Sorry to be unclear, but I am not sure what is wrong.
I use zap2it to get the TV program OTA listings, with zap2xml. The little batch program has worked fine for a year or so, and then I also do the desktop NPVR app and tell it to update listings also. Works great, although I haven't recorded for months due to a motherboard issue from a 10 year old machine.
But a day or so ago, suddenly, NPVR TV Guide shows "(no show details)" for all. I didn't grab the exact time when the info stopped. But now all TV Guide info on NPVR is just no show details.
I'm clueless. When I run the batch file to get the program data from zap2it, it seems to run normally, getting the data from Zap2it. And so does NPVR's desktop app when I say Update. I logged in to "my account" at zap2it and it seemed to be OK.
But the TV Guide view then shows " no show details."
I've no idea what has suddenly changed . . .
Can you help? If so, thanks!
I think I have attached my log in case that is helpful.
Recently all my recordings from my ATSC tuners didn't record. Live tv was working but I tried to rescan for channels and nothing happens. I've deleted all the channels and tried to rescan and still nothing happens. I've done nothing at all NPVR for the last year or so but update when updates are out.
Logs attached.
Thanks.
I'm trying to troubleshoot and eliminate possibilities.
I use an IPTV service using an m3u8 playlist. The setup is right and it "works" fine. However, the IPTV streams drops randomly. It could be 2, 5, 29 minutes into a program and it cuts off. Then as I try to select the channel again it says there is a failure. Skin doesn't matter but I am using the Embuary skin for Kodi 19. Next PVR runs on a mini PC and I use raspberry Pi's to connect to the server. Anything relevant would be helpful.
I've been using NextPVR V4 for 3 years and I did not upgrade until now as the program worked very well.
I followed the upgrade instructions, starting with my existing config.xml and npvr.db3 file.
There appears to be 2 new issues with the Desktop app on Windows 10:
1. The default recording playback language specified in config.xml no longer works
2. The skip forward/backward behavior is weird (makes strange noise and takes longer)
More details on issue 1
config.xml includes this line: <LanguagePreference1>qaa</LanguagePreference1>
The recordings are made via over the air HDTV in France.
The streams include 3 languages tracks, as show in NPVR.log:
<Stream>
<PID>330</PID>
<StreamType>6</StreamType>
<stream_identifier_descriptor>
<component_tag>2</component_tag>
</stream_identifier_descriptor>
<Language>fra</Language>
<AudioType>0</AudioType>
<EAC3_descriptor>
</EAC3_descriptor>
</Stream>
<Stream>
<PID>331</PID>
<StreamType>6</StreamType>
<stream_identifier_descriptor>
<component_tag>3</component_tag>
</stream_identifier_descriptor>
<Language>qad</Language>
<AudioType>0</AudioType>
<unparsed_descriptor>0x7F</unparsed_descriptor>
<EAC3_descriptor>
</EAC3_descriptor>
</Stream>
<Stream>
<PID>332</PID>
<StreamType>6</StreamType>
<stream_identifier_descriptor>
<component_tag>4</component_tag>
</stream_identifier_descriptor>
<Language>qaa</Language>
<AudioType>0</AudioType>
<EAC3_descriptor>
</EAC3_descriptor>
</Stream>
Playback via the Desktop client now always use the default language (fra), instead of qaa (original version, often in English), specified in LanguagePreference1 (unless I manually change the language via a right mouse click):
<LanguagePreferenceEIT>default</LanguagePreferenceEIT>
<LanguagePreference1>qaa</LanguagePreference1>
<LanguagePreference2>default</LanguagePreference2>
The playback via the Web client works as expected and does select qaa by default, as long as I keep the default settings in the Transcoder tab. If I change either Video Encoder from CPU to NVIDIA or Preferred Streaming Profile from Default to 720p, then the Web client also use the default language for playback, instead of qaa.
However, making any change to Client Settings -> Decoders does not seem to affect the playback language in the Desktop app.
More details on issue 2
The skip forward/backward behavior during playback is weird, while it worked perfectly with V4.
Skip makes strange noise and it takes longer to get a clear picture after the skip (The image is blurry for 1 to 2 seconds).
I have programmed my Snapstream Firefly remote control with different forward & backward skips (from 15s to 6 minutes),
doing many repeated 15s skip operations to reach the target skip time.
My PC is high end (Intel i7, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA 3070) and I'm not CPU restricted. The recordings however are located on a HDD
(not a SSD), so disk seek/read time may be a factor (though the config has not changed from V4).
I made the following change, which makes the issue slightly better, but does not fix it:
In Settings -> Decoders -> Video Decoders -> H.264 Video, I changed from Microsoft to LAV.
Now all Video & Audio Settings use LAV decoders.
I tried pretty much every possible combination of Decoders settings, but this does not make a difference regarding either issue #1 or #2.
I think people have asked before, but I was wondering if there was a way to implement TVE support or create m3u8 files that will work for longer periods of time. I have been able to grab m3u8 files from my paid subscription to syfy and nfl network, but they only work temporarily. Channels DVR does this and charges 8 dollars a month. Is there a way to grab these files individually by faking a token or whatever method channels dvr does?
I am using windows 10. I have two drives. One primary to be used for programs and the second drive used for files. I recently upgrade to a larger storage drive. Now I can not update most of the TV guide. channels 2-11 loads but there are others that show no show details. In fact, before the manual update, I had no show details on all channels.
I have a quad core celeron brix that I use as a m3u tuner on my main npvr box. I just moved one of my qray extra tuners from my main box to my brix. If I am streaming a channel from the brix directly to another pc in ether kodi or vlc and I start a stream on a third pc in ether kodi or vlc, it shows the same stream on both devices and changes channel to the second channel on both devices. I have tried with both intel and cpu encoders but no luck. All systems are on sunvalley 2. I have attached logs. thanks.
After upgrading to nextPVR v6.0.0.220904 I have a problem. When watching a show I have recorded with NextPVR, the libreELEC nextPVR client suddenly stops playing.
I have found out that the problem occurs when my computer wants to go to sleep.
If I set Windows to go into sleepmode after 5 minutes of inactivity, I can play a recording for about 5 minutes before it is interrupted.
It seems like v6.0 isn’t keeping Windows alive when streaming the TV show to libreElec
I have been looking into the logfiles when the break event happens and in nrecord.log I see this:
2022-09-21 14:53:52.252 [DEBUG][3] [Suspend]
2022-09-21 14:53:52.253 [DEBUG][3] OnSleep...
2022-09-21 14:54:25.427 [DEBUG][23] Client has disconnected
2022-09-21 14:54:25.427 [DEBUG][23] Sent total of 327232800 bytes
My client is a raspberryPi 2 running libreELEC 9.2 with the latest NextPVR client. I have also tried libreELEC 10 and it has the same problem (libreELEC 10 has a lot of other problems when running on RaspberryPi 2)
The nextPVR client has the setting Wake On Lan enabled.
My Windows 64 bit version is 21H2 with the latest updates.
