New user new install and a few "issues"

[Reddwarf]

In config.xml there is a setting called <LastXmltvFile>, you can check what it is set to in your config.

[sub]

The location of the xmltv file is stored in the mapping for each channel. ie. each channel could have had a different xmltv file if you'd wanted. This does mean there isnt one place you can set where "THE" xmltv file is.

To change it, you'd need to go into each channel's Details screen, and select the the xmltv filename and mapping.

The <LastXmltvFile> is just a convenience so you dont have to keep re-browsing to the same xmltv file. It's used as the default value when setting a xmltv mapping.

[rkircher]

Does NPVR support the use of the remote control that came with my Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 tuner card?

[johnsonx42]

yes. if you have the version of the remote receiver that plugs into the back of the HVR-1600 card, then you'll need to install the remote control drivers off the WinTV cd (I don't recall if the remote control program is actually part of WinTV or a separate install). Once you get that going, you have to add a section to your irremote.ini file for NPVR; there's a thread linked in the sticky with some help on that.

if you have the usb remote receiver, then I think it's just an MCE remote which pretty much just works with NPVR.

[rkircher]

There is a statement "With NPVR you can watch live or time shifted television, pause, rewind or skip through the commercials.". I would like the option to skip thru segments of the saved .TS file, but can't find any controls to this. Is this implemented in one of the plug-ins or skin features? Can someone get me started on where to look for, or begin using the skip feature during playback of a recorded .TS file?

[johnsonx42]

I'm not quite sure what you mean.

The default keymappings for the skip commands are:

Code:

<Key code="{CTRL}Right" command="SkipForward"/>
      <Key code="{CTRL}Left" command="SkipBack"/>
      <Key code="{CTRL}R" command="SkipRW"/>
      <Key code="{CTRL}F" command="SkipFF"/>

By default, the first two are what I call the big skips, 1 minute forward and 30 seconds back. The next two are what I call the small skips, 10 seconds forward or back. NPVR also recognizes the MCE remote keys for the same functions. Finally, in 1.5.36 sub has added the ability to mouse-click on the timeline to jump to the clicked position; I've not tried it yet, but it's in the release notes.

If none of that answers your question, please explain what you want to do.

[Reddwarf]

There is a statement "With NPVR you can watch live or time shifted television, pause, rewind or skip through the commercials.". I would like the option to skip thru segments of the saved .TS file, but can't find any controls to this. Is this implemented in one of the plug-ins or skin features? Can someone get me started on where to look for, or begin using the skip feature during playback of a recorded .TS file?

If you mean skipping commercials you'll have to run Comskip after each recording. See the wiki for details.

[rkircher]

I managed to run Comskip manually from the cmd prompt and it created 4 files without errors. I assume the log file is the .ini file but don't know how to use the other 3 files.I tried to run Comclean, manually too, but ran into path problems and lots of errors. It seems my problem in automating commercial skipping is not finding documentation for NPVR, and to some extent Comclean. Specifically, how can I find out where the available GB PVR batch files should be located, and how to customize them for operation with NPVR? It's not obvious why there is both a comclean2.bat and a comclean3.bat file, and where is the comclean1.bat file?

[johnsonx42]

You'll find the information you need in the 3rd post of the sticky thread in my signature. Nothing about comclean though, but I honestly can't recommend using it. NPVR will skip the commercials based on the .edl file generated by comskip.

edit: leaving aside all the fluff in my postprocessing.bat, a parallelprocessing.bat or postprocessing.bat to run comskip really only needs this:

Code:

cd \path\to\comskip
comskip %1

[rkircher]

I'm not quite sure what you mean.

The default keymappings for the skip commands are:

Code:

<Key code="{CTRL}Right" command="SkipForward"/>
      <Key code="{CTRL}Left" command="SkipBack"/>
      <Key code="{CTRL}R" command="SkipRW"/>
      <Key code="{CTRL}F" command="SkipFF"/>

By default, the first two are what I call the big skips, 1 minute forward and 30 seconds back. The next two are what I call the small skips, 10 seconds forward or back. NPVR also recognizes the MCE remote keys for the same functions. Finally, in 1.5.36 sub has added the ability to mouse-click on the timeline to jump to the clicked position; I've not tried it yet, but it's in the release notes.

If none of that answers your question, please explain what you want to do.

OK, installed 1.5.36 to skip ahead on the replay by using the mouse to move the time marker ahead, but it did not work. The install went fine and all files in the patch zip file were replaced. I also noticed that when I went to Settings the Version had not changed and was still showing 1.5.33 as before the patch. So the question is whether or not I installed the patches correctly, why doesn't it work, and is the version number updated in Settings with the files that are updated by the 1.5.36 patch?