Hi all,

Would appreciate some help.

Cox reordered the lineup again (just to mess with me), so I had to do the old route again. Delete the current channels and empty the EPG. Rescan, and remap manually using XMLTV, reload EPG. I completed this task (not fun), but have the process down pat after a while. But now, for some reason, no EPG data is showing up -- except for one channel. Interestingly this one channel was one who's settings for some reason didn't stick when doing the Bulk Update (XMLTV selection did not set and was on None). I went back and changed that --- but something must had gone wrong deeper than this.

If I empty EPG, Reload EPG --same issue. Restart recording service, or even reboot. Nothing seems to fix it. I did rebuild a new XMLTV file and looked at it....it seems good to me.

Any ideas?

BTW: All my new channels scanned are completely viewable without issues -- just no EPG data Logs attached

Regards

Jim

I'm getting this error "Read Error Object reference not set to an instance of an object." For "NRL Rugby" games it did work for a game before.
I'm wondering if it's trying to get something from the TVDB that doesn't exist? I don't actually need it to fetch metadata or images from TVDB at all... Actually all I need ImageGrabLite to do is to rename the games from "NRL Rugby ##########.ts" to "NRL Rugby Eels vs Rabbitohs.ts" Using the "--subtitle" command I had it working and it still works for other shows.

I have noticed that in the Plugins/Searchlite folder there is another folder called /Skips containing *******.skip files ... I'm just taking a stab in the dark here but could I manually make a NRL Rugby.skip file to make imagegrablite not search TVDB but still rename the games? Or is that totally unrelated?

I would test this before asking but it'll be another week until an NRL game is on and I'd like to have this fixed before then.

Thanks so much for your help!


Imagegrablite.log attached



***EDIT***

Looking at the C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Media\Shows\NRL Rugby.xml file and comparing it to other shows .xml files I noticed that <fanart> is pointing to a location online at TVRage.com. For the rest of my shows it points to a local file it had downloaded. The NRL Rugby.jpg file does exist in that folder. Could pointing <fanart> to the local file clear this up?

Not sure if this is feasible, but sometimes it would be nice to playback recordings at high speed (e.g. long sports when nothing much is happening), and then slow motion in other cases. I can open the recordings in VLC when I want to do this, but VLC isn't the most pleasant software for a big TV so might be nice to add an option in NextPVR natively.

Quick question hopefully...

I have an HD Homerun Dual that I use for ATSC via a local tower. Three days ago I ran into an issue where my tuner recognizes the radio freguency from the tower, the HD homerun config app shows strong signal (green color bar) as well as gives the virtual name of the channel and number however it says "(no data)" after the channel name.

My first thought is that the signal was bad, so I switched to the tuner on my tv, works perfect.

My second thought, since the channel is CBS, maybe they are encoding it was some sort of security function that the HDHR Dual isn't compatible with.

Third thought is that tower is having issues as my NBC shows up on the tuner but just provides black picture... TV tuner is the same way.

Anyway I can tell if the CBS broadcast is encoded or not?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Sounded like a great concert... anyone go?

First of all I am running npvr on XP SP2 which I have to since I also run GBPVR. This combination has been running fine for the past 6 months or more.

Two tuner devices

Hauppauge WinTV PVR2 USB2(AVS) and WinTV HVR-900H (USB). GBPVR controls the WinTV PVR2 and NPVR the WinTV device.

This problem just started to occur and I am sure I made no changes (certainly no Windows updates since this is XP!).

When beginning a recording the NPVR tray icon goes red for about a minute and then it crashes with the above error message. I upgraded to 3.3.8 but the same problem occurs. If I record using GBPVR using the WinTV device (DVB-T) it's fine.

The logs are attached. One of them looks it shows a relevant error but I don't now what that means and I can't work out why it should start occurring now.

Thanks

hi all, just joined, hope this is the right sub-forum (!)
i DLed someone comskip and comcast
i get the timings ok, but

1. in postprocessing.bat, comclean is not getting the correct name

i have had the file named to an *.MPG

Quote:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Universal Media Server\win32\ffmpeg.exe" -y -fflags +genpts -i "%~1" -vcodec copy -async 1024 -acodec copy -f vob "%~dpn1.mpg"

Quote:call comclean %1

but i could really do with someone explaining what it means, please!

Quote:set mpgtx="c:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\mpgtx.exe"
set cmdline=%mpgtx% -j -f -o "%~dpn1_clean.mpg" "%~dpn1.mpg"

The 1.5 version of serviio changed how it detects a new file (for streaming). It now has links into the operating system, and can detect a new file before it is playable (non-playable files are not added to the list of streamed files). This affects npvr, especially if you post-process to mp4 (and if you download torrents into the streamed folders).

I believe there are three ways to address the problem:
1. You can manually "Force library refresh"
2. You can try to change a serviio config setting to change back to periodic library scanning (like previous versions of serviio did)
- I tried this, but I failed to get it to work
3. You can download a third party app from the serviio.org forum (ForceServiioRefresh.zip) and place in postprocess.bat
- worked for me

Stan

I'm having some issues with my current TV-card and thinking of buying a HDHomerun 4DC (4 tuners, wow). But I wonder if nextpvr is capable of recording more than one channel using just one tuner of this device if the channels are on the same frequency. And I also wonder how much impact this device will have on my network when all tuners are in use. Can you tell me your experiences with these type of devices made by SiliconDust?

Chris

I belatedly updated to the latest version of NextPVR yesterday and today it is recording programmes I have recently watched. I checked the database and the "unique_id" field is blank.

For several years I have been using EPG Collector to extract the "episode-num" broadcast with the EPG data. As the data includes both the "Series_id" and the "Unique_id" of each programme I process the XML file to replace the "series_id" with a "0" so the "unique_id" field in the database is in the form 0:xxxxxxx:0 and this is also the format in the Recently_Deleted table.

Today I added the latest patches and the "unique_id" for some channels appears but in a different format which includes the programme name. The trouble is I have over 1200 recently deleted recordings and almost as many existing recordings so don't want to start again!

Is my best solution to do a clean install of v3.3.9 and import the backup xml files and possibly config.xml? A patch I know I needed is still available!!

Chris