Hello everyone,
I have graduated up to wanting to export/import recordings. I am using 4.2.4. I am using the export recordings and it says the number of recordings I am transferring has been exported to the recording.backup.xml file. When I go and delete the recordings within NextPVR and then try to import them I get nothing. It says no recordings imported.
Am using the TV listings plug in for some time with no operational errors except that one channel never has any info listed in the TV Listings channel guide screen. However the channel can be viewed live okay.
While troubleshooting that problem I deleted the channel from the channel list and attempted to add it back. However I then found that I could not map the channel OR even show the "Channel Details" for ANY of the listed channels. I get an error that says " Unhandled exception has occurred in a component in your application ... Visual Styles-related operation resulted in an error because no visual style is currently active. " when I try to check any channel details.
I started a fresh run of NextPVR and zipped the logs (and a txt file of the error info) to attach here.
Note that the TV Listing plug-in has been (and still does) work okay for the last several months. I only noticed this error while in the setup application the other day while trying to fix that one channel listing problem.
Also I tried to revert to the stock "TV Guide" instead of the "TV Listing" plugin and the stock TV Guide no longer works at all giving me a channel screen with no details plus errors.
I generally record the a couple news channels each night so I can optionally watch later and skip commercials. Periodically I will go thru and just delete a few weeks worth of the recordings to clean house.
Sometimes there might be a special story that I want to save, but when I do my periodic purge in these folders, there is no way for me to remember which night had the story I wanted to save or what it was. It would be nice in the user interface to be able to rename the file as well as to be able to edit the long description of the episode so you can make a note of the special thing about it that you wanted to highlight. Perhaps it might be to make a note in a TV show about an appearance by some actor you like.
It would also be nice to have a 'Keep" flag that displayed in the list so you don't accidentally delete a recording that you wanted to save. This could also be useful if you were to add a way to do a 'purge' of a folder or some way to mark a bunch of files for a multi-file delete.
The rename filename ability would also be useful to me for the custom app I use to copy new recordings to another computer that runs handbrake on them and copies them back as MP4 files. My app renames the extension and updates the database but occasionally the filename has some special character that causes some part of my process to fail either in the copy commands or perhaps passing the filename as a parameter to handbrake. When that fails, my automated process just gets stuck and I usually end up just deleting that offending recording. If I could easily rename a file to change something like an e with an accent character ti a plain e, then I could rename it and let the process restart. Of course I can always make a copy of the file with the new name and then manually use SQLLite to change the record's filename field and then delete the original file, but that is quite cumbersome.
And a question about the multiple file deletes, is it safe to just use file explorer to do a mass delete of recording files and let NextPvr clean up the database automatically? I don't want to do that if it leaves a mess in the database.
sub Wrote:Rather than discussing it in the Android forum, create a new thread in the Support forum, with details about what exactly see happening, and any relevant info, like certain channels etc.
I have bumped my original thread about NPVR4 and TSreader4. The problem I have with the jerking and runaway skips with tsreader4 have been going on since the 1st release of NPVR4. The skips are also slow to sync with the sound when they are working at their best. It doesn't matter the channel, or if its on my server or clients. They all have the same issue. Even with the legacy tsreader2 enabled NPVR4 freezes and locks up regularly for no apparent reason on my server and clients so I have to hit ctrl+alt+del to kill it. It will lock up while just navigating through the menu. Let me know what you need from me.
Before we get too far into troubleshooting, does NPVR4 need any microsoft.net or c++ updates that NPVR3 didn't use? I am uploading a new recording and i'll pm you the dropbox link.
Would it be possible for you to patch version 3.9.2 to work with the Android client? I purchased the app, but I have not had any success running any of the 4.0+ versions on my htpc. The tsreader4 skips are unstable and jerky, sometimes it will skip halfway through a show. Even with the legacy tsreader2 enabled NPVR freezes and locks up for no apparent reason on my server and clients so I have to hit ctrl+alt+del to kill it. You were unable to recreate my problems in the past and therefore I am still on version 3.9.2, which is the last stable version that works for me. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
I'm using the default web interface in 4.2.4. Using Chrome, I can surf the various pages fine, and I can record shows, but if I try to click "Cancel", nothing ever happens. Anyone else run into this?
I'm currently running LE 9.0.2, but also saw this problem in 9.0.1. With both X-NEWA 2.5.4 and knew4v5 2.6.6, when I press the Previous Chapter button, X-NEWA/knew4v5 basically hangs/dies. It doesn't handle the keypress (in the TV Guide to go back to the previous day) plus after it happens, then I can't get any key to work and end up having to reboot the rPi.
Looking in the logs, I see this when it happens:
Code:
2019-05-19 10:47:50.524 T:1860170608 DEBUG: LIRC: - NEW 19c 0 KEY_PREVIOUS devinput (KEY_PREVIOUS)
2019-05-19 10:47:50.554 T:1937055760 DEBUG: HandleKey: pause (0xdd) pressed, action is SkipPrevious
2019-05-19 10:47:50.555 T:1807721328 DEBUG: False
2019-05-19 10:47:50.556 T:1807721328 ERROR: EXCEPTION: XBMC is not playing any file
2019-05-19 10:47:50.566 T:1807721328 ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
- NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
Error Type: <type 'exceptions.RuntimeError'>
Error Contents: XBMC is not playing any file
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/storage/.kodi/addons/script.kodi.knew4v5/resources/src/nextpvr/emulate.py", line 199, in onAction
if '/live?channel=' not in xbmc.Player().getPlayingFile():
RuntimeError: XBMC is not playing any file
-->End of Python script error report<--
I'm thinking that it may be an LE "bug/feature" that the KEY_PREVIOUS is being mapped to "pause" by default now. (They changed some of the default remote keymappings with LE 9, so to get it to work as expected, the user keymap needs to explicitly remap those buttons.) I can check on that. However, X-NEWA/knew4v5 probably needs to handle the exception error that gets thrown and not just hang/die.
