On V4 during playback if Skip forward or backward was used, the skip was usually smooth and audio/video in sync.

On my new V6 build I'm seeing different behaviour (for which I'm getting verbal grief from the main system user[wife  ])

When skip is pressed the playback jumps and audio starts but the video is out-of-sync for 2-5 seconds.

Sometimes when pressing skip, the playback freezes for 20-30 seconds then suddenly jumps to the correct point.

Obviously if playback hangs like this the user (not being technical) starts pressing buttons on the remote (thinking playback has been paused) and this leads to other issues.

I have the latest LAV (0.77.2) installed and selected for playback (which is pretty well the same as was in use on my old V4 system).

Are there any tweaks that I should make to the LAV config to improve this or is this likely to be a NVPVR issue?

I've had a look through the logs and can't see anything that looks odd around the Skip timings although I'll will get the wife to note the exact time when it happens again so I can extract the relevant section from the log if that will help.

Hi, I've just set up a new install of libreelec with NextPVR server and client on an intel NUC with two USB tuners. I am getting very intermittent behaviour with channel switching and recording. Errors seem to be either:

2023-04-26 13:34:47:299 [INFO] Tuning: 474167000 Hz
2023-04-26 13:34:47:299 [ERROR] dvb_fe_set_parms failed
2023-04-26 13:34:47:299 [ERROR] Failed to start stream

or 

2023-04-26 14:31:00:168 [DEBUG] waiting for signal lock
2023-04-26 14:31:06:995 [DEBUG] status 00 | quality 00 | signal ffff7b30 | snr 7530 | ber 00000000 | unc 00000000 | pre_ber 00000000 | per 00000000 |
....repeated  then
2023-04-26 14:31:07:021 [ERROR] Failed to start stream

(log attached)

Sometimes it will work fine other times after a few channel switches it gives up and fails to work. Sometimes one tuner works and not the other. Once it has managed to tune it seems to work ok though I can record one mux and watch another with no apparent signal problems visible.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated, would love to get this working.

Sub,
When will you be releasing the next update.  I am eagerly awaiting to see what the next update will be.  It has been some time since the last one.

Thank you  
Bruce

I have a large MP3 collection all of which has embedded Album Art.

Currently NPVR displays a picture for the track playing based on any .jpg file associated with the folder which contains the mp3 file.

My problem is that where the mp3 file is not part of an album, i have it in a directory I call "Singles". That contains 1000's of music tracks.

The picture that gets displayed therefore has no relevance to the actual music being selected/played.

Would it be possible to get NVPVR to display the embedded art from the actual mp3 instead?

I have my new build set to change the power plan to sleep after 10 mins of no activity from midnight and back to never sleep from 08:00.
Whilst NVPVR prevents sleep during recording (and windows prevents sleep during streaming) I've found the system goes to sleep if I'm using the music player in the NPVR client.
Not sure if it'll do the same if playing video.

Is it possible to get NPVR to prevent sleep if playing video/audio like it does for recordings?

I originally installed nextpvr v4 a few years ago, and I vaguely remember the indiviual tuners of my capture card having their own settings. In v6 when I go to Settings > Devices > then click one of the tuners I see the channels that tuner has assigned then under the Details column I see Freq:,SID, then Encoding. Most of them say MPEG-2 and some say H.264. I'm having bandwidth issues when going over the internet and would like them all to be H.264 but I cant figure out how to change this for the tuners. Any help would be appreciated.

hi, nextpvr has been stable for quite some time, but recently I've been having an issue with recordings being choppy. NOt sure what the issue is yet. hardware hasn't changed, and ota antenna is still in good shape. I'll attach logs and my setup below. I would really like help diagnosing this issue. Sometimes the recording is fine, sometimes it cuts out and skips 10-20 seconds, and at times the recording is pixelated, and then goes back to normal. Moving the recording to a different drive, and playing it using VLC produces the same choppy result. 

