Hi,

In the last month or so, I have been having consistent problems with recordings from the ABC station in Chicago with ATSC which are stored as .TS files.. I have not made changes to the system that has been working well for years.

I first noticed a problem with the 10pm news broadcasts. When I try to use the skip forward/back buttons on the remote, the video playback freezes. I can press the back button and return to the NextPvr menu so it is not a catastrophic freeze.

I am playing back on a Windows 7 client computer with the recordings on another Windows 7 computer acting as the server. If I use xbmc on the same Windows 7 client, I can play the same file and successfully skip thru it. Also, I have an automated process that transcodes the recordings using Handbrake after they are over a day old into mp4 format at usually less than 10% of the original size. Once it has been converted to .mp4 NextPvr will happily skip thru the files. This problem seemed to affect all files recorded on this channel, but other channels did not have the problem.

That was a minor problem that I was able to deal with, but starting last week, I started having a problem with the daily recordings of General Hospital for my wife. While they had the same skipping problem, they suddenly starting having a problem converting in Handbrake which disrupts my automated process that does the conversions. These General Hospital recordings have been successfully converting five days a week for over a year before this started.

My transcodes are done on an Ubuntu computer using as script and HandbrakeCLI. I tried to process one of the problems files on a Windows box with Handbrake GUI version but it did not give a good error message. It just failed to load the video.

Using VLC I can jump around on the timeline with the mouse OK.

It seems that it is some kind of problem with the timing info that is getting stored. I don't know where I should start trying to diagnose this. I will try to check if multiple tuners are involved. I have 3 internal ATSC tuners as well as an HDHomerun with 2 more tuners.

Thanks for any help or suggestions

Any suggestions what the following errors in the log indicate. I'm using TV Listings with the default skin.

TV Listings: DeferredImageLoader [Inspector George Gently]: no image urls collected.
2014-02-13 21:53:39.203 [DEBUG][1] OnKeyDown() called: Return
2014-02-13 21:53:39.237 [DEBUG][1] Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="PopupCenterButtonNormal"]
2014-02-13 21:53:39.238 [DEBUG][1] Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="PopupCenterButtonSelected"]
2014-02-13 21:53:39.239 [DEBUG][1] Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="PopupCenterButtonNormal"]
2014-02-13 21:53:39.239 [DEBUG][1] Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="PopupCenterButtonSelected"]
2014-02-13 21:53:39.240 [DEBUG][1] Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="PopupCenterButtonNormal"]
2014-02-13 21:53:39.240 [DEBUG][1] Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="PopupCenterButtonSelected"]
2014-02-13 21:53:39.241 [DEBUG][1] Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="PopupCenterButtonNormal"]
2014-02-13 21:53:39.241 [DEBUG][1] Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="PopupCenterButtonSelected"]
2014-02-13 21:53:39.242 [DEBUG][1] Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="PopupCenterButtonNormal"]
2014-02-13 21:53:39.242 [DEBUG][1] Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="PopupCenterButtonSelected"]
2014-02-13 21:53:39.243 [DEBUG][1] Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="PopupCenterButtonNormal"]
2014-02-13 21:53:39.243 [DEBUG][1] Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="PopupCenterButtonSelected"]
2014-02-13 21:53:39.244 [DEBUG][1] Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="PopupCenterButtonNormal"]
2014-02-13 21:53:39.244 [DEBUG][1] Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="PopupCenterButtonSelected"]
2014-02-13 21:53:39.245 [DEBUG][1] Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="PopupCenterButtonNormal"]
2014-02-13 21:53:39.245 [DEBUG][1] Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="PopupCenterButtonSelected"]
2014-02-13 21:53:39.248 [DEBUG][1] Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="PopupCenterButtonNormal"]
2014-02-13 21:53:39.249 [DEBUG][1] Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="PopupCenterButtonSelected"]
2014-02-13 21:53:39.249 [DEBUG][1] Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="PopupCenterButtonNormal"]
2014-02-13 21:53:39.250 [DEBUG][1] Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="PopupCenterButtonSelected"]
2014-02-13 21:53:39.251 [DEBUG][1] Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="PopupCenterButtonNormal"]
2014-02-13 21:53:39.251 [DEBUG][1] Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="PopupCenterButtonSelected"]
2014-02-13 21:53:39.252 [DEBUG][1] Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="PopupCenterButtonNormal"]
2014-02-13 21:53:39.252 [DEBUG][1] Element not found: /Skin/Element[@name="PopupCenterButtonSelected"]
2014-02-13 21:53:39.253 [DEBUG][12] TV Listings: DeferredImageLoader [Inspector George Gently]: collecting image urls...
2014-02-13 21:53:39.253 [DEBUG][12] TV Listings: DeferredImageLoader [Inspector George Gently]: no image urls collected.
2014-02-13 21:53:39.273 [DEBUG][1] TV Listings: Animations are enabled

Many thanks

Recurrent problem with 3.1.1R1A (was also there with R1 2.6.2 and pretty sure with 2.5.9 and 2.5.5)

Sometimes on some channel, when skipping commercial, NextPVR crashes

Hi.
Is it possible to somehow map EPG directly to the "http://.../xmltv.xml" file?

