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[spinnaker]

Ignore the MVP clients.

Martin

Sorry but what is an MVP Client? I googled it. Found tons of hits but no definition.

[mvallevand]

Sorry but what is an MVP Client? I googled it. Found tons of hits but no definition.

You snooped in confg.xml and made a post about some MAC addresses for the MVP clients.

Martin

[spinnaker]

Actually I got it from Setup.

What is an MVP Client? Sorry but I am new at this. I always had a cable box or WMC where they did everything for you. Nothing to worry about or know but not nearly as flexible either.

[mvallevand]

I don't know how you one hand can be so curious and on the other ignore the wiki.

Martin

[Graham]

Sorry but what is an MVP Client? I googled it. Found tons of hits but no definition.

http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Client.MVP

http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/prods_mvp.html

I suspect that most would regard the MVP as obsolete.

[mikeh49]

Oh OK, an MVP is a streaming video player that Hauppauge marketed in the first decade of this century. Handy little device but it was designed for the old world of analog SD TV. Sub and others supported it very nicely, and lots of people streamed from GBPVR (predecessor to NPVR) to their MVPs. IIRC, NPVR did/does not support MVPs as handily as GBPVR. MVPs are pretty much irrelevant now, at least for new construction.

[spinnaker]

http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Client.MVP

http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/prods_mvp.html

I suspect that most would regard the MVP as obsolete.

Oh OK, an MVP is a streaming video player that Hauppauge marketed in the first decade of this century. Handy little device but it was designed for the old world of analog SD TV. Sub and others supported it very nicely, and lots of people streamed from GBPVR (predecessor to NPVR) to their MVPs. IIRC, NPVR did/does not support MVPs as handily as GBPVR. MVPs are pretty much irrelevant now, at least for new construction.

Thanks you two. So basically, it is the software that Hauppauge created to talk to their tuner? So the PVR talks to the software / driver and the software / driver talks to the card? I would then assume the manufacturer does this to some kind of standard so the pvr software does not need to know khow to talk to a multitude of hardware?

[sub]

Why does not OTA EPG work?

In the rest of the world it usually works pretty well, and often gives you a week or so of TV listings (though some people seem to be suffering a bug in 3.1.1, which leaves tuners tied up in the morning...still investigating that one).

In North America they're not as good at transmitting listings with their broadcasts. You'll usually get no listings at all on a cable network, and often only 6 hours or so on over-the-air ATSC broadcasts.

[sub]

Thanks you two. So basically, it is the software that Hauppauge created to talk to their tuner?

The MVP is a small hardware player device, designed for playing standard definition PAL or NTSC video streams. Back in the day it was an excellent client for playing recordings made from the Hauppauge analog cards that were so popular at the time, like the PVR150/PVR250/etc. You could have one attached to each TV in your house, all giving you access to GBPVR/NextPVR.

GBPVR/NextPVR made a pretty good client for it, giving you the normal GBPVR/NextPVR UI you were used to, and

The device has been pretty much useless for the last 5 years or so, with the world moving digital, with the MVP unable to play modern streams with high def and AC3/AAC/HE-AAC audio etc.

So the PVR talks to the software / driver and the software / driver talks to the card? I would then assume the manufacturer does this to some kind of standard so the pvr software does not need to know know to talk to a multitude of hardware?

No, it didn't work like that. They use a proprietary communication protocol like VNC, which myself and others reverse engineered, along me to shoehorn my UI etc onto the device.

[sub]

Which logs? That is all that is in the NRecord.log just over and over again. The NPVR.log does not show anythin unusual. I can see where I was trying the skop with minutes option thing last night but that was about it.

Reproduce the problem, then zip and attach the complete logs directory.