I was wondering if there is a way to use a pause in an extra file.

The flow I am looking to accomplish is 

<command> run a py script <command>
wait for script to finish -- about 3 seconds
<command> run a .bat file <command>
play stream

is this possible, and if so what is the syntax for the "pause"

Thanks in advance
Francis

I upgraded to v5 in February and encountered "invalid root element". I eventually ran setup again, and the issue went away. I started encountering the invalid root element again a few days ago. Today I went to the nextpvr site and ran setup, hoping a new version would resolve the issue. The setup executes, unzips, and displays "starting nextpvr". it hangs there. There is a .net error message and an application error in Windows Application event log. there is a install.txt file in c:\temp. I will attempt to attach the install.txt and error messages from the event log. 

Launching nextpvr client also doesn't run. I'll attempt to attach the screen shot of the error it produces as well 
thank you for any guidance you may provide.

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I've got NextPVR Server installed on both Win7 and Win10 boot partitions of one machine with a Silicon Dust HDHomeRun Flex 4K connected.

I've also got NextPVR app installed on both Win7 and Win10, as well as on Roku Ultra 2020 (4800) and ATV4K (2019) and NVidia Shield Tube and Samsung S21 Ultra.

Three of the four apps work fine as far as connecting to the server, either Win7 or Win10 version.  However the Samsung S21 Ultra app simply does not connect. Tries and tries, but never makes any progress. Circle just spins, eventually resulting in a message about failure to connect.

I'm using 192.168.1.26:8866 as the server and my custom PIN. This is exactly as it is set up on the Shield, and it works there without a problem.

So something is not right with the Samsung S21 Ultra (Android 12) implementation I guess.

Hello, im just wondering what would be the best option to set up a media server for my htpc's. Got one in my living room (w10) running kodi, and another one in my bedrom also windows10 running kodi. I would like to set up a media server so both my devices can access my movie library. I have looked into FreeNas and considering cinema hd trying that out first, im just wondering if someone else here have a media server for their movies and would like to share some tips on how to get started.

I've just upgraded to v5.2.3.211114 from a version released earlier this year and found that DVB-T closed captions are no longer being displayed.

I live in Australia and we have teletext closed captions embedded in our broadcast streams.

While NextPVR identifies that the CC stream is available (English, code page 801) in the Ctrl-X menu, no closed captions are displayed after activating them from the menu.

This seems like it could be a regression. Logs attached.

I tested the recordings in VLC and it was able to display the subtitles, so they are present and correct.

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NextPVR version 5.2.3.211114 Desktop app hangs with ...please wait... message when a current TV program is selected from the TV Guide after selecting Watch. The status icon goes red and the Sow Status shows the tuner device is providing a Live TV stream to a .ts file.

I have tried shutting down Windows 10 and reloading it and the problem persists. NextPVR worked fine until yesterday when I had to uninstall it and reinstall it because the desktop app lost the tuner device.

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Hello,

First thank you for your hard work. I am an old NextPVR user and until now, had no issue.
Recently, my PC crashed and I had to reinstall everything and now having a pb with NextPVR

I am on Windows 10 and using a Hauppauge WinTV-quadHD (Model 1662xx-1, Dual DVB-T/T2/C, IR).
my NextPVR version is up to date, ie Version: 5.2.3.211114.

Problem is:
After scanning the TNT (DVB-T) channels, Canal+ group is completly missing.
This group is using 546MHz frequency.
For the scanning, I am using All Countries/all Regions and 546 is indeed scanned with 8MHz bandwidth
Any wy, no channel is detected.

Scanning the channels with WinTV 10 (the hauppauge TV soft) is running perfectly and the Canal+ channels are perfectly detected in 546MHz.

Do you have any suggestion to correct this problem ?

For info, Channels in Canal+ group are paid channel. Are they excluded in NextPVR.  

Thanks

Just this week I bought a Silicon Dust HDHomeRun Flex 4K 4-tuner box, as the first few channels got rolled out in ATSC 3.0 here in Los Angeles last week. Tuners 0/1 in the F4K support both ATSC 1.0 and 3.0 channels, and tuners 2/2 support only ATSC 1.0 channels. For now the new ATSC 3.0 LA channels of interest to me are KTLA HD (105.1, with the ATSC 1.0 version being KTLA-DT on 5.1) and KTTV NX (111.1, with the ATSC 1.0 version being KTTV-DT on 11.1).

