While playing video, both live TV and recordings, I am not able to pause, fast forward or anything. I cant even move the marker in the time bar at the top. The only way I can stop it is to right click and exit.

any ideas??

I have been reading up for a while now on a number of different software and hardware options for building my own PVR. After careful consideration, I believe that GB-PVR is the software I have been looking for. So I finally decided to take the plunge today and I downloaded and installed the GB-PVR software to start "playing" with it.

However (after checking the Config), when I go to launch PVRX2, all I can see is the border of the window, inside the actual window area is transparent and I can see the desktop underneath. It's as if the video is not rendering. I don't see the menu, nothing, just an empty window frame.

So far I have done / tried the following:

I had already installed the vcredist_x86.exe runtime before performing my installation, running the latest version of the installer msi (1.4.7). I am also pretty sure that I have all the required .NET dependencies installed already, as I needed those for something else, as well as all the other requirements and prerequisites.

I tried changing the video renderer from "VMR9 Custom" to everything else in the list (one by one), to no avail.

I tried changing the Aspect Ratio / Televison Shape, to no avail.

I tried changing between both the default "blue" and "Slick" skins that come with the installer, all to no avail.

FWIW, I went through all of the possible permutations of the above three settings in an orderly fashion, but all with the same result (no joy).

I have also searched the forums and googled at length, but couldn't seem to find anything that addresses this particular issue. So I figured I would ask you guys. At this point I am pretty disappointed and frustrated, but hopefully I am overlooking something simple and some helpful soul here can point me in the right direction.

Also, I would like to mention that I don't have a hardware based encoder card installed yet (I plan on ordering an HVR-1600 very soon). Is this my problem? I figured I should be able to at least check out the menus, set up the EPG, and maybe try some plug ins, just of course not watch any TV without a source. But maybe this is my entire problem.

Logs attached. Other specs: WinXP Home SP3, onboard PROSavage S3 video card*, DirectX 9 installed, let me know if any other info is needed.

* After "no hardware capture card installed" this is my second guess as to where the problem may lie. FWIW, I ran directxdiag and all the video tests came out fine. But I could be barking up entirely the wrong tree...

So I hope that wasn't too long winded. And needless to say, any pointers would be greatly appreciated, as I am really excited about the potential that GB-PVR seems to offer!

This is my second trial with nPVR. I'm using the latest beta on a windows 7 64 pc. I stll have GBPVR installed and this works well recording. nPVR is great but I have truble with truncated recordings. I had this problem with the first beta too.

I've attached the log for recording a movie "Sunshine". You can see it starts ok but I can't see it end in the log. Only about 8 and a half minutes actually have been recorded. The movie was about 2 hours long.

Any suggestions?

Warwick

For some reason lately a lot of the shows I record will record about 15 minutes of the show and then cut off. 1 hour long shows will have about 17 minutes recorded. Anybody have any idea why this would be happening?

Would it be possible to add something which allows nPVR to remeber which view you are using in the video and music library on a per folder basis? For example tv shows I have on my NAS box are arranged in TV\Show Name\Season\.... It would be nice to use the thumbnail view to navigate through the folders and then switch to list view automatically when you reach the actual content.

I'm trying to increase the number of items for the video screen - list view from 12 to say.. 15 but can't seem to get it to work. Anybody have any ideas?

I already have the listview maxed out to cover the whole screen

<Element name="ListView" location="0,0" size="100,100" alpha="230">

Adjusting the list item size doesn't do it either.
<Element name="ListItemNormal" location="1,17" size="65,4.8" alpha="230" alphaFade="true">

Thanks.

I have a Hauppauge 2250 card that can control 2 IR blasters.

I was previously using it to control a set top box and it worked OK. I used {channel} for command line parameters in CONFIG.

Today, I added a second IR blaster cable to the card interface. In Blastcfg.exe it sees the second blaster cable.

My question is: What command line parameters do I enter in CONFIG to indicate that to change the channel for an analog tuner PVRX2 should use the second IR blast port on the 2250 card?

Hi.

I can't get the playback through n-PVR to scale right. It only displays the mid part of the recording, leaving out significant parts of the edge.

I output through HDMI, and the problem is the same on two very different TV sets.

If I use the menus directly in PCH and play throught native interface, everything is correct.

I have tried changing the Config.xml from 1280,720,0,0 to 1180,680,40,32 like below.

Default pre and post padding set at 4mins.
If I set up two programmes to be recorded and the start time of the second is the same as the finish time of the first then they both use the same capture card, even though a second capture card is available, ignoring the padding. Recording two programmes with different start times but overlapping uses both cards.

Am I missing something?

As the post regarding duplicate entries in the EPG looks like its solved I am opening a separate post on another issue that I had raised as part of that post. Sometimes issues can be lost when buried in another post.

NPVR is scheduling up to 4 recordings of each show simultaneously. I have 4 tuners. I am guessing if I had more it would schedule more.

So every day I get 4 copies of "Shaun the Sheep" all recorded at the same time. And the same happens with many other shows in my recording list.

Please let me know what I can do to debug this issue or provide data. I have had this issue for a very long time. I have an unresolved post on this under GBPVR.

If you are also seeing this issue it would be appreciated if you could add a note to this post - I would like to know if it is just me or are others seeing it too.