There are many reasons to have the option to disable Time Shift.
1. Not everyone uses it, so it's pointless for some people. (e.g. I've never used it...)
2. SSD HDD Wear, which somone else raised, but is probably minor, due to wear control.
3. USB Key / SD Card Wear, which is very real, as they do not manage wear at all, so will / do quickly fail being used for Time Shifting.
4. USB interface bandwidth, I know that Time Shifting is affecting other recordings to my USB HDD, by doubling the traffic to the drive when recording one channel whilst watching another.
5. Network bandwidth, Next PVR works fine to my NAS, but it's always spun up and consuming network bandwidth the entire time I'm watching, so I don't use my NAS anymore for NextPVR which is silly. Bearing in mind my Tuner (HD Homerun) is also using the network it all adds up to lots of traffic, much of it the same... again can cause laggs and delays on both the nas drive and the network.
6. Extra processing CPU overheads, caching to a drive generates additional processing and management overhead for the CPU, depending on the platform that could make the difference between 'great' and 'crap.
7. It would be useful for diagnosis, i.e. To be able to tell if it helps with any of the above, or any other problems related to network/CPU/disk issues.
As you should be able to see, there's quite a few reasonable reasons to be able to disable the Time Shift function, if it's in the core of NextPVR, then perhaps it's time to review how that is done, to allow for Cache less viewing. If you MUST have a cache why not allow the use of a small (<5min) cache to RAM. So you don't have to re-write too much and we are all happy! :o)
A possibly strange situation. Since I upgraded to 4.1.0, I can't get the VLC Media Player to play my TS files created from NPVR.
I can, however, play them in VLC Media Player Classic.
I'm starting to wonder if there is a problem here, either for just me or with 4.1.0. A few of my files have error-ed out in MCEBuddy processing, and I haven't been able to figure out the issues with the source files yet.
Am I the only one experiencing this issue?
And, one more side-question: If I did figure out htat 4.1.0 was the problem is there any issue with downgrading back to 4.0.5?
This is my first post, but I've been using NextPVR for several years with Kodi. I've also spent a bit of time here. Thanks to all here for the great product and support.
Today, I updated to version 4.1.0 and my channel logos no longer appear in Kodi. When I open NextPVR and select TV Guide, the logos are there, which tells me NextPVR is picking them up. I'm running NextPVR on a Windows 10 computer and my channel logos are stored in C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Media\Channels. Before I upgraded today, I could see all my channel logos in Kodi.
I'm not sure if this is a Kodi problem or a NextPVR problem, but since it started on my upgrade of NextPVR, I thought I'd start here.
NextPVR stop recording early very often. It's been happening for 7 to 8 weeks. The latest example is American Ninja Warrior. The start time on log, ndigitalhost-27, is 2018-03-11 at 18:00. The end time is 2018-03-11 at 21:01. However, the recording only contains 1 hr and 20 minutes.
Appreciate any suggestion on debugging this problem
i have run in to an odd problem, i have been trying to watch hd channels on my odroid running libreelec, and the hd channels refuse to work properly, using the npvr addon sd channels play fine as do recorded hd programs, but if i try to watch a live hd channel i end up with a still picture sound for about 3-4 seconds then it has to fill the buffer and goes on like that. The hd channels play fine using x-newa.
i included the kodi log in case anything jumps out.
Just wondering how the "look for alternate airings on unresolved conflicts" ticbox works?
I have a case where I'm trying to record 5 shows at the same time, with 3 available tuners.
I get an unresolved conflict on 2 of the shows, that truly have no alternate airing.
However, there are 2 other shows in that group of 5 that do have alternate airings, but their time slots were not changed. I have to manually change their time slots so I get all 5 shows.
i have updated to the new version 4.1 from 4.05 and now I experience that my HP Microsoft MCE Media Center IR Rc6 Remote Controller starts up NextPvr like its supposed to do (Always starts up fullscreen), but then in "game" the remote stops working right away NextPVR is started, and I have to choose any menu with mouse, then the remote control starts to work fully in NextPvr.
Has anyone experienced this kinda behavour in 4.1, worked flawless in the old version 4.05 and WAF has fallen a bit, as I had to explain to her what to do
We went from Windows Media Center on an old Windows 7 to a newer machine with Windows 10 and NextPVR + HDHomerun Expand and kinda never looked back, other than the smaller problems with "Record service not startet" occasionally with skipped recordings as follow and now this remote control thing.
I'm using version 4.1.0 (180302) on windows 10 1709. The screen was set to 150% scaling when first installed. I've since removed and reinstalled, but the left mouse clicks select items further down the screen or in the wrong place. The roller works fine as do right clicks and changing settings in the Settings menu, but the main menu and channel guide are way off. Anyone have a direction to point me in? Thanks in advance.
The latest version of NPVR is giving me a video/sound sync problem on the client on 1080i mpg2 recordings. This didn't occur on the last version. It does not occur on the server and Emby is able to play those files just fine on my client. All other recording formats also play fine on the client, including 1080p h264 files. I've tried every combination of sound and video codec I have as well as tryting different audio/video renderers. Anhyone have any ideas?
