Hello, I recently moved, so did not get my gear set back up for a number of weeks.
After setting stuff back up, I noticed a few things, such as Kodi had updated, and my NAS software had updated.

Whilst watching Live TV from either DVB-T or from my STB, after 20 or so minutes (it varies) the live tv picture freezes for about 20 seconds, and then am back in main Kodi interface.
I first thought it was the Fire TV device I use, which is the Fire TV Cube 3rd gen.
However, it also does this behavior on the NVidia Shield as well.

At first, I thought it was a DVB-T reception issue, but now think otherwise, seeing that it occurs on live tv from my STB too, which is Satellite. (My Sky HDi)
Also, when the freeze occurs, and I am recording the show at the time, I can go back on the recording, and it is seemingly fine, and will play back past where the freeze occurs, so the issue does not seem to be the recording.

From searching the Kodi forums, I found others with similar issues of freezing while watching Live TV with Kodi Omega.
The Ops there suggesting a variety of possible issues form faulty networking switches, thru to helper addons in certain skins, to PVR addons.

I don't recall this behavior occurring before I moved, but at new location I have a different aerial for DVB-T, and a different satellite dish running into the rig.

Things I have tried:
I experimented with the NextPVR addon settings in kodi.  I use time shifting, so tried altering the buffer settings from 0 thru to 3.
(this made no difference to the freeze issue)

I tried altering the Live TV chunk size in the addon's settings, both increasing and decreasing the value.
(this made no difference to the freeze issue)

I tried changing Kodi's SMB chunk size setting from it's default of 128.
(this made no difference to the freeze issue)

I tried changing Kodi's cache settings, and increasing the values)
(this made no difference to the freeze issues)

I tried changing the network switch my PC attaches to, along with the network patch leads.
(this made no difference to the freeze issue)

I tried changing the HDMI cable between my AV receivers output to my TV, and from my PC to the AV Receiver.
(this made no difference to the freeze issue)

I have not changed anything on my PC running NextPVR. (primarily as it was packed up for some weeks)

So, I am kinda stumped, and am hoping the logs might point towards where the issue might be.
I just had the freeze occur while typing this posting, and it happened while watching a show called 'CRC Motorsport' on channel 'Three'.

..Dean..

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  logs-20240825-1122.zip (Size: 1.02 MB / Downloads: 2)

I have been trying to import some new recordings & for some reason I can't see it refuses to import E07 & E08 after it imported E01-E06 fine... normally this is a path error on my part but this time I just can't see what I have done wrong? Any ideas where I go from here?

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When changing channels (zapping) the picture will freeze until the next channel clears. Is it possible to display a blank/black screen from the moment you press the button to change channel, until the next channel opens?
So, exactly the same behaviour like regular TV sets.

Hi, where do I have to put my own generated epg.xml file under LibreElec? Maybe [file://storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.nextpvr/config/scripts/epg.xml]?

And does NextPVR also support .xz compressed XMLTV EPG files or only uncompressed files?

My main menu shows Recordings, Scheduler and What's New as far as recordings go. I don't see a way to do this in any of those. When I try to update a recording in TV Guide, and this happened with v4 too, it doesn't let me change Recording Type from Record Once to anything else, and canceling the recordings isn't an option. So - how DO I cancel future recordings of a show?

I'm currently using SageTV to manage my TV addiction. Due to some recent cablebox issues, I may need to find ways to either tune the RF boxes that would likely replace my current IR-controlled boxes, or acquire shows on my non-OTA channels via IPTV. I'm not sure that's even possible, though, hence my completely uninformed questions. I have looked at the Wiki, and did not find the info I'm looking for. Clearly, I'm lacking some pre-requisite knowledge.

I installed NextPVR on a spare PC (on Windows 10 Provessional) for testing. I was able to scan my ancient HDHomeruns just to play with the system, but really want to see if I can somehow integrate web-based access to my provider. I use Xfinity, and can access its Xfinity stream site through my browser. But it's not at all clear how (or if) to use that as a NextPVR's IPTV device. The IPTV setup asks for a URL of a M3U file. How do I generate such a file, both in general, and (if it's possible) for Xfinity stream?

Thanks for any pointers.

Hi,

I often stream DVB radio channes by opening them in VLC - ie open http://10.0.0.9/live?channel=707

Almost always, the stream just stops after around 7 minutes. Occasionally it continues indefinitely.

In the nrecord  log I see 'reached end of rolling file. Dropping connection...'

I'm seeing the same behaviour when streaming to a Kodi client using the NextPVR client addon.

Is there a setting I can change to avoid this, or a different method of getting the stream that will work better?

Logs attached.

Version: 6.1.5.231022 on Windows 10

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  logs-20240821-0935.zip (Size: 28.78 KB / Downloads: 2)

I'm feeling like a broken record  

I've had several recordings (not all) Judge Judy recordings again on Sky Go which are recorded with no audio. 

I've checked the .ts files and only the first one has audio:
mplayer -vo null -frames 5 -identify Judge.Judy.S25E82.Judge.Judy.82.ts | grep Audio

mplayer -vo null -frames 5 -identify Judge.Judy.S25E83.Judge.Judy.83.ts | grep Audio
mplayer -vo null -frames 5 -identify Judge.Judy.S25E84.Judge.Judy.84.ts | grep Audio
mplayer -vo null -frames 5 -identify Judge.Judy.S25E85.Judge.Judy.85.ts | grep Audio
mplayer -vo null -frames 5 -identify Judge.Judy.S25E86.Judge.Judy.86.ts | grep Audio
mplayer -vo null -frames 5 -identify Judge.Judy.S25E93.Judge.Judy.93.ts | grep Audio
mplayer -vo null -frames 5 -identify Judge.Judy.S25E97.Judge.Judy.97.ts | grep Audio

Is there another new NShared.dll patch?  I'm running one from October 2023

Thanks

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  logs-20240818-1633.zip (Size: 871.27 KB / Downloads: 1)

Hi,

I guess you're using ffmpeg to create recordings with NextPVR, right?
It's recorded in the TS format which is no problem at all, but my TV doesn't like some parts in the broadcasting, likely the metadata and/or subtitles, but I think the first one.
Right now I'm using PostProcessing which only does copy video and audio and it works fine, but is there also a way to customize the settings for creating recordings so I don't need the Postprocessing script?
If not, no problem, but maybe it can be done easier in my case :-)

Hi,

All of a sudden my NextPVR client in LibreElec doesn't play channels anymore.
I don't know why. I already disabled and enabled the plugin and reboot Kodi.
It did work before.
There's the logfile. [DEBUG][22] seems strange?

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  logs-20240817-1014.zip (Size: 725.6 KB / Downloads: 2)