Encountered something strange today - perhaps what I learned will be helpful to others.
I set up a new IPTV device testing a new provider. I use IPTVboss for editing etc so my M3U and EPG URLs are Dropbox share links.
My device imported ok, no errors, but no new EPG info was loading. EPG update had a suspiciously small number of updates.
Looked inside the EPG xml file itself and found lots of future entries, they just weren't showing in the TV Guide.
Tried restarting service, deleting DB3, no difference.
On a hunch I shortened the name of my IPTVboss output files by a few characters (taking the filename itself down from 14 chars to 10, and the full URL from 112 to 108) and the next update worked.
Is this a known char limit issue, on either the full URL or the filename? I couldn't find it mentioned anywhere.
What does having the setting AllowRemoteStreaming set to true actually do, and does it need to be set to true to connect remotely with the NextPVR Android Client from the Play Store?
I have concluded (Martin has helped me to conclude) I have a few channel streams of less than optimal quality. They *seem* fine but produce TS files when recorded that have skipping / seeking problems (I suspect caused by time index or stream interruption issues). After having really optimized groups and EPGs etc. I don't wish to change providers unless I have to, and hope I can instead do the following:
I see people using postprocessing scripts for various things here but not for tsduck; I see people using tsduck for stream and file analysis but not seemingly postprocessing.
I was wondering about having tsduck run after a recording completes to analyze and correct errors it finds (e.g. tsfclean, tsfixcc, tsftrunc, tsresync)
and re-write the file. I wish to avoid actual "re-encoding" of a file in a way that lowers quality.
Is this something anyone here is doing, or is even possible?
After an update of (Win10) and/or NPVR, my automatic transcoding at first did not work anymore.
When I changed settings to "CPU" encoding, it works again, but it creates 'temp-files like:
The Big Bang Theory_20250226_19402010.temp.mp4
in stead of the normal file name.
So, I suppose the transcoding did not fully finish?
Any idea what I can do?
Thank you!
(log attached)
Sub, a user sent me a PM (two actually) and although I responded with my typical reply that I don't support via PM I was annoyingly told that the users had disable PMs. Does the forum allow you to make a rule so users can't sent PM's unless they allow PMs?
I imported the M3U links as a playlist, and when starting one of these channels, I get video but no audio. There is no audio stream available to select, as shown in the attached screenshot.
When running these links with VLC or ffplay, the sound works fine. I have already tried using AC3Filter and LAV Decoder as audio decoders, but I didn’t see any improvement.
Attached are the logs.
Can anyone suggest how to resolve the audio issue?
I have 7.0.1.241229 running on a Win 10 machine. I have an HD HomeRun for over the air content and IPTV service where I have about 20 channels added. I know that a .ts file is created when I am recording form the HD HomeRun. I usually play it back using Kodi on an Nvidia Shield. I often watch while the recording is still in progress and rarely have issues. The .ts files generally play well in Kodi but somtimes do not play well in other players like VLC. Mainly the issue is when trying to skip or jump to a different time.
But when I record from one of the IPTV channels the .ts file seems to have problems even in Kodi and the NPVR browser client. When I watch the IPTV channel live it is fine. But when I record the channel, the video will play back in the NPVR browser client, but I can't skip through it. I will also have issues playing it back in Kodi on the Shield and also VLC. When I look at the .ts file in MediaInfo it doesn't really look any different than the .ts files recorded from the HD Homerun. Is recording IPTV channels just a bad idea, or am I doing something wrong?
On one recording I started watching it on Kodi about 20 minutes into a 30 minute recording. The first 20 minutes of the video played fine and I could jump forward and backward. But at about 20 minutes in, it started jumping around and freezing and having all kinds of issues. I also noticed the computer where NPVR stores the .ts files, the .ts.map file had not been deleted like it usually is.
One other thing that I should mention is that I do have a really old version of Kodi on the Shield which therefore has an old version of the NextPVR add-on
This feels like a dumb question because I am sure I saw this option previously but now can't find it for the life of me, and no mention of it here or anywhere.
I am sure I saw an option in Kodi along the lines of "save pause position in Kodi or in NextPVR or both" or something like that.
I (often but not always) suffer from a bit of random returns to beginning when skipping in a recording and am hoping varying this setting might help.
I have been running 4.2.4 for years and was hesitant to upgrade since it was working fine. But I was having issues adding IPTV channels (I couldn't prevent it from adding all of the channels and then NPVR was too slow to use). So I upgraded to the latest version using the method here:
After the install, a web browser window opened to localhost:8866 so it was showing 4.2.4 (since 8866 is the v4 port and it was still running). I closed the window, copied over the v4 config.xml and the npvr.db3 files to the C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data directory, edited the config.xml file to change the port to 8867 then started the web browser again with localhost:8867 and the latest version opened in the browser window. Everything seems to be working fine, but for some reason when I view a channel, the video quality is worse and every 10-15 seconds it pauses for maybe 1 sec. After a few minutes the pauses seem to stop. I close the browser and opened the old V4 app and tuned to the same channel and looked better and there were no pauses. I also notice that changing channels takes much longer and once the channel changes, the pausing starts again. Is there some setting that could be causing this? BTW, my tuner is an HD HomeRun and I'm watching broadcast channels from my antenna, my machine is a Windows 10 machine and the browser is Chrome.
