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4.2.5 High CPU usage

Sat, 05 Feb 2022 19:16:57 +0000

Hello,
I have just one last Ver 4 Machine I just hate to upgrade to Ver 5. I just updated from 4.2.3 to 4.2.5 and am getting high CPU usage from some IPTV channels. I had this issue with 4.2.3 and was given an updated nshared.dll file to use and that took care of the issue.

If there could be a fix I would appreciate it.
Thank you,
Bruce

Should I bother with Philips 7130 TV tuner card?

Wed, 29 Oct 2014 01:35:07 +0000

I have a Philips 7130 card collecting dust. I would like to build a basic HTPC computer so my mom could record her shows (basic VCR-like recording, no need for EPG guide nor tv tuning: just being able to press "record" then "Stop"). Should I bother trying to make this card work? I searched the forum and the results are not encouraging.

Thanks.

Eddie

PS: Sorry, I posted in the wrong section!

Search Skin Problem

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 19:32:07 +0000

I'm trying to put together a skin for the new search screen and am having trouble with the @controlSelected option.

Here is a simple skin that I've used for this example:

Code:

What should happen when I tab between the 3 different columns of the "First letter", "Show Title" and "Show Time" is that the unselected columns should be all green. Unfortunately, only about the last 2/3 of each of the unselected columns are green, the rest has no coloring at all.

Attached is some screen shots and the zipped skin.

Thanks.

software recorder, any plugin like it for npvr?

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 19:37:01 +0000

i was looking through some old gbpvr plugins to try to fix a problem i have on nextpvr. i stumbled across something called software recorder. does anything else like it exists, or if there is any alternative way to utilize its functions? i know of graph recorder but was wondering if there was another way. thanks in advance

Un-installation of the Weather plugin

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:12:05 +0000

How do I completely remove (un-install) the Weather plugin?

I have found Un-installation for the Volume OSD at http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?....VolumeOSD, but it is specific to directories containing the word "Volume". The Weather plugin installation seems to be much more extensive and gets into into .xml files for skins such as the Main Menu.

If nothing else, perhaps someone can give the names of top-level directories to do a text search for the word "Weather" to limit my search effort. I can then post my results for others to use if there is no clean un-install process for this plugin developed yet.

ATI "TV Magazine" feature, are there any alternatives?

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 03:34:11 +0000

I like the TV Magazine feature of the old ATI cards. Are there any other software alternatives out there so I do not need to use ATI Media Center?

2) Would the old ATI Media Center program work with newer cards I could buy in the store today?

Thank you

Video Library Plugins?

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 02:26:50 +0000

been away awhile, whats the best plugins for a large video library for NPVR? (assuming there are some?)

would like to handle both tv shows and movies and download metadata from thetvdb.com and themoviedb.org (or alternatives) and just work with little configuration and quick automate updates.

TIA

4x3 Skins

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:50:55 +0000

Is there a 4x3 Skin available for SerachLite that works without causing an unhandled exception error when I use "Find All" in SearchLite? My understanding is that I need to use NPVR 2.0.3 skins, but the NPVR Setup and SearchLite installation provides 16:9 skins. If I use the default skin supplied with SearchLite, there is truncation of text. For example, on the upper left there is a Title for the search entry box that is "Search", but appears as "Searc" with truncation.

Searchlite Wishlist - Search by (favorite) channel(s)

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 09:22:15 +0000

Thanks for this plugin Martin - I just loaded it yesterday to check it out and see if would handle a particular style of searching. Alas, it doesn't appear to, but maybe 2.0 will (wishful thinking!)

At present, the better half regularly goes through the EPG TV Guide in nPVR, looking for movies to record from her favorite channels. In the old days when we used paper guides, she'd go through the channel listings containing an alphabetical list of the movie title with descriptions and time, put a ring around the ones to watch.

What I was hoping SearchLite would be able to do is to display a list of shows on a selected (favorites?) channel(s), (ie search for all shows on a given channel, rather than search for a show name) from which one could read the description (as we can now), and chose which epsiode/time to record when there are multiple screenings of the same show. Even better, if the show had already been programed to record, this would be highlighted, so that it won't be scheduled a second time.

Any chance this can be added to the wish list if there is one. I'm willing to offer to help code if it helps

Caller ID Plugin

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:25:02 +0000

I know there used to be a callerID plugin using this program

http://sunflowerhead.com/software/yac/

Is it possible to make one for NPVR?

