I posted this last night but can't find it today so I'm posting it again.

When I try to play a recording I get a message saying "You haven't configured an MPEG-2 video decoder" but I have.

When I go into settings the video decoder is set to LAV.

I have tried changing the decoder, updating LAV to the latest version and rebooting, but nothing seems to work.

The strange thing is that video was playing fine an hour earlier and I have made no changes.

What do I need to do to sort this out?

I am looking to run a custom .bat file when next pvr begins recording and when it ends recording. I stumbled upon the ability to add .bat files to the scripts folder under the data folder. I saw that the PararellProcessing.bat and PoatProcessing.bat scripts are run at both the beginning and end of recording. I simply copined and renamed my custom .bat files to the folder under the correct names but they do not run when recording begins. Is there something I am missing? Do the .bat files need a special layout? The ones I am trying to run are scripts to turn on and off an led via a program. The .bats work when perfectly when run on their own.

OK, This has happened several times on different clients. When I escape to go back to the EPG I just get a black screen and then unable to access the client computer. I just get a popup saying the program is not responding. do I want to wait for it to respond to close the program.
This happened around 6pm.

Thank you for your time.

Bruce

A few days ago I decided to move from ServerWMC in Kodi to NextPVR for channel maintenance reasons. I did a full scan in NextPVR and got EPG, but it had lots of repeat channels and none with correct channel number etc. So I knocked up a powershell script to read data into NextPVR from here:- https://www.satellite-calculations.com/D...php?272/25
then later hoping for more accuracy from here:- https://www.satellite-calculations.com/D...rvices.htm

I then modified my script to merge from multiples of these files and the original nextpvr scan file, de-duping, pruning, renaming and renumbering (to freesat.co.uk names/nums). I have what looks like a perfect freesat list but I now get no EPG and some chans eg ITV2 don't work which locks NextPVR for 120 seconds (though ITV2 settings match those on KingOfSat and ITV's own site?) Any clues on the EPG or why ITV2 is not working greatly appreciated.

I attach my latest channels.xml that I import into NextPVR at Settings->Devices->Import Channels having first cleared the previous channels and I do "Restart Recording Service"then Settings->Channels->Update EPG after.

I have searched arround and it seems there are a few old posts for 2017 or so on this subject but...

Been trying look at ways to move the recording aspect of next of my main pc.

Looking at
Windows 10 iot on pi - has anyone done this?
Drivers for the usb dvb could be tricky..

I know a pi probably isn't fast enough to encode out to the network but I figure that could be done by something else or amaybe a tinkerboard would have enough power to get 1 hd stream back out as well as 2 TV cards in?

Anyone got any thoughts?

I have set up a couple of "keyword" recordings but am getting some random results. How can I view these keywords I have set up and edit or even delete? I can only seem to be able to find how to add more.

Thanks

NextPVR has been working well but suddenly today will not work. Below is the information from event viewer.

I have tried upgrading to the latest version but it seems to make no difference.

If I click on NextPVR status I get a blank screen and the process just seems to crash. The strange thing is that I have made no changes to my system at all today.

How do I recover from this? Is there a way to uninstall the program and reinstall without loosing all the information/settings etc?

This is the info from event viewer

Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: 04/01/2019 19:02:27
Event ID: 1000
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Description:
Faulting application name: NextPVR.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x5be7414b
Faulting module name: clr.dll, version: 4.7.3260.0, time stamp: 0x5bb7bcb7
Exception code: 0xc00000fd
Fault offset: 0x004550dd
Faulting process ID: 0x88c
Faulting application start time: 0x01d4a45fff0ba75e
Faulting application path: P:\Multimedia\TV\NextPVR\NPVR\NextPVR.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\clr.dll
Report ID: 46c8e0a6-1053-11e9-83c2-0026831481d5
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Application Error" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>100</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2019-01-04T19:02:27.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>538583</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>Leo001</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>NextPVR.exe</Data>
<Data>1.0.0.0</Data>
<Data>5be7414b</Data>
<Data>clr.dll</Data>
<Data>4.7.3260.0</Data>
<Data>5bb7bcb7</Data>
<Data>c00000fd</Data>
<Data>004550dd</Data>
<Data>88c</Data>
<Data>01d4a45fff0ba75e</Data>
<Data>P:\Multimedia\TV\NextPVR\NPVR\NextPVR.exe</Data>
<Data>C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\clr.dll</Data>
<Data>46c8e0a6-1053-11e9-83c2-0026831481d5</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

I am running NextPVR 4.2.3 (181112) on a Windows 10 Server and Kodi 17.6 as a client on Rasberry 2. Lately issues have started with recording and live view that didn't happen before.

