I have now spent many hours producing test recordings using version 5 and I feel that I going insane !!
I have two capture cards in my PC and Hauppauge DVB-S and TBS DVB-T.
Freesat recordings made using the DVB-S card last approximately 3 minutes .
When viewed in VRD the file size is small but the quality looks ok.
Freeview recordings from BBC appear to complete but Windows file manager indicates that a 1 hour program has a duration of 3.30 hours (VRD program statistics also show 3.30 hours ) .
The real crazy thing is that when they are played back using VRD it appears to always includes a QVC advert for a Dyson cleaner at the end of the file !! (only a short section of the file can be played). When played back using VLC distortions and pixellated plus the QVC advert at the end of the file.
Please note that QVC has not been saved as a channel.
Perhaps two files are being merged at the end of the recording process corrupting the file .
May be i niche request, but I transcode the .ts files in my Postprocessing.sh and before I do that i extract the subtitles/closed captions with ccextractor so they aren't lost.
I currently add it myself to the docker image with the following Dockerfile:
Code:
FROM nextpvr/nextpvr_amd64:stable AS updated_base
################
#
# prerequisites
#
################
RUN apt-get update -y && \
apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends unzip zip curl mediainfo libfreetype6 libutf8proc2 tesseract-ocr
# && \
# rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
######################
#
# ccextractor
# https://hub.docker.com/r/djaydev/ccextractor/dockerfile
#
######################
# djaydev/ccextractor:latest
# compilation stage
FROM updated_base AS builder
# install dependencies
RUN apt-get install build-essential pkgconf cmake automake autoconf git software-properties-common \
libtesseract-dev libfreetype6 tesseract-ocr-eng libleptonica-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libglfw3-dev libglew-dev libwebp-dev libgif-dev libpng-dev -y
# compile ccextractor
RUN git clone https://github.com/CCExtractor/ccextractor.git && \
cd ccextractor/linux && \
./autogen.sh && \
./configure --enable-ocr && \
make
######################
#
# NextPVR
#
######################
FROM updated_base AS setup
# copy ccextractor from compilation stage
COPY --from=builder /app/ccextractor/linux/ccextractor /usr/local/bin
## cleanup
RUN apt-get autoremove -y && \
apt-get clean && \
rm -rf \
/tmp/* \
/var/lib/apt/lists/* \
/var/tmp/*
RUN rm -rf /app/ccextractor
I am a new user. I have a Synology NAS, Installed NextPVR_amd64 from within Docker application.
NextPVR runs and I have setup M3U URL and EPG etc, no issues.
However if I try and test any of the channels (from Browser) I get the error message "Stream Failed Transcoder Exited". I tried to record a channel and it seems to record (however it says server isn't fast enough for playback)
I only want to use NextPVR on Apple TV but I don't want to buy the App if it isn't going to work. If I can get it working from my PC/Browser etc then ill get the ATV App.
Im wondering if I haven't configured the Docker container correctly? I simply downloaded via Docker Registry, hit Install/Launch.
Saw some comments about setting directories/user permissions etc but I simply don't know how to do these? I thought these would be setup by default within the Docker Container/Image
Channel groups are bit of pain to deal with. If I rescan a tuner it removes all channels from that group except the channels that were just scanned. I added a new DVB-T2 card today and scanned it, it added the channels from that card to the Entertainment group but remove all the channels from the DVB-S2 and IPTV devices that where in that group.
I've an issue with one of my stream.I'm trying to watch it in kodi but I've got no audio.if I try directly the link in an other video player (VLC), it play well and I can choose 3 audio track. It seem to have a problem with this.
Fixed Maybe-
Sorta
NICE - READ BEFORE POSTING - Sticky.
Useful and informative.
I wish more places would do this good of a job at this.
Am testing this out with a brand new HDHomerun Connect Quatro.
Scanning and obtaining the OTA EPG does not work as expected.
It stops on EVERY frequency that has a valid signal (starting with Frequency 7) and sits there with a 60 second countdown
and reads: "Scanning Freq:7 SID:100000" for each and every frequency that has a valid signal and each one takes 60 seconds.
I have about 15 strong signals that work great. and this process takes yep: at least 15 minutes.
NOT "Once you have set the channels you wish to use OTA broadcast data for select the 'Update EPG' button in the channels tab and NextPVR will retrieve all available information. The update process should only take 2-3 minutes. "
As I have read.
When it finally completes I go into the guide.
I only have program data for exactly 1.5 hours of time span. on ALL channels that have data.
And a large number of channels have not populated with any data at all.
*update* I just tried changing BDA Compatibility Mode to MediaPortal (Instead of NexPVR)
and it seems to be working a lot more expectedly now. Yay!
However updating the EPG still takes a 60 seconds *countdown* and sits there on each channel.
It does not appear to get data and move to the next channel as soon as it grabs it.
Is that a bug?
I've been using an older single tuner/channel HDHR-T1-US since 2009
Which has worked flawlessly with Windows Media Center/Win7 since then.
Over the past few years I've never been able to get it work with Kodi or any newer software I've tried
Other than the HDHomerun software from Silicon dust.
My limited understanding is that it doesn't work with Kodi Plex & the like simply because the developers at some point
decided NOT to support these older HDHomerun devices..
Why that decision was made is beyond me.
So I purchased a newer unit mainly because it should work with all of this newer software and I wanted to give it a try.
I'm afraid I need to resurrect this troubling issue with Hauppauge HDPVR2 and V5 live TV. I use this device to gain access to those channels that are not marked copy freely.
Pixelization and tearing are severe after only a few seconds of live TV. I spent considerable time trying to characterize this issue and is exactly like the video submitted by SilverTiger at this post: https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...#pid531845
Logs are included at the conclusion of these tests.
VLC HDPVR2 startup sequence:
- From HDPVR2 re-power - status is blue
- Select HDPVR2 channel
- Channel changes on STB
- Status light goes green briefly
- Status light goes steady green
- Live TV appears and plays without error
- Stop live TV and HDPVR2 status goes yellow then white for 30 seconds then blue
- Starting channel while status is not blue results in still frame followed by live tv after about 2 seconds
Desktop app HDPVR2 startup sequence:
- From HDPVR2 re-power - status is blue
- Select HDPVR2 channel
- Channel changes on STB
- Status light goes green briefly
- Status light goes steady green
- Live TV initially appears normal but quickly deteriorates to severe pixelization and tearing.
- Stop live TV and HDPVR2 status goes yellow then white for 30 seconds then blue
- Starting channel while status is not blue results in immediate pixelization and tearing.
Playback of recorded programs is flawless using either application.
Live TV using VLC on a Debian RPi4 other than the V5 server plays flawlessly.
No issues at all using Hauppauge DCR-3250 Triple tuner with cable card.
Could this have something to do with leaving certain devices "powered up" even though not in use? I seem to remember reading someting about this in the forum.
I like the idea of having a viewer in the browser interface for v5, but I'm having a problem with multiple instances of ffmpeg stacking up and choking the CPU when I try to skip through commercials. Each time I click the progress bar to advance or retreat playback it adds an ffmpeg process that doesn't stop running until I kill them. Hopefully this is a known bug in the player and will be fixed, but it would be helpful to have a way to designate an alternate external player. VLC works well and is not affected by skipping ahead or backward when I play the same files with it.
