NextPVR

NextPVR is a free Personal Video Recorder (PVR) application for Microsoft Windows.

NextPVR supports a wide range of digital tuners including DVB-S/S2, DVB-T/T2, DVB-C, DMB-T, ATSC and QAM. NextPVR also supports specialist component/HDMI capture devices (like Hauppauge HDPVR, HDPVR2 and Colossus), and Copy-Freely devices (like the Hauppauge DCR-2650 and HDHomeRun Prime). NextPVR supports all broadcast codec's including MPEG-2 and H.264 video, and MPEG1 Layer II, AC3, E-AC3, AAC, HE-AAC audio.

NextPVR v2.5.9 or a later version is required for XBMC compatibility.

On top of installing NextPVR v2.5.9, it is recommended you install:

this patch - http://forums.gbpvr.com/showthread.php?52811-Deleting-recordings&p=443751#post443751, which corrects a couple of issues that were found after the initial 2.5.9 release.

Installing NextPVR

For new users it is recommended you view the NextPVR wiki quickstart guide before installing NextPVR

here: http://www.gbpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?n=QuickStart.QuickStart

The latest release of NextPVR can be downloaded and installed from http://www.nextpvr.com/download

Settings

IP Address: The IP address of the server running NextPVR. 127.0.0.1 can be used if it is running on the same machine.

Port: The port number of the NextPVR web server. The default port for the web server is 8866.

Pin: The pin number required to connect to NextPVR. Leave this as the default 0000 at this stage.

Support

Please post support questions at http://forums.gbpvr.com/forumdisplay.php?54-XBMC