It seems that if there any any significant "blips" in the signal (ATSC) that XBMC just stops playback and seems to "freeze" requiring me to stop playback. This makes Live TV pretty much unwatchable if the signal is not perfect because it keeps freezing up. On recordings I have to restart playback and then jump past the problem area. Has anyone else noticed this?

Given how long I've been using GB/NPVR, I think this qualifies as a dumb user question - but I've just discovered that (according to the wiki), TV Recordings has an archive feature. I'd like to use this to automatically move finished recordings to the NAS, and so update the database.

I can't find this option anywhere so I would appreciate a steer. Thanks.

Can you kindly help me check the logs?

In particular, could you look for the recurring recordings that have the titles "CH8_1900_SHOW_HD" (recording from 1900 to 2200) and "CH8_2100_SHOW_HD" (recording from 2058 to 2200)?

Could you check the reason why they are not able to be recorded?

Cos I have 3 tuners available, and they are fully occupied, but one of the frequencies that 1 of the tuners is recording, is the one that the above 2 recordings are using, so by right they should be able to be scheduled. But when I ran "NextPVR -recurring", the pending recordings are not generated.

Thanks in advance and appreciate your help.

Following a recent rescan, BBC ONE has become BBC ONE W Mid invalidating all my recurring recordings. Can I just rename it in the Channel table to resume normal working?

I am doing a full test to see if I can go to NEXTPVR full time ... one problem I have found that can be easily duplicated is ....

1 I am watching live-TV om my NEXTPVR server box.
2. I fire up my laptop Client.
3. I go to the guide schedule a Series all Episodes..... locks up says DB locked on the client after a few seconds.
4. LiveTV I am watching on the Server Interrupted and guits.



I am on windows 8 have 5 tuners... 1 Prime (3 Tuners) 1 Hd Homerun ASTC (2 Tuners) use reverse priority for LIVETV.

Back in the old days (gbpvr) we used to transcode from dvr-ms to mpg from an menu in the video library.
Just wondering if this still exists in npvr? Although I suppose I am now looking to go from .ts to mpg.

1) I am adding season and episode data to the subtitle of scheduled_recording. ie. "S08E03 Sheldon and Leonard jump a shark."
---The utility runs in the PostEPGUpdate batch file.
---Does NPVR care if the subtitle changes like that or if it doesn't match what is in epg_event?

2) I want to scan the epg_event table every day and look for series premiers (S01E01) in prime time and automatically add a recurring recording rule for it.
--- If I just add a record to recurring_recording, will NPVR honor that entry? Choke on it?

Once I get this up and running the WAF will be high enough to go live and let SageTV go dark.

Thanks,

Jim Margarit

Playback of Live TV from X-Newa and the web client seems to be different. Does the web client not use path substitution so does not play back the file directly? The result is that Live TV playback from the web client is not clear (almost like it is not using the deinterlacing settings) and I cannot seem use the XBMC OSD to adjust any playback settings.

Hi Martin,

I seem to have a new glitch on a what was a well-running machine.
I use my PCH almost exclusively and the PC only occasionally / testing.

Recently, while I can get the NPVR Interface on the PCH with no problem at all, if I go to play an existing file, or watch live tv, it plays a few seconds then jumps out. No such problem on the PC.

This then started happening on watching live tv as well.

Multiple restarts, whole PC, NPVR Services start and stop, PCH plug pulled and waited 10s to replug, router reboot, the whole 9 yards.

I am not much use at reading logs, but cannot see any obvious errors.
You will see I imported an mkv file of an identical name to the ts that failed, this is because I tried mkvgui to fix the ts; it worked and played OK.

Oddly the ts files played just fine using the native PCH interface - it just won't play in NPVR any more :confused::confused:

Cheers
k.

I've had a working setup using NextPVR 3.2.9 and OpenElec on a RPi for the past several months. I had been using the X-NEWA plugin successfully to access to the guide data, play live TV, and play recordings. Yesterday, I was unable to play any live TV channels. I rebooted the computer, reset the RPi, and reset the NPVR database completely over the past day. This has had no effect. Now since I have cleared everything out, I cannot access the menu with TV Guide, Recordings, etc. on the left side of the screen in X-NEWA. It appears to be disabled. I have a second RPi setup similarly, and I am having the same results. The only way I can do anything is to run the web client at startup by changing the configuration option.

How do I go about figuring out what is wrong? I also tried updating to the latest development build of NEWA to see if that would fix the problem to no success.