Hello, I am a long time user of NextPVR used with Hauppauge Colossus series capture cards.
Recently my Colossus1 card failed, and as it is discontinued, I replaced it with the Colossus2.
I use it to capture from my STB (MySkyHDi box)
I am encountering a strange issue when watching live TV with NextPVR.
It appears to be some kind of interlace type issue, and the picture basically stutters and strobes constantly.
I only came up with the interlace theory, as when I change the STB's video output from 1080i to 720p, it works perfect.
If I change it back to 1080i, then everything stutters and strobes.
I use the NextPVR addon in Kodi most of the time, and also the NextPVRUI.
When using 1080i, the recording that is created has the strobing and stuttering too.
If I change the STB's output to 720p, all works fine again,
I tried downloading Hauppauge's own capture utility 'Hauppauge Capture' (which supports both the Colossus 1 and 2 cards.
When I record in Hauppauge Capture from 1080i, it works perfectly.
I then tried playing back the capture inside kodi, and it too was fine,
I next tried NextPVRUI client, and it does the same thing with 1080i from my STB, and stutters and strobes.
I know for certain that NextPVR has worked perfectly with my STB and the colossus1 card, as have used it for 'years'
When watching the first channel in a channel Group on the Desktop App and pressing the down arrow on the onscreen pop-up info display to change the channel to the previous channel NextPVR crashes with the exception quoted below.
Also when selecting to listen to a radio station from the TV Guide on the Desktop App the app crashes back into the TV Guide when selecting Listen or Watch, then plays the selected station with the TV Guide showing and it's then impossible to stop the station playing since the option is not in the guide when clicking on that radio station, and even when when selecting a different channel to watch both will play at the same time if you have a dual tuner stick and the only way to stop the radio station playing is to close the Desktop App.
Unhandled Exception
See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
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System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at NextPVR.Players.BasePlayer.OnMouseMove(PointF location)
at NUtility.UIController.OnMouseMove(PointF location)
at NextPVR.ControllerForm.ControllerForm_MouseMove(Object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnMouseMove(MouseEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseMove(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
at NextPVR.ControllerForm.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
Is there a way to increase the timeout on NPVR when starting a live stream from an IPTV source?
Here's the problem...
I'm using a Sling TV subscription for live TV service (cable is not available in my location).
I've setup the Sling TV as a source in Channels DVR, and I can play the channels just fine through the Channels DVR interface.
In NextPVR, I've setup Channels DVR as an IPTV source. All the channels are listed including the guide data as expected.
When I try to play a channel, the action fails. I watch the Channels DVR console, I see NVPR request the stream, and it shows the channel number with "starting" - while it says starting, I get the fail message, then Channels DVR shows the stream started. If I immediately select the channel again in NPVR, it plays fine.
What it looks like is happening is the NPVR is giving up waiting for the stream to start too quickly and causing a failure error.
Is there a way to make NPVR wait just a *little* longer for the stream to start? Just another 2 seconds or so?
Hi Sub,
Thank you for returning fan art to the video library.
There appears to be a bug when displaying the artwork in sub directories. Where the directory has a folder jpg, the videos do not display their individual artwork, as per below. (screenshots 1-4)
Similarity in videos library, if a main folder has a folder.jpg and then opened, the subfolders in that folder have their fan art displayed, but videos in the folder display the folder.jpg art not their own artwork (screenshots 5-6).
This problem did not seem to occur in version 4.
Running in Libreelec - hoping Npvr is solid enough to replace my 6-tuner Windows 7 Mediacenter. Also trying TVheadend that I was able to configure without too much issues. Platform for the PVR will be a Pi4, Clients will be Kodi running on a slew of different devices...
Got a couple of questions if I may:
1) Where do I find the scan-tables running under LE?? I'm in Sydney/AU and the frequencies in the provided scantables are out - just like the ones in TVheadend. Only need to update the frequencies a bit but cannot find them...
2) how do I specify the location of an external XMLTV file?? I'm grabbing the XMLTV file on a windows server and copy it to the Downloads folder in LE - which is in /storage/downloads and exposed via samba as just downloads
My logs are below. My recordings work 80% of the time and I don't quite understand why. It starts to record for .02 seconds then stops, telling me it's likely the end of VOD?
I'm not sure why, there's nothing wrong with my stream at all. I've tried different ABC channels from different locations, uninstalled/reinstalled NextPVR (after deleting all traces), and rescheduled recordings, etc.
Version: 6.1.3.230521
What's weird is if I search for all ffmpeg.exe on my PC, the following shows up (some from other apps)....the size is what's weird to me
Struggling with a strange issue - I currently have NextPVR running on a Windows 10 PC serving a few Kodi clients - the spec of this PC is:
Intel Core i7-4790
16GB RAM
240GB SSD (As Windows drive - clean installation of Windows 10 - no other software besides NextPVR & PIA VPN)
1TB Seagate SSHD (As drive to save NextPVR Recordings)
1GB Network Card Wired To 1GB Fibre Internet
4GB Nvidia GTX 745 Video Card
I have an IPTV device setup in NextPVR loading a local M3U file and all this seems fine, NextPVR settings are more or less left as default when a clean install was performed, only thing that I changed was the recording folder location and obviously setup the IPTV device. Great, this all looks good so far, everything works great on any of the Kodi clients, all channels load quickly and I can record etc. etc. The problem seems to come when the Live TV changes to the AD break, it stutters, freezes even sometimes stops the channel and goes back to the TV guide. This happens in nearly all channels - mostly UK based channels, at first I though it was something to do with the audio changing from Dolby Digital 5.1 back to stereo for the ADs but it doesn't matter, a lot of the channels stay at Dolby Digital for the ADs , I have tested a lot of these channels in VLC player and all work fine. I have also tested various things like with or without the VPN, have everything on my network switched off bar the NextPVR server and only one Kodi system to name just the numerous things I have tried, I guess I'm just wondering has anyone here come across something similar. I have attached the NextPVR logs, thanks in advance guys
