I don't want to be the person posting in a forum without doing my home work but I have got to the point where i need to assistance or I will just give up.
I have a wintv nova-t card
i have zero experience with usb tv devices and thought it would be handy to have my old pc be a tv server.
I have been unable to get the card to work with anything other than the bundled software, I have had some success with setup of this in nextpvr in as much as it will find the channels and save them - the tv guide has on occasion after tuning shown the correct info but is also known to show no show details.
however when i try to load up live tv it looks as if it tries then fails.
im guessing from others who have uploaded logs these are helpful to assist resolution - I have been through others logs but do not see my issue in these logs.
i read that some of the log which looks troublesome is actually nothing to worry about, such as :FindFilterByName failed to locate filter: MainConcept (HCW) MPEG-2 Video Encoder
to me this looks troublesome though.
i have attached the log file for someone with some savvy about these things to show me my mistakes.
My setup is Mint 21.2, a windows PC using my phone as a Ethernet modem, so no firewall. I have 1 Wintv QuadHD and 1 HDHomerun extend. I understand that with windows you use the HD Homerun app for channel scan. There isn't an app for Linux, but a configuration file. I set that up. But I still cant get a channel scan to work. I had this HDHomerun working in TVHeadend. What am I missing here? the QuadHD works fine. I searched the forum and web but can't find anything.
Just got an email from schedules direct with the above subject, however the new lineup they proposed does not exist. Is it a bug with npvr or sd? thanks. email below
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old lineup new lineup
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I'm looking for recommendations for a replacement for this PCIe quad DVB-S card. I have to reboot the server every 5 to 7 days when it stops working. I don't think it's an NPVR problem, as restarting the service does not fix it. The driver dates back to 2014, and I have to disable Memory Integrity to get it to install, so I suspect that it's a software issue.
There is a TBS-6904 SE which looks like a drop-in replacement, has anyone had experience with this? Or is there any other card that you can recommend?
Every now and then a recording will be cut short due to this (?)
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
abandoning direct connection due to content-type: text/html
Unexpected error in HTTP input source: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at NShared.Shim.InputSourceHTTP.WorkerThread(),
Snippet:
Code:
2023-12-03 03:49:01.075 [DEBUG][12] About to start recording (1698 on 40):
2023-12-03 03:49:01.075 [DEBUG][12] (Recording is due to be stopped at 3/12/2023 6:20 AM)
2023-12-03 03:49:01.075 [DEBUG][12] IPTV StartStream
2023-12-03 03:49:01.075 [DEBUG][12] IPTV StartStream@2
2023-12-03 03:49:01.075 [DEBUG][12] IPTV StartStream@3
2023-12-03 03:49:01.075 [DEBUG][12] IPTV StartStream@3.1
2023-12-03 03:49:01.075 [DEBUG][12] IPTV StartStream@3.2
2023-12-03 03:49:01.076 [DEBUG][12] ConnectToURL: https://xxxx.com:443/.../368835.ts?....
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636 [DEBUG][12] content-type: video/mp2t
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636 [DEBUG][12] IPTV StartStream@3.3
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636 [DEBUG][12] IPTV StartStream@3.4
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636 [DEBUG][12] IPTV StartStream@3.5
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636 [DEBUG][12] IPTV StartStream@6
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636 [DEBUG][12] IPTV StartStream@7
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636 [DEBUG][12] direct stream
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636 [DEBUG][12] IPTV StartStream@8
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636 [DEBUG][12] Creating writer: /users/ade/recordings/
2023-12-03 03:49:02.636 [DEBUG][52] HTTP input source starting
2023-12-03 03:49:02.639 [DEBUG][12] Created Mutex: Global\NPVR-mutex-b14c441136077e2fa3096980740261f7
2023-12-03 03:49:02.639 [DEBUG][12] Created map: /users/ade/recordings/
2023-12-03 03:49:02.639 [DEBUG][12] StartStream [/users/ade/recordings/allocated handle: 3
2023-12-03 03:49:02.639 [DEBUG][12] IPTV StartStream@9
2023-12-03 03:49:02.639 [DEBUG][12] Started recording (1698:3:/users/ade/recordings/
2023-12-03 03:49:02.642 [DEBUG][12] No /Users/Ade/.NPVR-data/scripts/ParallelProcessing.sh
2023-12-03 03:49:05.648 [DEBUG][12] PowerManagement StayAwake (needs implementation)
2023-12-03 03:49:05.648 [DEBUG][12] Active...staying awake
Then get a bunch of these:
2023-12-03 06:08:11.033 [DEBUG][52] HTTP input source starting
2023-12-03 06:08:11.040 [DEBUG][52] ConnectToURL: https://xxxxxxxxx.com:443/.../368835.ts?....
2023-12-03 06:08:12.215 [DEBUG][52] connected to: https://xxxxxxxxx.com:443/.../368835.ts?....
2023-12-03 06:08:12.215 [DEBUG][52] content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
2023-12-03 06:08:12.215 [DEBUG][52] abandoning direct connection due to content-type: text/html
2023-12-03 06:08:12.230 [DEBUG][52] Unexpected error in HTTP input source: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at NShared.Shim.InputSourceHTTP.WorkerThread()
2023-12-03 06:08:12.230 [DEBUG][52] HTTP input source starting
2023-12-03 06:08:12.231 [DEBUG][52] ConnectToURL: https://xxxxxxxxx.com:443/.../368835.ts?....
