Hi, here's the updated tuning SAT>IP file for cable operator Ziggo, The Netherlands.
All the other ones can be deleted as they are outdated.
Please update NextPVR with this file with the next release. Thanks!
I also noticed the first frequency (266 MHz) doesn't list the scanned channels. I think it's because an illegal character which NextPVR doesn't ignore.
Can you please add support for adding those channels and ignoring the illegal character?
It looks like a space or something. Then the channels can be added without problems.
Thank you!
See attachment for logfile and tuning file.
Best regards!
</service_information>
2024-08-01 12:02:50.715 [ERROR][24] Unexpected error parsing SAT>IP service information: '.', hexadecimal value 0x00, is an invalid character. Line 88, position 19.
Channel 9 Australia has updated their streams so that they require a tokenized encrypted stream that is specific to the 9now account. The idea is that you can't stream the channel unless you have a login. All good except that it leads to an excessively long HTML link with all kinds of special characters in. If I paste this link into streamlink on the command-line (and make sure I quote it); everything works fine and VLC pops up with the live Channel 9 stream, but if I try to add the link to an extra XML, quoted or not, I get a syntax error when I update the channels in nextPVR. The extra looks like this (I have excluded my user specific token)
Error in extra-autv.xml: An error occurred while parsing EntityName. Line 10, position 132.
It looks like NextPVR is complaining about the ampersand (&) character in the link. I have tried quoting it, and also dereferencing the ampersand with a backslash, but it doesn't help.
Windows 10. I backed up the xml & db files first. After installation the 'new' version, ALL I got in my Windows app list is the NextPVR Client and NextPVR Web App. That's it, no folder, no recording service icon, just the client app for this PC and a link to the web version. The 'new' client app says it's VERSION 4.2 5.
1. I can't record a show without the recording service
2. The whole reason I uninstalled 4.2.5 is because it wasn't working with Kodi's newer versions (said I needed version 5.2 or higher).
What is the latest version of NextPVR?
Now it won't work on Kodi AND I can't record. Can anyone help??
being new here, first a short intro: my goal on the long run is to switch to an "integrated" full solution like e.g. Kodi and build a special skin to support all my specific needs and hardware (beamer, motorized screen, lights, etc.). The basic requirements are quite limited: must-haves are music, slideshow and live TV from cable. The rest, like recorded videos, Netflix and DVD are nice-to-have goodies, if somehow possible. Low resolution, 1024 x 768 native on the beamer, and stereo 2.1 sound only - so there is no need for anything "fancy" like 4k, HD, Surround, etc.
I am currently evaluating NextPVR to use with Kodi for DVBC reception. Generally I am impressed about the ease of use and installation (also when compared to other competitors I have checked until now), also your software seems to be unusually stable, so Kudos for the fine work done here!
Just two installation hints for other newbies, this information may come in useful to others:
During the installation I have encountered some issues about transcoders blocking and breaking up the initialization, but after having consulted many forum entries and looking in detail into the logs, it appeared to be rather user/rights related problems, possibly when trying to access the temporary folders for recording/timeshift. At the end reinstalling the software from scratch with administrator elevation seems to have solved those problems and finally I could setup the channels.
Next problem turned out to be Firefow related - looks like the browser disallows media autoplay by default, so the web frontend refused to work. Having found the well hidden setting in Firefox resolved also this problem.
...BUT, now to the "real" issue where I could not find any helpful hints yet:
When using the Web Frontend, the streams are not perfect, but quite OK, I have some audio disturbances or rarely some artefacts in the video popping up, but the live TV experience is quite "fluid".
In the Desktop Client, the situation is getting definitely worse and the streams are heavily disturbed (compression artefacts all over the screen, stop and go, sound with cracking and clicks).
Using Kodi with the addon is similar or maybe even worse.
CPU is in average around 8-12% when streaming live TV, also RAM is still plenty available - so I hope not having hit the capabilities of the hardware available.
I am well aware that I use a rather old PC as Media Center (Intel i3-3110M CPU 2.40 GHz, 4GB RAM and only an onboard Intel HD 4000, Windows 10), but the very same PC worked fluently and flawlessly for many years by now using the same tuner hardware (Elgato EyeTV Hybrid DVBC/DVBT with BDA drivers). All drivers are up-to-date (as far as possible with such old components), the hardware works with other software, also the recognition, channel scan and EPG load worked in NextPVR like a breeze.
Tried to reinstall all codecs (K-Lite Standard, all settings at default), also tried to change from the Microsoft codecs to LAV Filter (where I had good experiences in the past) only, but all in vain. Looked into the Codec settings also, but having been completely at a loss there, preferred to cancel the dialogue without changing anything there :-D
Any hints or ideas what or where I could tweak?
Thank you very much, cheerio, R. from Vienna, Austria.
I am importing a recording to Avidemux to remove the ad breaks - however I am receiving this error message, when trying to watch the stream in full in VLC, there is no issue - what is causing this error? (not the Avidemux telling me part, the error must exist as stated - I mean more, was it a hitch during recording? with my connection? why would nothing appear to be an issue during playback in something like VLC?)
Is there any way I can solve this so that I am able to import successfully into Avidemux to remove ads?
So I've been recording things the last few days and enjoying the feature very much. However, after a few of the longer recordings (sports events that take 2.5hrs+) I've noticed that my computer suddenly starts the fan and temperatures go up very high - checking in task manager I can see that an instance of FFMPEG is using 100% CPU, yesterday I had 2 instances at the same time fighting for 50% each - there is nothing else going on with the computer at the time, other than just being used to record via NextPVR.
Is this related? Does NextPVR have some sort of post-record tasks that it runs which cause a spike in CPU usage like this?
I'm having a weird problem with my channel icons in Kodi and was just looking for some guidance as to what to possibly check next in regards to troubleshooting
ISSUE:
Not ALL ... But most channels are displaying the incorrect channel icon
WHAT STEPS I HAVE TAKEN:
multiple listed below
1. I have gone into to Kodi settings > PVR settings > Client specific settings > NextPVR > refreshed cache (didn't see a clear cache option, just refresh)
2. I have deleted the "thumbnails" and "texture.db" folders from Android data inside the device storage
3. I have tried deleting all images in the media/channels folder in Public/NPVR and just added my own icon pack only
4. Clear cache from Kodi>restart>same exact icon images still appear (mostly all wrong)
5. So then I pasted all of the images that were originally in the media/channels folder (saved them for this reason) > deleted thumbnails and texture folder, cleared cache on Kodi>restart > same exact images appear
6. I am using an xmltv epg in the Web app
7. I have a temporary free trial and schedules direct login in the Web app ongoing
8. I have also used the "download channel icons" feature on the Web app
9. Nothing at all seems to change the icons in Kodi, nothing I've tried has updated or changed anything
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As an added note, I have my service installed in tivimate and every single channel has the correct icon associated with it in there (not sure if that means anything or if that info would matter).
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I am attaching the latest log, although I'm not sure the log is needed in this question
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What else could I possibly check? .... Thanks.
Screenshots attached (Channel Icons in Kodi, Media/Channels Folder with over 5,000 Images for icons and channels)
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