When selecting scan region during the initial setup the drop down box is just blank - then after 12 seconds or so it loads in.
Is there anyway to improve the performance of this?
thanks
For reference I'm running nextpvr on a hp n54l microserver (an old dual core cpu).
Im using uk freeview with ota epg.
Here is the summary that was scraped for the season/episode number:
"Drew bargains hard in Frome, Somerset. And in Dumfriesshire, he's at an estate that's been in the same family for several generations and is full of fascinating antiques. S11/Ep8"
Small issue carried over from version 4.
<genre name="Drama" type="16" subtype="8"/> should be <genre name="Drama" type="16" subtype="0"/>
as subtype 8 is adult movie in the xbmc-genre-translation.xml
I wrote the batch file below many years ago to go in the postUpdateEPG.bat to reboot the server when it is not recording. It does not work in V5 so assumed it was just a case of changing the file location in the "set" statement but nscripthelper is now a dll file and it fails with Unhandled Exception. Is it possible to get this script working under V5?
Chris
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REM Reboot if not recording
set NSHelper=c:\"program files (x86)"\npvr\nscripthelper.exe
:check
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%i in ('%NSHelper% -isinuse') do SET condition=%%i
echo %condition%
IF %condition% =="NOT RECORDING" goto reboot
Hello everyone,
Would there be someone out there to create an IPTV channel using the RTSP feed from a security camera? I would need detailed instructions on how to do this. Keep in mind I probably am not as advanced as you may be. I would be willing to pay.
Private message me if your interested.
Thank you,
Bruce
I have been a long time NPVR user, since a few months I started to have a strange issue, recordings would get all kind of artefacts, frame skipping and sound cutting. It looks like bad reception from antenna but reception is actually ok.
This morning I did a test recording 4 programs at a time to see if I could reproduce the problem, at first everything was smooth, I was watching channel 2-2 while recording the same channel + 3 others. everything was perfect. then around 8:30am it started happening, live tv was stutering all of a sudden.
I stopped all recordings and went back "live" and all that was now gone, everything was playing great again
I think I pinpointed the problem to be happening when either a recording has been running for over an hour or so because it mostly happens around 1h + into a recording, looking at logs (i am ignorant of all this stuff) it looks like also other devices in my house are requesting an epg update which seems to coincide with the problems...but I am not sure... could it be the problem ?
I have a rpi3b+ running kodi and a T95Z android box which are always turned on, I was testing from a windows10 pc running kodi 18.6 (all devices have that version)
Please note I had this problem on the latest v4.xx version and upgraded to v5.xx in hope of fixing this issue but it is still there
sorry for the poor explanations, let me know what else I should provide
My system consists of v4 running on W10 in the loft with 4 PCH clients and this has been rock solid for years. Now it's failing and I'm stumped but it must have been something I did so here is what has happened over the last 24 hours, most of which will be irrelevant but someone might just notice something...
Some of you may have seen my other thread about setting up a projector and needing an extra client where I managed to get a 5th PCH working, just about. Well I decided that it would be nice to add a PC to the projection setup and I had my old NPVR server gathering dust so I fired it up (it had already had NPVR software removed), installed an HDMI card, went through all the W10 updates and got it working to the projector. It has a blu-ray/HD-DVD drive so I could then watch old DVDs. All good.
I then thought 'why don't I install NPVR in client mode', so I downloaded the latest version (also running on main PVR server) and installed it. I ran NPVR, went into settings and ticked 'client mode'. Of course it asked for the server name and share so I went back to the main server to share the c:\users\public\npvr folder. Windows said this folder 'could not be shared'(?) so after some trials I ended up sharing c:\users. I completed the client mode setup and it worked perfectly, played recordings etc. I did have a problem with HD recordings stuttering so I went into settings (on this new client) and changed the Video Renderer from EVR to VMR9 (clutching at straws) but it had no effect so I decided it's most likely a network issue as this new client goes through a couple of routers/hubs. I wasn't worried as I can sort that another time. We streamed a couple of things from the Internet that evening but did not watch NPVR at all.
Now, cut to this morning and I woke up and powered up my bedroom PCH to watch the news and see if Boris was hanging on. When I selected Play on the recording it went to a black screen and then after about 4 seconds started to play fine and then about 4 seconds later it stopped and went back to the menu. Strange, I thought, so I selected another recording which did the same thing. Checked more recordings that I knew were OK and the same thing happened. So I rebooted the server and the PCH and tried again. Same thing. I tried a second PCH, same. So I went to the server and tried to play the news there and it worked perfectly. I ran WinMerge on the latest config.xml and one from my last update in December and the only difference, aside from version numbers/dates, was a new section MVP-LOCAL so I removed this and tried again, still no joy. Checked the drives weren't full, all OK. I should mention also that the new client PC was switched off last night and has not been on since. I've also rebooted the networking.
So, in summary I think I have somehow broken something in the web/mvp/PCH area (unless it's a windows update? But looks like only definition updates yesterday) but I really didn't change anything. Can anyone (Martin!) spot anything or have any ideas? I have attached a clean set of logs which do show a couple of streaming errors:
Unexpected error streaming file: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (0x80004005): An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags)
at Cassini.Connection.WriteBody(Byte[] data, Int32 offset, Int32 length)
at Cassini.Request.StreamFile(Dictionary`2 parameters)
and
Unexpected error streaming file: System.Threading.ThreadAbortException: Thread was being aborted.
at System.Net.UnsafeNclNativeMethods.OSSOCK.send(IntPtr socketHandle, Byte* pinnedBuffer, Int32 len, SocketFlags socketFlags)
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags, SocketError& errorCode)
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags)
at Cassini.Connection.WriteBody(Byte[] data, Int32 offset, Int32 length)
at Cassini.Request.StreamFile(Dictionary`2 parameters)
but they mean nothing to me. Are they the issue? What do they point to?
Sorry for the lengthy post but I'm stumped so not sure what, if anything, is relevant and too much info is better than not enough...
