Good Morning!

I have been trying to get NPVR v2.5.9 R2 working with XBMC v12 using the latest NPVR PVR Plugin v1.6.4.

The first issue I ran into is there is a problem in NPVR's GUI in the Settings menu where it appears that the contents of the form are getting cut off. I did a clearn install and took screen captures, then upgraded the files in R2 and took additional captures to show the difference. I am not using font scaling in Windows.

As far as XBMC is concerned, the EPG and Live TV works great until I try to change a channel. On very rare occasions it work smoothly, but most of the time it hangs with a buffering message. XBMC and NPVR are both running on the same computer. I did not enable timeshift in the Plug-In to help rule that out. The XBMC log is attached for your reference, and you can see what happens when I switch between two of the same channels... ultimately resulting with messages like these:

ERROR: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg:ecode - avcodec_decode_video returned failure
ERROR: Previous line repeats 3 times.
WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(video)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothing available
ERROR: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg:ecode - avcodec_decode_video returned failure

Hopefull this will help diagnose the issue! THANKS!

--Phil

Hi,

I am using NextPVR 2.5.9 with the latest R2 patch.

I stumbled across the C:\Temp folder and noticed there was 55GB of live tv buffer files. So I closed XBMC and stopped the NextPVR service to delete the files.

The files were deleted, I started NextPVR again and opened XBMC. I tuned to channel CKCO to watch the liveTV stream. Eventually I was done watching the LiveTV stream and closed XBMC. I then proceeded to the C:\temp folder again and noticed that the files continued to grow even though XBMC was closed.

Why are the buffers filling up when I've shutdown XBMC? I was unable to delete the files since they were being held open by NDigitalHost.exe. The only way I could get it to stop creating buffer files was to stop the NextPVR service again. I restarted the NextPVR service and the files no longer showed up.

I've attached the log which shows the NDigitalHost file create the livetv buffer files.

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone else is having problems with the Discovery Channel listing using Schedules Direct. I have my max days set to 13 and it seems like it loads erroneous dat for a lot of shows / times. I have it set to do a complete reload every night but the bad data stays there. I've been in contact with SD and they showed me how to see the data on their end and when I do their end shows the proper data. I don't have this issue on any other channel, only Discovery.

If I manually empty the EPG's for all of my tuners and reload them the data will be right. It is confusing because I don't know how that bad data gets in there in the first place and why it isn't corrected nightly when the EPG is updated.

The "bad data" is not garbage or the wrong channel or anything, just the wrong shows at the wrong times - but all are Discovery shows.

Any thoughts / advice is greatly appreciated.

Ram

http://www.arctic.ac/en/p/living/enterta...tml?c=2296

Anyone had any experience with these? Or know of something similar?

I like the idea it's a "full" pc - wonder how it would handle 1080i h.264 video.

I've got the SAF6 set up correctly, NPVR on Windows 8. I'm doing AC3 passthrough to AV receiver for audio - that works great. I'm using the Cyberlink decoder as suggested, but for my setup, an AMD 6210/Hudson M1 integrated processor, the video quality for live off-air DTV and recordings seems to suffer just a bit - there is a noticable "dancing noise
" effect in the darker areas of video, and the noise seems to change every second or so. Net effect is that it often appears the shadows are changing brightness slightly every second or so. It's a subtle but bothersome effect.

With LAV decoder for MPEG2, it goes away, as does it in XBMC - but each limit what I can do. the LAV decoder seems to introduce audio sync issues, and the XBMC solution seems imperfect for live TV.

I've tinkered with the AMD Catalyst settings etc...no help so far. the content is from a clean signal HDHomeRun - 720p ABC and 1080i others.

Hi all,

I have a need to stream live tv across the internet to another PC. The capture card is a Colossus (via HDMI from directv box). I've tried using wintv extend for this purpose but get constant buffering although the internet connections should suffice for this purpose. Since I use NPVR on the server I thought I would try using that instead of extend. So I started searching and reading.

It seems to me that NPVR offers at least 2 ways to stream live TV. One is to use the capability built into NPVR and the other is to use the NEWA plugin. In order to focus my searching and reading is one of these options better, ie, more reliable/better quality than the other?

FYI. both PCs (server and client) use WinXP SP3

Thanks

I have comskip installed as per the wiki, and for the most part, it does a great job finding and skipping commercials. Unfortunately, about a third of the recordings I do have an issue - the show will "lock" after the first few frames of playback if I have autoskip on (default). The lock appears to be where playback would otherwise skip a lead in to the actual show....looking at the edl files, most of my recordings indicate a skip of the first few seconds/minutes. I can temporarily remedy by deleting or renaming the edls so no skipping occurs, or turn off auto-skipping, though that's not what I would prefer to do, of course. Odd thing is, not all recordings exhibit this behavior, even though they have the same leadin skips - and the files with the issues behave the same on the clients or server machines (that can use comskip).....ideas on a permanent solution? The comskip documentation so far hasn't offered a solution. This appears to be a NexPVR issue. My unfounded diagnosis is that skipping so early in playback, before it is fully synced, locks it up. I can exit back, but not skip forward once locked.

Hi, I have installed NPVR 2.5.9 R2 onto a Windows 7 SP1 x64 OS, but cannot get my installed tuners to scan. I receive the dreaded 'Unable to start device: Device failed to start' error message on each of the 2 tuners.

The tuners are PCTV 290e devices and work fine in Windows Media Center.

Any help would be gratefully received. Logs attached.

I have had several instances of late of recordings starting but never finishing. The logs show that the recording started fine, but there is no end recording listed. I am at a bit of a loss trying to track down the source of this problem.
The logs attached show the problem where the recording started, at 20:29, another recording started at 21:05 (may not have started correctly) then nothing until the EPG update at 06:00 the next morning.
The machine that is running nPvr also runs GB-PVR (no tuners) for access to old dvr-ms recordings via MVP's. Nothing else runs on the machine (XP), so I am at a loss as to what may be causing the problem.

Sub,

When a recording is requested from a tuner plugin like NetworkRecorder does NRecord create the master folder? ie:

Assuming that C:\Recordings exists, do you create C:\Recordings\Elementary before asking the plugin to
record C:\Recordings\Elementary\Elementary 20130222_22002300.ts

Martin