pagedown work backward. It would be nice if they work properly.
I am not sure if this is an NPVR or NMT issue. Thanks for your help.
In another forum, where i was very active a few month before, there was a thread called "what are you doing right now?". This thread didn't had any technical or informative character, but it raised the social bindings of the users to each other.
Perhaps it were a nice idea too, for this place. If not, then trash me immediately. *wait* Not trashed? Ok, too late. ^.^
Now it's 4 am and i am hungry and tired. Just sorting my music collection. In the last month i collected, backupped and saved my files all over the network. Different files, different ages, different tags... :eek:
I should go to bed, but so much to do. ^^;
Whenever I try to watch live tv, GBPVR uses a SD tuner (the 4th tuner listed) instead of my HD tuner. I have my 3 HD tuners listed first in the settings and then my 2 SD tuners. Is there a setting I am missing somewhere. Anyone have any ideas on how to change this? Thanks.
