NPVR - Getting started, current patches, tips and tricks **!!!!PLEASE READ!!!!**

[HarryH3]

The sig is from my days at DEC, when you had to actually swap hard disk platters in and out to run different programs. Yeah, I'm getting old...

[johnsonx42]

ah, the wayback time. When I was a kid, my first computer was a DEC-10 mainframe. Not that I had one in the house of course, nor was it in any way 'mine'. My Dad worked at Rockwell (the part that was formerly North American Aviation, and now part of Boeing), and among other things he was the admin of a DEC-10, running TOPS-10 if I recall correctly (I think it later got upgraded to TOPS-20). To do some work at home and monitor the system, he brought home a VT-100 (IIRC) and a 300 baud modem - it was direct connect, no acoustic coupler, but we had to dial the phone manually and then flip the switch when the remote modem answered. He gave me an login account so I could learn to program in BASIC and play Colossal Cave Adventure and Haunt; they also had an ASCII version of Pong, but it was too slow at 300bps. I did a lot of stuff with that thing, spent FAR more time on it than he did. I guess it was the best thing he could have done for me, as I make a living as a computer consultant now (though I really hate computers sometimes, so maybe it wasn't such a favor afterall ). Good times.

[BrettB]

Johnson,

Pretty similar story here... Except my dad worked at a university. And he didn't bring home a VT-100, but rather a "portable terminal" complete with thermal printer and acoustic coupler modem. And look where we are now!

[mvallevand]

You guys were spoiled with the VT100 and modems, when I started out it was card punches and even throwing switches on a PDP-8, where at my university it was booked 24/7. Line editors where a huge innovation (try edlin on your PC today)

Martin

[HarryH3]

IIRC, DEC didn't sell too many of the DEC-10's. Near the end, I think they sold even fewer of the Vax 9000, which they spent zillions of dollars developing. I had a VT-125 at home, with a screaming fast DEC Scholar 1200 baud modem. I was so excited the day I got to bring home a Scholar Plus, with its blistering fast 2400 baud! In the early 90's, as I got into PC's, I would dial in using a VT-340 emulation app from Attachmate. I still have the install floppy disks around here somewhere....

[Reddwarf]

When I first started working with computers it was a SAM-II with magnetic 7-track tape, 8-hole papertape punch/reader and no harddisks. It had the huge amount of 16K core memory

[martint123]

<no sniggering at the back>

My first contact with computers was when the firm my father worked for bought "a computer" for doing accounting in 1972. Punched card programming, 1k memory and mag stripes on ledger cards.

After chatting to the engineer and borrowing his manuals I wrote my first ever bit of software that calculated loads and stresses in oil rig moorings. Cards were punched using a home made punch consisting of a ground down nail on a piece of wood!. Later, I borrowed a white coat and sneaked into the local university to use their card punches.

A year later I was working for that company as a hardware fixer and I guess I cussed that engineer ever since.

[johnsonx42]

so you guys are all old then. Got it

[Reddwarf]

so you guys are all old then. Got it

Yeah, probably too old to be messing with this stuff :p. BTW, I'v calculated that my today-computer is 4000 times faster than the first computer I owned (and build myself )

[jksmurf]

I know it's not a support thread but it does relate to your bit about Batch files. So:

Batch files executed by NPVR:
Scripts\ParallelProcessing.bat <filename> <channelnumber> : called as soon as a recording begins - often used for comskip
Scripts\PostProcessing.bat <filename> <channelnumber> : called as soon as a recording ends - often used for comskip or transcoding
Scripts\UpdateEPG.bat : called when the EPG update begins at the time specified in Settings; commands herein should update the XMLTV file
Scripts\PostUpdateEPG.bat : called after the conclusion of all EPG update procedures; can be used for other nightly maintenance/update routines

I'm a bit confused by where to put the batch files. The above suggest in Scripts (which the placeholder.txt also agrees with).

In this thread sub indicates the batches go in

Code:

... the data directory (\public\users\npvr...

but your post suggest it goes in scripts. Either way it doesn't seem to work.

In GBPVR the whole lot comskip.exe, comskip.ini and the Postprocessing.bat file which called comskip were all in C:/Program Files/devnz/gbpvr, but now I'm just :confused:

Any guidance here? Thanks.