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NextPVR Knowledge Base

Source of Knowledge Base:

The Support page of NextPVR is
http://www.nextpvr.com/support/ 
http://forums.nextpvr.com/  last updated 10Feb2017

The Wiki Manual can be found at
http://www.gbpvr.com/nwiki/ 
http://nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php  last updated 10Feb2017

The Quick Start page of NextPVR can be found at
http://www.gbpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?n=QuickStart.QuickStart
http://nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?n=QuickStart.QuickStart  last updated 10Feb2017

Quick Reference

NextPVR Windows Platform and System Software Requirements (version 2.5.9):

•  Microsoft Windows 2000, XP Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2003

• Microsoft .Net Runtime v2.0

•  Windows Installer v3.1 or later

• DirectX 9.0c runtimes

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 runtimes

• windows media player v9

NextPVR supports optional hardware:

• Tuner Card

• Remote control

•  IR blaster. So

Upgrading, before installing new version,

•  use shortcut in Start Menu to stop the recording service

• close the NextPVR

•  right click the Tray icon to exist the NextPVR Tray

Tuner Cards

• Digital Devices: Most DVB/ATSC digital cards supporting the Broadcast Driver Architecture (BDA) of the Microsoft digital video capture standard on the Microsoft Windows are supported by NextPVR.

• Analog Devices: The Hauppauge analog devices with Hauppauge SoftPVR are supported. New analog device should be added to the devices list in the configuration file manually.

Useful Utilities

• FilterCheck: A utility used to generate a report of all installed audio/visual input/output components.
  http://nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Utility.FilterCheck     last updated 10Feb2017

• Hauppauge SoftPVR: A utility software components used to add support to NextPVR for analog devices.
  http://nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Utility.HauppaugeSoftPVR      last updated 10Feb20177

Devices List

List of devices supported by NextPVR through scanning automatically.

Adding supported Analog Tuner Card to the Devices List (source: hhttp://www.gbpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Walkthrough.AddingAnAnalogDevice
http://nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Walkthrough.AddingAnAnalogDevice
) last updated 10Feb2017

• Tuner Card Identification: Tuner Card Identification can be found in the FilterCheck log file from FilterCheck. The name of the Tuner Card Identification is stored in the "AM_KSCATEGORY_CAPTURE" section. Only supported devices are listed in the log file. The list of supported devices in the "AM_KSCATEGORY_CAPTURE" section includes all analog input and output devices, e.g. sound card, tuner card. The name of device in the log file may be different from the marketing name.

•  Type of Tuner Card Determination: The Type of Tuner Card can be found in the FilterCheck log file from FilterCheck also. The name of the type of Tuner Card is stored in the "AM_KSCATEGORY_ENCODER" section and "AM_KSCATEGORY_MULTIPLEXER" section. e.g. device with hardware encoding in FilterCheck.log file

  

  Only the types of the supported devices with hardqare encoding are listed in the log file. A supported device with software encoding based encoding will have an empty entry on these two sections. e.g. device with software encoding in FilterCheck.log file

  

•  Adding device entry to AnalogDevice.xml: The AnalogDevice.xml file is located in the data directory  C:\Users\Public\NPVR on Windows Vista, 7, Server 2008) or C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\NPVR on Windows XP, Server 2003. Each device entry consists four parts. They are

  1. Filter: The filter name of the analog tuner shown in the FilterCheck log file.

  2. Name: The displayed name of the device on the device list.

  3. Type: The encoding type of the device, either SOFT_ENCODE or HARD_ENCODE.

  4. FilterEncode: The name of the hardware encoder shown in the FilterCheck log file. This part is not necessary for a soft encode device.

  For example: device with soft encoding

   <Device filter="7231 BDA Analog Capture">
    <Name>BlackGold BT3595</Name>
    <Type>SOFT_ENCODE</Type>
  </Device>

  

  For example: device with hard encoding

  <Device filter="ATI AVStream Analog Capture">
    <Name>ATI 650 Pro</Name>
    <Type>HARD_ENCODE</Type>
    <FilterEncoder>ATI AVStream MPEG2 Multiplexer</FilterEncoder>
  </Device> 

  

  For example: AnalogDevices.xml file after adding both soft and hard encoding devices

  

• Restart the NextPVR program after the new AnalogDevice is added to the AnalogDevice.xml.