NowNext ?

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:54:00 +0000

Is the NowNext.xml in the skin/players folder a panel to be used on the main menu screen? If so, how is it implemented?

NPVR Video, Photo, Music icons

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:44:57 +0000

Hi

With GBPVR the Video and Music menus had text.

NPVR has icons, which is fine, however as you would rely on the text of the folder to tell you whatâs in it, its driving me nuts ot have to keep scrolling through loads of identical folder icons and read the text at the base of the screen to work out which folder i want.

I no longer use NPVR for watching video as can never find any (back to VLC), so how do i get these icons back to text, or at least a smaller icon with text next to them on the screen?

iMONDisplayPlugin Release

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 16:38:45 +0000

Hey,

First a big thx to pBS for all testing, especially involving the LCDSmartie, LiveTV and Recording section.

This it the plug-in for handling LCD and VFD Displays.
It supports LCDSmartie (up to 4 Rows!, via registry) and iMON VFD & LCD displays Natively.
Configuration is done via an easy to read xml file.

Alternatively you could use the new External Display release for nPvr which Raply provided here.

Functions:
- Fully Custom Configurable Output for LCDsmartie depending on your need.
- Configurable date & time format.
- When using LCDsmartie, it is possible to show recording information even when nPvr is shutdown.

- iMON LCD display is used to the max:
- - Autodetection of codec used in music files
- - Progressdetection of currently played file.
- - Multiple configurations possible for spinning DiscIcon.
- - Default plugins are supported as well as WebRadio, RSSReader and Weather for controlling the menu-icons
- - Autodetect of Speakerconfiguration (7.1, 5.1, Quadro, Stereo)
- - Autodetection and display of volumechange

Requirements:
- nPvr (any release should do the trick)
- .NET 3.5 Framework.
- To support the iMON displays natively, iMON 7.91.0929 Beta version or later version
- Win Vista or up to make use of the Speakerconfiguration- and VolumChangedetection

LCDSmartie Config:

pBS Wrote:Here's a basic smartie setup for a 2x16 display with desktop display driver selected..
Just unzip it somewhere and run LCDSmartie.exe
User must select their own lcd driver type..then should be good to go...

The ini files are setup for a win7/vista machine, users must edit sqlite*.ini files in plugins dir for xp..[example given inside]

To get Next: for suspend msg, just run Lcdoff.exe in smartie dir when suspending, and restart smartie when coming back from suspend...
i use IRSS for remote, and it has events for suspend,etc and it works well for me because it's a service so can make windows wait for execution...

i had to remove the smartie rss .dll's to make it small enough to upload..[libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll] and sg_vfd.dll tho users should have that one already..
let me know if any problems..

Extra info:
- Soundgraph API forum
- C#/C++ wrapper based on montellese wrapper
- Volumechangedetection code based on McBainUK's nPvr VolumeOSDPlugin
- Written in C# .NET 3.5 framework, VS2010.
- Since this is my first project in C#, .NET & Visual Studio, a big thx to them & Sub for providing source code and or info.
- Sourcecode is attached to this thread, so I'm open to suggestions...

History:
- v0.1 : Release for iMON LCD Displays
- v0.2 : iMON VFD supported
- v0.3 : Memory leak fixed
- v0.4 : Added support for LCDSmartie via Registry.
-------- Wrong channel name bug resolved.
-------- Tryout of progress display on iMON VFD
- v0.5 : Fully custom-made output
-------- Recorded video info available
- v0.6 : ID3V1, V2, WMA tag support

ToDo:
- Detection of codecs used in movies. (LCD)
- Implementation of the RemoteAPI when release by Soundgraph.

Grtz,
Nick

Vertical Menu skin question

Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:09:40 +0000

I was putting together a vertical menu skin and I was wondering if there was an option to hold the selecter (cursor) in the center of the screen instead of allowing it scrolling up and down. (hope that was clear?)

Freazing up trying to watch live TV or access System plugin

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 02:22:49 +0000

I dont know why, but sometimes my NPVR freezes up everytime I try to watch live TV or open the System page from the system plugin. I attached my logs.

Edit: it also happens after accessing the settings box. There doesn't seem to be any way to fix it other than rebooting. I also noticed now that the "Whats New" recordings screen was not updated, but after rebooting it updated and shows that all my recordings for the last day failed with "Recording service not running at recording time".