Just curious to know if the WD Caviar Green drive is a good choice for a HTPC.
I record to an older standard drive, but for this one I was hoping to store all my media - rip my DVD's to it, put music and pics on it. I'd be playing movies off of it through the HTPC, but wouldn't be using it for the actual PVR duty.
I'd appreciate your opinions. Newegg has it on sale for $109 shipped HERE.
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Not sure if this lives here or NMT forum? here as nmt is working fine with gbpvr.
No firewall ruinning on pvr.
Early days with NPVR on our main PVR machine.
Running on server with NPVR works fine, but with the NMT, menu's and the like are OK, but trying to play from the TV Guide or from a recording gives a blank screen for 10 or so seconds and then drops back to the menu.
Logs attached. and timings are
startup at 1400
start nmt at 1401
play an existing recording 1402
drops back to menu around 1402:30
exit 1403
Much wierdness though - during the above the server changed STB channels via the blaster.
No recordings pending, and the above was only playing a recording, no attempt to play live tv or from the guide.
I occasionally get a pending recording not marked in red in the guide.
Nor are they shown in reverse on the NEWA web page.
If I open the recording, one option is Update, but if I select it from the guide, I can Quick Record and end up with two entries in the Pending Recordings list.
I have just set up GBPVR on my laptop (DELL XP PRO SP3 machine) and Desktop (INTEL I3 w 4GB running Win 7 pro 64). With not too much trouble I managed to get it running on both machines so that live TV, recording and replay of recordings is working fine, but on both boxes the EPG only covers the next hour to about three hours at most and not all channel's information is included e,g at the moment no listings for TV3 are included. I am wondering whether there is a directory permissions problem.
Is there a secret path to success for DVD playback in NPVR?
I have tried two decoders so far with different disappointing results:
Microsoft DVD-DTV Decoder (Windows 7) - menu navigation works (that is, I can see and move the selection highlight), but it plays all movies with Closed Captions enabled (not subtitiles); NPVR doesn't seem to be able to control Closed Captions
ATI MPEG-2 Decoder (from the AVIVO download) - menu navigation doesn't work, but at least it doesn't show closed captions
Guessing my way through the DVD menu is better than having to see closed captions for the whole movie. I'd rather use the Microsoft decoder though for TV, it seems a little better than the ATI decoder.
Does anyone know how to disable closed captions when using the Microsoft decoder?
I decided to give Npvr a try since I was having some problems with GBpvr abd I've run into a problem mapping clear qam channels. There is no screen to see a preview to figure out what a channel is and when I tried to map a channel to a random number in the epg I got an error.
"Unhandled exception has occurred in a component in your application. If you click continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue.
I have set GBPVR config to ask for a password for remote admin. I have logged in from other computers in my network and I never get a password prompt. The only time I get asked for a password is when I choose the config menu in EWA. Is it only when you connect to EWA from outside your network does it ask for a password? :confused:
Is the KeyMappings.xml fairly modifiable at this point? I've had a MCE/Keyboard/Mouse combo remote just kicking around for ages now, and I wanted to see if I could get it working. What's "special" about this remote is that it works with MCE, but it's acting as a keyboard and, from what I read, is sending the keyboard shortcuts that MCE is using and isn't acting as a traditional MCE remote. Windows sees it as a generic HID compliant mouse/keyboard.
I'd like to create a custom KeyMappings file for NPVR for use with one of these devices and maybe stick it up in the wiki for others. I can't seem to get {ALT} or {SHIFT} to work, but maybe those aren't implemented or I'm using the wrong tags.
FWIW, I started a topic in the wish-list for an interface in NPVR to configure remote/keyboard/mouse commands.