I am using IPTV as the source. This source works fine on my Android box using ProgTV but I want to have the Next PVR recording feature.

Live view often freezes, which I could live with if I had to, but more importantly my recordings always end prematurely, usually at about 26mins. I have tried different recording folders but it still happens.

Any help would be welcome. Thanks in advance.

Log file attached.

Hi.
I like to introduce our latest tool, called "EPG-Buddy". This program should make EPG grabbing as easy as possible. Up to now a good EPG is one of the most complicated things to achieve in the HTPC world. Nearly all available sources needs complicated scripting and fiddling with XML files or similar. "On Air"- EPG often is of bad quality or not available at all. Available Sources for grabbing EPG data from online sources are hard to configure, especially if you are new to this topic. Here is where EPG-Buddy jumps in. With EPG-Buddy you can configure your EPG with a few mouse clicks and after you're done your EPG is refreshed completely invisible and automatic on a daily or weekly base. You can use various sources for your EPG data. As EPG-Buddy delivers it’s data in XMLTV compatible format it can be used together with nearly every available TV solution for PC including, but not limited to MediaPortal, Argus TV, NextPVR, DVB-Viewer,… Some features may not be available for every solution but the main features are working with all of them as long as they are able to use XMLTV compatible EPG data..

There is one comfort function, the matching of channel names read from TV Database, that needs to be written individual for every TV engine. That's why this comfort function is not available for some TV engines. But you always can match channel names manually. This way you can use EPG-Buddy together with nearly every TV Solution for PC.

Version 0.5.0.1 (and higher when available) has full NextPVR Support included.

The installation and configuration is described in the manual, available in English and German for download.

Some highlights:
The recent supported EPG data sources are:

Tvguide.com - a fast and free source for North American countries (USA, Canada, Mexico)

TVSpielfilm - a fast and free source for German speaking countries

epgData - a fast but paid source for German speaking countries

Clickfinder - a fast but paid source for German speaking countries

WebGrab+Plus – a free but slow source for nearly every country and language in the World

External XML files - to use XMLTV- compatible XML files from other sources

All sources can be combined as wanted and after data download the EPG can be compared with TheTVDB.com to grep season and episodes numbers often missing in the "raw" EPG data. If there is no description existing in RAW EPG data they are added from TVDB too (if available). Season and Episodes numbers are added in xmltv_ns format understandable by most TV solutions. All is configurable so you can disable the long lasting compare for all channels that are normally not airing series (Shopping , News, Sports,... channels and so on)

Some special hints for usage with NextPVR.
EPG-Buddy is reading the channel names from the npvr.db3 database. Only channels that have set EPG source to something else than "none" are read so you can shorten the channel list this way.

To add data downloaded by EPG-Buddy you don't need to do something special. In Settings simply click on a channel to open the details windows. Here you select xmltv as source and browse to the xml file created by EPG-Buddy. If you've configured anything properly in EPG-Buddy the mapping matches automatically. But you also can map manually, if you missed something in EPG-Buddy configuration...

New versions always can be found here:
https://buddy-tools.000webhostapp.com/downloads
Aside this page they also can be found in Mediaportal and kodinerds forums...


I can't attach the installer here, as it is too big to be allowed.

OK, I have a weird one here for everyone to think about and hopefully assist me with. I have come across some channels while using the NextPVR add on. It will be with both ATSC and IPTV channels. I have found that if I pause the feed for some time then play it the audio/video will be in sync.
Any thoughts?

Thank you for you time.

Bruce