After spending a good while on live TV and other audio/video type playback and everything works so well except two things I can only correct with a mouse which is annoying - the aspect it defaults to (fill not auto) for .mkv playback (possibly other formats too) and the audio channels it chooses for some DVB channels - both of these I can correct with a mouse but that's not at all wife friendly.
Anyway, I went on to try DVD playback and the results were not so good. If anything happens (sometimes nothing seems to) it takes ages compared to the same disk in gbpvr. The "menu" button (mapped to Home key I think) doesn't work like it does in GBPVR which annoyed the wife and also once I do get a menu to appear I cant play the disk as I get an exception error and the whole thing hangs until I kill it. I've tried a couple of disks that play perfectly on GBPVR and get the same result - an exception error that hangs until I kill the process. npvr logs attached but I don't think there's anything useful in there.
Hey Folks... it's been a long while.... I hope everyone's been having fun!
I read through a bunch of posts regarding firewire and stbs but most of them seem to be fairly old (maybe a year or so) so I was wondering if I could get some new information, answers and help... thanks in advance...
First I'm in Calgary Canada, using Shaw's Dual Tuner PVR (I should say I will be using it, it was just ordered)
I've read that Shaw likes to turn on and off the firewire port and encryption to their content randomly... and there's no laws to prevent that... so I'm prepared to have a few missed shows
So a few of questions:
Tuning / Channel Changing
I've seen a few of you using some software to remotely change a tuner's channel. I believe I have the right links to get that working, but I haven't been able to confirm whether one firewire cable can channel change one or another tuner within a dual tuner PVR. Within some command lines, can I select tuner one over tuner two etc...?
Capture
In general can I capture the stream from a tuner through a firewire. Can I capture two different streams simultaneously? I've read through some of the docs for Firewire capture and really haven't seen a yes or no to that...
I recognize that I will still need an intermediate interface like GraphRecorder... Is that right? Alternatives?
If I can't use firewire to capture, I suspect using the Haup HD-PVR is the only way to get a full format HD programme on my GB-PVR, using Component. (is that correct?)
Something I haven't had a chance to play with yet was the other video outputs of the Shaw PVR... If I decide to not worry about full format HD, and just really want 16:9 picture to my TV (through GB-PVR) will I be able to use any of the other connectors (dare I say composite, or s-video) to send a wide picture to the computer's capture card? Is the downscaling on the outputs any good?
TS file format
Has there been any improvement with Canadian TS file playback and muxes etc? The last few posts I read said that playback was still jerky.
Sub, I'm sure you are busy so I don't want to distract you from your tasks at hand.
I rarely watch live TV so there is no rush on this:
I am using an HDHR, (only one tuner configured as ATSC)
I select a program from the guide and it plays for around 10 seconds and then begins to loop until it crashes with the error "unable to communicate with recording service." Or if it does not crash, exiting the stream and attempting to watch another channel results in the same error.
Please can someone help me to locate a driver for my ATMT dvb usb tuner. I've had it a couple of years but recently installed windows 7 on my laptop and now it wont recognise it. I can't find my installation disc anywhere and I've tried site after site looking for drivers to no avail. Can anyone help
I probably should have mentioned this in the long UI design wishlist thread a couple of months ago, but I didn't think about it until now....
Why do recordings and video library get a completely separate menu item? Can't they be integrated together? What is so fundamentally different about a TV show or movie that's been recorded locally vs. a TV show or movie that came from somewhere else that they need such disparate treatment? Why can't a movie for the kids I just bought and ripped show up in What's New? It's new isn't it?
(yes, I know the technical difference is that recordings are in the database while video library items are just files... but why does the user have to be bothered with that?)
Complete integration may be a tall order straight off, but at the very least it should be simple enough to have the defined Video Library paths show up as additional menu pages in Recordings (ie, flip between What's New, Ready, Video Library path 1, Video Library path 2, Pending, Conflicts, etc.). That keeps the whole 'playing of files containing video' function in one place.
While I'm ranting, I've also never really liked the What's New list. I'd prefer just one list of recordings that's sorted by recording date, and grouped by program as well (ie, essentially the Ready list sorted by date rather than alpha). Therefore the top of the Recordings list is What's New by definition, but you don't have to go to a whole different list to see what isn't quite as new, or to see what other episodes you may have missed before the new one that just recorded. You should be able to push a button and change the sort order to alpha as well.
For a usage example of the last bit: I record Who Wants to be a Millionaire so I can laugh at the idiot who doesn't know some basic bit of science or tech knowledge for the $2000 question. I like to watch them in order. So I sit down and see a new Millionaire in the What's new list... but is it the only one or are there some others recorded? Some days I have 20+ shows recorded, so to scroll back through the What's New list looking for more of one show can be a lot of shows to look through. So I switch to the ready list, page all way down to W and watch whatever Millionaires are there. Now I'm done with those, what else is new? I'm in the wrong list, go back to What's New, see some other daily show is new, but again I like to watch them in order, so it's back to Ready, find that show, and so on.... Why can't it all be in one list?
Sorry, that was a wordy rant... it's late, I'm tired, and had a couple shots of this weird homemade blueberry vodka a business associate gave me...
Just started trying NPVR using Mygica U6012A USB TV Tuner on Windows 7 and XP for QAM channels.
In Windows 7:
The QAM device is seen as 'Microtune Dongle Digital QAM Tuner', but the type is listed as 'DVB-C' instead of QAM. I selected 256 QAM and tried to scan. It did not find any QAM channels (quite obvious I suppose...).
In Windows XP:
NPVR only found the ATSC 'HDTV Stick Digital Tuner' but not the QAM Tuner. I do have the HVR-1600 QAM tuner also on this PC and NPVR was able to find the HVR-1600 QAM tuner as QAM device.
New program is very slick. Just wondering if I'm the only one that cannot play a DVD? Every time I try I get the following message: No Drive containing a DVD was found.
If I add my DVD drive to the video folder then I can play a DVD that way, but not through the main DVD menu. Not a big concern...just wondering since it works fine in GBPVR. Logs attached just in case.
Thanks,
Mattman
P.S. Also noticed that every day I have to update the EPG because every day it somehow gets wiped out and only displays (no show details).
