2014-03-09, 05:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 2014-03-09, 03:30 PM by itsacoaster.)
I happened to stumble upon a Hauppauge HD PVR at a pawn shop, so I snatched it up and I've been playing with it all day. NPVR is my capture software of choice.
I quickly discovered you could stream what you capture using NPVR over your network live using NEWA. Pretty neat. Only problem was that it was designed to be used with a channel listing from what you would get through a TV tuner. I only have an analog device, so there is no channel database for me, and there's no way to click "Watch Live" for whatever it is I'm capturing.
So I did some poking and prodding and found out you could make a fake channel listing that will show up in NEWA! Now I can watch what I'm capturing live!
INSTRUCTIONS:
Just copy the code at the bottom of this post and put it in a file, say, fakechannel.xml
Then go into settings, to channels, click the channel you want to have the fake listing and press Details.
Change the source to XMLTV and browse for your .xml file that you copied from here.
Adjust the "mapping" dropdown to the channel that you want to have the fake listing.
All done! It shows up in TV listings and it shows up on NEWA. You can watch it live with the VLC plugin. Fantastic.
Couple of notes:
--You can play with the XML file to have it say whatever you want. Mine was component video on channel 1 so that's what I put in the descriptions.
--A lot of the crap in this file is probably frivolous, but I didn't care much to test it because it worked.
--As written, it expires in 2065 so mark your calendar to update the .xml file then.
I posted this here just in case it's helpful to someone somewhere--I didn't come up with anything on my search of the forum. Maybe I'm not the only one!
Perhaps in a future version the web interface can handle analog "channels," but this stopgap is pretty easy. I hope someone out there enjoys this advice.
Here's the code you put in the .xml file:
I quickly discovered you could stream what you capture using NPVR over your network live using NEWA. Pretty neat. Only problem was that it was designed to be used with a channel listing from what you would get through a TV tuner. I only have an analog device, so there is no channel database for me, and there's no way to click "Watch Live" for whatever it is I'm capturing.
So I did some poking and prodding and found out you could make a fake channel listing that will show up in NEWA! Now I can watch what I'm capturing live!
INSTRUCTIONS:
Just copy the code at the bottom of this post and put it in a file, say, fakechannel.xml
Then go into settings, to channels, click the channel you want to have the fake listing and press Details.
Change the source to XMLTV and browse for your .xml file that you copied from here.
Adjust the "mapping" dropdown to the channel that you want to have the fake listing.
All done! It shows up in TV listings and it shows up on NEWA. You can watch it live with the VLC plugin. Fantastic.
Couple of notes:
--You can play with the XML file to have it say whatever you want. Mine was component video on channel 1 so that's what I put in the descriptions.
--A lot of the crap in this file is probably frivolous, but I didn't care much to test it because it worked.
--As written, it expires in 2065 so mark your calendar to update the .xml file then.
I posted this here just in case it's helpful to someone somewhere--I didn't come up with anything on my search of the forum. Maybe I'm not the only one!
Perhaps in a future version the web interface can handle analog "channels," but this stopgap is pretty easy. I hope someone out there enjoys this advice.
Here's the code you put in the .xml file:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE tv SYSTEM "xmltv.dtd">
<tv source-info-name="Zap2it" generator-info-name="mc2xml" generator-info-url="mailto:mc2xml@gmail.com">
<channel id="I1.28458567.microsoft.com">
<display-name>1 Component</display-name>
<display-name>1</display-name>
<display-name>Component Video</display-name>
</channel>
<programme start="20130321170000 -0500" stop="20650321210000 -0500" channel="I1.28458567.microsoft.com">
<title lang="en">On Demand</title>
<category lang="en">Series</category>
<episode-num system="ms_progid">1.SH005456030000</episode-num>
<episode-num system="dd_progid">SH00545603.0000</episode-num>
<previously-shown />
<rating system="VCHIP">
<value>TV-Y</value>
</rating>
</programme>
</tv>