DVR transfer - "recording"

[x0hs]

Here's my use case. I have an HD-PVR2 with NextPVR 5. Works great, can stream video, set recordings, etc. Thank you.

Here's what I'd now like to do. I have a pile of historical recordings on my cable box/DVR (same one tied to HD-PVR2), and I'd like to use NextPVR to transfer them into video files.

Basically I want to manually navigate my DVR with my remote, hit play, and have NextPVR start capturing that video for a defined period of time. And then to set metadata and have it saved into the video file in the same format as if NextPVR recorded it live.

Is this possible? Only asking as I wasn't able to find a way to do this. Thank you.

[Graham]

Basically I want to manually navigate my DVR with my remote, hit play, and have NextPVR start capturing that video for a defined period of time. And then to set metadata and have it saved into the video file in the same format as if NextPVR recorded it live.

Is this possible? Only asking as I wasn't able to find a way to do this. Thank you.

You can do that ... but you might find it to be more trouble than its worth.

Set up a Manual Recording using the Scheduler in the NextPVR Web App and get the DVR to send the recording to coincide with the recording being sent by the DVR ...

https://github.com/sub3/NextPVR/wiki/web...-scheduler

Edit: I expect that you can use any "channel" value when you create the Manual Recording.

[mvallevand]

Sub wrote another program for this purpose https://www.capture4me.com/ which might help if you have a lot of program. There should be software from Hauppauge too

Either way you can still import ts files into NextPVR if you must have them here, just generate the apppriate meta data.


Martin