New NMTInstall2 for N-PVR

[StevHodge]

Martin

You were right - 5916 fixed it. Looks very good
Could you point me to somewhere which gives the key mappings for the PCH remote control under mvpmcx2. At present I am finding more ability to control things if I use MyiHome - many more of the keys on the PCH remote are functional. Under mvpmxx2 I don't seem to be able to find out where in a programme I am, go backwards, or skip forward a long way

Anyway, thanks for all your help

Steve

[mvallevand]

The NMT wiki page for GBPVR http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Hardware/NMT has a lot of relevant information for NPVR too, including the link to the keyboard reference http://www.mvpmc.org/~mvallevand/nmtkeys.html

I will update NMTInstall2 to change the port too, thanks for confirming that was the problem.

Martin

[Jaggy]

I think I may have found a bug in the new installer for N-PVR while getting a new setup with it so I can update the NMT section on the new wiki with the autoload stuff etc. but for using the new npvr scripts.

Code:

<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/USB_DRIVE_A-1/mvpmc/nusb_a.cgi">N-PVR via USB</a>

refers to "nusb_a.cgi" but it installed the old "usb_a.cgi" for me?

[mvallevand]

Thanks Jaggy, I updated NMTInstall2. I made a provision to change the file name when I set this up, but I didn't need so the link in the html file is wrong. There is no difference in any of the scripts or startmeup, I just changed the references to GB-PVR to avoid confusion.

Martin

[Barsk]

I just got my NMT install working after some issues. It turned out I had the TV mode at Auto, despite my thoughts it was otherwise. Changing that to PAL made things work. I figured this out the hard way by using telnet and running command after command and finally trace the culprit.

I know this has been said somewhere, but it should really be pointed as as a requirement. Could have saved me a few hours...

EDIT: Had some problems with LiveTV but they are gone with the wind now. Everything works super! (So I removed the problem report from here)

[Barsk]

I tried these settings to optimize my view (PAL monitor):
<MVPWidth>600</MVPWidth>
<MVPHeight>535</MVPHeight>
<MVPOffsetX>25</MVPOffsetX>
<MVPOffsetY>15</MVPOffsetY>

The image on the TV set was no longer blue, but red? How did that happen?
NMT bug with PAL encoding or what?

Another problem: When exiting from NPVR mode to the standard PCH mode on the PCH with power button it seems the NextPVR.exe kind of hangs. Trying to restart Nrecord service just hangs till the NextPVR.exe process is manually killed.

[mvallevand]

I just got my NMT install working after some issues. It turned out I had the TV mode at Auto, despite my thoughts it was otherwise. Changing that to PAL made things work. I figured this out the hard way by using telnet and running command after command and finally trace the culprit.

I know this has been said somewhere, but it should really be pointed as as a requirement. Could have saved me a few hours...

EDIT: Had some problems with LiveTV but they are gone with the wind now. Everything works super! (So I removed the problem report from here)

Good, and also note for the next time that dummies guide does tell you not to not to select Auto

Martin

[mvallevand]

I tried these settings to optimize my view (PAL monitor):
<MVPWidth>600</MVPWidth>
<MVPHeight>535</MVPHeight>
<MVPOffsetX>25</MVPOffsetX>
<MVPOffsetY>15</MVPOffsetY>

The image on the TV set was no longer blue, but red? How did that happen?

Your dimensions are wrong width + 2 x OffsetX must be <=640 and height + 2 x OffsetY must be <= 576 Also the totals must be divisible by four

Another problem: When exiting from NPVR mode to the standard PCH mode on the PCH with power button it seems the NextPVR.exe kind of hangs.

Your video memory could be corrupt because of the above problem

Trying to restart Nrecord service just hangs till the NextPVR.exe process is manually killed.

Yes there are problems with NRecord control of NextPVR Even with the latest patches I have to kill NextPVR manually

Martin

[Jaggy]

Due to really really not liking the way NPVR squashed all my images for PAL display & after much discussion with sub & Martin (some of it fairly heated) I finally found that setting it to 800x600 in the settings & using
<MVPWidth>704</MVPWidth>
<MVPHeight>528</MVPHeight>
<MVPOffsetX>48</MVPOffsetX>
<MVPOffsetY>36</MVPOffsetY>
gave me really good results, the down side was a lot of the text was blotchy after this & I had to do a complete re-write of my BRVE+ skin to compensate for that but now it is done I am really really happy with the results & it is a HUGE amount better than it ever was with GB-PVR

[mvallevand]

Further to Jaggy's comment you would need to add --display 800x600 on the command line in startmeup to override the default 640x576

Martin