Dusting off the old MVP's

[mvallevand]

Of course you need to allow NextPVR through your firewall for TCP and UDP, there are lots of posts on that. The nonsense is allowing the public network through making a difference. If I am reading you correctly you are wireless and not using WEP 128 which just won't work.

This thread is actually why I don't support the MVP, the tech is too old, yet people expect a lot. There is a reason these were gathering dust for you.

Martin

[systemshark]

1 Hour later and still stuck at "Loading Application...". Hauppauge software will not even get that far. Looks like I need to ask this question: can I use NPVR at all if I cannot do a first time load of the original Hauppauge dongle using Hauppauge software?

Bascially it is possible. It took me a while messing around with the MVP to get it too work. Are you sure it starting/executing a boot service ?

My Rig here is a Windows 7 64 Bit with Dongle.Bin from default NPVR install and nothing else loaded.

I got stuck at the earlier point when the MVP was not able to response to NPVR during the detection phase. I ended up having to review the network traffic with wireshark to resolve. (basically the MVP was not responsing to ARP request. Therefore NPVR was not able to execute the boot correctly.... )

[StanO]

FYI it was very easy for me, shut down GBPVR MVP service, started NextPVR, opened the firewall and voila! Menu doesn't fill the screen though.

[steeb]

FYI it was very easy for me, shut down GBPVR MVP service, started NextPVR, opened the firewall and voila! Menu doesn't fill the screen though.

You should be able to get the menu to fill the screen by tweaking the x and y settings in config.xml for the specific MAC addressed device. I believe it should be exactly be divisible by 4 whatever tweaks you make

steeb

[SFX Group]

I use MVP.... heres the basics...

MVP powers on, it asks DHCP for an IP address, once it has this it will then broadcast on the network to find a Media Server, it will then load the dongle (via TFTP).

Problem here can be your router / hub (as i guess you wont have a switch), there a number of ports that have to be open for this to work. best turn the firewall off on the nPVR server until you get this working.

I have usenPVR on the MVP, however not in the latest v2 (which i will be doing tonight).

Once the MVP is on, as long as the power is not removed then it keeps the uploaded dongle, pulling the power will result in it requesting a new loader dongle.

once it has this dongle in memory it runs it, this then will find the higher level Media server (you can actually search manually by this point, however you are not getting this far).

DHCP is where you need to stop and check to make sure this is working fully.

[SFX Group]

UPDATE
Just plugged mine in, works fine (well i get a menu as i did before with GBPVR

[mvallevand]

UPDATE
Just plugged mine in, works fine (well i get a menu as i did before with GBPVR

The default dongle from the NPVR installation will not be able to play mpeg-ts files, including any recording from NPVR, without transcoding prior to playback.

Martin