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Next PVR web server (access listings/recordings from remote PCs) doesn't always start

April 28, 2017, 2:45 am
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I'm running NextPVR 3.9.2 on a Windows 7 PC. On the Settings | Clients page, I've enabled Web Server, using the default port 8866. The PC is hard-coded (by address reservation on my router) so it is always given the same IP address.

Other PCs and my mobile phone can browse to 192.168.1.8:8866 and see the listings and the recordings - usually...

But after a reboot of the NextPVR PC (eg after a power cut:() the web server does not always seem to work. I can see this by running a TCP port-finder such as NMAP: the PC not listening on port 8866, which it normally does. Even if I run a browser on the NextPVR PC (as opposed to another one), there's no response.

Everything else works: the server can still access the recording device, it can still get listings updates. The recording service is running. The NextPVR console application is running. Other TCP services such as SMB/NetBios (for \\server\share access to folders) work fine.


The only remedy I've found is to kill the Ntray process and restart the NPVR recording service (which restarts Ntray), in the hope that eventually the web server will start listening on port 8866 - usually three or four kill/restart cycles will eventually kick it into action.

Does anyone have any suggestions for what other diagnostics I could run.
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NextPVR - Kodi plugin - Sync Recurring Timers

April 28, 2017, 3:23 am
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I installed NextPVR and the Kodi plugin for NextPVR on both of my PC's. I can't seem to get it so that programming a timer in one place shows up in all 4 places. For example;

I program a timer in Kodi then look in NextPVR on the same machine and it doesn't show in either the guide or under recurring Recordings. Same is true if I proram the timer in NextPVR - it doesn't show up in Kodi.

How can I link everything together so it all works in sync?
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Ability to control which drives are included in "largest free space" pool

April 29, 2017, 11:27 am
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I got 3 drives on my NPVR server that I use for recordings. All 3 have have directories defined in the Extra Recording Directories. 1 of the drives is larger and slower, and I use it for long-term archiving, etc. 2 of the drives are smaller and faster and I use them for all of the active recordings by manually switching the default recording directory back and forth between them. I can't just use the "Record to directory with largest free space option" because then all of the recordings would go to my archive drive which isn't fast enough to handle the multiple simultaneous recordings.

It would be nice to be able to specify which directories/drives should be included in the "largest free space" pool used for that recording directory option.
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Wake up NextPVR when Kodi plays Live TV

April 30, 2017, 10:03 am
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Enhancement Request:

I do not know the architecture of the NextPVR Kodi addon but would it be possible to automatically wake up the NextPVR backend server when starting to play live TV on Kodi? Right now the Kodi screen will freeze for a minute or two if the NextPVR server has slept. When it comes back you can run a separate addon "Advanced Wake on LAN" or pretend to access pictures, videos, music on the server and Kodi will automatically wake up the server. It would be nice if the NextPVR backend would wake up and live TV just worked albeit with the wake up delay.
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Help with full screen mode showing menus but no video

April 30, 2017, 1:48 pm
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For the last several months NextPVR works fine running as a window in Windows 10 but when expanded to full screen mode shows only the main menu screen (or the last menu screen that was used prior to expanding to full screen mode). Sound from the recording/video continues but I can't see the video. If I exit full screen mode and return to a window, the video is shown again but as a smaller inset next to the menu.

This problem has been present for several months since I was having difficulty with Next PVR crashing with video playback (which it now appears was related to a change in the AC3 decoder from windows after a windows update). I wonder if during my troubleshooting I inadvertently changed a setting.

Does anyone have any suggestions for how I might remedy this problem?

Many thanks for your consideration.
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NextPVR settings -> devices does not find HDHR connect

April 30, 2017, 9:18 pm
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First time poster here - been trying to get nextpvr working and integrated with kodi so I can compare to plexdvr.

I am using an HDHOMERUN CONNECT as the tuner and am trying to get the nextpvr service to recognize the tuner (on my HTPC, an i5-7600 running windows 10). At present the only device that shows up in the devices list is "IPTV Device". Windows defender is configured to let NextPVR.exe, NRecord.exe and NDigitalHost.exe through. The HD HOMERUN device is set to 'default' rather than 'NextPVR'.

Curiously, my older computer recognizes the tuners just fine (Silicondust HDHomeRun Tuner 1049245C in both ATSC and QAM types on both tuners) in addition to the IPTV device, and I am able to proceed to channel scanning and so on. Sadly, its the new computer that is going to be the HTPC so I need to get it working on that.

Both computers are on the same network switch on my home network.

The regular hdhomerun addon in kodi works fine on both computers, so the HTPC clearly can find the tuner, but the NextPVR backend doesn't see it for some reason. After scouring the forums here and on silicondust, I didn't see any post that seemed to address this problem.

