A lightning strike took out my computer, so I had to get a new one, and I thought I knew what I was doing, but I'm stuck. Can someone please help me?
Done steps: installed npvrsetup
Scanned channels from WinTV-dualHD ATSC tuners, copied channel lineup for 2nd tuner.
Recording path set to D:\RecordedTV\
Guide path set to D:\EPG\ where the xmltv.xml file resides, updated from zap2it tv listings.
When I edit channel details, I can't get it to select XMLTV [D:\EPG\] as the source. When I select it, the mapping is blank, and it can't save.
I tried updating EPG among other things, and nothing appears to work.
I've searched around and can't find the answer. What am I doing wrong?
Some history: Sorry for long post. This is a mere microcosm of the extended frustration I've been going through the last several months.
Long time user of the old version 4 application. Was runnng for years on Windows 10 version 21H2, and after an OS update to 22H2 I started having problems with NextPVR vs. 4. Was an old HTPC and was starting to have reliability and hardware incompatiiity problems. So I purchased a new small forum factor PC with Windows 10 pre-installed. BUT it arrived with Windows 11. I'm familiar with 11 and have it installed in a couple other PCs and have not had any issues. So I kept the new PC running Win 11 and installed a fresh most recent version of NextPVR vers 4. At that time the new PC was running the then current (several months ago) Windows 11 version 21H2 (which was also same version but different build I was running on the old failing Win 10 PC).
And Nextpvr 4 was still working okay on the new PC's Win 11, version 21H2 PC. I had disabled all Win OS major updates for 5 months and only had the antivirus still updating as I wanted to make sure the system was stable and working to my liking.
Then sometime later in June I decided to turn off the windows update delay and get the Win 11 OS up to date. There were of course MANY updates including a few critical ones AND a major OS upgrade from 21H2 to 22H2. And that really messed up my NextPRV version 4. Spent a ton of time trying to get it back to normal. Finally gave up and removed NPVR 4 entirely and cleaned the system, and installed a copy of Nextpvr 6.1.4 (23065).
Install completed quckly and was easy, and no errors. But NextPVR 6 is also having a few major issues. IMHO, some of the issues might be specific to an under-powered PC. Too small a CPU and not enough memory although the manufacture said it was good for 11 and it passes all tests. It's only a dual core Intel Celeron, with 8 GB RAM. The only main application being run is NextPVR and a brower. No email or anything else. Just as it came out of the box from the manufacturer. NO bloatware etc added either.
But Nextpvr is having a lot of problems with occassional playback issues. I also found some issues that are common to both the WEB and it's Desktop GUI versions. I prefer to use the desktop app, but it has a couple problems I can't fix. And the Web Version has the same play back issues along with some other new problems. I don't know where to start. Have blown it all away and re-installed NextPVR and no joy. I do have a backup full drive image with older 21H2 Windows verson I can restore (which I think was working okay before the upgrade to 22H2). But that is likely to have the same problem happen when it ultimatly starts updating it's Windows environment in the future.
Sorry for the long post. Should this Windows 11 ready small PC be able to run NextPVR okay? Looking for advice. Note I pretty much have Nextpvr set to be a close in configuration as the old vers 4. Same decoders and settings etc. But I'm not familiar with NPVR 6 and can't find a lot of the old user settings as they are no longer available. I've attached the logs.
With the deskop app.
1. Playback stuttering and freezing once in a while. Intermintant.
2. scrubbing along time line also causes stuttering, long delays and often freezes screen entirly Both advancing the playback postion with the mouse OR keyboard direction keys are slow, with jumps, pauses and long delays for the show to continue playing and usually just freezes. Will usially only work ONCE and then becomes totally useless until the time I start watching another recorded show. Live TV playing (no jump forward of course) seems okay. But if I pause it and try to restart or jump ahead the problem starts again.
3. When navigating a "list" of items the program seems to loose it's "focus". Example. a list of say 1 2 3 where I have highlighted item #2 if I select it and try to enable one of it's options (like delete the file) it will OFTEN delete not #2 but rather the previous item (#1). #2 still has the focus and #1 does not but the item with the focus is not the one that is changed. I've LOST a few important recordings that way. To "insure" the proper one gets deleted I have to move off the selected item and select another one, and then back to the wanted one and re-select that one. Usually that crazy sequence will work and the correct Item is then deleted. Other multiple selection issues are similar. It's like the programming is loosing it's orignal "focus" occassionally. Doesn't matter what I'm tring to do. Can choose a show and it's got focus and I select to view the details of the show I actually GET the details of the privious show in the list ...not the one that was selected.
