Is there a setting somewhere that will allow NextPvr to name French episodes recording properly?
It works for English episodes but right now I am getting names like this:
name of the tv show 20180224_09541005.ts
These names are not visible when using Plex as it wants something like this (where xx is the season, and yy is the episode number):
name of the tv show.SxxEyy.name.of.the.episode
I returned from a long vacation and noticed my NAS and it failed to restart after a power outage. Normally it is on a UPS but that is user error.
Anyway NextPVR recordings to that drive failed but there was no indication of the failure for rerecordings. The error code is zero and the there is no reason code showing. The only indication of an error in the logs is on that batch files
Code:
2018-05-16 21:00:00.265 [DEBUG][6] Recording explicitly recording to directory: '[Network]'
2018-05-16 21:00:00.291 [DEBUG][6] allocating recording target filename: K:\The Expanse\Season 03\The Expanse.S03E06.Immolation.ts
2018-05-16 21:00:00.294 [DEBUG][6] About to start recording (19444 on 1524): K:\The Expanse\Season 03\The Expanse.S03E06.Immolation.ts...
2018-05-16 21:00:00.303 [INFO][6] HDPVRRecorder.StartStream(K:\The Expanse\Season 03\The Expanse.S03E06.Immolation.ts)
...
2018-05-16 21:00:00.984 [DEBUG][6] Started recording (19444:19:K:\The Expanse\Season 03\The Expanse.S03E06.Immolation.ts)
2018-05-16 21:00:01.001 [DEBUG][6] Invalid file passed to StartParallelProcessing(): 'K:\The Expanse\Season 03\The Expanse.S03E06.Immolation.ts'
...
2018-05-16 22:01:00.075 [DEBUG][6] Stopping recording (19444 on 1524). Past end time of recording. 19
2018-05-16 22:01:00.084 [INFO][6] HDPVRRecorder.StopStream(19)
...
2018-05-16 22:01:02.807 [DEBUG][6] Invalid file passed to StartPostProcessing(): 'K:\The Expanse\Season 03\The Expanse.S03E06.Immolation.ts'
Since it seems like Windows is able to detect the invalid file so it would be nice if NextPVR "caught" this inititally.
TLDR: I have multiple TB of shows NextPVR forgot about because I disconnected an external drive it was recording to for a long time, not realizing the default was to forget/delete from the DB missing shows. I did not have a backup of the recording-backup.xml file from before this happened! How can I easily - without having to manually add each individual video file - get those recordings loaded back into NPVR?
I've had NextPVR set up for some about 18 months, but haven't followed through on all the proper ways to use it... I know I should have read the manual... but I just read what I needed when I needed and mostly just muddled through and figured it all out myself with limited internet guides (it was a headache to get the video playback working on Windows 10 without the native mpeg-1 stream codecs!)
I've filled up most of an external 4TB drive (D:\RecordedTV for the sake of argument), though, and have been properly viewing content via various clients (mostly Kodi, which took a little jiggering to get it working as desired but I'm now happily leveraging Kodi across numerous devices in my household from Android tablets to iPhones to old Macs to new PCs to FireTV sticks, and am overall happy enough with the experience.)
One thing I'm not happy about, though, is that, in preparation for a storage upgrade, moving my content from the 4TB drive to a newer, bigger drive, I shut down my NextPVR PC and disconnected the drive during a time when I wasn't anticipating any new recordings. Then I realized I needed to get some other data off the NextPVR PC - data not residing on the external 4TB drive, so I fired the PC up, pulled the data I needed, left it running.
Days pass, a show comes up that I needed to record manually, that went into C:\Users\Public\Videos as my secondary folder. That show and a couple of others are all that's there. "Neat," I think, "It knows to only show me what it can find."
I finally get around to reconnecting my 4TB drive so I can migrate the content over to my larger new RAID volume, load up NextPVR and... nothing. Those shows still aren't there.
It looks like I can manually re-import them one at a time, but we're talking about hundreds of episodes. I'm contemplating writing a powershell script to parse the subfolders for all the xml files and to essentially create my own faked "backup" recording-backup.xml file to import (once I copy everything over to the new volume) but I'll loose a little information (it looks like more info is stored in the recording-backup.xml like actors and crew info than just the individual episodes' showname.seasonnumber.episodenumber.episodetitle.xml file, but it looks like I can at least get the synopsis.)
However, I'd rather not write a script if I don't have to - surely someone else has already encountered and solved this problem? I'm thinking I must just be missing a feature like "Scan target folder for existing recordings to import" hidden away somewhere.
And, barring that, what would have been the right way to a) migrate to a new drive b) migrate to a new PC?
I have set my IPTV device to include the providers xmltv url as default in the import settings. This works fine , however for certain channels i have a better EPG source that i download as an xmltv file. i go to the channels setting and click on that specific channel, and hit browse to the file i want to use as the epg source. NPVR appears to try to load it but it reverts back to the default xmltv source.
So is there a way to have multiple XMLTV sources, one local?