Here's a little more of the log which shows the Next Chapter button working followed by the Previous Chapter button not working:
Code:
2019-05-19 10:47:47.298 T:1860170608 DEBUG: LIRC: - NEW 197 0 KEY_NEXT devinput (KEY_NEXT)
2019-05-19 10:47:47.301 T:1937055760 DEBUG: HandleKey: sleep (0xdf) pressed, action is SkipNext
2019-05-19 10:47:47.304 T:1807721328 DEBUG: False
2019-05-19 10:47:47.306 T:1807721328 DEBUG: http://192.168.143.31:8866/control?time=1558280867&key=131111&client=sdl-KNEW50xb827ebd2d752&sid=f1584bd68ae84b06bbaff27b5c0438ee
2019-05-19 10:47:47.587 T:1807721328 DEBUG: http://192.168.143.31:8866/activity?format=json&client=sdl-KNEW50xb827ebd2d752&sid=f1584bd68ae84b06bbaff27b5c0438ee
2019-05-19 10:47:47.608 T:1937055760 DEBUG: ffmpeg[73752010]: [swscaler] No accelerated colorspace conversion found from yuv420p to bgra.
2019-05-19 10:47:47.611 T:1807721328 DEBUG: {u'url': u'', u'screen': u'TV Guide'}
2019-05-19 10:47:48.131 T:1383068528 DEBUG: http://192.168.143.31:8866/activity?format=json&updates=1&client=sdl-KNEW50xb827ebd2d752&sid=f1584bd68ae84b06bbaff27b5c0438ee
2019-05-19 10:47:48.151 T:1383068528 DEBUG: {u'url': u'', u'screen': u'TV Guide'}
2019-05-19 10:47:49.152 T:1383068528 DEBUG: http://192.168.143.31:8866/activity?format=json&updates=1&client=sdl-KNEW50xb827ebd2d752&sid=f1584bd68ae84b06bbaff27b5c0438ee
2019-05-19 10:47:49.202 T:1383068528 DEBUG: {u'url': u'', u'screen': u'TV Guide'}
2019-05-19 10:47:50.204 T:1383068528 DEBUG: http://192.168.143.31:8866/activity?format=json&updates=1&client=sdl-KNEW50xb827ebd2d752&sid=f1584bd68ae84b06bbaff27b5c0438ee
2019-05-19 10:47:50.242 T:1383068528 DEBUG: {u'url': u'', u'screen': u'TV Guide'}
2019-05-19 10:47:50.524 T:1860170608 DEBUG: LIRC: - NEW 19c 0 KEY_PREVIOUS devinput (KEY_PREVIOUS)
2019-05-19 10:47:50.554 T:1937055760 DEBUG: HandleKey: pause (0xdd) pressed, action is SkipPrevious
2019-05-19 10:47:50.555 T:1807721328 DEBUG: False
2019-05-19 10:47:50.556 T:1807721328 ERROR: EXCEPTION: XBMC is not playing any file
2019-05-19 10:47:50.566 T:1807721328 ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
- NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
Error Type: <type 'exceptions.RuntimeError'>
Error Contents: XBMC is not playing any file
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/storage/.kodi/addons/script.kodi.knew4v5/resources/src/nextpvr/emulate.py", line 199, in onAction
if '/live?channel=' not in xbmc.Player().getPlayingFile():
RuntimeError: XBMC is not playing any file
-->End of Python script error report<--
2019-05-19 10:47:55.405 T:1860170608 DEBUG: LIRC: - NEW ae 0 KEY_EXIT devinput (KEY_EXIT)
2019-05-19 10:47:55.422 T:1937055760 DEBUG: HandleKey: menu (0xd8) pressed, action is Back
Interestingly, the Next Chapter button also seems to be mapped to something "strange"--"sleep":
Okay, so this is odd. I am trying out NextPVR on a Windows 7 machine that I have used for Windows Media Center for years. If I leave the LiveTV buffer at C:/Users/Public/Videos, Live TV plays back fine. But if I change it to D:/NPVR/Buffer, TV does not play back, and I'm not seeing any files get created in that directory. I have a similar problem with recording (which is set to D:/NPVR/Recordings) where it LOOKS like it's recording but at the end nothing appears in the Recordings section and no file is created, so I think for some reason NPVR just can't write to the drive, which baffles me.
Is there anything special I need to do to get NPVR access to the D: drive on this machine? (My other NPVR machine is on Windows 10 and all of this works fine, but for now I prefer to keep this machine on 7.)
Hello all,
I have a weird one for everyone to think about. I have an issue where the audio will buzz when I close out of a video. It can be either an IPTV video or ATSC video. It does n ot make a difference. I am using the default audio choice in settings.
Has anyone else encountered this?
Thank you,
Bruce
