Hi, long-time nextpvr user, years since I have posted a message...
I have a pretty old Hauppauge WinTV-7164 (HVR-2200), which is a dual-tuner. A/D card. I have just built a new PC with gigabyte Z890 motherboard, and it seems my capture card is not recognised, even within the bios. It was working ok in my old PC.
Has anyone used such an old card (date printed on card is 2007!!!) in a recent PC? I just wanted to know if I can get it working quickly.
If I cannot get it going shortly, and being so old, I should probably just buy a new one. I was thinking of a Hauppauge WinTV-quadHD (need it for DVB-T, NZ Freeview).
Upgrading to 7.0.5 appears to have broken the ability to scan for channels on my SATIP server. The scan proceeds through all the muxes on 28.2E but zero channels are found. Previous versions did find channels and a test downgrade to 7.0.1.xxx (docker pull nextpvr/nextpvr_amd64:prerelease, all other container parameters unchanged) also finds channels as expected.
Logs are attached from immediately after the channel scan.
As an aside would it be possible to have the previous version kept on Docker Hub for reversion purposes.
Always before my nextPVR would auto update my EPG but recently I keep having to do it my self. What changed? After MUCH research I found the set update time to be the issue. Maybe it is me but I could not find anywhere as to whether the set time was A.M., P.M., or Military. THAT was the problem. There should be a notice by the set time box that states it is Military time. Once I figured that out and set the time to military time my issue was solved. Did I miss something? It cold have been so simple, but for me it wasn't. ~ So... My question is: Is there any way nextPVR can put "Military Time" printed next to that box? It shouldn't be that hard. ~ What do y'all think?
This may not be the correct forum to ask for help with COMSKIP, but I have tried several others and am getting nowhere.
I use NPVR exclusively as my backend recording service, but have developed a custom UI for managing and viewing my recordings. This was done primarily to accommodate my 83 year-old wife.
My problem is I can't take advantage of using COMSKIP.
My UI uses VLC as the media player, and I don't think it supports the COMSKIP EDL file. I have since discovered that MPV doesn't support it either. MPLAYER looks like it would work, except it doesn't play well with TS files; the timeline is screwed up from the start. I looked at ZOOMPLAYER but didn't get anywhere. If there were a way to just use the NPVR player that would be the solution, but I doubt that's possible either.
Bottom line, is anyone aware of an external Windows media player that supports the COMSKIP EDL?
At the risk of proliferating topics, I have a question about setting CC in NextPVR. (Mods: If there's an existing topic where this question would go better, please do move it there, thank you.)
There are three ways to try to enable or disable closed captioning in the NPVR UI client:
Mouse: Right-click on the NextPVR.exe UI window, then select Subtitle Stream from the context menu, and then select Closed Captions
Media Center Remote: Press the More Info button, then the Down arrow button to highlight the controls at the bottom of the overlay, then the Left arrow button to reach the hamburger menu, next click the OK button, and finally select Change Subtitle Stream
Keyboard: Press Ctrl-X to display the Select Subtitle Stream menu
On my main test PC, however, none of these is managing to actually set closed captioning: the subtitles never start appearing onscreen, and the next time I bring up the CC selection menu, "Disabled" shows as the current setting. I figure I must be missing a step or a setting somewhere.
@mvallevand has suggested using yauiclient.exe instead if CC is important to us and I may ultimately do that, but I'm curious as to what if anything can be done for this on NextPVR.exe. Maybe modifying some line(s) in config.xml?
(For the background to this thread, please see this post and the two that follow it.)
I'm attaching the logs for the affected system.
In case it helps, this is a simple one-tuner, TA TV setup using a Hauppauge WinTV-dual HD ATSC. I use it mainly to try things out in a simpler environment before applying it to my more serious HD PVR 2 1512 system.
As described in the yauiclient.exe thread above, the symptom is that I launched NextPVR.exe to make sure that the tuner was working; then I closed NextPVR.exe and launched, for the first time, a freshly downloaded and installed copy of yauiclient.exe to check out the interface and some of the features; and finally I closed yauiclient.exe and reopened NextPVR.exe in order to compare the features that I had just reviewed on yauiclient.exe... at which point NextPVR.exe was unable anymore to show live TV. Wondering what might have caused this inability, and of course how to resolve it. Speculating that a reboot might take care of it, but wondering whether this might be a band-aid and not a real solution.
Basically, NextPVR works on two different machines, however there is a delay problem. The main menu of the UI comes up very quickly. However, when I try to access other menu items, like "TV guide", or "Recordings", or "What's New", there are lengthy (~ 20 second) delays before the program responds. As far as I can tell, all functionality is working OK, other than the delays. I have the Schedules Direct service, and my EPG is properly updated in the evenings. When I open the TV guide, although some programming items are subject to the same kind of delay previously mentioned, pop-ups come up eventually.
See the attached log below, at or around line 32. You will see it takes around 20 seconds to bring up the "TV Guide" menu. Other menu access is similarly delayed. I see delays when I bring up the UI, and try to load "Recordings", and after successfully bringing up the guide, some random programs produce a 20 second delay before bringing up a pop-up after a program is selected. The second time those menus are accessed, sometimes they are *not* delayed.
I have Windows 11 machines. I have a NAS drive; program recordings are saved to the NAS. I tried changing the recording locations to the local C: drive (thinking that the NAS access somehow was the issue), and that made no difference. Still lengthy delays. Also, when in the web interface settings app, the directory structure after entering the IP address of the NAS pops up instantly. (I put the NAS address in, and I get a dialog box with the various alternative directories on the NAS.)
