In LiveTV, TV1 is the only channel (1-9) that fills the window. Pressing the numeric keys to browse to another channel results in a squished/stretched video image in the top-left of the window. Random colours or large grey blocks appear where the video isn't. See the attached image(s) for a screenshot.
If I go back to TV1, aspect ratio is correct and the video fills the screen - but still only for that channel.
I have no such issue with Media Portal on the same machine.
Decoder settings are: VRM9; MPC MPEG2 Video Decoder (Gabest); h264: ArcSoft Decoder.
Windows XPsp3 with nVidia 8600GT card with latest drivers.
all input most warmly welcome. I know things like NEWA needs changing from EWA but it doesn't matter if you remind me as this is a lot of work and I forget many things (and don't know many other things)
[edit] Oh and be nice, it is my Birthday today! [end edit]
In the latest 1.5.31 beta of NPVR, when I'm in the TV Guide grid and press the Rev button, it does not scroll back a screen at a time. The FF button still goes forward a screen at a time, and the left arrow still goes back one time-block at a time.
mvpmxc2 now uses the timing info created in NPVR files for much more accurate skipping on .ts files. It is much more accurate than I expected, often within a second even on long jumps. Digital files recorded in .28 will have this info, as well as analog files recorded beginning with .31
I think some work needs to be done on NPVR if there is a com skip commercial at the beginning of the file, especially when resuming.
II. NPVR and GBPVR
There is a nice improvement (idea suggested by sub) that eliminates the flashing OSD during video playback. It uses a lot of memory but hopefully by the time I need it we will have some better ideas.
There is a small fix eliminating a problem playing back some mp3 files with ID3v2 tags via HDMI.
- old analog recordings stored as mpg seem to play and skip ok
- new analog recordings stored as ts play and skip ok (does not use timing.info)
- ac3 audio files can sound like *** and will be out of sync but play
- live tv play but you need to increase the rolling file size for long play time.
Be sure to set <TranscodeTsForMVP>false</TranscodeTsForMVP> in config.xml
I think this should be a new beginning for MVP users who want to use N-PVR. Let me know your experiences
If you're upgrading from an earlier build of 1.5.x, you need to make sure you stop the NPVR software before installing. In future releases I'll make this automatic, but thats not the case yet.
Mostly just small changes and bug fixes in this release:
Quote:- slight improvements and bug fixes on the new .ts skipping (extending it to NMT playback etc).
- several timing.info related changes to support mvpmcx2 skipping
- reduced activation area around button strip
- fixed a problem where closed captions could appear when playing DVDs in north america
- added <ForceMpgGraph> setting for those that prefer to disable the default 'true' and allow directshow to decide on the graph.
- added work around for ffdshow decoder problem with DVD playback
- added SRT subtitle support
- slightly improved text rendering
- fixed a bug with initial video aspect ratio
- added ability to view tv guide over live tv.
- fixed an aspect ratio problem that could occur in certain circumstances
- fixed a problem with the selected audio renderer sometimes not being used
- added logic to send .ts files to MVP if <TranscodeTsForMVP> is set to false.
- added manual recording popup. This provides more functionality than GBPVR's equivalent, with an 'advanced rules' field that can be used to define some fairly complicated conditional rules. Eventually I may create a popup to create the rules for people, but for now they can either leave the advanced field alone, or write a sql clause. For example, to record all shows with the 'news' in the title on a particular channel, you can define a daily recording and set the advanced rules to: title like '%news%'
- fixed an issue with wake before recording being requested relative to the start time, rather than the beginning of the prepadding.
- added a setting to force digital graphs to stay constructed, giving slightly quicker live tv / recording startup times, and to hopefully work around a problem with HDHR device.
- fixed a problem with additional files (edl, txt etc) not being deleted when old recording are auto deleted to satisfy the 'keep' count, or when deleted from the Video Library.
- fixed a couple of bugs with the playlist popup in the music library.
- fixed an issue that could cause temporary files to be left behind after watching live tv.
- fixed an audio renderer problem.
- fixed an issue that could cause live tv files to be left behind
- fixed a schedule issue that was causing problems with recordings scheduled from NEWA
- when live guide is started from live tv, it starts on current channel
When I bring up NPVR on the PCH a-100, Live TV and recording don't work. Screen goes black for 2 seconds then returns to the menu. Live TV and recordings work from the NPVR PC. WinXP pro firewall disabled. mvpmcx2 (date 04/16/2010) is on the hard drive of the PCH. I ran the new NMTInstall2.exe on the NPVR PC. I have GBPVR running on another PC and the NMT works fine with that PC. The NPVR PC is a new winxp install. Do I need to update the mvpmcx2 file on the NMT or change some config files? Attached log and NPVR PC \mvpmc directory.
On my PC client the video (either Live TV or Recorded TV) plays fine until the OSD is shown. Then the video freezes and stutters for about 5 seconds. I've tried all of the different renderers with no luck. Any suggestions?
