Hello, everyone. I recently set up NextPVR with the Pluto TV Extra plugin via Streamlink. However, I've found that the stream pauses when I enter or exit advertising on Pluto TV. I assume this is connected to Pluto's handling of HLSS. I've had this problem while using NextPVR's web client, the local client, and Kodi.

The NextPVR community stated that Streamlink had addressed this issue, yet even with the most recent version, I am still experiencing issues.

I have a few questions.

https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?basketball starstid=66190  

1. Where do I find the Streamlink logs in Windows 10?** I searched Temp, AppData, and the installation directory but could not find them. Accessing these logs would greatly aid in narrowing down the issue for a bug report on GitHub.
   
2. Does anyone know of a way to prevent the stream from freezing? 
   

Hello,

I am having issues getting hdmi encoder to work with NextPVR on Ubuntu 24.04 server. Below are
the steps I have taken. I can't use m3u route, adding as IPTV source, because I need
to execute a channel changing script when the channel is selected.

0.NextPVR version 7.9.1.241229
1. create extras device in /var/opt/nextpvr/extras-c84.xml
2. webui - devices>extra recorder(extras-c84.xml)>scan channels>save
3. not remapping at this time, but would remap channels to SD source for epg
4. test play - channels>1-CHAN1 - no tuner was available for the requested channel.

This is extras xml, both entries are for testing purposes, one direct, one with future
channel tunning script.
extras-c84.xml:
<extras>
  <channel name="CHAN">
    <command> curl </command>
    <args> "-s http://192.168.15.184/0.ts " </args>
  </channel>
  <channel name="CHAN">
    <command> bash </command>
    <args>-c /var/opt/nextpvr/scripts/c84_e.sh </args>
  </channel>
</extras>

This is future tuning script:
/var/opt/nextpvr/scripts/c84_e.sh:

# tuning code
curl -s http://192.168.15.184/0.ts

Looking at the logs, this looks to be the error:
2025-02-20 16:19:26.028 [DEBUG][124] live tv is possible
2025-02-20 16:19:26.028 [DEBUG][124] Running:  curl  "-s http://192.168.15.184/0.ts "
2025-02-20 16:19:26.028 [ERROR][124] Unexpected error calling StartStream(): System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (2): An error occurred trying to start process ' curl ' with working directory '/opt/nextpvr/system'. No such file or directory
  at System.Diagnostics.Process.ForkAndExecProcess(ProcessStartInfo startInfo, String resolvedFilename, String[] argv, String[] envp, String cwd, Boolean setCredentials, UInt32 userId, UInt32 groupId, UInt32[] groups, Int32& stdinFd, Int32& stdoutFd, Int32& stderrFd, Boolean usesTerminal, Boolean throwOnNoExec)
  at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartCore(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)
  at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)
  at NShared.ExtrasRecorder.StartStream(ChannelMapping channelMapping, String target, String& reason)
  at NShared.RecordingService.StartStream(Int32 channelOID, String target, Int32 previousHandle, ChannelMapping& returnMapping, String& reason)
  at NShared.RecordingServiceProxy.StartStream(Int32 channelOID, String target, Int32 previousHandle, ChannelMapping& channelMapping, String& reason)
2025-02-20 16:19:26.028 [DEBUG][124] StartStream(7160:ESPNHD, LIVE&/home/recordings/live-ESPNHD-889-5.ts) allocated handle: 0
2025-02-20 16:19:26.028 [DEBUG][124] Handle: 0
2025-02-20 16:19:26.028 [DEBUG][124] Failed to start stream. Handle 0.
2025-02-20 16:19:26.029 [DEBUG][124] [FFMPEG]: [http @ 0x5ae99049e680] HTTP error 404 Not Found
2025-02-20 16:19:26.029 [DEBUG][124] [FFMPEG]: [in#0 @ 0x5ae99049de00] Error opening input: Server returned 404 Not Found
2025-02-20 16:19:26.029 [DEBUG][124] [FFMPEG]: Error opening input file http://127.0.0.1:8866/live?channeloid=71...467b38f3db.
2025-02-20 16:19:26.029 [DEBUG][124] [FFMPEG]: Error opening input files: Server returned 404 Not Found
2025-02-20 16:19:26.991 [DEBUG][118] {"stat":"Failed","code":11,"msg":"No tuner was available for the requested channel."}

it complains about "/opt/nextpvr/system" but the directory does exist... curl is installed.

Any suggestions? What am I missing? If there is a better route to implement
hdmi encoder as a tuner, I am open to suggestions. From searching the forums,
"extras" appears to be the correct way.

Thank you.