It seems like there is something is timing out somewhere to a default or something. I am unable to figure this out. I am hoping for some help! Let me know if you have ideas on how to fix this issue (that occurs on both my machines on the same local network). In the log file, the delay seems to happen after the message "calculated resource directory:" (This directory is stored on drive C:, a solid state drive, not my NAS). See line 33.
I have only 85 channels in my EPG, and it's updated using Schedules Direct. I have Hauppauge tv receivers in both machines.
Any ideas what may be causing the delays??
Many thanks for any help!!
Hardware (for one of the machines, the other is similar):
Intel® Core™ i9-14900KF (3.20 GHz)
64.0 GB (63.8 GB usable)
Windows 11 pro
One solid state drive, two hard disks
Synology NAS 1522
Apologies if I've posted this question in the wrong forum.
I've been using Comskip with NextPVR for several years and it works well for me. Before I added Comskip, I had recorded quite a few programs without it. I'm wondering if there's a way I can run Comskip on a batch of these programs. For example, I've recorded multiple episodes of several seasons of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" before I installed Comskip, and I'd like to create the files and data needed to skip the commercials on all of the episodes when I watch them through NextPVR/Kodi. Is this possible?
I have used the search function here and couldn't find any information that looked related.
When I archive a group instead of an individual recording, sometimes one or more of the recordings go missing.
From the client (NLite in this example) in the Ready Recordings list, I filter on Local recordings (my filter), then choose a group/folder and select Archive from the menu, then the target folder on my NAS. In this example "Late Night With Seth Meyers" is the group.
The files all show up in the target folder:
"P:\videos\tv\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E74.Cillian.Murphy;.Maggie.Gyllenhaal.ts"
"P:\videos\tv\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E74.Cillian.Murphy;.Maggie.Gyllenhaal.edl"
"P:\videos\tv\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E75.Nicolle.Wallace;.Rebecca.Ferguson;.Joe.Santagato;.Frank.Alvarez.ts"
"P:\videos\tv\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E75.Nicolle.Wallace;.Rebecca.Ferguson;.Joe.Santagato;.Frank.Alvarez.edl"
"P:\videos\tv\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E76.Kurt.Russell;.Marc.Jacobs;.Sofia.Coppola.ts"
"P:\videos\tv\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E76.Kurt.Russell;.Marc.Jacobs;.Sofia.Coppola.edl"
"P:\videos\tv\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E77.Kristin.Chenoweth;.Tom.Blyth.ts"
"P:\videos\tv\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E77.Kristin.Chenoweth;.Tom.Blyth.edl"
But only 2 files now show up for the group in the NPVR client and only those 2 are in the database. (I'm using a recording-backup.xml to verify)
<filename>\\NAS0324\Public\videos\tv\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E74.Cillian.Murphy;.Maggie.Gyllenhaal.ts</filename><filename>\\NAS0324\Public\videos\tv\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E75.Nicolle.Wallace;.Rebecca.Ferguson;.Joe.Santagato;.Frank.Alvarez.ts</filename>
In a nutshell, the file is being moved, but the entry in the database is being deleted rather than updated.
D:\nextpvr\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E76.Kurt.Russell;.Marc.Jacobs;.Sofia.Coppola.ts
I do have AutoRemoveMissingRecordings set to true, so maybe LoadList is causing the database entry to be removed before it has been updated?
<AutoRemoveMissingRecordings>true</AutoRemoveMissingRecordings>
2026-03-13 11:48:15.644 [DEBUG][37] LoadList@0
2026-03-13 11:48:15.654 [DEBUG][37] LoadList@1
2026-03-13 11:48:57.484 [DEBUG][34] Also moving: D:\nextpvr\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E76.Kurt.Russell;.Marc.Jacobs;.Sofia.Coppola.edl
2026-03-13 11:48:58.138 [DEBUG][37] Deleting non-existant recording D:\nextpvr\Late Night With Seth Meyers\Season 13\Late.Night.With.Seth.Meyers.S13E76.Kurt.Russell;.Marc.Jacobs;.Sofia.Coppola.ts
FYI - I just noticed this in the log. I have the latest build of the server. Looks like an apostrophe needs to be escaped. Let me know if you need additional info.
Art
2026-03-13 10:53:48.883 [DEBUG][92] LoadListingByAdvancedRules(channel='all channels',advancedRules=title like '%Cook's Country%')
2026-03-13 10:53:48.884 [ERROR][92] Unexpected error in LoadListingByAdvancedRules: Microsoft.Data.Sqlite.SqliteException (0x80004005): SQLite Error 1: 'near "s": syntax error'.
at Microsoft.Data.Sqlite.SqliteException.ThrowExceptionForRC(Int32 rc, sqlite3 db)
at Microsoft.Data.Sqlite.SqliteCommand.PrepareAndEnumerateStatements(Stopwatch timer)+MoveNext()
at Microsoft.Data.Sqlite.SqliteCommand.GetStatements(Stopwatch timer)+MoveNext()
at Microsoft.Data.Sqlite.SqliteDataReader.NextResult()
at Microsoft.Data.Sqlite.SqliteCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior)
at NShared.EPGManager.LoadListingByAdvancedRules(Channel channel, String advancedRules)
2026-03-13 10:53:48.884 [ERROR][92] SQL: select * from EPG_EVENT where title like '%Cook's Country%' order by start_time