Anyway, without furtherer ado, here is my setup. 
Dell Inspirion Desktop with a i7 3770 cpu,
24gb ddr3 ram
NO GPU, only Igpu
2 Hauppauge 2250 tuners + 1 Hauppauge usb 850 tuner
Several Hard drives for recordings of various sizes and manufactures. (sizes from 500gb to 4tb) 
Windows 10 pro 22h2 
Samsung sata ssd for the OS
and a roof mounted ota antenna with a good "channel master" amplifier 
NextPVR 6.1.1.221106  6.1.1.2211066.1.1.221106.

I'll try uploading a copy of a "choppy" recording later.

Attached Files

  logs-20230423-2231.zip (Size: 846.43 KB / Downloads: 1)

I just pulled out an HDHR Flex and put back an HDHR Extend. Things seem fine, except that my Web app Settings > Devices is cluttered by lines from the previous device, for example, "HDHR HDHomeRun NNNNNNNN-0 (unavailable)". How do I get rid of the 12 "unavailable" entries?

Client:
NextPVR 19.0.6.1
LibreELEC 10.0.4, RPi4.arm
Confluence 4.7.13
Kodi 19.5

Backend:
NextPVR Version: 6.1.1.221106
Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS x86_64
Kernel: 5.4.0-147-generic

Using backend UI, set up an IPTV Device pointing to https://iptv-org.github.io/iptv/countries/us.m3u. Scanned and found 1669 channels.

What works:
Can access OTA channels through NextPVR backend UI "guide" menu. Can do the same via the RPi client. So I'm confident my OTA realtime playback and recordings work fine.

What doesn't work:
Cannot access any of the IPTV content, neither through the NextPVR backend "guide" menu nor through the client on the RPi. The client message: "One or more items failed to play. Check the log for more information about this message." Trying from backend UI Guide (watch now) get: "Error starting transcode: error: Internal Server Error" along with these 2 lines in kodi.log
2023-04-23 12:07:00.147 T:824    ERROR <general>: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: Couldn't connect to server(7)
2023-04-23 12:07:00.148 T:824    ERROR <general>: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 0 for http://192.168.1.83:8866/service?method=...548e9b1631:

What I've tried:
Updated backend, rebooted
Updated frontend LibreELEC, bootloader, USB3, rebooted
Deleted IPTV device, added new
Empty EPG, update EPG
At a high level, network is good: Ping the backend from the frontend
Did "update channels" and save


The kodi.log rows that appeared when tailing:
2023-04-23 11:43:22.629 T:798      INFO <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - initialize sink                                                                                                         
2023-04-23 11:43:22.629 T:798      INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Attempting to open device "default"                                                                                     
2023-04-23 11:43:22.636 T:798      INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Opened device "default"                                                                                                 
2023-04-23 11:43:22.638 T:798      INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Your hardware does not support AE_FMT_FLOAT, trying other formats                                                     
2023-04-23 11:43:22.638 T:798      INFO <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Using data format AE_FMT_S24NE3                                                                                       
2023-04-23 11:43:39.167 T:792      INFO <general>: VideoPlayer::OpenFile: pvr://channels/tv/All%20channels/pvr.nextpvr_18467.pvr                                                                     
2023-04-23 11:43:39.169 T:1013    INFO <general>: Creating InputStream                                                                                                                             
2023-04-23 11:43:39.169 T:1013    ERROR <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.nextpvr: Unknown live streaming state 0 0 1                                                                                         
2023-04-23 11:43:39.169 T:1013    INFO <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.nextpvr: Calling Open(http://192.168.1.83:8866/live?channeloid...548e9b1631) on tsb!         
2023-04-23 11:43:39.187 T:1013    ERROR <general>: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 404 for http://192.168.1.83:8866/live?channeloid...548e9b1631:             
                                                                                                                                                                                                     
