Hi,

I have an old 80's camcorder that has an RF converter box.  When I hook that up to a regular old TV's coax input, I can see the video on channel 3 or 4, depending on what I select.

Now, I am trying to use NextVPR and my Hauppage 950Q (a USB TV tuner card) to record this signal.  The device drivers have been installed and I see the device in NextVPR. I have installed the LAV video/audio decoders for MPEG.  When I try to set up my device, whether I try ATSC, QAM, or IPTV, I am unable to get a lock on the channel that I'm broadcasting on, i.e., it scans right past channel 4 when I'm playing the video.  Am I missing something?  I wouldn't think I need to amplify the signal (with a VCR or something with an integrated RF converter) because my TV uses it just fine, or is that not a good assumption?  \

Edit: in case it matters for the scanning routine, it's a black and white video camera (the Fisher Price PXL 2000) that also leaves a large black border around the edges.

I'd be grateful for any help, thanks.

Before I get too far involved I better ask for help.
I'm trying to do my first install of V5, using subs directions, "To install NextPVR on Windows, simply run https://nextpvr.com/NPVRSetup.exe."
It appears to download the files and starts to install, but it seems to just paint the green bar and hang telling me it's "Installing Files". I thought maybe I needed to be running WIN 10, but that acts the same way.
What am I doing wrong?

Hello,

I am looking for options for changing the recording file name.

My problem is currently some of the shows have really long names, like:

    .../Recordings/Shakespeare & Hathaway -- Private Investigators/
        Shakespeare & Hathaway -- Private Investigators.S02E09.The Envious Court.ts

I access the files via a share drive, and all I see is a directory full of the same files, with the episode info off the screen. Since I have the show name in the directory I don't need it repeated in the file name too, at least not first.

I don't mind changing the file name in the post-processing script, but then I am not sure how NextPVR DB will know where to find the renamed file.

Is there some way to configure the file name used? Or failing that, some way to let NextPVR know the new name of the file?

Thanks,
Paul

What does one use to look at the log files?

Is haupblast being installed with V5?  The one I'm using is in Program Files (X86)\NPVR from V4.  Looks pretty old, but I cannot find it anywhere else.  A new install, for example, would need it.  Maybe I'm missing it somehow.

First, I want to thank you for the way v5 has turned out. Moving everything to the browser is a very welcome change, and the new UI is so well thought out and looks great.

My biggest thanks are for making it run on Linux. I began moving most of my PCs to Linux three years ago after I saw what a POC WinX was, and the main reason I delayed migrating my HTPC was because I couldn't bear to part with NextPVR, which I have been using for 15 years. I had started searching for a solution on Linux and tried Plex and MythTV. I hated Plex, and MythTV was such a complicated mess to install that I never got it working. But that same day I noticed in a search for Linux DVRs that one of the results mentioned NPVR. What???! I was beyond pleased to find there was a new beta version that would run on Linux. Downloaded, installed and running in about 30 minutes! Congrats on making the process so effortless. I couldn't be happier.

So, wishlist...

I really like the idea of the channel list that can pop up while in the player, but I'm finding that I activate by accident very often. I often have the browser windowed and move the mouse to other objects frequently, triggering the pop up, and it has become annoying to deal with. Could you put in a delay so one would have to hover over that area for a second or two before it activates? I think that would help.

Is there, or will there, be a new version of the Vidimport utility to allow video files to be imported into the new v5.x structures ? The files that are generated by the existing Vidimport utllity need quite a lot of manual intervention in order to be able to use them to import videos into the new NPVR v5 app.  Failing that, is there any documentation which details the structure of an XML import file and those XML tags which are deemed as mandatory and optional within such a XML based import file ?

Many thanks for the ongoing work on this new version of NPVR which seems to from strength to strength and, for me, has been working extremely well from a very early stage using RPi v4 and HD Homerun tuners.

Thanks

Chris

Hello everyone,
I have graduated up to wanting to create my own xmltv lists with zap2it.  I am a bit stumped.  Could someone lead me in the right direction to create a file and then import it into NextPVR.  I have found a girl on you tube that has done this but I got stumped with the following error from the pic I have provided.
Thank you,
Bruce

Hello,

i made a channelscan list for myself, to scan the full DVB-C spectrum in german cable networks.

It is a full range scan from 114 - 864 MHz in 8Mhz steps, with QAM 256.

This should be suitable for all german cable netnorks.

I live in Ulm, Baden-Würtemberg, and it works perfekt, to get all channels listed.

Just unzip into the correct folder, and you can make a scan named: "Full Cable Spectrum (6.900MBd SR, QAM 256)" for getting all channels.

Just wanted to share my work.

Attached Files

  Germany - Full Cable Spectrum - 6900 - QAM256.zip (Size: 733 bytes / Downloads: 2)

Hello,

here is an updated Astra 19.2 E Transponderlist, with all current transponders.

I made this for a friend of mine, who uses NPVR with Astra 19.2 E.

Just wanted to share, if someone needs it.

Just unzip and replace the one in the NPVR folder.

Attached Files

  0192.zip (Size: 1.02 KB / Downloads: 17)