I'm new to this software, but i'm loving it so far. My primary use for it is converting an old TV tuner I found into a capture card for playstation 2 - primary display on my telly, and a composite out going from the telly to the cap card for streaming/skype friends/etc. Works beautifully!
However.
I'm trying to keep disk usage down, even temporary disk usage. I know NextPVR splits buffer recordings, but it just keeps making more the longer I play on my Playstation, and for my peace of mind I'd love to know if I can set this component-in up so that it doesn't use a buffer at all?
That is to say, I don't want NextPVR dumping my gameplay into a massive temporary recording - I just want it to display my composite in, no massive buffer for rewinding etc.
Alternative solutions that keep disk usage down, to prolong the life of my hard drive, are very very welcome.
Hi I have musicbox on my server and it works fine but I've now addd it to my client and pointed it to the NAS and it won't scan - it flashes up the scanning progress box which vanishes immediately.
Any ideas scan from a client fails? or should I point it to the musicbox database that is on the server?
I have trouble configuring the devices in settings of NPVR. It recognizes my tuner card ATI DBA digital (QAM) or Analog Tuner, but when I scan the channels, it goes through the 100 or more physical channels, but not register any. I started the NPVR service, before I did that; and that does not seem to do anything. Also, I can't find on KODI under settings NPVR as one of the addons. I am kind of stuck between the two issues before I can proceed any further.
I'm trying to record from NPVR and save the file to another computer. Local recordings appear to be just fine. The folder has group rights of "EVERYONE" having full control. I can copy and paste a recording to my external system without a problem though.
From the nrecord log the following is happening...
what am I missing? Thanks for your help, Jake
2015-09-13 09:28:00.289 [DEBUG][9] Recording explicitly recording to directory: '[Main Server]'
2015-09-13 09:28:00.289 [DEBUG][9] Preferred filename is 'The.American.Woodshop.S22E02.Mega.Turnings'
2015-09-13 09:28:00.292 [DEBUG][9] allocating recording target filename: M:\The American Woodshop\The.American.Woodshop.S22E02.Mega.Turnings.ts
2015-09-13 09:28:00.292 [DEBUG][9] About to start recording (5807 on 31): M:\The American Woodshop\The.American.Woodshop.S22E02.Mega.Turnings.ts...
2015-09-13 09:28:00.292 [DEBUG][9] Asking NDigitalHost to start: M:\The American Woodshop\The.American.Woodshop.S22E02.Mega.Turnings.ts
2015-09-13 09:28:00.447 [DEBUG][9] Temp at 9/13/2015 9:28:10 AM
2015-09-13 09:28:00.447 [DEBUG][9] Started recording (5807:5:M:\The American Woodshop\The.American.Woodshop.S22E02.Mega.Turnings.ts)
2015-09-13 09:28:00.467 [DEBUG][9] Invalid file passed to StartParallelProcessing(): 'M:\The American Woodshop\The.American.Woodshop.S22E02.Mega.Turnings.ts'
2015-09-13 09:28:00.872 [DEBUG][21] Using URL: https://json.schedulesdirect.org/20141201
2015-09-13 09:28:00.942 [DEBUG][21]
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Always been a Windows Media Centre user, but with the demise of this software have been playing over the last few months with NPVR and KODI on my existing Windows 8.1 machine and was happy enough to bite the bullet and upgrade (and then wipe/ fresh install).
Now have a few problems..... (surprisingly enough)
I have been running a Pinnacle 7010 ix PCIE card (dual analogue, DVBT and DVBS) card under windows 8.1 using the Blackgold 3450 drivers (as the Pinnacle drivers just crashed the machine every time the TV card was initialised). Now under Windows 10 using either the Pinnacle or Blackgold drivers, when scanning for channels using the right set up (DVBT - UK > Mendip), no channels are found at all by NPVR. I popped in an old PCI TV card I had lying around and this worked absolutely fine. Any ideas? I can obviously use the old card, but this is just a single tuner so would prefer the dual card.
Second problem is that I cannot get the NPVR Recording Service to run automatically after a reboot. In services.msc the service is set to run automatically as the System User. Right clicking and select start works fine (as does using the right click menu on the system tray icon for NPVR), but after each reboot I have to do this manually.
I've got comskip doing a pretty good job of marking commercials on the fly, and npvr does properly load the .edl file when I start watching a recording in progress, but it never re-loads it to pick up any new skip points as the recording proceeds, nor by extension does it load the completed comskip file which may have more accurate skip points after the recording is complete.
an implementation I think would work well would be to read the .edl file after every auto-skip, and also any time the user presses [PLAY], the theory being that the user has auto-skip disabled and is pressing PLAY to activate the manual comskip, or playback has reached a commercial that hadn't yet been marked, so the user presses [PLAY] to prompt the program to re-read the .edl.
loading the .edl file when the user presses [PLAY] would also nicely cover the case where the user doesn't have comskip creating skip points on the fly, but would like to pick up the completed .edl file when the recording and comskip finish.
(this wouldn't only apply to watching an in-progress recording either; while I do run comskip in parallel, some may run it in postprocessing instead. so they may begin watching a completed recording which comskip is still processing, so having it load/re-load the .edl while watching would apply there too)
I have set up NextPVR with 4 ATSC tuners and with its ability to record back to back (even with padding) on a single tuner, I hope to not have conflicts. However, because I use it mainly as a recording engine and not a watching app, I wanted a way to know in advance if there were recording conflicts. This app can be placed in the PostUpdateEPG.bat file after adding your own values to the xml file and putting the .exe and .config in your Program Files\NPVR directory.
If you keep noconflictemail set to true, you will get an email that there are no conflicts each time this is run. This is useful for testing to make sure it can send email out to you.
The rest of the config should be self explanatory, but feel free to ask here if you have questions or if you have any issues using the app. It is very bare bones with no error checking.
I've got cable channels that I cannot tune with NPVR. An example is FoxBusiness (Brighthouse 1220). The channel is in the EPG normally, and WMC can tune it easily. But, NPVR cannot see it. Yeah, I know. DRM and all that stuff.
I'm asking myself "Why". I know that WMC and Tivo are specially allowed to bypasses encryption. And, I hear that anything else cannot access these channels. But, why? What is it that specifically stops others.
People routinely say it's the copy flags and DRM. And, I'd be happy with that, if it made sense. If that were the case, it seems that the channel would somehow be flagged in some way. Yet, everything I read says it's the data-stream that has the cci byte(s).
So, if it is the data that has the copy flags, then why can't we tune the channel? It makes sense that a given channel could have some programs that are copy freely, and also other programs that are copy-once/none. So, why do I continually hear about protected "channels", and why do I routinely lose channels that I have paid for?