2023-04-23 11:43:39.188 T:1013    ERROR <general>: CVideoPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [pvr://channels/tv/All%20channels/pvr.nextpvr_18467.pvr]                                           
2023-04-23 11:43:39.188 T:1013    INFO <general>: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()                                                                                                                           
2023-04-23 11:43:39.262 T:792      INFO <general>: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()                                                                                                                         
2023-04-23 11:43:39.262 T:792      INFO <general>: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit                                                                                                         
2023-04-23 11:43:39.262 T:792      INFO <general>: VideoPlayer: finished waiting       


Correlating rows in nrecord.log:
2023-04-23 11:43:39.153 [DEBUG][66] Got request [192.168.1.61]: /live
2023-04-23 11:43:39.153 [DEBUG][66] /live?channeloid=18467&client=XBMC-1b9679319ca547b49b708c548e9b1631
2023-04-23 11:43:39.153 [DEBUG][66] - channeloid: 18467
2023-04-23 11:43:39.153 [DEBUG][66] - client: XBMC-1b9679319ca547b49b708c548e9b1631
2023-04-23 11:43:39.153 [DEBUG][66] range: bytes=0-
2023-04-23 11:43:39.153 [DEBUG][66] Checking XBMC sid: 1b9679319ca547b49b708c548e9b1631
2023-04-23 11:43:39.153 [DEBUG][66] StreamNative@1..
2023-04-23 11:43:39.153 [DEBUG][66] StreamNative@2
2023-04-23 11:43:39.153 [DEBUG][66] StreamNative@3
2023-04-23 11:43:39.153 [DEBUG][66] StreamNative@4
2023-04-23 11:43:39.153 [DEBUG][66] StreamNative@5
2023-04-23 11:43:39.167 [DEBUG][66] StreamNative@6
2023-04-23 11:43:39.167 [DEBUG][66] StreamNative@7...
2023-04-23 11:43:39.167 [DEBUG][66] StreamNative@8 (/mnt/recordings/live-Access Humboldt (1080p)-753-26.ts)
2023-04-23 11:43:39.167 [DEBUG][66] about to start stream...
2023-04-23 11:43:39.167 [DEBUG][66] StartStream(18467:Access Humboldt (1080p))
2023-04-23 11:43:39.167 [DEBUG][66] looking for capture source (in reverse priority order)
2023-04-23 11:43:39.168 [DEBUG][66] checking: IPTV (http://...)
2023-04-23 11:43:39.168 [DEBUG][66] enabled and present
2023-04-23 11:43:39.168 [DEBUG][66] does not have channel
2023-04-23 11:43:39.168 [DEBUG][66] checking: IPTV (http://...)
2023-04-23 11:43:39.168 [DEBUG][66] enabled and present
2023-04-23 11:43:39.168 [DEBUG][66] does not have channel
2023-04-23 11:43:39.168 [DEBUG][66] checking: IPTV (http://...)
2023-04-23 11:43:39.168 [DEBUG][66] enabled and present
2023-04-23 11:43:39.168 [DEBUG][66] does not have channel
2023-04-23 11:43:39.168 [DEBUG][66] checking: HDHomeRun 10693538-1
2023-04-23 11:43:39.168 [DEBUG][66] enabled and present
2023-04-23 11:43:39.168 [DEBUG][66] does not have channel
2023-04-23 11:43:39.168 [DEBUG][66] checking: HDHomeRun 10693538-0
2023-04-23 11:43:39.168 [DEBUG][66] enabled and present
2023-04-23 11:43:39.168 [DEBUG][66] does not have channel
2023-04-23 11:43:39.168 [DEBUG][66] StartStream(18467:Access Humboldt (1080p), LIVE&/mnt/recordings/live-Access Humboldt (1080p)-753-26.ts) allocated handle: 0
2023-04-23 11:43:39.168 [DEBUG][66] Handle: 0
2023-04-23 11:43:39.168 [DEBUG][66] Failed to start stream. Handle 0.

When I have a recorded program from a FLEX on NextPVR and I select it and then click play NextPVR just closes completely. Any suggetions would greatly appreciated. Thanks

Attached Files

  logs-20230423-1044.zip (Size: 85.61 KB / Downloads: 4)