This will be nice.

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Ok, on my journey to build a new NPVR box to replace my aging (and reliable GBPVR system) I've got a few challenges.

My GBPVR box has dual DVB-S and DVB-T tuners however I lost BBC HD when it went to DVB-S2 format.
I therefore bought a new BlackGold Dual DVB-S/S2 DVB-T tuner for my new NPVR rig.

Having sused out how to scan and select which channels I want, I then sorted getting EPG OTA from the satellite. I checked I could get Live TV from each tuner by enabling one at a time then enabled all the tuners. Great so far.

Setup a few recordings and tested playback fully expecting a few challenges based on original GBPVR experience :-). I was not dissapointed. SD Recordings played back with no problem with the default Microsoft codecs. HD recordings....no joy.

Installed my trusty Cyberlink H264 codec for HD and tried again. Picture now but no audio. Checked the audio stream in Live TV and needed AC3. Installed AC3 Filter...... playback now has picture & sound. Great thinks I.....I'll put NPVR into service....ooops....mistake :-(

Discovered some BBC HD recordings won't playback in NPVR.... I get black screen with no sound....others are fine. After hours of playing arround (and hair removal) installing FDSHOW, LAV and even SAF, I have identified I think I have some sort of codec issue but I'm struggling to work out where.

Playing arround with enabling/disabling tuners I've discovered the following:-

SD recordings from either Freesat or Freeview (terestial) playback fine (picture & sound)
BBC HD recordings recorded from Freeview playback fine (picture & sound)
BBC HD recordings recorded from Freesat just give a blank screen and no sound with non sensible start/end figures on the timeline.

If I try to playback the Freesat BBC HD file from the Media Player lite included with SAF the file plays fine. If I look at the graph it says FDSHOW for video and LAV for audio. Tried that in the NPVR settings instead of Cyberlink for H264.....no different.

I suspect the problem is that the BBC HD Freesat channels record from DVB-S2 and that may not be getting decoded during playback but I can't see what to do codec wise to fix. The fact the files playback on the same machine using a different player and I can watch Live TV makes me think all the elements are there but just not configured right. The source is the ony difference I can see between the BBC HD from Freesat & Freeview.

Any suggestions anyone...... anyone else in the UK able to playback BBC HD Freesat files?

I'm outside the UK.

I tried Birtles XMLTV GUI but it does not work (login etc). It appears to be out of action /superseded?
WebGrab seems to have it but is complicated.

Thanks

k!

Today I noticed that I had no TV Listings data, so I ran the Settings app and clicked Channels -> Update EPG.
I get an error message "The underlying connection was closed: The connection was closed unexpectedly."
I logged into my SchedulesDirect account and my lineup still exists.
I pause protection for Kaspersky Internet Security (KIS) 14.0.0.4651(d) and I don't get the problem.
I have NDigitalHost.exe and NRecord.exe listed as Trusted Applications.
Is there an app that is missing? KIS isn't too friendly with showing me a log of what it blocked, so it's hard to figure out what is wrong.

If a recurring recording's name ends in ellipsis (...), the recording fails. The directory for the recording is created without the ending ... and may cause the 'Invalid file passed to StartParallelProcessing()' error message in the attached nrecord log. If the ... is deleted manually from the recording name, everything works, as it shown by the second log.

I suspect it is a windows-logic of naming folders, because if I right-click on the desktop, select new, then folder, and type abc..., then a folder called abc is created, without the ... The same happens with a single dot at the end.

So, some workaround in NextPVR would be nice. My suggestion is automatic removal of the trailing dots from the programme title, when it is used as the recording name. Thanks

Wasn't sure where exactly to put this. I just got a Samsung 55F6400 TV. When I use the TV's remote I find NPVR 'sees' the commands, not perfectly though, and weird things happen - music plays, live TV plays, menus move etc etc. The remote receiver connected to the NPVR computer is a Hauppauge one plugged into one of my PCI tuners.

Haven't tried the Logitech universal remote yet, but it kinda needs to work better than it is with the regular TV remote.

Pretty obvious what's happening, not a NPVR fault, but what to do? Cheers.