So far what works under Linux NextPVR
OS
Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS and PoP!_OS 19.04
A out of the box experience (Just flat out work)
WinTV-dualHD USB ATSC
WinTV HVR-1800 ATSC
WinTV quadHD ATSC
A not so out of the box experience
WinTV HVR-2250 ATSC testing it right now, It pain getting drivers working but final manage to get NextPVR to pick up channel on scan
Up coming Plan Tuner
???
More to come
Post what have working and problem you may run in to like drivers and firmware install
Hello. Pretty new Nextpvr user here.
Been messing around with the software for a week now. Had some issues with IR blasting, but a post or 2 later, and the experts on this forum got me sorted.
I had quite a bit of issues getting my STB working right, and would keep losing audio after channel changing between channels that contained AC3 audio, which would result
in recordings with no audio. Finally worked out that my STB (NZ MySkyHDi box) defaulted to outputting Dolby Digital AC3 by default.
My capture card is a Hauppauge Colossus, and NPVR just does not work correctly detecting audio streams, regardless of Decoders used.
What happens, is that it falsely detects the audio as AAC in the first instance, and then pops up error saying I have no AAC decoder selected. (but I do)
If I stop playback, and select channel again, it correctly detects the AC3 audio.
I would like to have the best audio stream, but having Dolby Digital selected on the MySkyHDi causes a lot of issues for my configuiration, and basically makes the PVR functions unreliable.
I also have Mediaportal TVServer, and it does not have issues on the local MP client itself, but remote clients like Kodi etc do the same thing, and can not detect audio on the first attempt, but do on the second attempt.
To cut a long story short, I had to change the MySkyHDi audio output setting from Dolby Digital to 'Auto'
Doing so gives me perfect channel changes for the STB channels and retains audio when changing channels.
(am guessing this is an issue with Hauppauge drivers)
Question 1: Does this mean I will not get surround sound, or it that it is surround sound, but just not Dolby Digital?
Question 2: Now, I have the opposite issue with DVB-T channels that contain an AC3 audio stream.
Is it possible for Nextpvr to always play the AC3 stream from DVB-T channels like NZ TV1, TV2, TV3 etc?
By default it always plays the HE-AAC audio stream, but right clicking and selecting Audio Stream gives option of AC3 stream, which if chosen triggers my AVR to show 'Dolby Digital'. Is the HE-AAC audio stream 'Surround'?, or is there something I am overlooking?, like can Nextpvr not play the 'best' audio by default?
I, and I assume others, would like to be able to have full permissions to the recording folders and their files. Right now the owner of the folder and the recording are nextpvr and no write permissions are granted for either folder or file. Can you make the file permissions 777 for the folders and files so we can run comskip and store the edl in the folder or compress them to MP4 and replace the original? Or publish the password for user nextpvr? What are your thoughts on this?
I reinstalled nextpvr a few days ago using the .deb instructions.
I can record and playback recordings but livetv fails.
I thought it might be a permissions issue but I changed the live tv directory to be the same as the recordings directory and it didn't help.
VLC cannot play live tv either.
Code:
Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'http://192.168.86.25:8866/live?channel_id=7149'. Check the log for details.
NextPVR Logs attached...
Wierd....
I was going to attach the vlc log also. Vlc doesn't log unless you turn on logging. Turned on logging and tried to stream. Failed again and no log. Killed vlc, restarted it and now it plays the stream. Nextpvr now plays live streams too. Computers :mad:
