If I ask for full screen, I can find no way to resize it again to allow for checking other stuff. I can exit the NextPVR programme altogether, but it would be better to still hear what is going on as I check out other stuff.
EDIT: A really important one here AFAICS is that I cannot alter the system volume without exiting the NextPVR programme.
I refer to such BB's as the conflict resolve dialogue from the Recordings Conflict screen, or from the TV Guide if you try to record a conflicting programme, where there is no Close option if I am working with a mouse. I can use a keyboard and Esc, but I would prefer to have only a mouse at my viewing location.
This is a bit weird, over the last couple months Npvr has lost the settings for the recording directory, decoders, live tv buffer directory and the plug in directory settings twice.
It happened again last night though I'm not sure exactly when. I noticed it about 10pm when I tried to tune to a TV channel using a kodi box in the bedroom (raspberry Pi2) and got a lock up trying to tune to the channel. A check of Npvr showed a error along the lines of "no live tv buffer folder doesn't exist" (sorry don't recall the exact verbiage). A quick check of the settings found the live TV buffer directory has mysteriously changed back to the C drive from D:/buffer where it normally is. Fixed that then live TV was a black screen though had audio. Checking the decoders found almost all of them set to "disabled". Fixed that and then found all the plug-ins where checked. I normally only have TV Guide, Recordings, Live TV and exit checked.
As I said, I'm not sure exactly when it started but I had a recording which ended about 5:30pm which was fine and found the settings changed about 10:30pm. Anyone have any ideas about whats going on?
Hi, I'm new to HTPC and need some help. My setup is a dedicated desktop pc running windows 10. Hauppauge wintv dual USB tuner, NPVR playing through kodi. When i view the ota channels through the wintv program without kodi, theres no problem viewing, but when viewed through kodi theres severe pixilation and stuttering on all the channels. I've tried changing the decoders without any improvements. What am I doing wrong? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Sorry for the longish post (my first here!). I've done a lot of searching on the forum but I haven't found a post that mirrors the problem I'm experiencing.
I'm pretty new to NPVR, having used it only for the past 2-3 months. It replaces my longtime PVR -- SageTV -- to record and serve TV, mostly sports broadcasts. TV is provided by way of a digital Charter Cable box. After a bit of learning and configuration, I configured NPVR to work perfectly as a replacement to SageTV. The only difference is I now use Schedules Direct instead of Sage's guide service. My system's key components consisted of an Intel e5200 processor, Win 10 Release Preview, a Hauppauge Colossus, an ASUS PQ5 Pro, and a 500 gb HDD used for temporary storage of the recorded TV videos. Once configured, this system worked great and I consequently suffered no SageTV seller's remorse. :-)
Last week, I migrated the Colossus capture card and the 500 gb hard drive to a similarly-aged but different PC. Its key components are an AMD Athlon64 x2 processor on a Gigabyte motherboard running Win 10 Release Preview. I saved the database and configuration files from the first computer. After installing Hauppauge's WinTV 8 and setting up the IR blaster software (all things Hauppauge -- Live TV, recording, channel changing are working perfectly), I then installed NPVR, immediately closed it and stopped the recording service, then copied my saved database and configuration files. In most respects, NPVR now functions as it did on the Intel PC - that is to say Schedules Direct and the guide work, I can record TV and play it back via NPVR (or any other video player) and serve it via Mezzo across my network to my TV via a Sony Blu-Ray player.
The exceptions (functions that aren't working) however are:
1: NPVR will not change the Motorola DCX3200 channels via the IR Blaster whether watching live TV or when attempting a pending recording;
2. No mouse menu control (play, pause, change channel up, change channel down, etc.) works when watching LiveTV or when paying back a recording.
I'm suspicious that issue 2 may actually be the crux. Could there be a video core component missing that's necessary for the overlay menu to work? One key distinction between the AMD computer and the Intel one is that the AMD was a clean Windows 10 installation back in Dec 2015 to an SSD using MS Media Creation Tool. The previous computer was upgraded over the years from Windows 7, 8, 8.1, (including Media Center) and finally to Windows 10 as the consumer reviews were released. Once NPVR installed, I initially received a message about missing DirectX components. I downloaded and updated all DX components. That seemed to placate NPVR. I've subsequently uninstalled and reinstalled NPVR a couple times.
I've found no instance among forum posts where the NPVR control overlay menu was reported not to function. Neither have I seen a post about IR Blaster dysfunction when the WinTV and the Hauppauge Blaster worked perfectly to change channels. So there it is! Anyone have a experience with such a thing?
Attached are the log files. I reinstalled NPVR, went straight to LiveTV, attempted a channel change up and down, and saved the log files.
Would be great to have a Android TV and/or an iOS App....every corner I turn still brings me back to NextPVR as my bank end but lets face it...with the advent of our clients now being devices like a Nexus Player, Apple TV, iPhone, Android Phone etc. it really would be great to have a native app to connect to the NextPVR server.
I was a GBPVR user a long time ago and I'm so happy I can come back to it now that there is Kodi integration, but going without comskip is frustrating.
Would it be possible to add an option for the nextpvr client to provide the local filepath to kodi instead of the http stream? That way we can just add a simple path substitution like people do with X-NEWA.
I have scanned the digital TV channels and one entire provider (SBS) has not been picked up. In my Leadtek software there were various levels of scanning and after mucking about I managed to get SBS included in the channel list.
So I am wondering if there is a way to tweak scanning to grab problem channels.
Hi. I was using Winfast software for my Leadtek cards, but there seems to be a limited ability to schedule multiple recordings of a given show, based on the Guide. Windows Media Centre has the scheme I am looking for, but will not find the Guide at all. So I found out about NPVR and it looks as if it can "see ahead" in the Guide, which leads me to feel that I should be able to schedule recordings of shows well ahead.
