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

[johnsonx42]

all current patches now in NPVR 1.5.36 Patches 1.zip

edit: and already there's a new patch, which hopefully fixes the problems people are having with analog hard-encoder devices. I've listed it separately for now, will add to the patch archive once confirmed to work.

[johnsonx42]

cumulative patch updated to include the analog hard-encoder patch (now "NPVR 1.5.36 Patches 2.zip"), which seems pretty critical

[nobody]

correction patch #4 should be

4. add schedules direct support on HD-PVR setup screen

instead of

4. add schedules direct support on HDHR setup screen

[johnsonx42]

yeah, you're right... HDHR is just like any other digital tuner, it's the HD-PVR that has it's own setup screen.

[Barsk]

Hmm, as a suggestion. Would it not be better to start a new patch thread for each new relese? This thread is beginning to get huge, and most of the contents in between the start and end is obsolete.

Actually I would prefer to have the static contents moved to the wiki and just a pointer from the wiki to the current patch (or as it was named before, "survival") thread. The wiki could even hold the patch data as well with the forum as just a place for people to comment about the patches and so on.

Not that I don't appreciate the efforts you put in here. I do! But the format for this could improve IMHO.

[sub]

I like having a sticky thread with the most up to date patches etc, but think it'd probably need to be on a per-release basis. ie, when there is a new release, unstick the old one, and create a new post thread with the version number in the title. The first few posts in each version thread would probably be largely the same.

(this is much like the old 'survival guide' threads we had with GBPVR, but I never had the time to give them as much detail as johnsonx42 has)

[johnsonx42]

no one is expected to read the whole thread, but sometimes info gets posted in the thread that I link to in the top 3 posts. I guess if a new thread was created for each release I could still link to useful information in this original thread.

I suppose there is the possibility that some users disregard this thread as being an old, disregarded sticky with old information (like many such stickies are on many forums; even here: anyone had a look at the bda multiplexor sticky thread?). Creating a new thread each time would serve to freshen it in the eyes of the users.

Upon the next release I will see about reorganizing things a bit.

[martint123]

Upon the next release I will see about reorganizing things a bit.

Whatever you choose to do - thanks - your time and energy are appreciated.

[johnsonx42]

Latest patches rolled up into "NPVR 1.5.36 Patches 3.zip". we're up to 18 patches (more or less, depending on how you count), a record for NPVR releases thus far.

also note that the previously broken wintv7 download which can be extracted now works again.

[McBainUK]

Upon the next release I will see about reorganizing things a bit.

I'd like to move some of the rather excellent content to the wiki. Some has already been copied (Analog Capture Devices, SoftPVR, Plugins, Skins, batch files remotes etc etc).

Create a new thread on the documentation sub-forum if you're interested in discussing further. Including where the split would be between sticky "survival guide" threads and the more permanent wiki page format.

Whatever you choose to do - thanks - your time and energy are appreciated.

+1.