Running latest release of NPVR on a Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit. Have a pretty high end system (Core i7, nvidia 460, Creative Labs Xfi sound card) but the audio playback for live TV is so inconsistent. Sometimes it will never skip and other times it makes watching TV unbearable. Any reason why this may be happening?
1 PC still on XP. Installed one of the ffdhshow nightly builds with DXVA.
When played in media player any H264 MKV, or GBPVR HD recording, the ffdshow DXVA icon appears in task bar and CPU load is <10%.
But in GBPVR any HD recordings or live HDTV, ffdhow DXVA is not being used (even though in config H264 decoder is set to ffdhow DXVA). It falls back to a software only decoder.
MKV's behave differently - the ffdhsow DXVA icon does appear, but the video stays stuck on the first frame, only the audio progresses.
I tried different renderers and found that MKV's do play properly if overlay is used, but even in overlay HDTV or recordings result in black screen.
I never did have any luck getting DXVA to work in GBPVR on XP - so just wondered if anyone has? BTW the video card is an ATI 3450.
I am writing a plugin that uses external mediainfo.dll. The presence of the dll in the plugin folder results in:
Code:
2010-09-25 15:09:10.097 [DEBUG][1] About to check for plugin interfaces in: C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Plugins\Files\MediaInfo.dll
2010-09-25 15:09:10.113 [ERROR][1] Unexpected error loading plugins: System.BadImageFormatException: Could not load file or assembly '2580480 bytes loaded from NUtility, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.
File name: '2580480 bytes loaded from NUtility, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' ---> System.BadImageFormatException: Bad IL format.
at System.Reflection.Assembly.nLoadImage(Byte[] rawAssembly, Byte[] rawSymbolStore, Evidence evidence, StackCrawlMark& stackMark, Boolean fIntrospection)
at System.AppDomain.Load(Byte[] rawAssembly)
at NUtility.PluginRegistry.LoadPluginsFromRoot(String pluginDirectoryBase)
2010-09-25 15:09:10.113 [DEBUG][1] About to look for plugin directories in: C:\Program Files (x86)\NPVR\Plugins\
No further plugins from the the data folder are loaded afterwards.
The npvr server goes to sleep, even though I'm playing music using mvpmcx2 on the NMT. I don't know what's keeping it awake when playing videos, but I suppose the same thing should happen for playing music.
And one other thing: when stopping the music pressing the stop button on the remote, npvr/mvpmcx2 starts playing the next song in the list. In stops when I press the stop button again.
I live in a region where I receive two versions of some of the same channels (one locally and one from a nearby city). As the show lineups are not identical, I would like to enter them both. However, when I scan stations, I can only insert one or the other, presumably because the names are identical.
I have tried copying the tuning request information from one, and manually adding a channel with a different name. However, when I paste the data into the "tuning request" field, it vanishes as soon as I leave the field.
Can anyone tell me how to manually enter a tuning request into a channel, or otherwise resolve the conflict caused by identical channel names?
It would be much appreciated if Sub or another clever member of the forum could post a few examples of Advanced Rules for Manual Recordings. This is a mighty useful feature and I am currently using it for title searches eg: title like '%shaun the sheep%' but I am sure it can do more than this. Is it possible to search other fields ? A few examples would be great.
