I have NPVR installed on my Windows 10 PC. I have cable connected through some Hauppauge tuner cards (WinTV 418). I mainly use RasPi4's to watch at various TVs throughout my house (using Librelec 11). Sometimes I will let a channel play for several hours, and the screen will randomly freeze. Sound continues to play usually, but the picture freezes. It doesn't happen often, but I'd like to fix it before football season if I can (can't have freezes during games).
I've tried changing my live tv and recording folder to my network NAS, but that didn't seem to help. I tried changing the livetv time from 360min to 720min and back -- no noticeable difference. I'm not sure if these options matter, but preferred streaming profile is default w/ "avoid transcoding where possible" check marked. Video Encoder CPU and Recording Auto Transcode set to "leave recordings in native format".
Any suggestions on what to try? I have no idea if the settings on the client side do anything, such "chunk size". I have timeshift enabled and would like to keep it enabled rewind live TV.
Would it help to have a solid state drive or something that isn't my main drive, and use that solely for live tv and recording? Any suggestions on any of this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I have been working on getting my NextPVR HTPC Linux server gong. Everything seems to work fine but I noticed the timing files for the recordings that are generated automatically by NextPVR are empty. The recordings play ok and thumbnails are present for skipping.
I tried using the local TV buffer location (instead of the remote share) for the recordings just to see if the .timing files would populate but they were still empty. I can generate the .timing files manually with the uiclient (uidroid).
My other Linux server does generate .timing files that are populated with data automatically so I can't figure why they are empty with this setup.
I do not want to delete any recordings, or at least when I want to. How can I prevent the message asking if I want to delete a recording when it has finished playing?
I guess That the settings for the new option in Version: 6.1.4.230625 for Thumbnails and Timings are in the config file,
<Recording>
<ExtractThumbnails>parallel</ExtractThumbnails>
<GenerateTiming>true</GenerateTiming>
What are the options for these settings?
Basically I just want to turn them off so I suppose replace the true with false is probably the answer but I guess a few users would like to know all the alternative options.
Hi,
I have a test setup of NextPVR as I'm looking at getting rid of my Sage TV and returning to the fold . I used to run NVPR with Hauppauge MediaMVP devices many years ago. I'm currently using Sage HD300s as remote devices that connect via the network and have an HDMI output, but they are slowly dying and keep having to be powered off and on again. SageTV is mainly used for watching and recording DVB-S2 Freesat channels on Astra 28.2. The priority is to have remote access for the TVs around the house similar to the HD300s.
I have been busy catching up on the forums and I seem to have a few options:
A Windows PC client, which seem a bit over the top.
Android client which could run on an Amazon Fire TV or Google Chromecast device - I'm not sure if this is possible/supported.
As I already have Emby running on my Google Chromecasts, I could use use the plug-in for it. But my impression is that this is not an optimal solution and is not native NextPVR software.
And finally, use the Apple TV client. The reason for my hesitation is that I don't currently have an Apple TV device to test it, and I would need to buy at least four if I decide to move.
As the Apple TV client seems to be an official NextPVR product, I'm inclined to go with it despite the extra cost.
My priority is a stable system for maximum partner approval factor, so I would appreciate any thoughts or comments on what I should do.
Attempting to run NextPVR on a Proxmox hosted Windows-11 VM.
(maybe impossible?)
Have a fast new machine I got for a Homelab.
Wondered if I could run NextPVR on it virtualized.
First did true bare metal install of Windows 11, along with a Colossus 2 card. and a USB Dual DVB-T dongle on the new machine.
Got everythihg up and running, IR Blasting.. all working good with both tuners.
I migrated the user configuration to a Windows 11 VM under Proxmox.
I nuked all the devices, and rescanned, and it found the Colossus 2 card, and the USB DVB-T tuners.
I can scan and find the DVB-T channels, and import and configure my STB channels, and IR blasting is working.
However, I get error 'Failed to start requested stream' when trying to watch TV channels in the Web Interface of NextPVR.
Wondering if this is a 'mission impossible' type error thru running in a virtual environment?
