I was just helping a guy in the GB-PVR forum trying to recover his database after he lost his C: drive; after restoring an older backup, he needs to repopulate the old database with his current recordings on his recording drive. We're getting there, I pointed him to the RecoverRecordings utility that will build a new Recording-dump.xml by reading the metadata from all his recordings...
It would have been nice of course if the Recording-Dump.xml had been stored with the recordings instead of with the database; if the recordings drive is lost, you don't need the dump anyway, but if the database drive is lost then the dump is lost with it. Kinda silly. The enterprising among us no doubt have some method in place to copy the backup files elsewhere, but I suspect most users never think of that until sometime after they've lost their database.
It's too late for GB-PVR of course, but perhaps NPVR could be made to store the two backup xml's in the recording path by default?
N-PVR 1.5.24
Winders 2008 Server
Hauppauge 2250 Dual Tuner - Just running Analog Cable for now
I've been having a hard time getting this set up. I have Sched Direct working with XmlTv, pulling in the files schedules fine. I don't understand how the batch file to update works. I understand I call XMLTV from it to pull, but when does it run? Does it automatically load the schedule?
That's just where I am right now. I have some rather basic features I wish to use in N-PVR.
Schedule Recordings, including weekly repetitive shows
Once the recording completes, run Comskip to remove the commercials
Then transcode the resulting file into Xvid or DivX
Name the resulting file in clear fashion using Show Title, Season, Episode Number
Place it into a directory, I'll take care of creating NFO's and TVDB stuff
I have an extensive library set up with my existing XBMC(modded XBox, not PC) and another media server. I'll do a weekly processing of the files to pull them into that library, maybe even do some Event Ghost scripts.
Can anyone provide some clear direction on this? I understand the documentation for N-PVR isn't very extensive yet. I try to look at the GB-PVR instructions but this is an entirely new product and it varies greatly. Since I was not a user of GB-PVR, I really have no context to base things off of.
Honestly, with the features in N-PVR, if I get things setup properly, I may end up ditching the XBox in favor of this. I just need to be comfortable with it first.
Thanks for any assistance. If you don't mind, please address as much as possible, not just the initial one or two questions if you have the knowledge.
I have just set up a system on a Toshiba laptop running Windows Vista Home. All facilities work 100% except that there is no sound during live TV viewing or playback, but replaying recordings using VLC produces perfectly normal sound.
I have tried setting the audio renderer to system default and to "Speakers - Toshiba High Def Audio" which is the output shown by volume control in the status bar. All codecs are set to the appropriate ffdshow option.
Any suggestions would be welcomed.
I actually don't like doing this, because most of the documentation threads seem to start 'steeb'.
But here I go again
We appear to have a solution to a new NPVR wiki that isn't too far away. In the meantime I have re-worked the current GB-PVR wiki homepage to an NPVR homepage here:
I am running both GBPVR and nPVR. When I set a recording in nPVR the channel does not change at recording time. My device is set up as Fixed Channel 3 and it appears to always tune to channel 3 when a recording starts, no matter what channel the recording is set to.
I don't recall having to do anything special for GBPVR. What am I missing?
Is it possible to increase the epg scan time ? I am trying to get the epg for 4 "ABC" channels but I am regularly seeing one with no data. The one with no data changes from day to day. I am guessing the scan time is too short to pull all the data for the ABC. Any other ideas on cause ?
ATI T200 AVStream Analog Capture
ATI TV Wonder Pro A/V Capture
I have both of these cards installed in my system but neither one of these cards are being recognized. What can I do for it to recognize these?
I have this version installed 1.4.7.
XP Pro SP3
AMD Athlon 64, 3200+
Shuttle FN95 v1
nVIDIA nForce3 Ultra, AMD Hammer
ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 9800 Video Adapter
Harmonics (Conexant) CX2388x Video Capture (MK3) (ATI TV Wonder Pro)
Not sure if this is actually a fault or more like a request for new function in nPVR but...
In my country EPG information is sent in two languages and nPVR is of course picking the wrong language (possibly first sent or something) into program info. Is there any way to set the default language in EPG?
So I received a refurb'ed A-110 the other day and have tried to get it set up... the instructions and dummy guide seem pretty straight forward and I have been able to see the blue screen with the 3 options. But I have been unsuccessful at getting any further than that. When I choose either the 1st or second option I get a "Cannot process request press return" message. Attached is my nmtcheck file.
I do not have simple file sharing turned on, but I have activated the guest account and given it read and write privileges to the mvpmc share.
I just replaced the ATI 550 Pro with this Diamond 650 Pro with digital/Analog tuner. I don't use the digital side here in Canada (no over the HD air channels). I was trying to step up to NPVR which I would like to use but it refuses to recognize the analog tuner. It showed nothing for the 550 which did not have a digital tuner and with the 650 now shows listings for two elements of the digital tuner (ATSC & QAM)
I have read as many posts as possible but there isn't much on the subject. A recommendation about installing the Haupaugge Win7 app, but that doesn't work. The installer gets to the point where it can't find the right hardware then exits.
I have tried extracting the files but have been unable to execute the regsvr32 command either from the run command or the command prompt.