I took a quick look through the log files, and the computer with working settings clearly finds the TV tuners in the digital tuner section, while the failed settings computer (HTPC) does not. It does, however, seem to find something under "DRI devices", but nothing ultimately shows up in the devices UI.

I have attached 2 logs - one from the HTPC that doesn't work (failedsettings) and one from the one that does (working settings).

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide!

-Paul
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Questions about transcoding from IPTV sources

May 3, 2017, 7:54 am
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Hi,

I have a channel set up with the IPTV device which will play when the type is set to 'Internet Source IPTV', but not when the type is set to H264. It is a .ts stream.
I can see that when using 'Internet Source IPTV', the stream is being transcoded on the fly, but this is using close to 100% CPU.

If I capture a stream from the same source using VLC and tell it to capture the original audio and video tracks, it shows video codec of H264 MPEG-4 AVC and audio codec of MPEG AAC (mp4a).
If I look at the codec information for a recording or live-tv buffer file produced by NPVR for the same source, the codec information is exactly the same, as is the framerate and resolution.

So my questions are:

What is ffmpeg actually doing here which enables NPVR to be able to handle the stream, given that the original source is a .ts containing the same codecs?

Is it potentially possible to adjust the transcoding such that the original audio and video tracks are passed through and the process is less CPU intensive?
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Recordings stopped, now black screen when on Live TV in NextPVR

May 5, 2017, 3:14 pm
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I first noticed this on Thurs night 5/3, when I had two shows recording from 9-10 pm and I was watching one of them pretty close to real time. At about 9:50, the playback simply stopped without me touching anything and went back to the program's info popup screen. It wouldn't start again (just black screen). The other show that was set to record ended prematurely at about the same time. The following night, no shows recorded successfully at all. They'd show up in the list of recorded shows, but they showed black when trying to play them back.

I tried a few things like rebooting, rescanning channels, and restarting the NPVR service, but I still couldn't get Friday night's recordings to play or live TV to work.

Friday night's recordings are listed, but say Failed and "No errors, but no data delivered. This is usually because the device failed to lock a signal."

Today, from the TV Guide, I select a currently airing show, choose Watch, I see a "please wait" for maybe 5-8 seconds, then the screen goes black and nothing happens.

The same thing happens when I choose Live TV.

I did notice there were only about 5 GB left on my hard drive, but I've cleaned up and the problem persists.

Recordings from prior to Thursday play back fine.

NextPVR version 3.9.2. Windows 7 64-bit. A Hauppage that I'm not using and a Ceton InfiniTV quad tuner that I am using. Logs attached. Thanks!

Mark in Redmond, WA, USA
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Newbie question about temp files

May 6, 2017, 8:34 am
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Hi , new user to nextpvr . Here is what im doing . I'm basically using this as the TV watching interface to watch TV via my direct TV genie . Have a cord out of the back of the genie to a hauppauge hvr 1600 into the S video port . Had to do this because because something happened to the Wintv program will not work anymore no matter what i try . I noticed while the nextpvr is using the live tv it creates these big 175 meg files and keeps creating these as long as the program is open and displaying the satellite tv . Is there any way to stop it from creating these big files , basically just shut it off . I dont plan on recording or anything, I can record on the direct tv dvr . The files seem to be deleted once you close the program but just seeing if there is a way to keep it from recording at all and save the wear and tear on the hdd . I have checked all the settings and can't find anything. Also will it just keep creating these files as long as it is open or will it eventually stop ? Thanks for any help.
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no devices found in npvr device status

May 7, 2017, 11:31 am
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In the past week, my recordings stopped. I had upgraded to the latest version of npvr. And noticed that under device status, no devices show. But if I restart recording service, the devices are repopulated. When I restart my PC, those devices are absent again and the only way to get them back (and record) is to restart recording device.

I reinstalled nextpvr a couple of times. I also replaced compkgsup.dll as per a previous thread that seemed to be in the same ballpark as this issue.

i also have windows 10 creator installed
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Tweak the TV Guide

May 8, 2017, 3:06 pm
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Hello,

Can the -24HRS and +24HRS in the TV Guide be tweaked so the value can be changed to say 6HRS ?


Many thanks.
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TV Guide-programmes not populated until you visit each channel individually?

