My internet provider also provides IPTV streams as part of their service. Generally these work fine and there is no published limit to the max number of streams. (I have run multiple streams in different instances of VLC without problem).
When using NextPVR hosted in Docker on a QNAP NAS, I am limited to receiving one stream only using the IPTV device. Trying to start a parallel stream fails with a 'Streaming Failed (transcoder exited)' or other error message.

The provider is using multicast, and the m3u file has this structure
#EXTINF:0 tvg-logo="https://api.tv.init7.net/media/logos/Arte_HD.png" tvg-name="ARTE.de" group-title="de", Arte HD
udp://@239.77.0.82:5000
#EXTINF:0 tvg-logo="https://api.tv.init7.net/media/logos/3Sat_HD_7OaGlQ6.png" tvg-name="3sat.at" group-title="de", 3Sat HD
udp://@239.77.0.106:5000


At the moment I have Max Streams set to '3' but have also had it set at '32'.

The Docker container network is set to 'Host' mode.

Maybe I am missing something obvious that a lot of Googling hasn't turned up.

Hello,

I have an occasional problem when recording an IPTV stream with NextPVR. Periodically, I tend to have a short network drop. I'm not sure if it's my ISP or my VPN provider but for sure I'm losing connection to the outside world periodically for short periods of time. I confirmed this by logging a ping test over several days. When this happens while I'm recording an IPTV TS stream my recording gets aborted and I see the messages in the log below. Not unexpected I think but is there a setting in NextPVR that would make it automatically retry/resume the download and recording? Perhaps it does retry and if that's the case is there a configuration parameter that I could change to extend the amount of time it retries?

Thanks!
K

2022-04-24 18:07:05.804 [ERROR][17] Unexpected error processing m3u8 url (http://xx.xx.xx.xx:xxxx/.../video.m3u8?....  [N94cmASzxuYjCSxrwOZcDiWypqwvmzlKAN1oKCn6dsRatG9kiFp9GmPTRBVUKOUfjnubRzXfhdkdJmT0FzBGakYR3n/14BYNXMz6fiLjf0qehAUiic8nCKa2dntVIaI5ikLx3jsEfFb/Mq0cbVBflZB0dXDDwL6YKb/omXbxJ2Tr55gR/2SGxXOqTf+In3IhzfLTSuCZTI4QWMTV9QqTmj8M5Mens4uKM3fFo30Kp3y4aZ3VPIT5PBnADjcED9eNrGI0Eoz9cIXF1dt9JVtuTEku76hKhNJ7du2EZ61nlbmE74nHEaSah7Qmu2DwheuEWoJyhklnDHM3iRFGX/ffhofzVlNA8RZNnosMBazE48QB9xsMAeRsK+Ny1o96X2bHa/GJ0VO0/JCQ+m0v6vx3B1ckkSgVK4+fE2xtZKkNaQf4//4R8Mp2BbSK/Ek+/mE5]): System.Threading.Tasks.TaskCanceledException: The operation was canceled.
---> System.IO.IOException: Unable to read data from the transport connection: Operation canceled.
---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (125): Operation canceled
  --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
  at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.AwaitableSocketAsyncEventArgs.ThrowException(SocketError error, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
  at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.AwaitableSocketAsyncEventArgs.GetResult(Int16 token)
  at System.Net.Http.HttpConnection.SendAsyncCore(HttpRequestMessage request, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
  --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
  at System.Net.Http.HttpConnection.SendAsyncCore(HttpRequestMessage request, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
  at System.Net.Http.HttpConnectionPool.SendWithNtConnectionAuthAsync(HttpConnection connection, HttpRequestMessage request, Boolean doRequestAuth, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
  at System.Net.Http.HttpConnectionPool.SendWithRetryAsync(HttpRequestMessage request, Boolean doRequestAuth, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
  at System.Net.Http.RedirectHandler.SendAsync(HttpRequestMessage request, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
  at System.Net.Http.HttpClient.FinishSendAsyncBuffered(Task`1 sendTask, HttpRequestMessage request, CancellationTokenSource cts, Boolean disposeCts)
  at NShared.M3U8Downloader.DownloadM3U8(String url)
  at NShared.M3U8Downloader.WorkerThread()
2022-04-24 18:07:05.859 [ERROR][17] M3U8Downloader stopping. 97 since last data received
2022-04-24 18:07:05.859 [DEBUG][17] downloader terminating

Is there a way to get this setting in? Do I have modify something? The only way I can do this is through a Postprocessing file but I would like NextPVR to do the dirty work instead (and this will enable me to just run comskip)

Hi,

Has something changed with either NPVR or SD in respect of the EPG days?  I have both entries in config.xml set to 21 days but I am only getting 12 days.  The relevant entries in the log appear to be:

2022-04-25 02:57:50.818 [DEBUG][186] 1 BBC 1
{
  "stationID": "24322",
  "serverID": "20141201.web",
  "code": 7020,
  "response": "SCHEDULE_RANGE_EXCEEDED",
  "minDate": "2022-04-23",
  "maxDate": "2022-05-06",
  "requestedDate": "2022-05-07",
  "message": "Date requested (2022-05-07) not within 2022-04-23 -> 2022-05-06 for stationID 24322."