2023-12-03 06:08:12.914 [DEBUG][52] content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
2023-12-03 06:08:12.914 [DEBUG][52] abandoning direct connection due to content-type: text/html
2023-12-03 06:08:12.928 [DEBUG][52] Unexpected error in HTTP input source: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at NShared.Shim.InputSourceHTTP.WorkerThread()
2023-12-03 06:15:29.893 [DEBUG][52] Too many retries...giving up
2023-12-03 06:30:01.241 [DEBUG][12] Stopping recording (1698 on 40). Past end time of recording. 3
2023-12-03 06:30:01.247 [DEBUG][12] StopStream@1
2023-12-03 06:30:01.247 [DEBUG][12] StopStream@2
2023-12-03 06:30:01.247 [DEBUG][12] StopStream@3
2023-12-03 06:30:01.247 [DEBUG][12] StopStream handle: 3
2023-12-03 06:30:01.247 [DEBUG][12] Closing TSWriter....: /users/ade/recordings/xxxx.ts
2023-12-03 06:30:01.247 [ERROR][12] writer.Close() did not complete in a timely fashion
2023-12-03 06:30:01.248 [DEBUG][12] Close@2
2023-12-03 06:30:01.248 [DEBUG][12] Closing mapAccessor
2023-12-03 06:30:01.248 [DEBUG][12] Closing mapMMF
2023-12-03 06:30:01.248 [DEBUG][12] Closing mapFileStream
2023-12-03 06:30:01.248 [DEBUG][12] deleting /users/ade/recordings/xxxxx.ts.map
2023-12-03 06:30:01.250 [DEBUG][12] Close@exit
2023-12-03 06:30:01.250 [DEBUG][12] StopStream@exit
2023-12-03 06:30:01.251 [DEBUG][12] StopStream@exit
2023-12-03 06:30:01.259 [DEBUG][12] StoreMetaData@exit
2023-12-03 06:30:02.767 [DEBUG][12] PowerManagement AllowSleep (needs implementation)
2023-12-03 06:30:02.767 [DEBUG][12] No longer active
Posted by: ray - 2023-12-01, 11:20 AM - Forum: Windows
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Hi. I have very recently installed this with a donation.
I have changed my login details but now it will accept my details.
I have emailed them for a link to amend my details but still have heard nothing back.
Can anybody help with this.
Thanks in advance.
I think I've got my system set up ok but I'm still seeing some random crashes. I've been successful recording shows all week but had one fail early in the week and another today at 4pm.
Haven't messed with the transcoding yet and so far only tried recording one program at a time.
Raspberry Pi 4
HAUPPAUGE WinTV-DualHD
LibreElec, Kodi, Next PVR
Hoping you can look over the log and tell me if there are some settings I can tweak to make this system rock solid.
Hi, I have NextPVR running on my Windows PC and it normally works very well. Last night I had a "failed recording" and it was my Wife's favourite programme so I was in the dog box!
Any chance of some help to avoid this problem in the future?
The recording which failed was the Great British Bake Off and was scheduled to start recording at 19:57 on Tuesday 28th November. I have attached the log files which I have just captured.
I am a real novice but I did spot something in the nrecord.log.1 file which might be relevant:
2023-11-28 19:57:27.873 [ERROR][46] IsComplete(): Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Similar entries repeat ~30 times. However, I have no idea if this is relevant, what it means or if I can fix it! so apologies if this is a red herring.
I installed a new GPU : ASUS Dual Radeon RX 6600, 8GB
and after doing so there is horrible audio cuts/skips, very frequent cuts.
4k True-DTS, Dolby Atmos videos work perfectly.
I have restarted the server the nextpvr service sits on, restarted the service, and played with the transcoding to no avil.
I have checked for updates and am running on 6.1.5.231022
This is partially a NextPVR question, and a cry for help about a bigger problem that I thought someone on this board may know.
I'm using a Pinnacle PCTV 800i on Windows 10 64. This is a PCI card, and the drivers are marked as being Windows 7 64 drivers, but after pointing each of the 3 unresolved devices in device manager to this driver, they installed and looked happy. It's connected to OTA antenna in the US.
In the NextPVR Devices section in the web GUI, I see
-IPTV Device
-ATSC - Digital Tuner (#0)
-QAM - Digital Tuner (#0)
-QAM - QAM Digital Tuner (#0)
If I scan "ATSC / All Frequencies" on the ATSC tuner, it goes through the motions but finds nothing. I tried the QAM ones too just in case but they don't find anything. The backend status only has ".....Devices". How can it display devices in the GUI but not in the backend status?
I tried some other tests. Virtualdub doesn't list any input sources. The included Pinnacle application gives an error when scanning. I even wiped the drive and installed Windows 7 and it still doesn't work.
Lastly, I ran a Linux live CD and bingo, Kaffeine will scan channels and display them! So the card is good, and this is all in the same computer.
I don't get it. It's clear that despite the card's devices looking good in device manager, something is missing. Are there any other things I can try? Any applications/utilities that might give me some clues? I don't understand how these can look normal in device manager yet not produce available input sources.
so apologies if this is a red herring.