I would like to know if I need to install the WinTV software prior to installing NextPVR to get my hauppauge DCR-2650 up and running? I used the dcr for many years with Windows 7 and am excited to find that they are supporting Windows 10 now. Any help would be appreciated!

Using the NextPVR plugin for Kodi, I was wondering if there is a way to sub-categorize my recordings for a TV series by season.  It seems that in general, Kodi supports this, but I can't figure out how to do it in the NextPVR section.  In the main Kodi menu on the left, I have:

Movies
TV shows
Music
Music videos
TV
etc.

I've imported some TV episodes (not from NextPVR) into my Kodi library, and those appear in the "TV shows" section.  The NextPVR plugin populates the "TV" section.  In "TV shows", any show where I have episodes from more than one season has the desired behavior.  For example, if I select TV shows => Titles => Murdoch Mysteries, I get a panel that shows:

* All seasons
Season 3
Season 6

However, in the "TV" (NextPVR) section, if I select TV => Recordings => Murdoch Mysteries, I just get a list of all episodes for all seasons, with no way to sub-select a season.  The season and episode information is there (each episode name starts with something like S02E08), but I haven't found a way to utilize this, other than selecting "Sort by: Name", which at least puts them in the proper sequence.

I have quite a few recordings of a few shows, so sub-categorizing by season would be useful.  From what I found when I was setting up my TV library (the "TV shows" section), Kodi seems to be somewhat picky about the structure of episode filenames (I think the SxxEyy entry needs to be in a specific place).  I have NextPVR (docker version) set up with the default naming and folder structure, but I'm wondering if there's a way to make Kodi "play nice" with that.

Doug

I uninstalled NextPVR 4 from my system, then installed NextPVR5 .
I was surprised to see that subtitles don't show in any previously recorded videos or live TV channels.
After I reinstalled NextPVR 4, subtitles started working in the NextPVR 5 client.
Once I uninstalled NextPVR 4, subtitles stopped working in the NextPVR 5 client.

I'm running Win10 build 2004. Using nVidia GTX 1050 Ti with drivers 451.48 .
TV card is WinTV-quadHD.

Is this a known issue ? Is there a fix ?

Nightly recording of news, 6:30PM.  Two channels.  Both stopped at same time (recording service died?).  Had to clear recording and restart.

Log files attached.

Attached Files

  logs-20200704-2307.zip (Size: 464.75 KB / Downloads: 1)

Hi,

How can I add additional argument to ffmpeg command that NextPVR uses? I wanted to add "-max_muxing_queue_size 1024" to fix a transcoding issue. I edited the following section in config.xml but it didn't take effect

<TranscodeArgsHLS>-y [SEEK] -i [SOURCE] -map_metadata -1 -threads 0 -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map -0 -codec:v:0 libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -preset superfast -crf 23 -b:v [BITRATE] -maxrate [BITRATE] -bufsize 2698344 -vsync vfr -profile:v high -level 41 -aspect [ASPECT] -force_key_frames \"expr:gte(t,n_forced*3)\" -s [RESOLUTION] [SUBTITLES] -flags -global_header -sc_threshold 0 -codec:a:0 aac -strict experimental -ac 2 -ab 128000 -af \"adelay=1,aresample=async=1\" -hls_time 3 -start_number 0 -hls_list_size 0 -max_muxing_queue_size 1024 -y [TARGET]</TranscodeArgsHLS>

the nrecord.log shows a default transcoder args is always used

2020-07-04 01:53:19.232 [DEBUG][7] Default transcoder args: -y [SEEK] -i [SOURCE] -map_metadata -1 -threads [THREADS] -ignore_unknown  -map 0:v:0? [PREFERRED_LANGUAGE] -map 0:a:[AUDIO_STREAM] -map -0 -codec:v:0 libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -preset superfast -crf 23 [DEINTERLACING] -b:v [BITRATE] -maxrate [BITRATE] -bufsize [BUFSIZE] -vsync vfr -profile:v high -level 41 -force_key_frames "expr:gte(t,n_forced*3)" -s [RESOLUTION] [SCALE] [SUBTITLES] -flags -global_header -sc_threshold 0 -codec:a:0 [AUDIO_CODEC] -strict experimental -ac [AUDIO_CHANNELS] -ab [AUDIO_BITRATE] -hls_time [SEGMENT_DURATION] -start_number 0 -hls_list_size [SEGMENT_COUNT] -y [TARGET]

so where is the default configured if it's not in config.xml?

Thanks.

NextPVR latest version on Kubuntu (not Docker). Hauppage WinTV USB DVB stick

Issue: EPG is working but no genres are being recorded into database, and thence into the TV Guide.
The advanced search 'genre' dropdown is empty.

Same DVB stick using TVHeadend on a different system did find genres (from same transmitter EPG)

On another thread (sorting the EPG), Graham recommended the following:

Hi All!

Can anyone please provide a clue on how I can resolve the below issue?

Trying to watch live TV in Kodi 18.7x64 + NPVR add-on 3.3.20 + NPVR backend 5.0.6 (on the same machine) under Win 10 x64 with the latest updates. Backend is configured so that I'm able to watch TV stream in the NPVR client. In the add-on's settings I'm using default settings with either localhost IP or explicit IP of the machine.

Please find a link to the appropriate Kodi forum thread - https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=355617 - where I've been advised to ask for help here.
Please have a look at Kodi debug log if needed and at the NPVR logs attached as well.

Thank you.

Attached Files

  logs-20200704-1805.zip (Size: 288.81 KB / Downloads: 3)

I was able to add my 713x BDA Analog Capture to my previous version of NPVR (v3) trough the file AnalogDevices.xml with this:

Hi,

I'm in the UK trying to use the on-air EPG for Freeview (works fine with the HDHomeRun application. When I try to update the EPG it scans each channel for about 6 seconds then proceeds to the next channel. The end result is "EPG Update complete. [0 inserted, 0 updated, 0 skipped]".

Attached is the log file.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Many thanks.

Attached Files

  logs-20200704-1031.zip (Size: 157.68 KB / Downloads: 1)

Hello
I am new user on this platform. I want to ask a question. Is NextPVR is a tv tunning software?. I want to use my pc as a tv too. I have installed tv tunning card in the pc but I have no software to tune the tv channels. How can I tune tv channels. 
Kindly guide me if this easy for you to guide.
Regards.