Just thought I'd check in, before coming to the ' nah, don't work verdict, back to bare metal'
Inquiring minds wonder.
Logs attached to this post.
I have just installed MX Linux on an old PC. It is the sole OS on the system and I have not installed any other packages beyond the updates it wanted to do. I have tried unsuccessfully to install NextPVR. I'm new to Linux as wondering if any had any advice. I have attached the log.
After using various PVRs I'm now going to move to a PC solution. (Free to air, Australia). I inherited an old media PC that originally had Windows 7 on it. I'm going to install Linux on it. The purpose is to record terrestrial TV and then play back those files. Is the only software I need NextPVR? Also, does NextPVR allow me to upload and then play MKV or MP4 files?
logs-20230724-2309.zip (Size: 72.53 KB / Downloads: 1)
I had NextPVR working nicely for a week or two (I'm a new user, in the UK). I'm recording on my laptop and have an August DVB-210 tuner plugged into a USB port, which is connected via a nice new cable to our socket that connects to the aerial on the roof.
I discovered today that the last few programs that recorded had no proper picture. Lots of green, or mashed up pixels that didn't refresh. When going to the channel page that would normally show you what programs were on each channel right now, for watching live, some of the channels didn't show the current program names. I wondered if things weren't plugged in correctly anymore, but everything seemed OK.
I've now been on a fun few hours discovering that I could no longer watch live TV or record at all. Getting errors like Streaming failed (transcoder exited). I've uninstalled and reinstalled the August tuner drivers, and NextPVR, and had multiple blue screen of death reboots in amongst it.
I still can't view live TV. The scheduler faithfully tried to start recording several programs in amongst this, none of which were successful (obviously!). So I then decided to delete all the channels related to my tuner, and rescan. Several times I got a blue screen of death on clicking the button to scan for channels. When it didn't crash, I walked off for half an hour and came back, but it didn't find any channels.
What's the odds it's an issue with the TV tuner thing (or its drivers)? I'm not sure what to try next. I'm not sure my sister would let me try it out on her laptop.
I did attempt to copy and paste a url into the IPTV device (which was not set up at all previously) and got nowhere with it as I had no idea what I was doing. The url was from https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=64944 . I've lost track of what went wrong first, but I'm 95% sure that the images stopped recording (or being received) correctly before I tried to get creative. I only have very recent logs to attach though.
I successfully got NPVR on my new Windows 11 computer, but haven't really used this great program for months as my 10-year old Win 7 machine had "overheat" issues.
I use zap2it and then tell manually NPVR to update - I think it reads the xml file then checks channels by frequency? I use OTA as source.
The Guide looked right at first glance, but it isn't - it is off by one hour. Example - 60 Minutes on Sunday night is at 6 PM, but the Guide has it at 5 PM. Everything in TV Guide on NPVR is off by an hour, one hour earlier than it actually is. ??? I am in US Mountain Time Zone with Daylight Savings Time.
When I look at Zap2it.com - the times are right - example, 60 Min is at 6 PM. So I seem to have that set right, and it used to work fine.
My computer clock settings are correct - time zone and Daylight = proper time on the clock in the system tray.
I looked at the xmltv.xml file in Firefox, but I can barely make sense of it, much less analyze how NextPVR uses it. I am essentially .xml illiterate - moving around in that huge file is very slow.
I am trying to attach that file, but it doesn't seem to be working. Whether I drag it over, or click and then browse, it seems to put the 9.2 Meg file there momentarily but then puts a red X on it. Maybe NextPVR is using it as I am recording a test. I'll have to wait until that finishes and try again. Later - Recording is done, but I still get the red X. Guess I need help with that first! I have no idea why it isn't working. Should be simple!
I'll post this, then see if I can open it and then post the .xml file.
. I used to run NVPR with Hauppauge MediaMVP devices many years ago. I'm currently using Sage HD300s as remote devices that connect via the network and have an HDMI output, but they are slowly dying and keep having to be powered off and on again. SageTV is mainly used for watching and recording DVB-S2 Freesat channels on Astra 28.2. The priority is to have remote access for the TVs around the house similar to the HD300s.
