I'm pleased to see this new movie library feature in the latest release (7.1.1.260616 ) and also the accompanying info on the wiki One row per genre (Action, Comedy, Drama, …), listed alphabetically. A movie appears in every genre it belongs to, so the same film can show up in several rows. Movies with no genre information are grouped under Unknown.
I appreciate that the scope of this new module is currently limited but wanted to share some thoughts and observations:-
I have a bunch of well known movies flagged with genre as unknown that I expected to be properly categorised (such as S:\Movies\Apocalypse Now (1979)\Apocalypse Now (1979).mp4)
I also have a bunch of movies in the somewhat generic genre "drama" and some where the genre is just wrong.
After deleting the files for these movies from C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\media\shows and re-scanning, generally things now look good, although it's a bit of a headache to do this in windows explorer when I have 11,800 files in this folder.
I note that when I select a movie, up arrow, select metadata, (just like in Videos module) it only appears to show a search of TVDB and not themoviedb.
I did do a tvdb lookup of some well known movies and the existing metadata and jpgs got deleted so I had to delete the xml files and rescan to fix these.
If it were able to do a movie lookup, this would help folks to better manage their movie metadata via the UI.
While I very rarely ever use kodi/jellyfin, I still use a third-party metadata manager (Media Companion) to create metadata .nfo and folder/fanart jpgs. IIRC, the very old Movies plugin for GBPVR used these files).
It would be great to be able to view movies in A-Z order (like I can do via videos) or release date order.
I've tried several times now to download and install the latest version on my Win11 machine. Each time, I execute NPVRSetup.exe from the NPVR-Data folder while NextPVR Service is running. It seems to run successfully to completion. But when I load up the WebApp from the tray and go to settings, the previous version info is shown and the latest version info is shown as available.
Quote:- speed/quality improvements in uiclient user interface
- fixed SAT>IP scan
- added Linux libdvbv5 update for DVB-T2 scan
- workaround Windows scan missing non-spec channels
- fixed issue with DeviceHostLinux in arm/arm64 builds in last build.
- audio/video sync improvements in NextPVR.exe
- improvements to scan popup sizing in web app
- now showing toggling play/pause button in uiclient apps
- new movies screen if you have a video library called 'Movies'.
- improvements to playback of mp4/mkv files in uiclient.html
- updated scan frequencies for DVB-S FTA in NZ.
I continue to struggle with watching recorded programs manually copied onto an offline laptop for viewing from the treadmill, on any player other than Windows Media Center. Had a chance today to play with the system, and here are my notes:
1.
I got Kodi to play WTV (Windows Media Center) files without stuttering, and without freezing up for unpredictable amounts of time when skipping (not FF, skipping) forward and back. This is good. However, Kodi does experience these stuttering and freezing-up issues when I try to play .TS or .MP4 files. This is bad, since it means that, for the foreseeable future, I'd have to do the additional step of converting Hauppauge/NextPVR's .TS files into .WTV files.
2.
Is yauiclient a 64-bit program? When I try to launch it on this 32-bit machine, Windows informs me that I can't run the program on this PC.
3.
Launching the NextPVR web app yields the following screen:
(Recall that this machine is not allowed online. There must be a way to reach a local address via the browser that doesn't trigger a complaint that it's not online?)
4.
I can launch the NextPVR UI client, but I can't get it to play any videos. Clicking on Videos in the menu in the left panel, leads to this long error message:
Evidently, this has to do with the proper folder for the videos not being indicated in Settings. But this is where the next problem arises. The window that pops up when I select Settings in the right-click context menu from the UI client, allows me to add a new folder in the Settings window... but the window is so huge that the button to Save the change is located far below the bottom of the screen. No display resolution that Windows allows, lets me see the buttons at the bottom. I can neither drag the window past the top of the screen, nor scroll down the window with a scrollbar, nor resize the Settings window so that I can see all of it within the confines of the laptop's screen. To confirm the creation of the new folder for NPVR, what else can I try?
Since few days / weeks, lot of issues with NextPVR, so I unsintalled and reinstalled, and now a channel scan on my DVB-T tuner only finds 15 channels.
Still works perfectly with same hardware on Linux.
**What the logs show (according to Claude):**
- The tuner locks fine — e.g. at 474000: `locked=1, present=1, strength=20, quality=20`
- But the scan only probes a small set of frequencies: 474, 490, 498, 522, 562, 586 MHz, which is far fewer than the full French UHF lineup.
- Result: `"channelCount": 15` for the DVB-T device (normally around 40)
It really looks like the scan isn't covering all the multiplexes it used to.
I attach the logs.
I am using the NextPVR client and the LAV Filters AC3 decoder consistently loses sync between the audio and video for me on my system and has been an issue for years. I found AC3Filter 2.2a which is an older audio decoder that works great. The audio and video stay in sync when I use it.
If anyone wants to try it out, Here comes the WARNING! The newer version on the old AC3Filter.net project website has been hacked and the download has a virus. So BE CAREFUL where you download it from!!!
Just got a new Google TV. I sideloaded the uidroid-mediax apk and it installed fine. When I try to use it, all I get is a blank blue screen. If I restart the server then I get a semi normal looking home screen, but when I start to use it I get a garbled home screen with overlay over overlay. When I close the app and restart the app it's back to the blue screen. The app is connected to the server. So out of curiosity I checked my Onn TV box on another TV And got the same result. The Onn box worked with the previous NPVR server build v7.0.5.260307. I am now on v7.1.0.260607 (linux build) and that is when the issue came about. This is a clean install. I will attach log files.
My IPTV provider was recently moved to a new server, and where everything loaded and worked before in NextPVR, now when I try to add the device and I put in the host with the correct login details for an xc connection, it's failing to load the channels.
I've attached the logs if anyone is able to identify the problem and help me resolve the issue?
I run NextPVR on two Pi's, one Pi4 and one Pi5. The Pi4 runs NextPVR via a Docker container, while the Pi5 runs it via installation with the Helper. This week I upgraded both Pi's to the latest version of NextPVR, v7.1.0.260607. This question concerns the behavior of the "other" web client across the two machines.
On the UI on the Pi4 (Docker), I see the main menu item "UIClient" just to the right of "Scheduler." Clicking on this brings up an alternative vertical menu structure (that I had never used before) which seems powerful. It appears to work fine; I like it.
On the UI on the Pi5 (Helper), "UIClient" does not appear on the main menu. If I go to the Settings page, and press the button "Where is the other web client?" the web page goes black, and a tiny square of pixels is shown in the upper left corner (using Chrome on Windows 11). The running NextPVR server process then exits with the following in systemctl:
Code:
Jun 11 11:06:48 CherryPi server.sh[12437]: Fontconfig warning: "/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/05-reset-dirs-sample.conf", line 6: unknown element "reset-dirs"
Jun 11 11:06:48 CherryPi server.sh[12437]: /opt/dotnet/dotnet: symbol lookup error: /opt/nextpvr/system/runtimes/linux-arm64/native/libSkiaSharp.so: undefined symbol: FT_Get_BDF_Property
Jun 11 11:06:48 CherryPi systemd[1]: nextpvr-server.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
Jun 11 11:06:48 CherryPi systemd[1]: nextpvr-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 11 11:06:48 CherryPi systemd[1]: nextpvr-server.service: Consumed 9.062s CPU time.
