I just installed the Season Recordings plugin into EWA, but in doing so it seems to have taken away some tabs from me! I'm missing the Episode Search and the Config tabs. I'm not sure why they are gone for me - even when I try to connect right from the PVR Server's web browser they are gone.
Have been running GB-PVR v1.0.16 with MVP dongle 30.24088 on a 14-year-old PC for years without problems. Didn't have enough horsepower to transcode on the fly, but good enough for general use. Quite solid.
This PC finally died.
So I have moved my PVR-500 card to a newer (circa 2004) PC and need to start over with installing GB-PVR.
I read that NPVR doesn't fully support the MVP, so am wondering what version of GB-PVR people would recommend....
- stick with what I know (v1.0.16)? or
- install the latest version (v1.4.7)? or
- some other version?
All opinions welcome.
Primarily interested in rock-solid stability. This is a single-core 2.4GHz PC, with 1GB RAM, and XP Home, SP3.
Much to the chagrin of the entertainment industry, the encryption that protects most high-definition video content may have just been cracked.
Intel Corp. officials confirmed Tuesday to FoxNews.com an investigation into a security breach, possibly a fundamental compromise of High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) -- the digital rights management software that governs every device that plays high-def content.
HDCP is the main means of encoding and protecting HDTV broadcasts, Blu-ray players, set-top boxes and more, and reports Tuesday suggested that a hole in the security scheme had been uncovered. Representatives from Intel, which invented the specification, acknowledged that they were investigating the security breach.
"We're familiar with the rumors that are out there on the alleged HDCP compromise and are currently investigating it," Intel officials told Fox News. "We have so far been unable to verify. So at this point, any alleged hack is speculative and rumor."
Stephen Balogh, a business development manager at Intel and president of Digital Content Protection LLC -- the group that oversees licensing of the HDCP specification -- confirmed that the group is investigating the breach. Were the hack eventually verified, "it would represent a free-for-all on a ton of content currently protected by HDCP," wrote one technology enthusiast website.
Most commonly found in Blu-ray players, set-top boxes, and many high-definition displays, HDCP prevents the copying of audio and video content as it travels across the cables that connect HD devices. It's required to send a video across the thin, flat HDMI cables that link most new flat-panel TV to gaming systems, Blu-ray players, or whatever.
According to computing experts, the hack unlocks protected content by providing a "master key," which could be used to strip that encryption from, say, the link between your cable box and your DVR. Without those restrictions, a nefarious user could make unlimited copies -- rendering the copy-protection software useless.
The potential for such a hack has been theorized for years; in 2001, researchers warned of a possible loophole in HDCP, possibly similar to what was used in this hack.
HDCP has been used by Apple's iTunes for nearly two years, said tech-news site Betanews. Since some purchased movies will not playback on incompatible displays, however, the protection software has proved frustrating for some law-abiding consumers.
But even if the HDCP crack were authenticated, it would hardly signal the end of digital rights management or the philosophy behind it. After all, HDCP is just one of many such solutions -- albeit the most popular one. That didn't stop content pirates and others who share media illegally from thrilling at the news on message boards and forums. If the security were broken, the quality of illegal movie and TV downloads might have just gotten a whole lot better, they reasoned.
Not all technology enthusiasts were giddy about the news, however. One comment on the popular blog Engadget summed up the other side of the story.
"Stupid pirates celebrate when something like this happens, and then whine when the effects of this involve stronger DRM protection, and higher DVD and movie ticket prices. How about instead of breaking the law, you go buy and support the millions of employeesPosted Image who work hard to create this stuff?"
I did a clean install of GBPVR, but recordings that were pending before I uninstalled are still listed! I uninstalled, deleted the GBPVR folder, and reinstalled - same thing. They just won't go away. What have I failed to delete?
i tried manually editing db, but it won't stay! it just reverts to old data..
[just trying to change a date on a recording.]
i notice no oid ot correspond to epg data in scheduled_recording table, how does it cross reference it to title,etc?
sub, after installing 1.5.31 scanning of DVB-S2 channels is failing (no channels found). Using the same tuning file (attached) as I did when I scanned and found channels with 1.5.28. Since I do not longer have the 1.5.28 installation I can not verify that this is the problem. Logs are attached.
Scanning with an ini file with DVB-S frequencies results in channels found.
Hi,
I've just added a client PC to my setup. Everything is working except Net Radio, which never gets beyond 'buffering'. The machine gets on the internet with no problems, there's no firewall active at the moment.
Is there anything else that might cause Net Radio not to work?
Am I right in thinking that a client PC gets its own Net Radio streams from the internet, rather than going through the server?
Got this in the system logs:
The NPVR Recording Service service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time(s).
At around the same time I was trying to set a program to record in NEWA. I also got a message on the screen at the same time that a crash dump was being generated in /temp. I assume that was from the recording service crash so I've attached it along with logs.
here's a little something i cooked up to delete shows based on age..
just edit to select how many days old you want to keep.. [for GBPVR[pvrx2] only, see 3rd post for Npvr ver]
Auto-delete-old:
it will lookup and delete old files past a certain num days old..
also deletes associated files with different extensions, and cleans up database..
it gets db from registry, and allows a test funstion to query only..
edit the top for the number of days you want to keep, meaning older than chosen days will get deleted..
Requires: sqlite3.exe in gbpvr dir, and this batch file to be placed in gbpvr dir..
add into epgupdate.bat for running on a schedule.. [call delold.bat run]
to run as test to view would-be deleted files, type "delold.bat"
for scripts, to run 'hot' [deletes files], type "delold.bat run"
i recommend running test till you see what you expect to get deleted then a hot run to make sure all is well..it's pretty simple so shouldn't have any issues..
copy and save as delold.bat
Code:
@echo off
:: how many Days old to purge? Older than this will get deleted!
:: Shows must be in database, dates read from database. [file date doesn't matter]
set age=900
:detect gbpvr path and set as db path
for /f "usebackq skip=4 tokens=1,2,3,* " %%e in (`reg query hklm\SOFTWARE\devnz /v "GBPVR InstallDir"`) do set db=%%~hgbpvr.db3
cd /d "%~dp0"
for /f "usebackq tokens=1,2,3 delims=@" %%f in (`sqlite3.exe -separator "@" "%db%" "select manual_start_time, filename from recording_schedule where status = 2 and recording_type = 0 and manual_start_time < date('now','-%age% days') order by manual_start_time;"`) do (
echo.
echo "%%~g"
if "%1" EQU "run" call :delfiles "%%~g"
)
goto :eof
:delfiles
sqlite3.exe "%db%" "delete from recording_schedule where filename like '%~1';"
echo.
del /q "%~dpn1.*"
goto :eof
any suggestions, additions welcome, it hasn't been tested with regular daily use yet..
My current setup is a Dell Dimension 4600C (P4 2.4 GHz, with 512 MB RAM) running XP. I've got a PVR150 for capture, and an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro All-in-Wonder. The AIW came with the PC, and is what I'm currently using for TV-OUT. I am running this into an ancient CRT TV that only has coax, so it's running from S-Video on the AIW to an RF modulator, and out to the TV.
I know this is a pretty ghastly setup.
I'm happy with the PVR150. My issue is with the video quality on the TV. I realize that the RF modulator is degrading the signal. I'm wondering if upgrading the video card would make any difference. 95% of the time, video is perfectly watchable. It's just sometimes things are blurry enough that we can't read things on-screen like a handwritten note or a newspaper, for example.
We don't have the budget to upgrade to a new TV, so that's out of the question. I'm perfectly okay hearing "you're SOL" but I'd like to know if anyone has any suggestions?