May 9, 2017, 5:48 am
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Hi, wondering if anyone else is seeing this symptom?
3.9.2 (161119)
If I open NextPVR (app or web) TV Guide.. the channels are present but void of EPG data.. (there is the odd listing!)
If I then open the NextPVR app and view (live) say 'ch9 GO' .. view a current program for a sec.. then exit..
I now see all of the EPG programmes for the next week for all of the 'channel 9' affilliated channels eg: 9, 91, 92, 93... all other channels are still void of programmes..
If I then go view a current program on channel 2.. all those ones now appear (web and app TV Guide) 2, 21, 22...
I have to go view a program on each challel to populate all the channels EPG data for the week..
then the following week.. do the same...
'Auto update EPG guide' is ticked in misc2 settings for 2:30AM each morning...
shouldn't the EPG data be updated each night automatically? is it a known bug?
any thoughts?
ta
AJ
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Guide and PIP Questions

May 9, 2017, 3:00 pm
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New user and really like the product so far.
I have a few questions and wonder if someone could point me to a resolution

- is it possible to listen to live tv while viewing the Guide/Listings? Skin or plugin, maybe?
- can PIP be accessed on a wmc remote?
- PIP does not change audio when using the 'swap' feature. can this be changed?

thanks for any responses...great product so far
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Gigabyte U8300 and NPVR

May 11, 2017, 6:50 am
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Hi to all for this helpful forum, this is my first post. I have a strange problem concerning NPVR and my Gigabyte U8300 Hybrid Usb Dongle.
I had installed the software, the DVB-T section of the usb dongle had no problem channels were found all ok.
In devices list my Analog section of the card was not shown so I followed the wiki and installed intv7_cd_3.9g.exe, runned the bat file, but the analog tuner was still not shown, the I run filter check and I had added the lines in the AnalogDevices.xml as in the wiki, the analog tuner appeared in the devices, searched the channel, channels found, but I had black picture no sound.
Searching the wiki I tried all the decoders and the decoder that worked was ffdshow_rev4531_20140628.exe.
I use Windows 64bit.
My problem is when I run the analog tuner first ( try to see a analog channel ) channels are all ok, when then I switch to Digital channels channels are ok, BUT when I switch again in the analog tuner I have black screen, no sound.
When ffdshow is activated in the status bar I have 2 icons one for the video and one for the audio details in the first time in the analog tuner the details are shown, the same and in the digital but when i switch back in the analog black picture no ffdshow details.
The only way to make it working again is to reboot the PC or take off the dongle from the usb port and put it back again.
Restarting NPVR, stop and start NPVR service, or restarting Recording service doen't solve the problem.
Can you help me?
Thank you all in advance.
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Next PVR wont work after latest windows upgrade

May 11, 2017, 11:10 am
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Following the new big windows uograde my NextPVR just frezzes and stutters both audio and video. I have reinstalled NextPVR also K lite codecs and FFord show but cant get it working. Any ideas to try?
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Problems after Reinstalling Windows 10

May 12, 2017, 12:30 am
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Had to reinstall Windows 10. Of course that meant I had to reinstall Next PVR, WinTV, NextEnd, ComSkip, batch files and redo settings.

The problems I now have are:
  • Genre Coloring list does not appear
  • Group does not work


I also noticed that nothing was recorded between April 1 and April 14 (which is when Windows 10 crashed.
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Missing MPEG-4/H.264 option in settings==>devices

May 15, 2017, 4:31 am
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I'm trying to locate the option to modify channels types, due to Comcast changing encoding from TS to MGEG-4. I have just re-installed version 3.9.2 (161119), but still no luck. This option was added in January of 2016, yet for some reason, I don't have access to it. I must assume that I've done something wrong again. Can someone kindly help me?
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If Win 10 use Windows Notifications for failed recordings

May 15, 2017, 1:33 pm
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NZ EPG Update - EPG Collector or EIT?

May 15, 2017, 8:20 pm
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For quite a few months now in NZ we have been able to get 1 weeks worth of EPG data straight from the UHF aerial. When I moved from Auckland to Waikato Region I had to change frequencies and decided to use the EIT (Over the Air) data rather than using EPG collector as it seems to be an easier process to setup up, maintain and not fall over. (EPG Collector sometimes needed upgrading due to data structure changes resulting in no EPG, hence no recordings).

One effect I think it has, is that shows like Shortland Street seem to record repeated episodes even though I have "Only New Episodes" selected. I say "seem" as I am blaming this problem on the EIT data being deficient compared to the XMLTV data, but haven't gone into depth fault finding it.

Do we get better EPG information using EPG Collector vs the EIT data?
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Dreaded Blank Screen - but only after shutdown

May 16, 2017, 1:27 am
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Firstly here are my logs.

The problem I am having is after a full restart of W10 the pvr works fine, but after the normal shutdown (fast boot enabled) all I get on starting npvr again is the normal EPG then if i click to either watch live tv or on a current program all I get is the dreaded blank screen no picture or sound and the only way to restart is to close npvr down from the top right corner "x" Oddly enough if I do a complete restart it works fine the first time but after that its back to the blank screen. I have tried updating to the latest version - no different V3.7.7 used to work but since I tried the updated program the installation is showing as version 3.9.2 even though I used the 3.7.7 exe file I had kept.

Help! please.

Richard
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