Hello all,
I just had this happen to me. I went to rewind live video and then the video froze. Was able to work my way around the menu options then the error message came up that the PVR tuner not avail within kodi. Had to reboot kodi.
Any thoughts?
I've had a love/hate relationship with Kodi and NPVR. It was so hard to get set up, but once it finally was working, I left well enough alone. Last time I checked (about 2-3 weeks ago), it was working fine. I've not actually had any reason to watch LIVE TV for a while. There was a string of bad storms that just came through here, along with a Tornado Warning. The weather apps/etc for Kodi suck for LIVE information, so I went to watch our local news channel. It just sits there, saying it's loading, eventually timing out with an error about "Tuner no longer available". I've got my guide set up with multiple choices, DT (for digital tuner via cable ready from our provider), OTA (for over the air with antenna), SD and HD options (different tuners to provide different sources). I tested all possible scenarios, DT, OTA, HD, SD, different channels, etc. They all have the same result. I thought my settings might have changed, but they're all still correct. I'm using version 2.4.13.1 of the Kodi addon. I'm not sure if that's the latest version or not, but it's the only one my repository has access to. So I then checked on my server to see if the settings got changed there. Nope, everything still looks good. I was even able to test watching a channel on the server (although I don't know if it TRULY worked, I was going through Remote Desktop and all I saw was a black screen). I do know, that the icon turned RED in the task bar to indicate a tuner was recording and the status window did show a tuner was in use. The next thing I did, before starting this thread, was check to make sure I'm using the latest version of NextPVR on the server. Turns out I wasn't. So I thought maybe the Kodi addon was trying to communicate with NPVR but couldn't because of a version conflict. I updated the software, and now confirm I am using 4.1.1 (180410). I know the client and server are communicating with each other, because it downloads the guide data when I reboot my Kodi box. When I try to start watching something from Kodi, my NPVR server status blinks active for a second, then stops. It's like it drops communication right when it should start sending the stream across the network.
I'm not sure what else to try. I've even gone as far as to create a new Port Forwarding rule in my router for "8866" and still nothing. I guess I just need to throw in the towel and ask for help.
Thanks in advance!
PS - I just did a quick check. I've got recordings for some shows, and none of them will play beyond April 22'nd. Was this when all the updating happened that's caused my issue? Or is there something significant that happened that week that broke it for the following weeks' recordings?
PPS - I forgot to mention, the logs here are from when I tried to watch a live stream. I can get logs of a recording playback that works, and one that doesn't, if it will help..
I am new to this soft. and only use it to record 1 ch, Sky Arte from Italy.
When I try to watch or record some programme it says ''UNABLE TO COMMUNICATE WITH RECORDING SERVICE''.
Also on task bar the NextPVR icon in BLACK has always RESTART RECORDING SERVICE.
This means that for every recording have to go there I put in RED to start recording , no meaning then for schedule recordings ???
Now closed IPTV provider Ace Hosting voluntarily handed over subscriber details and its subscriber list to The Premier League and subscribers are set to have their details made public and could even be handed to the authorities.
Remember folks, many of these IPTV services are pirate sites and illegal.
I've seen users on here post about ACE and the NEXTpvr iptv features. If it's too good to be true it probably is.
Lets say the wife records all masterchef episodes, I have npvr update guide at 7:15am daily, the show starts at 7:30pm and goes to 8:30pm, during the day the guide is updated at some point and show now runs 7:30pm - 8:46pm. My end padding time was 15 mins and it misses the end time.. its increased now to 30 mins but this is getting slightly extensive.
Since my data is coming from the internet, scraped from http://freeview.com.au I can make a scheduled task to import many times per day.
I was going to use -updateepgonly option to import updated data.
My question is how does npvr work in regards to handling new guide data.
1. Does npvr update recordings after each update of the guide data?
2. What happens if the guide is updated while the recording is in progress and that recording has an updated end time? Hopefully it updates recording end time?
Plan is to get data every 2 or 4 hours as needed if this works out well. Hopefully this would catch any programming updates.
Earlier today I had a well-behaved NPVR setup with two NMT devices. I believe installation of some new hardware has fouled up my settings. Now when I select mvpmc I'm getting the error "unable to resolve the host name". I've spent the last hour or two checking everything I can think of, but getting nowhere fast.
Here's the syntax check:
Checking for mvpmc share on DAD-PC
mvpmc C:\mvpmc
Checking GB-PVR.html links
C:\mvpmc \GB-PVR.html not found
MAC
GB-PVR Not Installed
N-PVR Installed C:\Users\Public\NPVR
<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/NETWORK_SHARE/DAD-PC:mvpmc/npvr.cgi">N-PVR</a>
<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/NETWORK_SHARE/NETWORK_BROWSER/browser.cgi">N-PVR via Network Browser</a>
<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/USB_DRIVE_A-1/mvpmc/usb_a.cgi">N-PVR via USB</a>
Enabled true
Port 8866
The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.
