2013-05-12, 08:53 PM
Located in Northwest Florida, USA. I have a dual tuner ATSC HDHomeRun which is networked to a Lenovo Q-190 running Windows 8 and used solely as an HTPC. I installed NPVR on the Q-190, worked through various firewall and decoder issues, and now have everything working except - no closed captions on NPVR playback. While I can play the .ts files with captions on VLC, I lose the 10 second skip forward Lenovo remote control function that works with NPVR but not with VLC. I've read in the forum that I probably need the MainConcept decoder with CC pin. I've downloaded the MainConcept Showcase demo package which supposedly contains an MPEG-2 decoder that displays captions. (MainConcept literature says the Showcase "demo" files will work as normal but will add a watermark - I'd like to know that they work before making a purchase.) I don't know how to get NPVR to "see" the MainConcept decoder. I've used MainConcept meritme.exe to register the demo_dec_mp2v_ds.ax. Running cmd.exe as administrator, I tried to register the decoder's dll file with regsvr32 but received the "demo_dec_mp2v.dll was loaded, but the DllRegisterServer entry point was not found" error message. The MainConcept decoder does not appear in NPVR settings-decoders. At this point, I'm stymied. Can anyone offer step by step instructions to install/register a decoder that will display closed captions in NPVR. (Note - I've experimented with CCExtractor to generate a .srt file from a .ts file. The process is messy - timing/sync is off by as much as 10 seconds and varies from file to file, takes multiple trial and error extractor runs to get a working .srt file, and is not a practical solution.) Thanks.
