I'd like to report some problems with NPVR 1.5.31:
1. DVD playback - with some DVDs I can't access DVD menu with mouse or keyboard, the only functional key is Esc, so I can't play some DVD with NPVR ( for example initial menu with language selection )
2. TV aspect ratio - this problem is also in another thread.
Monitor: 1366x768 16:9
TV: analog , 4:3
Tuner: Hauppauge HVR-2200
When I select FILL mode, black rectangles stays at the top and bottom of screen
When I select Remove Letterbox mode, whole picture is moved to the top of screen and at the bottom of screen is big green rectantle
3. FM tuner with Hauppauge hvr-2200
Time-to time ( for example once a 5-15 seconds ) playing stops for about 0,1 - 0,3 seconds and then continues . Something like when I listen to internet stream radio with slow internet.
Maybe it is related to signal quality, because of stations with worse signal do it more significantly, than stations with better signal. But the problem is present also on radio stations with very good signal.
tested computer: AMD Athlon X2 235e , 4GB ram, Windows XP SP3
4. Channel list
Is it functional ? ILive tv -> right click -> channels
Nothing is done ...
5. Live preview mode & TV buffer settings
Will be this functionality present also with NPVR ? It is very usefull when watching TV signal through external set-top-box and connection between STB and PC is only through Composite cable.
Timeshift causes, when user changes channel on STB , he can see it at screen of PVR soft several seconds later ...
Also some settings about TV buffer would be nice ( max and min size of TV buffer, LiveTV pre-delay time )
I am so lost. What I want to do is set up my remote to control my DirectTV set top box. I'm using GBPVR and a random MCE remote. There are no drivers for this remote, apparently.
From what I can tell, I should use HIP to accomplish what I want. So I'm using these instructions, and everything is going perfectly until I got to the part where I need to Add a Value. The box comes up, says to press a key to continue, I press a key on my remote, and the LEDs on both the remote and the reciever flash, but nothing actually happens inside HIP. If I press the up/down/right/left buttons on the remote, it toggles focus from the cancel button, as if the remote is trying to control HIP instead of HIP registering it as something to map.
Since my initial setup of HIP, I've also noticed that my remote now controls gbpvr just fine for basic commands: volume, switching channels (in GBPVR only, of course), etc, all work. Play, pause, other dvd type commands do not work. Do I even need to continue this? I was assuming that after HIP is working, I can use Girder and have it control my set top box. Do I not need HIP? Can someone maybe point me in the right direction so I know what in the world I should be trying to research? I've been reading the wiki and searching the forums, but I haven't been able to find anything yet that makes sense to me.
Recently our cable provider removed several channels from our lineup and assigned new networks to others. But when the EPG update occurs these changes aren't being recorded in GB-PVR. There are many channels listed which we don't get any more, and other channels like 55 are showing up under their old name (MAX) instead of their new one (MASN), and there are no programs listed for the channel in the TV Guide view. I'm using GB-PVR 1.3.11 with native Schedules Direct.
If I go into the Configure I can't delete any channels from the listing. I tried erasing and updating the EPG and while new programs are listed for the unchanged channels, I don't get any of the channel changes. Is there some way to erase all the channels and just load a new fresh channel listing into the EPG?
My home NAS, used for a repository of kept recordings, ripped DVDs, downloads etc, seems to have toasted itself. It was a QNAP TS-109. It performed well for several years, but started getting flakey a few weeks ago, and finally today shows no sign of life. Luckily I backed up everything when the problems started happening.
So... I now need to get a new NAS. Has anyone bought a cheap one recently that they were happy with and could recommend? I'm not going to be using it for critical stuff, so I dont really need to have multi-drives and raid etc. I'd only need 1TB or so of disk, which should help keep the cost down.
I upgrade to v 1.5.31 and started having a aspect ratio problem when viewing .mpg, .ts and .m2ts videos. I'm probably one of the few people still using VMR7 but before the upgrade everything worked fine. Now, everytime I watch a video, I have to use F7 to cycle through the aspect ratios back to auto to get the screen correct.
I tried using cyberlinks and arcsoft decoder but they return the same results.
Is there a setting in the config file to force it to act like it did in v 1.5.28
I think we're getting close to being able to remove that "Beta" status from NPVR, and at the same time I want to finalise the name the project will use going forward.
The options are nextpvr or g3pvr. What is your preference for the official name? I own both the nextpvr.com and g3pvr.com domain names.
"nextpvr" was originally a working name for the next pvr application I was creating, but its hard to change a name once you start using it.
"g3pvr" was a suggestion by bgowland a few months back which I really liked, since its similar to gbpvr, but also implies 3rd generation etc.
Sub, while setting up a PC Client on a Win 7 system, connecting to an XP Home server, I discovered that a misspelled share name causes NPVR to throw an SQL exception on startup. If you click "Continue" then the server and share settings show as blank. I ended up fixing the name by editing config.xml, but less technical users might not know to do that. Just wanted to let you know in case some code to capture and handle the error could reduce future install questions.
