I have scanned the QAM stations and have them listed. For analog I used the XML import. Then next part of the set up I'm confused about. If for example channel 2 (Fox) has it's HD counterpart FOXHD how do I map that so when channel 2 is recorded it is mapped to the HD in the new setup.
I have been going round and round in circles and spent ages trying to solve this problem. I am running a bare HTPC running XP sp3, 3GB Ram, 9600GT 1GB video card and a Hauppage Nova -500TD.
I have cyberlink PowerDVD 10 installed and when playing TS files in there from the recording my CPU usage is only like 25%. When I run the same through GBPVR my usage is like 65-75%. I have tried various codec settings for Mpeg Playback and also H.264 codec. I think the files are H.264 but the cyberlink option i have under H.264 gives me no Hardware acceleration option just SAW, DXVA and HAW which i dont know what they mean. Tried various options but nothing brings CPU usage down.
GB-PVR used the "Line 21 Decoder 2" filter to decode closed captions, while N-PVR seems to use the "Line 21 Decoder" (not 2) filter instead. Was this an intentional change? There are some parts of how GB-PVR did it that I think worked better and smoother (especially with the roll-up style captions), and I'm wondering if this was the cause of the change. Is the decoder configurable somewhere, or maybe I've screwed up my filter merit settings or something?
Can anyone tell me if there's any software that makes it possible to use the hauppauge IR receiver (the one that plugs into the tuner card, not the USB sort) with a random (non-learning) remote?
I know there is software that can learn whatever codes the remote sends, but I can't tell if any of them can be made to work with the Hauppauge receiver.
Is this possible only using some other receiver like a USB-UIRT?
Has anyone else noticed they seem to get chunks of info missing from some channels when using subs utility?
Especially TV3 - a lot of days I seem to have a chunk missing from 6pm - 9pm (or more) it will appear then disappear. Prime was doing it the other day, and some other higher channel numbers are also not showing much data at all.
Sorry to keep going on about analogue tuners, but.....
Is it possible, as in gbpvr, to use a single analogue tuner for both tuning broadcast RF signals and also for fixed frequency STB tuning ??? (I can't seem to manage it)
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?