 I checked the server to configure and none of the configuration buttons work. Nothing was recording on the frontend kodi client.   I did a show status for the backend device status, and the window was empty because nothing was configured yet. To configure, add devices, enter the SD login credentials, etc, nothing - the side buttons to configure the server do nothing.  This was after running the nextpvr setup program as an administrator Before running, I removed the nextpvr directory in the program files directory, removing the nextpvr from Regedit, deleting the users/public npvr-data directory. The firewall is temporarily turned off and the service is temporarily off until it is completely configured.  

None of the side buttons on the server work.  The client allowed me to schedule some recordings, which was why I checked to see if I had any recording.  After deleting system files, registry files, pvr-data directories, you would think this is a clean install that should work.  The internet is working. 
 I checked the server to configure and none of the configuration buttons work. Nothing was recording on the frontend kodi client.   I did a show status for the backend device status, and the window was empty because nothing was configured yet. To configure, add devices, enter the SD login credentials, etc, nothing - the side buttons to configure the server do nothing.  This was after running the nextpvr setup program as an administrator Before running, I removed the nextpvr directory in the program files directory, removing the nextpvr from Regedit, deleting the users/public npvr-data directory. The firewall is temporarily turned off and the service is temporarily off until it is completely configured.  

None of the side buttons on the server work.  The client allowed me to schedule some recordings, which was why I checked to see if I had any recording.  After deleting system files, registry files, pvr-data directories, you would think this is a clean install that should work.  The internet is working. 

When I try to watch many channels in the browser I get the message: Streaming Failed (transcoder exited). I also tried in Kodi and many channels did not work there either. Can you investigate what may be happening? See attached logs.

Attached Files

  logs-20250219-2244.zip (Size: 775.35 KB / Downloads: 1)

With some recent change on the the New Posts logic has changed.  Before I could see all messages in one day based on storing a sid, now New Posts is truly New posts and if you open a post it will disappear.  It makes it almost impossible to do a quick scan of all new posts.

Is there anyway to change this back to the old behaviour?

Martin

Hi
I've been tinkering with moving from Windows to running NextPVR as a Proxmox container, using HDHomeRun as my tuner for a UK Freeview source.

It all seems to work fine apart from the over-air guide data is limited, very patchy.  Happens every time I update the guide data.  Looking through the logs it looks to me like it's OK with the BBC as a source for guide data then fails on the next one, giving this error:

2025-02-19 18:57:04.721 [DEBUG][91] Unable to start device for EPG capture. In use, or unplugged?

Logs attached, any help much appreciated.

Attached Files

  logs-20250219-1906.zip (Size: 475.57 KB / Downloads: 2)

Hi Everyone

New user here. 
I was able to get almost everything working.  I am recording on a Win10 box, using NPVR ver7.0.1.241229, using a Schedules Direct trial, and I watch the recordings primarily on my DLNA capable TV and/or Roku.

First of all - THANK YOU to all that make this system possible!
I was a TVmosaic user until it pulled the plug on me a few years ago.  I don't recall if I tried NPVR at the time.  I think I did, but I ran into something that lead me to abandon the idea until now.  It may have been the inability (at the time) to transcode to .mp4 automagically.  (Necessary for Win10 DLNA server to stream the files.)

Anyway - moving on...
The one thing I have left to figure out is related to my transcoded (720p) .mp4 files.  (Sorry if I have missed something, but a couple forum searches revealed nothing.)

This one last issue is that the system will delete my recording files (.TS and others) when I click the delete link - HOWEVER, it leaves the .mp4 files.
I looked in the log files, but I didn't find anything when I searched for ".MP4".
While not a huge deal, it does then require me to regularly and manually delete those files to avoid running out of disk space.
Thoughts?

Thanks, R

Providers these days love channels.   Deleting Groups and Channels is painfully slow when you have 35K+.  It would be nice to have a list of groups that you can deselect all and tick off the ones you want to keep.  Then, click and let run overnight.

Hi there,

I want to be able to achieve using two lots of IPTV playlists. One is AU, the other is UK. Both are region locked so using a VPN it would be possible to do a split tunnel where one instance is connected to AU and the other is connected to UK. I am wondering if its possible to do this by running multiple instances and if so how?

Hi all.

Running latest NextPVR on Windows.

Have previously (month or two ago) successfully imported M3U and used NextPVR client from Kodi, no problem - EPG and channels, recording, all working.

Past few days, after fresh install of NextPVR, I have the following problem:

I successfully imported multiple different M3Us to IPTV device. Always a success. Always see list of channels after import, click Save, no errors.

Go to "Channels" in Settings, channels are there.

Go to "Channels" in admin client, or in webui client, or in Kodi client, channels are empty.

Have been beating my head against this for 2 days.

In logs saw some "unable to update / db locked" errors, so removed all IPTV devices, stopped service, deleted DB3 file, restarted Windows, tried again. No more "db locked" error, but still don't see channels in clients.

I should add - these are M3Us from different sources, that are able to work through VLC.

Help please!