2010-07-27, 09:14 AM
First of all, I want to say that NPVR works extremely well for a beta. For me it works as good, or better, than GBPVR, so I've switched completely to NPVR now.
Here are some observations/feedback:
- It looks like the recording threads (?) doesn't always end. I noted this because I have sometimes seen ParallellProcessing.bat or PostProcessing.bat in the process list several hours after the show ended, and then also the status shows that a tuner is recording the show even if it's not. In ParallelProcessing.bat I call comskip, and in PostProcess.bat I call ffmpeg. Both these worked fine with GBPVR, so I suppose this could have something to do with the thread handling.
This only happens sometimes, and I've not seen a pattern yet.
- Timeline issues during playback (at least on NMT). Nothing new, but just want to report that the problem still exists. The problems seems to be worse for longer shows (>1 hour). So far I've not seen any negative durations, but skipping can be strange, sometimes going all the way to the end, or sometimes a back skip goes forward. Problem gets worse the later in a show you are skipping.
I get these problems in perhaps 10-15% of the recordings. As I said, more in long recordings than short.
- In the Ready recordings view also currently recording shows are shown. This is a bit confusing... I assume this is on purpose, but I liked it better when only the completely ready shows were displayed in this view (as it was in GBPVR). Maybe it's just a matter of getting used to it...
- I also miss the indication in the top of the tv guide that something is recording (or is scheduled).
All in all, practically everything "just works", and also seems very stable! Super nice!
Here are some observations/feedback:
- It looks like the recording threads (?) doesn't always end. I noted this because I have sometimes seen ParallellProcessing.bat or PostProcessing.bat in the process list several hours after the show ended, and then also the status shows that a tuner is recording the show even if it's not. In ParallelProcessing.bat I call comskip, and in PostProcess.bat I call ffmpeg. Both these worked fine with GBPVR, so I suppose this could have something to do with the thread handling.
This only happens sometimes, and I've not seen a pattern yet.
- Timeline issues during playback (at least on NMT). Nothing new, but just want to report that the problem still exists. The problems seems to be worse for longer shows (>1 hour). So far I've not seen any negative durations, but skipping can be strange, sometimes going all the way to the end, or sometimes a back skip goes forward. Problem gets worse the later in a show you are skipping.
I get these problems in perhaps 10-15% of the recordings. As I said, more in long recordings than short.
- In the Ready recordings view also currently recording shows are shown. This is a bit confusing... I assume this is on purpose, but I liked it better when only the completely ready shows were displayed in this view (as it was in GBPVR). Maybe it's just a matter of getting used to it...
- I also miss the indication in the top of the tv guide that something is recording (or is scheduled).
All in all, practically everything "just works", and also seems very stable! Super nice!