While playing around (i think, fm radio will never come back to nPVR) i remembered an old small app from hauppauge, called "radio32.exe". This this little app it's possible to listen to radio... in theorie.
I found a "new" version of Radio 32 (1.54.xxxxx) for usage with the WinTV HVR-2250 and WinTV 6. Me installed this one and tried to tune in with my HVR-2200 (PAL, germany). Yeah! Tuning is working, it can lock the stations at correct frequencies. As far as good, but... i have no sound?
I can see, that radio32.exe is recognizing my card and tuning correctly. But i can not hear anything from this app under Windows Vista. I choosed different audio setups within the app and i tried a few "compatibility modes" for the radio32.exe.
Someone any idea what this could be? With WinTV 7 i can listen to radio, but such a big application is absolutely oversized and (in my case) not interesting (they moved the radio app into the tv app).
Are there any alternatives outside for fm radio with a hvr-2200 or pvr-500mce?
As I wrote about in this thread I have my movies scattered around my network. I have used Moviewiz for sorting and viewing. But I needed a new way to handle it in NPVRs Video Library and I couldn't get ordinary shortcuts to work.
The Windows 7 built in Library functionality did not work.
But I have found a way by using Symbol links (I tried Junction as well but the folder.jpg wouldn't show then). I used the tool Link shell extension and when it is installed all I need is placed in the right click menu. Only thing to note is that the symbol links have to be placed in a local folder on the computer.
When all movie folders is added, they show up nicely in Videos Library, just as I wanted.
This far I have added folders manually by the tool above, but a .bat file like below can be run by a scheduled task:
Code:
@echo off
::-----------------------------------------------------------
::Usage: Save the file as a .bat and place it in the folder above where
::you want your Symbollinks (or change ".\" below)
::Change <Target> to the folder where the movies are.
::This script starts with deleting the shortcut folder
::(so no obsolete files or renamed files is lurking)
::Then it lists all folders to the file dirX.txt and adds these as symbol links in
::the folder "shortcuts" placed in the same folder as this .bat file
::Add the folder "Shortcuts" to the media library and set a scheduled
::task to update the folder as often as needed. make sure to do it when it is not used...
::Add as many "Set dir..." as needed.
::-----------------------------------------------------------
setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
Set dirA=.\shortcuts
Set dirB=<Target1>
Set dirC=<Target2>
rd /Q /S "%dirA%"
mkdir "%dirA%"
dir /A:D /B /O "%dirB%" >dirX.txt
for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%A in (dirX.txt) do (
mklink /d "%dirA%\%%A" "%dirB%\%%A"
)
::------------------------------------------------------
:: Copy all code between the lines for each added target
::------------------------------------------------------
dir /A:D /B /O "%dirC%" >dirX.txt
for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%A in (dirX.txt) do (
mklink /d "%dirA%\%%A" "%dirC%\%%A"
)
::------------------------------------------------------
There is some issues and questions around this.
* NPVR crashes when you open the folder with links - if there is a bad folder.jpg file among the movies (it works to open the the "normal" folder. (I had a folder.jpg with 1kb in size in one folder)
* I would like the meta data to be shown when I browse the folders, not just for the files. I think it can show data already, but I am not sure what files NPVR would like to see in he folder path. I know that tvshow.nfo works, but what should the file be called for movies? movie.nfo?
And it would be nice if the movie starts when I press OK on the folder - if there is one movie in the folder.
"Ember Media Manager (aka EMM or Ember) is an open source movie and TV Show collections management tool which was initially created to use with XBMC, but it should virtually support most of the other media center application out there. It empowers home theater enthusiasts to manage and organize their entire movie and TV Show collections. EMM will scrape (retrieve) movie and TV Show information (plot, cast, genre, studio, mpaa certification, etc) from various sites, together with posters, fanarts, actor photos and even movie trailers. It also automatically extracts media metadata like resolution, codecs, audio and subtitle streams. EMM can also be used as a standalone movie organizer/ cataloguer, but the primary aim of such a tool is to export all the data and images to a format can then be imported into your favorite media center application. In order to achieve this, EMM stores all data and images in files which are saved next to the media files. Media center applications can pick up those files and import the information to their own internal database."
