I've been hanging out for the next release of NPVR, I thought this was going to help things...

Quote:- added a workaround to give more accurate skipping when playing .ts recordings (for comskip users etc). New recordings on NTFS drives are those that will benefit from these improvements.

I have just installed GB-PVR version 1.4.7 on Win XP SP3 but when I run PVRX2 from the Windows start menu, I do not see the main menu. I have verified that I have the prerequisites (Directx 9.0, C++ redist, etc) installed. Attached are the logs & a screenshot.

Thanks

I installed 1.5.28 on one of my GBPVR servers and set the dev laptop to client mode. Recordings, Videos, etc worked fine, but I had a problem with Live TV due to no available tuner.

The GBPVR server has 2x Nova-T 500 and I setup only the 4th device in NPVR. The laptop has a single USB tuner which was not connected at the time. I had a look at the device list on the server and it showed the 4 Nova-T devices plus the USB device. The status screen only shows the 5 Nova-T devices.

On the server I disabled the first 3 server devices and the USB device - see screenshot - and live TV now works fine. I think I can figure out why Live TV failed before I disabled the ones I didn't want to use, but does the fact that the server sees the laptop local tuner imply that NPVR will support some sort of tuner farm?

Apologies if this behaviour is common knowledge, but I just got back from two weeks in the hills and I've really only skimmed through the last two weeks posts...

I can use Videos to watch a recording on the client, but the same recording is unwatchable using Recordings. It has HUGE stutters. Live TV is also working, but unwatchable. This is for both analog and QAM tuners.

Hi, due to a strange twist of fates I have a Terratec Cinergy S2 PCI HD capture card and a Hauppauge WinTV-CI USB adaptor.

I want to run GB-PVR on Win 7 with the above hardware, but GB-PVR never seems to 'fire-up' the CI module even when viewing live TV (the BDA drivers are installed, but don't show up when the PVR is running).

I saw some posts about a required DLL which is supplied with WinTV, but I can't install winTV to get the DLL since it refuses to install unless a Haupauge capture card is present.

Any ideas how I can make this work would be greatly appreciated!

I just installed npvr 1.5.28 and found some issues with the QAM channel mapping. The scan did not assign channel names to the unencrypted channels, but it did to the encrypted channels. See picture below.

This makes mapping those channels to EPG information in *.xml files a little challenging. See second picture below.

I have changed the recording Directory path for my server to B:\temp but my client still uses c:\temp.
When I start Live TV on the client I only get a "Live TV buffer directory does not exist: B:\temp" (or something similar).

Do I have to use the same folder path both on server and client?

I seem to have got NPVR working on Windows 2008 R2 64 bit; my satellite card is recognised, can run a scan identiy channels and I can successfully record the video. The recorded video can be watched on the W2K8R2 machine through Media Center and I can watch it from a client by accessing the recorded file direct.

However, the one thing that doesn't work is using NPVR to watch the recording nor will it present live TV. I'm assuming this is codec issue so which log can I look into to confirm and fix?

Many thanks

Paul

Is there a recommended method for detecting whether nPVR is running in client or server mode, or is it ok to just look at Settings\Recording\ClientMode in the config file?

Not a biggie, just a report.

1.5.28 I noticed my test/user machine was up and running this morning after putting 1.5.28 on yesterday. (no hibernate/standby on this box).
Looking through Win7 logs showed that nrecord woke it up.
Settings has EPG update time shown as 'none' nrecord log shows:-

2010-08-07 11:17:19.487 [DEBUG][8] Requesting wake up for 'EPGWAKEUP' at 08/08/2010 03:00

confix.xml contains
<ScheduleWakeups>true</ScheduleWakeups>
<EPGUpdateHour>None</EPGUpdateHour>

I haven't noticed this with previous versions.