Hi I'm new and have a few questions. I'll try to be concise..

My wife has a HP laptop with Win 7. She's been using an old usb Avermedia Volar Max along with Media Center for a long time (US ATSC). Times are changing and I've convinced her to let me replace Win with Mint Cinnamon. I've been using Mint for almost 2 yrs myself and so I'll be doing a complete wipe and installing Tina.

Can't use the Volar Max so I've ordered WinTV-dualHD 1595 from Amazon. This looks to be the safest bet for working.

As far as I'm reading I could either use either 4.15 default kernel and just have one working tuner, grab 5.0 if I want to use both, or use the ppa and let Hauppage take care of it, correct?

Now it (looks) to me that NextPVR is about the most sensible solution for software but I don't know. Certainly not going to shell money for Plex pass and mythtv is pretty hard to set up (I've read). She doesn't need a ton of features, just the ability to play tv, and have a decent guide to set recording. I just wish this could stay fairly simple. I'm reading stuff about front end and back end, I more or less get the concept but could this 5.0 beta NextPVR be a total solution? If not, I'm all ears for anything else. If it's more complicated than this I guess I'll just have learn more.

when I select bbc1 hd by default it uses stream track 1 (MPEG1,NAR) . I have to manually change to track 2 (AC3, eng) every time. Is there a way to make track 2 (AC3, eng) default when I select this channel ?

I am using NextPVR w/ IPTV as a tuner. My PC that hosts NextPVR has a VPN running. I have several client/android TV boxes running Kodi.

Since my host PC is running a VPN, to I need to also have my client ATV boxes to run a VPN as well?

My thought is that if my host is routing the traffic through a VPN, my clients should be safe when viewing IPTV content.

Is that accurate? Or should I be running VPN's all round?

Thanks!

In UK and using 4.2.4 under Win10 1809 on a Dell T3610, Radeon RX480 with latest driver.

Std over air EPG.

The problem I have is that for periods of time if I select a channel via the NPVR EPG to view by either using a dbl-click and play or Ctrl+P I just get a black screen and no audio. Hit Esc and goes back to the EPG.

If I can find a channel that does play - usually BBC1 SD or HD (1/101) then typing in another channel number works straight way. And I can move to virtually any channel the same way once I have one running. Going back to the EPG and selecting what was running fails. Also when there is a black screen, typing a channel number in usually results in a freeze.

Preselected recording setups via the EPG are always okay.

This has been going on for some time but I do not recollect it happening on previous versions of NPVR.

Any ideas on curing this are most welcome thanks. I do have NPVR setups available from 3.4.8 through to 4.0.5/4.1.0. Would codecs have any effect here? Video does freeze occasionally but sound keeps going.

Graph filter list:
2019-08-12 12:52:16.501 [DEBUG][1] - NPVR PES Collector (DVBSubs)
2019-08-12 12:52:16.501 [DEBUG][1] - MPEG1 Audio Renderer
2019-08-12 12:52:16.501 [DEBUG][1] - EVR Renderer
2019-08-12 12:52:16.501 [DEBUG][1] - Microsoft DTV-DVD Audio Decoder
2019-08-12 12:52:16.501 [DEBUG][1] - LAV Video Decoder
2019-08-12 12:52:16.501 [DEBUG][1] - NPVR TS Reader 4

I've just had the problem - at 15:51:30 i tried to play C5 via Ctrl+P (working otherwise) and it failed to black screen. At 15:52:30 I hit Esc and returned to the EPG. Attached is the log for that period....

TB

Seems to be a bit of a prob with the guide. Times are wrong in localhost 7:007:00 8:00 8:00. Think someone else mentioned this somewhere ? Also timing is about 3 hours out vs nextpvr.exe. I think its doing a guide update at the moment so I'll see if anything changes.

btw I tried to do a guide update half an hour ago but it was like it did a xml guide update but apparently wouldn't do a dvb-s update, or it did it was over in about half a second, which is pretty unlikely.

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Logs are attached

I see no tuners when looking at NPVR "Show status". Also get "Unable to communicate with recording service" when trying to watch live tv. The tuner is available and I have scanned channels using NPVR successfully.

Used NPVR last week without problems. I have installed a VPN service but I don't think that's the cause?!?!

The error in the log starts at "Unexpected socket exception calling StartStream(): System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (0x80004005): The requested address is not valid in its context 127.0.0.1:8968"

Any ideas?

I have tried restarting, stopping recording service. I have even uninstalled and re-installed NPVR. My tuner is available in device manager.

Thank you.

Where do the scan templates get installed from? Like /usr/share/dvb/atsc/us-ATSC-center-frequencies-8VSB-062009

I deleted mine in the hopes that a re install would fix my scanning problem, but they did not reappear.

When I record and try to playback Flip or Flop. my software crashes. It happened last wee for the first time and I just tried it again.

I was wondering why the pointer doesn't change to a "button press hand" when hovering over buttons. Instead, it changes to an I-bar usually used for text input. As an example, go to Settings->Devices and hover over the up/down priority change arrows or on the garbage can on the Device Channels List page. It also stays an arrow when hovering on a program on the Guide page.

Thanks.

I tried a little experiment with V5 to see if I could isolate its selection of which of three cable card tuners, 0, 1, or 2, to use for viewing. I got confusing results.

On Settings->Devices, I moved the lowest priority tuner, tuner 2, to the highest priority and selected a channel to view from the Channels page. Tuner 0 was selected. Why? I then removed all channels from tuner 0 and tried again(This also emptied my Favorites channel group). Again, tuner 0 was selected. How? I deleted all the channels from it. I looked at the devices page and found that the channel I'd selected to view was now listed for tuner 0! Very spooky.

Obviously I don't understand how this works so drawing conclusions from my testing is very likely useless. Unless there is a problem somewhere.

Can you help explain the results I observed?

Thanks.