NextPVR and Analog cards

[mvallevand]

Revisiting this script, I think the destination folder should be in "%PROGRAMFILES%\Hauppauge\SoftPVR" and not "%PROGRAMFILES\%\NPVR\SoftPVR" This will survive a clean install of NPVR much better, and it is also the actual destination should WinTV be fully installed.

Martin

[steeb]

thanks both

@martin123 anything that works with a wildcard is going to be better than having to edit the .bat's each time a new v of WinTV7 comes out, messy or not! Much obliged

@mvallevand. Martin yes I see this is a very good point and changing the directory would survive a clean install of NextPVR . I have Hauppauge cards so have WinTV7 installed in full anyway but to check the path? I don't have the same as you have given. I have:

:\Program Files\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR

of course should a user uninstall WinTV then I guess this would be gone too.....

cheers

steeb

[mvallevand]

Sorry steeb I was lazy and theorizing and should have checked, you are correct it is WinTV\WinT7\SoftPVR on my machine too.

Martin

[steeb]

Right we are, thanks for input so far.

Have edited McBainUK's original much brilliant original .bat (sorry McBainUK, hope you don't mind ) to reflect changes discussed previously. Please bear in mind I have no background software experience and quite frankly haven't got a clue what I'm doing

I also entered an auto delete of downloaded WinTV .exe rather than the user deleting it manually (don't know why it needs to be kept?)

Instructions for wiki:

For those that don't want to install the full Hauppauge WinTV suite or have lost their original CD, NextPVR users have reported that it is possible to download and install only the required files using the commands below.

1.Create a folder for WinTV7 and SoftPVR in the Windows Program Files Directory (eg "C:\Program Files\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR").
2.Download the latest version of WinTV7 from the Hauppauge support website and copy it to this new folder.
3.Download and run the bat file suitable for your system. If you are using Windows 7 the commands will need to be run with elevated privileges (right-click and select 'Run as Admin').
4. Prompts to show that the required components have been registered correctly will appear, click OK on these. The software has been successfully installed. If not prompted with successful registering of the components check the directory path created in step 1. and make sure the download of WinTV7 has been copied successfully into the SoftPVR folder.
5. If your analog device does not appear in the devices list of the NextPVR settings screen you will need to take an additional step to configure your device. See here.

(where step 5 refers to filtercheck and manually entering device details)

contents of edited 32bit bat.

Code:

ECHO OFF

ECHO *************************************************
ECHO SoftPVR installer for Analog devices. (32 bit OS)
ECHO *************************************************
ECHO Creating Temp folders
MD "%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\temp1\"
MD "%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\temp2\"
MD "%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\temp3\"
ECHO Copying and renaming WinTV7 exe
CD "%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\"
COPY /b /y WinTV7_cd_2*.exe "%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\temp1\TempWinTV.exe"
ECHO
ECHO Extracting WinTV installer
"%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\temp1\TempWinTV.exe" /x %PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\temp2
"%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\temp2\WinTV7Setup.exe" /x %PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\temp3
ECHO
ECHO Copying required files
COPY "%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\temp3\hcw_mcl2ae.ax" "%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\"
COPY "%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\temp3\hcw_mcm2ve.ax" "%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\"
COPY "%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\temp3\hcw_mcmpeg2mux.ax" "%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\"
COPY "%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\temp3\hcw_mcmpgaout.dll" "%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\"
COPY "%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\temp3\hcw_mcmpgvout.004" "%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\"
COPY "%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\temp3\hcw_mcmpgvout.dll" "%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\"
ECHO
ECHO Registering files
Regsvr32.exe "%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\hcw_mcl2ae.ax"
Regsvr32.exe "%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\hcw_mcm2ve.ax"
Regsvr32.exe "%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\hcw_mcmpeg2mux.ax"
ECHO
ECHO Deleting Temp Folders
RD "%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\temp1\" /s /q
RD "%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\temp2\" /s /q
RD "%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\temp3\" /s /q
ECHO
ECHO Deleting WinTV
DEL "%PROGRAMFILES%\WinTV\WinTV7\SoftPVR\WinTV7_cd_2*.exe"
ECHO DONE

seems to work OK for me but any comments (good or bad :p ) welcome!

cheers

steeb

[McBainUK]

I also entered an auto delete of downloaded WinTV .exe rather than the user deleting it manually (don't know why it needs to be kept?)

If the auto configuration went wrong I'd be annoyed if it deleted the quite large file I just downloaded.

[mvallevand]

steeb you would need to create all the folders in Program Files, not just temp if they don't exist.

Martin

[steeb]

If the auto configuration went wrong I'd be annoyed if it deleted the quite large file I just downloaded.

Ah indeed Sir, a very good point

Of course what could go wrong with the auto configuration?

Seriously though yup, manual delete better.

cheers

steeb

[steeb]

steeb you would need to create all the folders in Program Files, not just temp if they don't exist.

Martin

Hi Martin, user is prompted in step 1 to create these manually. I did consider creating the WinTV directory in the batch as well? I guess this would be more foolproof? Guess batch could create the initial folders then pause for user to copy WinTV exe into SoftPVR directory? I also considered trying to automate the process even more and just get user to download WGET then run a batch to use WGET to download WinTV and install all automatically. Perhaps that is a way to go?

cheers

steeb

[sub]

I also considered trying to automate the process even more and just get user to download WGET then run a batch to use WGET to download WinTV and install all automatically. Perhaps that is a way to go?

No - dont do that. I'm already somewhat uncomfortable with how easy the community is making it to steal the Hauppauge components, and I feel this is probably taking things too far.

My original intention was that Analog support would only be available to Hauppauge users who also had WinTV7 installed.

[steeb]

No - dont do that. I'm already somewhat uncomfortable with how easy the community is making it to steal the Hauppauge components, and I feel this is probably taking things too far.

My original intention was that Analog support would only be available to Hauppauge users who also had WinTV7 installed.

No worries. I did wonder how far to go with this! In the future would there be an alternative to those with non-hauppauge analog cards or will the status quo always be the same?

steeb