I have a BD-F5900 when I pause Live TV is there a time limit on the amount of pause I can have? I have not timed it yet but when watching the football game I paused the TV washed the kids came back, everything looked good pressed play and NPVR restarted. Today when I got home my wife stated she had the same problem. Is there a fix for this or do I need to change a setting? I can not skip forward or back in Live TV either? Is this related to the pause feature?
Is there a guide to tell me what buttons do what on the remote?
With Windows 8.1 Firewall (server) turned on for a Private network the Client will show the EPG in TV Guide and Recordings will show the appropriate recordings. Live TV (or play a recording) will start off with 'please wait' followed by NextPVR Not Responding. Note: the client takes over 2-minutes to start.
Windows 8.1 Firewall (server) has 4 entries for Inbound Rules for NextPVR. Two have Profile for Private and two are for Profile - Domain. For Outbound rules there were no entries for NextPVR. Could this be what is causing the problem with Live TV? Note: Windows 8.1 does NOT pop up a window asking for permission to allow outbound connection for NextPVR.
Turning Windows 8.1 Firewall (server) off and restarting the Client, Live TV and playing a recording works. Also Client starts up in about 3 seconds.
I added an Outbound Rule On the Windows 8.1 Firewall:
Group: blank
Profile: Private
Enabled: Yes
Action: Allow
Override: No
Program: %ProgramFiles%\Users\Public\NEXTPVR\nextPVR.exe
Local Address: Any
Remote Address: Any
Protocol: Any
Local Port: Any
Remote Port: Any
Authorized Computers Any
Authorized Local Principals: Any
Local Users Owner: Any
Application Package: Any
Restart the Client. Client now starts up in about 3 seconds and Live TV and play a recording works.
I'm sorry if I've missed something obvious, but do I need to do something to activate Freesat DVB EPG scanning? I'm not getting listings on BBC3 HD / BBC4 HD via DVB EPG, however I do get listings via DVB-S from another satellite constellation. :confused:
Just I saw Freesat EPG in the changelog for 3.1.1.
That should be possible based on this text that I found in the wiki, but I can't figure out how to make npvr look there. The wording suggests that I can actually point NPVR to a web address, but my options on the Import screen for EPG Source are just None, XMLTV, DVB/ATSC EPG and Schedules Direct.
Quote:You will need an XMLTV grabber to download your EPG data into a file, and then point NextPVR to that file which can be stored anywhere on your system. NPVR can also link directly to an XMLTV file on a web server. Configure your grabber according to any given instructions. Once you've set the options correctly and executed the grabber it will produce a data.xml file (the name may vary but the extension will always be ****.xml).
I am new to NextPVR and hoping it will work better than WMC.
My #1 desire is to be able to watch recorded shows from my Samsung SmartTV. The TV will play a variety of file types but not ones created by WMC. I tried a few file converters but couldn't get those to work. Plus I like the ability to schedule via the web on NPVR.
My setup is a Silicon Dust HDHomeRun Dual for the tuners, a Win7 e-machines PC with sufficient power but not much extra and an external USB drive for storage, Basic cable (Metrocast) which is clear-QAM which the TV and HDHR can decide without any problems.
The HD HomeRun apps work fine and I can watch TV on the PC using the silicon dust apps.
I have downloaded NPVR 3.1.1 and applied the R1a patches.
Firewall is OFF (for now - once I get NPVR to work I'll turn it back on).
I can get NPVR to scan for channels and it appears to work. though the channel mapping does not match the HDHR but I am OK with going thru and mapping them by hand as I'm really only interested in a dozen or so channels (skip the shopping channels!).
I installed the XMLTV grabber and made a .bat file that also seems to work for the few channels I have properly configured for now.
But when I click on LiveTV, NPVR thinks about it for several seconds, then tunes to the channel (the channel # and name come up in the title bar), but there is no video.
Attached are the logs.
Can anyone give me a clue where to go next?
Thanks in advance!
I'm fairly sure this was a problem I read about before, but I can't find the thread despite searching. Perhaps someone can remember the solution.
Audio if fine on my system on SD channels with MPEG-1 audio, and most of the HD channels. However, when I tune to BBC 1 HD I get glitches in the audio, a scratchy / choppy sound once every couple of seconds. If I had to guess I'd say maybe the audio buffer runs out for a split second but that's a wild guess. Anyway, if I pause the channel and then unpause the audio is completely fine. Even if I'm only 1 second behind realtime, audio is perfect.
Is there a setting for the playback buffer I could change?
I'm using AC3filter for AC3, Microsoft DTV-DVD Audio Decoder for MPEG-1 and everything else is disabled.
I recently made the switch to NPVR and have came across something I find quite strange - I have multiple clients and 3 tuners (though some channels are only available via 1 tuner).
If one client is watching a channel that is only available on 1 tuner, and another client tries to watch the same channel, it comes back with 'no tuners available' - If it's already playing that channel surely it should just use the same timeshift files?!
Same goes for a recording, if a recording is in progress on a channel, and I start to watch that same channel via the client it gives the 'no tuners available' error.
Surely it isn't supposed to do this.. have I missed a configuration step somewhere?
When transcoding live TV, ffmpeg seems to only be using 50% CPU. This is a dedicated box that only does PVR and NAS functions. WinXP Pro SP3 32bit, with all non-essential services cut off. CPU is always at 1% or less unless transcoding is taking place for android playback. I have a P4 3.0Ghz dual core (prescott or northwood, not sure which one) with 2GB RAM, and a GeForce210.
Live playback on my local network is... Ok. I've tweaked all the typical registry tcp settings (sendwindow, globalmaxtcp, etc) to get better throughput but I still get the occasional hesitation from time to time. Transcoding 800kbps and under plays back fine, but above and ffmpeg can't keep up. Process monitor shows ffmpeg maxing out at 50% CPU usage with approximately 48% idle CPU.
Is there a setting somewhere to increase how much processing power ffmpeg can use?
Was working for a while and it hasn't in a couple months. I installed IIS today on the box for a different reason (MP4 streaming to a WiiU) but it was broken long before this.
Logs are attached.
Thank you!!!
Here is the exact error:
Code:
Server Error in '/' Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->
<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>
Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.
<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->
<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>