The Web app version actually Plays better and more smoothly but also has the same problem with scrubbing along the time line or using the arrow KB keys to jump forward and back on the graphical thumbnails. Stuttering, long pauses and many total freezes.
But more important is that the actual playback of any recorded show does not work at all with the web version. I get an error that the browser is blocking the play back?
What I have to do to get the video to play is to use the "gear" icon to bring up the settings pop up which has a couple audio settings. Then just click on "apply and restart" and THEN the video will start playing normally. But the same other problems still exist when trying to skip forward etc.
Due to a new person in the house, I have a need to use Subtitles for the first time. (Long time user). I can press the yellow key where there is the option for disabled or DVB subtitles. I can select it and it works, but they flash up and then off again really quickly - like half a second, so unusable mostly.
The only settings I can find in the Config file is the delay and changing this does not solve the issue.
I know, I know, I'm still on V4 but it works so well I currently have no reason to upgrade. Hey at least I'm not still on XP (even though Win 7 is no longer supported). Good thing the computer is not connected to a network
Appreciate if my version is too old for assistance but any pointers would be appreciated.
Running jellyfin 10.8.10, and nextpvr 6.1.4.230625
I am trying to get live tv working in jellyfin. i have enabled Allow unauthenticated access for streaming Live TV / Recordings, and have checked the to make sure the port and pin are the same in nextpvr as they are in jellyfin.
Guide shows completely blank as well as programs and channels. recordings are populating and playing, same goes for scheduled. just can't seem to get live tv working. Not sure whats going on but i can include logs, as well as screenshots
let me know if any more information is necessary to debug. thanks
I was wondering if NextPVR supports CACs (Dishnetwork or DirectTV access cards) and/or a way to manually input encryption keys or if it is only DVB Free-to-Air.
Hello, I would just like to post about a situation I had while installing on Debian 12.
I use an USB HDMI capture device as an extra and ffmpeg utilizing intel hardware acceleration via vaapi.
I had to add the user nextpvr to the render group as ffmpeg was failing to open the /dev/dri/renderD128 driver.
Maybe it was just my setup, but I thought it was worth mentioning.
Good afternoon. So I recently upgraded to NextPVR 6 after a bit of tussling. I'm not exactly friends with NPVR's top brass right now. But I digress.
So I played back a couple of videos that were recorded on NPVR 4. What I noticed was that the video, once it reached a commercial break, would stop playing instead of skipping past the commercial break into the next segment. I would have to right click on the app to stop the video, and then resume playing it from the recorded shows list.
This is happening on NPVR 6. NPVR 4 didn't have this issue. The break was identified on the timeline, skipped past it, and played the following segment of the show without any hesitation.
I use mattHuisman's links in NextPVR to watch TVNZ as I live in a place with no arial support Need a satdish and a fireviewbox for tv.
TVNZ has now changed from ffmpeg to Wildvine DRM im guessing NextPVR does not support it
will it support it? or are the certs to much to buy
All was well until today but haven't looked at the guide for a few days. Today all channels report "no listing". So checked XC services with a client app and listings are fine there. Updated app from 6.x to 6.1.4.230625, no listings. Deleted the npvr.db3 and rebooted PC. Re-added tuner and XC sources, then updated the EPG. Still no listings.
I just had just accepted an update of OSMC on my RPi 3b+ yesterday, but the NextPVR Client now fails to load.
When I go into the settings on the RPi and try to enable the NextPVR PVR client 20.4.1, I get a popup window that says "NextPVR version not supported, Upgrade to '5.2.0' or higher!
Is this refering to the client or the backend? I am running a V4 backend on my Win10 media server.
I tried clicking on the "versions" button in the setting screen for the client, but a dialog saying no new versions are found.
I did notice on first boot that a different looking Kodi splash screen loaded, (only did it on first boot) so maybe that's got something to do with it?