Currently I'm using Windows Media Center on a Win7 desktop HTPC, which uses an internal Ceton 6-tuner InfiniTV card (cablecard-enabled plus Motorola Digital Tuning Adapter for SDV, with Spectrum cable provider). I also have an internal Hauppauge 4-tuner Quad-HD OTA/ATSC card (only ATSC 1.0) fed from roof antenna. I had been using NextPVR v4 in my Win10 system (dual-boot on the same machine) with the Hauppauge Win10 drivers for the Quad-HD supporting OTA/ATSC while booted in Win10 on that machine. I have no concern for the Ceton cable tuner channels in Win10.

In support of the EPG Guide Data requirements of WMC I am using EPG123 (as a replacement for the Rovi source from MS, which replaced Zap2it some years ago). EPG123 requires a subscription to Schedules Direct where I have two channel lineups on my account: one for Charter cable and the second for local OTA. So naturally I configured NextPVR v4 in Win10 to also use Schedules Direct for the OTA channels available from the Hauppauge card (ATSC 1.0).

Note that WMC has no support for anything other than 720p/1080i MPEG-2 ATSC 1.0 source. Since WMC is dead there is no possibility of support for ATSC 3.0, hence my desire to explore other options as technology advances arrive.

In support of the new HDHR F4K tuner and ATSC 3.0 channels (which delivers video via HEVC rather than MPEG-2, and which delivers audio inside an AC-4 wrapper rather than AC-3) I've now upgraded NextPVR to v5. And I was very pleased to do a successful channel scan on the new tuners through NextPVR v5 which did indeed pick up the new ATSC 3.0 channels.

I also figured out from another forum thread how to facilitate manually migrating the "genre colorizations" from v4 over to v5 (where GUI tools for colorizing channels do not exist as they did in v4) by replacing the the v5 default EPG_GENRE table within npvr.db3 with the actual customized v4 version of the same table. So my TV Guide presentation using v5 now looks like my v4 presentation. All good. I do need to investigate presenting the "channel logos" in the Guide, rather than just the channel call sign but that's just cosmetic.

Unfortunately Schedules Direct does not yet have the new ATSC 3.0 channels included in the local OTA channel lineup I get, so for the time being there is "no data" to be shown. But I've opened a ticket with SD and I'm sure the new channel info (duplicated for ATSC 3.0 from the ATSC 1.0 version of that channel for at least the next 3-5 years) will be available before too long.

So that's where I am with regard to installation, configuration, and presentation, using NextPVR v5. TV Guide looks like this:




Now the next issue is CAN I PLAY ATSC 3.0 PROGRAMS using NextPVR v5? And the answer simply is: NO. Absolutely no audio and absolutely no video.

Using the HDHomeRun DVR on Win10 (server+Guide data, $35/year) and HDHomeRun App (client for Win10, ATV4K, Shield, Android and IOS, etc., free) available from Silicon Dust, I initially ran into a problem with the video player unable to decode the HEVC (1080p) video content of the new ATSC 3.0 channels. A helpful message was presented stating that this non-support for HEVC could be easily resolved by purchasing a non-free product from the MS Store which turned out to be the HEVC codec. It actually is sold as the "HEVC Video Extensions" and is priced at a very reasonable $0.99. And as soon as it got purchased and installed, sure enough the HDHomeRun app was able to present HEVC source 1080p video content in its TV player window.

Also, surprisingly or not, the HDHomeRun app was also able to handle the AC-4 audio in the ATSC 3.0 channels. I was still offered either DD+ 2.0 or 5.1 or Spanish, etc., which are all still imbedded inside the AC-4 wrapper. But the player was able to decode it so that I now had sound along with picture using the HDHomeRun app. Audio was a bit flaky, but perfectly fine for now.

So that's where I am as of now. NextPVR works quite well in the new hybrid environment. As soon as SD delivers the guide data for the newly added ATSC 3.0 channels the "no data available" issue will disappear. And that really leaves only the total inability to play HEVC video (1080p) and AC-4 audio.. which of course are major shortcomings, but fixable.

i'm surprised the Settings -> Decoders -> HEVC video section of NextPVR v5 did not show the presumably newly added HEVC codec installed through the MS Store purchase of "HEVC Video Extensions". But it didn't. There was nothing on the dropdown list of that item. Somehow the HDHomeRun app was able to make use of the newly installed HEVC Codec from the MS Store, so NextPVR needs to look for that codec as well.

And of course AC-4 audio support is a separate issue, but also needs to be addressed.

Hi

Does anyone know if it is possible to import recordings from TVHeadEnd?

Would love to do so, but not sure if it's possible

I don't think NPVR uses it, but it strikes me as worth at least asking the question, is there any use of Log4j?