Is the maxDate parameter being set by NPVR or is it coming from SD?  And how can I get it extended?

Any thoughts/advice gratefully received.  Thanks.

Stanno

Windows client on a Windows 10 NUC, NPVR 5.2.7 (logs attached)

Attached Files

  logs-20220425-1215.zip (Size: 792.79 KB / Downloads: 1)

What is the best pvr capture device that works with next pvr? I am currently using a colossus 2. Wondering if there's something better that's usb that will record 4k?

Thanks.

When starting the program, it asks for a password. I type admin/admin. It doesn't open. What should I do to open it? I installed the deb package program.

I have just acquired an Xiaomi TV Stick 4K, so now I have two Android streaming devices to compare performance of, using my Flex 4K tuner hardware supported by HDHR DVR server engine as well as NextPVR server engine.



And then there's the client comparison, between HDHR app (running on LG TV, ATV4K, Shield Tube, and Xiaomi Stick) and uiDroid app (running on Shield Tube and Xiaomi Stick). Video output from all devices goes through a Yamaha RX-A1080 AVR and then on to an LG OLED C9 TV. Audio output from all devices also goes through the AVR (which obviously does NOT support AC-4 directly, but obviously DOES handle all other audio codec formats).



In particular, right now I am specifically testing with a recording made by NextPVR from an ATSC 3.0 channel (105.1 KTLA HD here in Los Angeles), which absolutely contains AC-4 DD5.1 with all six channels populated with sound.


And I am contrasting audio output from uiDroid running on both Shield Tube and Xiaomi Stick both feeding my AVR, as heard out of the speakers managed by the AVR. Turns out the output from uiDroid on the two devices is quite different. Below are some images of "volume" on all six channels as seen by the AVR. They are not all exactly at the identical instant in time, but they do show approximately what I'm writing about here.



==> uiDroid output for AC-4 5.1 is PCM 2.0 on Shield Tube, and Dolby (MAT) 5.1 at very low volume on Xiaomi Stick.



(1) output audio from uiDroid on Shield Tube is not 5.1 in any form, but is PCM 2.0 and at reasonable volume.








(2) output audio from uiDroid on Xiaomi is Dolby (MAT) 5.1, and is very very low in volume.








(3) for comparision, output audio from LG HDHR app running on LG OLED C9 (and returned to AVR through ARC/eARC), which utilizes locally available built-in Dolby-licensed AC-4 decoding and does "passthrough" of transcoded AC-3 DD5.1).








I am PM'ing you the URL where I've uploaded the actual TS/XML recording files, so that you can use it yourself in uiDroid and hear what I'm hearing (and seeing).

I use an m3u URL for my IPTV cannels. This URL contains thousands of unwanted channels, and I use only 145 of them by selecting (ticking) the channels I want when I import from the larger list in the IPTV Device. So far so good.



When one or more channel URLs change and I need to update them, I go to the IPTV Device and hit Update Channels. It downloads the latest channel list from the m3u URL and presents the list with all the thousands of channels selected (ticked). My IPTV provider does not use channel groups. I then have to unselect all the channels and go through the thousands of channels to re-select one by one the 145 channels that I need updated. This is very tedious and frustrating !!



Can you add an option:
where I can select with one click the channels that are in my existing list from the list of all channels from the newly downloaded m3u URL.
or 
where only the existing list of channels are preselected in list of all channels from the newly downloaded m3u URL.

Either of these options would be immensely helpful. Thanks !!

I used to run a .bat file with the arguements --updateepgonly to update the EPG on an older version of NPVR.

Is there an equivalent way of doing this on the new version?
I have recently starting turning our server off overnight and found that the epg isnt updating anymore so wanted to see how I could get it to auto update when the server logs in (a batch file would work if there was a command in the new version?

I'm trying to get a new install of V5 to work on a new Win 11 HP Envy 17t laptop. Installation went well.

- I then copied my old V4 config.xml and npvr.db3 files into c:\users\public\npvr-data folder. (I preserved the original installed versions of these files.)
- Started the web app.
- Devices were shown but I couldn't view anything due to a connection failure.
- So... deleted the devices that were listed and tried re-scan. Nothing.

This V5 installation is on the same laptop as my V4 installation and that installation works perfectly. They uses different ports.

Even the 'extra-" devices do not work.

Attached logs were zipped after opening the web app but before scanning for devices.

The tuner that V4 uses is the Hauppauge DCR-3250 Cable Card Triple Tuner.

JohnC

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