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[VE6CPU]

I'm considering switching from MythTV to MP. I'm getting tired of drivers that are not 100%. Things like having an HVR-1600 and a HVR-1250 both installed made it so the analog on the 1600 had no sound and wouldn't tune past ch 13. They may or may not be a fix for this and I haven't found it if there is. I really love Mythtv but its the drivers that is making me look else where.

I tried NPVR today but I'm not sold on it. It's okay but I might as well see what else there is out there. MP looks really good as it's open source. Heck I may even be able to contribute some code!

One thing I really like about Myth is the multiple backend/frontend setup it has. I've been looking through the docs but I can't really find anything on this with MP? I seen where its possible to stream recordings from the machine it was recorded on but I'm unsure about how this is done. Also can you have two machines with TV cards and have it store its recordings in a single DB and can you get each frontend to play the others recordings.

For now I would just like to know it can be done. I'll worry about the how next weekend.

[edit] I forgot to ask this also. Would it be possible to import my recordings from Myth in to MP? Since MP is sql based I'm sure I can do the select/inserts but is there anything different in the way MP stores it's recordings?

Thanks for your input.

Stephen

 

[mm1352000]

Hi and welcome Stephen

MP looks really good as it's open source. Heck I may even be able to contribute some code!

We need more developers from your part of the world.

One thing I really like about Myth is the multiple backend/frontend setup it has. I've been looking through the docs but I can't really find anything on this with MP? I seen where its possible to stream recordings from the machine it was recorded on but I'm unsure about how this is done. Also can you have two machines with TV cards and have it store its recordings in a single DB and can you get each frontend to play the others recordings.

Okay let me try to clarify. With MP you can have multiple clients connecting to a *single* TV Server. The clients can use the tuners in the TV Server to view and record TV. Anything else is really independent of our software. By that I mean that if you host your music, DVD and recording collections on the TV Server machine as well then the clients access those directly (the TV Server has nothing to do with it) - you set up shares so that the clients can access these. TV Servers can't talk to eachother, so we recommend you put all your tuners in one TV Server.

[edit] I forgot to ask this also. Would it be possible to import my recordings from Myth in to MP? Since MP is sql based I'm sure I can do the select/inserts but is there anything different in the way MP stores it's recordings?

MP uses SQL Lite databases on the client side for video, music and picture databases. Each client has its own databases. You can share them between clients but you run the risk of corrupting them.
With TV Server, the settings, recording DB, channel lists, tuning details... everying is stored in either a MySQL or SQL Server database. Usually TV Server requires an XML metadata file to allow you to import recordings. Considering that you know SQL, you can almost certainly write yourself a script to either generate the XML files (sample attached) or populate the DB directly. If you go the XML file route, the XML files must exist in the same directory as the recordings themselves, and they must be given the same name as the recordings they are associated with (ignoring the extension of course).

Hope that helps.
mm

 

[VE6CPU]

Thanks for the info. Makes a lot more sense now. I'm installing a Win7 64bit on my machine now and if I can figure out why the HVR-1200 is causing a blue screen I'll be really happy.

Stephen

 

[vfrvulcan]

Thanks for the info. Makes a lot more sense now. I'm installing a Win7 64bit on my machine now and if I can figure out why the HVR-1200 is causing a blue screen I'll be really happy.

Stephen

Hi Stephen,

I'm in pretty much the same boat as you, been running GBPVR/NPVR for *years* and want to move to a proper multi-client setup.

I've just moved all my tuners from a Win7x64 box to a virtual machine in VMWare Player/Workstation on a Windows Server 2008 (SBS) host. I too tried MythTV and, as you say, driver support is limited so now looking at MP.

Anyway, not much info about your blue screen but are you using the latest Hauppauge drivers from the 2.4 CD/Download??
http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/software/install_cd/wintv7_cd_2.4.exe

HTH

Aaron

 

[mm1352000]

Hi again Stephen

Blue screens are almost always caused by driver or hardware problems so Aaron's advice is good in my opinion. Software can also trigger BSODs if they utilise the hardware in a way that the driver programmers didn't expect, so in what situation are you getting the BSOD?

mm