I'm in rural New Zealand. The only Freeview option for me is DVB via satellite. All the Freeview streams are MPEG-2. Since rebuilding my PVR with Windows 10, I have had some real performance problems which I have been trying to nail down. Issues such as the picture freezing or going black for up to 30 seconds on a channel change, or corruption during ff/rw of recorded TV. I was wondering if I had bad tuners or some other problem. Some codecs didn't work at all, or just resulted in a black screen. Also, I often had issues getting the EPG to show up on top of live TV.
I always have some trepidation about praising a paid product, because I recognise that it looks like I have some commercial interest in the product (which I don't) or am just trolling to trick someone into buying something they don't need. But, when I come across something that solves a problem so well, I feel compelled to share it.
Today, I downloaded an evaluation copy of the "Elecard MPEG-2 decoder for Windows Media Player". After installing it and configuring NPVR to use it, I was amazed at how I could now change channels quickly, get my EPG to display every time on live TV, basically all my issues were solved. If you have issues like me, it's certainly worth downloading the trial. If it's doesn't fix your issues, uninstall it and don't pay for it. The cost is not bad at around 15 euros if you do find it works for you.
Anyway, just wanted to share, as I've been trying to sort these issues for months now. NPVR is now working as smooth as a baby's bum.
Would like to have TV Guide able to go back one day from today. There are many occasions that I thought I had set a program to record the night before but it wasn't. Going back to check what the guide said is very helpful. TitanTV allows this bit I love single access points to related functions.
I have had this happen in the past and managed to catch it once again. After watching a recording and it was at the end and I was thinking it was about the time the "Recording end and delete message" would pop up, next stops working. At least that is what the message on the screen shows. I hope one of the "know how to read the logs person" can see the reason. 98% of the time this great program just works! I wonder what happened?
I am attempting to help someone at VideoHelp set up NextPVR to use a Hauppauge HVR-1950's analog tuner. The analog tuner will be used for recording from a SD DTA (a simplified cable box for Comcast, a well-known US cable provider) which only supplies programming via NTSC channel 3 or channel 4.
SHS (who runs shspvr.com) joined in the conversation and stated that NextPVR does not support any analog tuners which use hardware encoding. I would have thought that something like that would have been mentioned in NextPVR's wiki, but there is nothing like that there. SHS told me to ask sub because I didn't beleive him, so I am.
Looking for alternative to WMC. Came across NextPRV and hoping to use with the above network tuner.
To my surprise NextPVR pick up tuners without fuss. However, when viewing live TV, picture jaggeder and audio stuttering. Muck around with the audio and video codecs. Got to a point where I could view standard definition TV ok (I think) but HD channels no gowa.
At this point, I was really hoping to obtain help with setup? I am more then happy to donate money!!!!!
Does anyone know whether use of this tuner is possible?
Hi, i'm on Win7 using Nectpvr and Kodi. So i get a not reproducable error while watching live TV in Kodi: After some minutes the live TV stops playing, after several seconds
it continues and then stops completly. This leads to a not responding Kodi.
Well it seems we can't get through a winter without somewhere in the UK getting flooded and this year is the same. My thoughts go out to residents of Cumbria, Lancashire and Yorkshire who were affected by this.
Normally it's just something I hear about on the radio news or see on the TV but this year I only needed to take a walk for a few minutes to see it first hand. Christmas wasn't much fun this year for some of my neighbours with the Environment Agency issuing a flood warning at around 11pm on the 25th for the stretch of River Aire which runs close to my house (thankfully not too close though).
The flood warning here was lifted at around lunch time but I hear York (about 40 miles East) has been hit now. Hoping all the NPVR users up this way are warm and dry.
We often utilize STL subtitle files (as my decoder does not seem to support subtitles). If the program has any glitches in it (not uncommon with Comcast), the timing of the subtitles gets off, sometimes by seconds or even up to a minute when really bad reception. It would be fantastic to have a keycode or remote button (preferred) that could adjust the subtitle timing when read from a file. I have seen this in VLC as well as a video player on my Android tablet.
A brief look at wishlist I did not find similar request, but did not do an exhaustive look, so I apologize if this is duplicate.
I'm new to NextPVR so I might just be missing something simple. I've got version 3.6.6 installed. I'm using OTA reception only (no cable or sat) My channels were discovered by NextPVR and I can even load in the channel schedule . The problem is that hen I try and watch live TV, I get an "unable to communicate with recording service" message.
I've attached the log files if that helps.
Jeff