Would NPVR be able to use the outputted meta files from it, for display?
I just bought an Hauppauge HD-PVR to supplement/replace my PVR500, and installed it with NPVR (i.e., I never used the HD-PVR with GBPVR). I can't seem to get it to show me video for live TV. I only get audio.
Following the advice from other threads, I've tried all of the video decoders (for MPEG2 Video and H.264 Video) that are on my system, and each of the Video Renderers, with no success. I got audio only after manually changing the Audio decoders. I have the Device Setup set to Component Video (the correct input).
I have the HDPVR and WinTV drivers and applications installed. ArcSoft's player can capture with both video and audio from the HDPVR, and if I save a .ts file from a NPVR livetv session, I can open it in ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre and I see the captured video. So it is not a capture problem, but a playback problem. I've tried reinstalling the drivers, applications, and NPVR, and also tried not uninstalling different sets of the Hauppauge software in case there was a conflict. I'm at a loss of what else to try. I'm running Windows XP. Is there a place other than the Hauppauge CDs that I should be installing a decoder from? It seems to have provided an MPEG2 Video decoder "Intervideo NonCSS Video Decoder for Hauppauge" that doesn't seem to work, and doesn't provide an H.264 decoder, but I have a DivX H.264 Decoder on the system (that also doesn't seem to work).
As a separate issue, I cannot get the HDPVR IR blaster to work in NPVR. When I select it from the list in Device Setup as my Changer, that setting does not save upon hitting okay. It reverts back to whatever I had set previously. It only seems to save the Changer setting if I select Executable and choose a different Executable. (Is there an Executable for the HDPVR IR blaster?). I have run BlastCfg and it functions correctly.
My apologies for the long and rambling post -- I've been working at this for days with no success other than getting audio to work. If the blaster would work, then at least I could schedule recordings in the meantime.
I've attached my NPVR logs.
Thanks in advance for any advice!
-Jeff
P.S. sub, I've been a huge fan of GBPVR for years, and I love everything about NPVR so far aside from these troubles. -- Thanks!!
When recording movies they're just listed in the recordings plugin under their name.
I'm trying to figure out some ways that they could be grouped together.
I guess the easiest way if for a genre view in recordings.
But ideally I'd like to rename them to their title is Movie, and their subtitle is the movie name. Mostly as I intend to move them to my home server and/or convert/strip out the ads.
Suggestions? I guess I could look for "movie genre" and do the subtitle thing myself in the xmltv file
I'm probably missing something very simple here, but here's my scenario.
I recently moved to win7 from XP. I copied my GBPVR folder to the new win7 installation, in the usual place.
I installed GBPVR over top of the copied files. After a little config, all seemed well.
Since then, I've recorded a couple programs - they don't show up in the recordings section, however, they have been saved. I have also added a tuner, and added a channel to my lineup -- it does not show up in pvrx2 either. EPG also appears to not be updating.
Now the strange part --- the missing recording and the missing channel show up in EWA. EPG is good in EWA. When I check config.exe, my tuner and channel show up there exactly as expected. It's almost as if pvrx2 is reading a different database than config.exe or EWA.
Further testing - I broke out process monitor to see what database file both config.exe and pvrx2.exe are using - both are using the gbpvr.db3 database on the correct drive and in the correct folder. I also ran a admin utility for SQLite so I could manually inspect the database contents - it does not appear to have the channel or the tuner I have configured.
So --- where the heck are EWA and config.exe getting their (correct) data? Why isn't PVRX2.exe seeing the correct data? Why don't my channel and tuner show up in gbpvr.db3?
With gbpvr I can go into source setup and change the hardware tuner with just a couple of clicks - keeping the channels and tuning data.
I've used this on occasion to both swap from a dead PVR150 to a plug-in USB tuner (and back) and also to shift the software to a backup machine with slightly different tuners. A couple of clicks and all channels and recordings stay fine.
With npvr it would appear that the tuner setup stays with the tuner name (although I don't have the opportunity to try it out as yet - my USB PVR is out on loan).
