I think I might know what's skew-whiff here. i.e. I can't see it sending a signal to the USB-UIRT because the selected input is Cable-Box to to one of the Cards S-Video Ports. It's the Cable-Box the Blaster is attached to.
It seems from the message below that it wants to change the Device's (PVR-150) internal Analog channel changer. What I did wrong, I think was import via an XMLTV a bunch of channels and mistakely forgot to change to SVideo input.
However when I try to do this, I can select "SVideo" and cable but what do I select for Country?
Also when I look back it reverts to Analog Tuner forthat device - I get the analog fuzzy screen, it doesn't seem to be sticky choosing SVideo and Cable?
Code:
2010-08-02 23:52:10.596 [INFO][3] Running blaster: C:\Program Files\NPVR\ChanChg\USBUIRTSend.exe "C:\Program Files\NPVR\ChanChg\IRDefs\HKNowBB YX-5218A.dat" 671
2010-08-02 23:52:12.358 [DEBUG][3] About to tune graph to:
<tuning>
<type>Analog</type>
<locator>
<channel>671</channel>
<country>1</country>
<input>cable</input>
<source>SVideo</source>
<fixed>2</fixed>
</locator>
</tuning>
I also got a couple of nasty errors when I chose RF (I think) esp. when I selected listen ...
I display the names of capture sources in the System plugin eg ("Pinnacle PCTV 3010iX BDA DVBT Tuner (DVB-T)"). Someone has asked if they could override the names, as they can be quite verbose.
The easiest way I can see to do that is just to change the stored name in the database (CAPTURE_SOURCE.name). Is there any danger in doing that? Hopefully all the links are from its OID rather than its name?
I have installed GBPVR on a new Windows 7 box. Now, I am unable to use GBPVR to view any videos or live TV on the box itself. The streaming to the MVP seems to work fine for analog recorded shows but not those captured digitally using the TS Mux.
Installed is a HVR2250 and a HVR1600. I have setup all 3 tuners for analog cable on both cards. I have only set up the digital tuner on the HVR2250. I realize (now) that the HVR2250 can record two channels (including multiplexed shows on one digital QAM channel) at a time.
GBPVR is capturing the recordings. Initially, that was not the case, but a reboot seems to have set the card into a state that works.
Now, any video recorded by GBPVR is not visible on the PC running GBPVR, but on the TS streams, sound is heard.
All TS video is not being served to the MVP I have attached. The analog recordings stream fine, just not the digital ones.
Any guidance would be helpful. If I need to just skip GBPVR and move to NPVR, I am only hesitant because of the "beta" tag.
I am in the middle of putting together a server and all the hardware is installed but I am a bit split on what I would like to install for an OS. I initially wanted to go with Windows7 so I would have mediacenter on it and if I decided to add some xbox360s later down the road I could use the extender. However, the more I think about it I don't have any extenders right now and overall prefer GBPVR. I think Windows Home Server may be a better fit but since it doesn't have Media Center on it I need some other solution. I think I've heard that GBPVR will work on WHS but I haven't seen anything definitive. Can I install GBPVR onto WHS and is there anything I should watch out for with this? Will tuner, video drivers etc be the same as windows7 or vista or how will those work? I am kind of thinking that if it will install on WHS then if I decide to go with an extender later down the road I can always look at the Popcorn Hour or something like that instead.
When I run the scan for channels in the setup for my capture device, the results claim that only encrypted channels are found. I know that there are clear qam channels there, because I can tune and watch them using Windows Media Center, although it was a complicated process to get it working in Media Center.
I am using a Pinnacle PCTV 80e USB stick connected to Verizon FIOS, on a pc running Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit. I am using the latest beta version of NPVR. My NPVR.log is attached.
The title says it all really. Is there a simple, command line option or any other way to do this without going into the Config app?
The reason I'm asking is that my wife has a netbook that she takes away with her when she goes way on business. I often copy a load of programs to it so she can watch them while away. As she likes the GBPVR interface I've configued it as a server but without any TV cards.
When she is at home she connects the netbook to the TV in the bedroom and uses it as a client to the main TV server in the house.
I cannot get nPVR to play 5.1 audio (AC3) from HDTV recordings (USA). On .dvr-ms files that were recorded in GBPVR, I get 2 channel output from nPVR that lacks any dialog (as if I'm getting only L and R channels from 5.1 and lacking the other 3.1 channels). These files play fine through GBPVR (all 5.1 channels). On files recorded in nPVR (using .ts), I get all sound (i.e., includes dialog), but only 2 channel output (i.e., sound seems to be "down-mixed" to 2.1). If I play the .ts files recorded in nPVR with GBPVR I have no audio at all (but I have never tried using GBPVR with .ts files, so I do not know that the decoder choice is the best).
I think I have set up the decoders for nPVR up the same way I set up GBPVR, so I'm not sure why I can't at least play the .dvr-ms files in nPVR. I've attached screen shots of the decoder properties of both programs. Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong? Anyone have a suggestion for decoders that work well for AC3 audio from HDTV with .ts files? I also have AC3filter, HWC AC3 Audio Decoder, HWC Layer II audio decoder, and CyberLink Audio Decoder available in addition to ffdshow. All of these work and produce 5.1 audio in GBPVR, none of them seem to work in nPVR (all have same behavior...lacking any dialog channel).
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