First off, many thanks for GB-PVR and now NPVR. So far I've had reasonable success with NPVR and can Watch live TV and record without any problems.
My question is about command line scheduling. In GB-PVR there was Schedule.exe which allowed external programs to schedule a recording. I'm an avid user of Digiguide (the best digital TV guide for UK TV IMHO) and I made a small plugin that could schedule recordings in GB-PVR by right-clicking a program and clicking Video etc...
Is there a similar facility in NPVR? If not is there any plan to implement one?
I just can't think of what I may have done to bring this about. I use files on the PCH USB drive and these haven't been changed for ages, apart from mvpmcx2 updates.
So I just came online, found a suspicious looking user "dhfgnvds" in the active user list... sure enough I found him posting gibberish spam posts in old threads in various forums. I deleted his most recent post, the one he was still looking at, perma-banned him and then deleted his other two as well. Bye spammer.
Then I see "welcome to our newest member: jsaber798". I see he's still registering, not even active yet... I watch him for a bit, seem him viewing "General Discussion"... what new user heads straight for General Discussion? Now he's creating a thread there... sure enough, a spam thread pops up. Deleted and perma-banned within seconds of going live. Bye spammer.
Now as I write this, our new friend Michial2010 is registering. He'll be banned in a few moments.
Does anyone have a way to rename a recorded file name to include other program information such as the episode name or number? I used to use the addepisode or renamerecording utilities in GBPVR and this is the one item of functionality that I miss after migrating to NPVR, since I often stream recordings to my PS3. The default file naming scheme with the recorded dates and times is not always helpful when browsing through the recordings.
I've tinkered a bit with SQL to see if I could pull this information from the NPVR database, rename the file, and then update the database to point to the new file name. However, I am not the greatest programmer (I was trying to create a batch file to do this in post-processing) and don't want to reinvent the wheel if someone else has already developed a way to do this.
Tonite I recorded a show and under the Ready Recordings screen, it shows 5 instances of the show but all showed that the device failed to record. However, the show recorded just fine.
I'm not attaching logs as I think it's a fluke. I have lots of shows to record with the new fall season so if it happens again, I'll post them but I'm curious as to why it showed 5 instances.......maybe it retried it 5 times before it quit.
Find Newa really useful. In the config option what is the password?
Settings in Npvr (Mvp & web) have User= admin
and a password that I cannot read.
What am I missing?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Waynesm
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?
