I'm trying to use a Hauppauge 1600 blaster in NPVR with Windows 7 64bit. I found a thread from earlier this year saying that the blast config utility wasn't working. But it does work when you download the Hauppauge software noted in Johnson's "getting started" thread. The test function sends the correct numbers, etc. Haupblast also does work but it only sends channel 1952. Is there some reason Haupblast would do that? Does anybody else have it working? Thanks.
Running Windows 7, GBPVR 1.4.7.
Have 2 cards installed - an HVR 1600 and a PVR 150.
When recording, the HVR 1600 card records fine, but I get nothing from the PVR 150 card. The system says it's recording but there's nothing to play and no files saved.
I have attached the log files in the hope that someone can take a look and tell me what's wrong.
Since a new install of Win7 on a new MB in June, the HTPC comes out of hibernate at approximately 13:45 each day, runs for a few minutes, and then hibernates. I can't determine what is doing this: the EPG update is set for 16:00. There is nothing in Task Scheduler that would explain it. Is there a tool I can use to see what causes the resume? Something that would write a log?
For some reason, if I reboot my machine the recordings work and come in better then ever for a period of about an hour, then after that I get corrupt unwatchable recordings per the picture below. It doesn't seem to be logging anything out of the ordinary. I've tried re-installing GB-PVR and reinstaling drivers and what not to no avail.
I am trying to run this on Windows 2008 which was a challenge but once I got it working I figured I was good to go. Anyone have any idea what could be causing this ?
I guess this is not a mvpmcX2 problem but my HD recordings from my Hauppauge HVR-4400 does not play smoothly on the Popcorn. The sound is perfect but the picture is choppy every second or so. Playing the file with Popcorns native player produces the same result but playing the file on the computer is perfect.
Anyone seeing this problem and knows if there is any solution to it?
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?!?
-------------------------------------------------------------------
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?"
