Now that I'm using windows 10 and no longer use windows media center. I decided to try Kodi as front end and Next PVR in interface with my tuner board which is a AVerMedia A188C PCIe Pure ATSC tuner card. I set up one of the tuners on rabbit ears did a scan with a half dozen channel that come in. I down loaded and used ffdshow as the decoders version 1.3.4531 set up next PVR in kodi. It works fine except I get a beautiful 720p picture were I use to get a 1080i picture in windows media center. What could be causing this? I tried looking at ffdshow video setting and NextPVR setting with no success. Could I be using the wrong decoders? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
It could be the age on my machine or simply the thermal paste running dry, but while in "watch now" mode about 13:30 today it froze for a few. While playing back a recording after a comskip commercial auto skip it sometimes hangs too. Any advise would be appreciated.
I'm using xmltv gui with the Bleb source, but limited channels. I can't get radio times to work, I think it's not worked for a long time. OTA guide only has a short number of days.
So what are folk in the UK using for their guide source? or is there a way to get RT to work?
Hi
Unfortunately I had to rebuild my media PC.
Got everything working and had a play with the picture in picture... with a PIP on the screen I then hit "swap", pictures swapped but sound vanished.
I can't get the sound back, tried going through the codecs and back to my previous working ones, rebooted, reinstalled NPVR over the current.
No sound comes through at all from NPVR, when playing anything that makes a sound, tv, video music.
So what did the "swap" do? and how do I get it back?
I am sorry if I sound frustrated, but I am. I am new to this NextPVR. I am using it for IPTV. I have configured the server and can watch video in NextPVR. However when I enable to addon in Kodi... I get PVR Manager is loading chanels then a few seconds later Kodi crashes. The PVR mangers doesn't even get past 0%. Then when I restart Kodi it crashes almost at once. The only way for me to run Kodi now is to stop the NextPVR server. Needless to say this isn't what I want. I don't even know where to begin. I have tried changing the port numbers and the pin in the client section of the Server settings. When i do that I can run Kodi, but as soon as I reconfigure the NextPVR addon in Kodi, it crashes the entire Kodi again.
Since adding IPTV, I now have to create a 'Freeview' group when adding DTT channels as they all get mixed up in All Channels. I'd like to see a group by default that only uses the DVB-T/T2 or satellite tuner as a channel group, which would save time in re-adding them when I need to reinstall NPVR.
Hi,
I didn't see anything on this so I'm creating a new post.
When you go to Settings->Channels and edit a channel, it displays the "Channel Details" Dialog, but under "EPG Source" -> "Mapping" is defaulting to display the guide for the channel # (listed righ under "General") instead of what the actual mapping is, as it did on the past. I'm not sure what version this started happening, but it makes it difficult to troubleshoot guide not matching the programmed channel when you can't see what it is currently set to.
I hope I explained that clearly enough.
Thanks for you time and efforts.
Okay, so after restarting Kodi about a dozen times, I finally managed to get the NextPVR PVR Client Addon to load all the way and display all of my Recordings from the TV tab. I thought my problems were solved at this point, and I would just have to restart Kodi many times now in order to get it to work. So, I decided to start watching the newest episode of 9-1-1. Unfortunately, the closed captioning parsing wasn't working, so I have to do my usual ritual of letting the recording run for about 5 minutes, then stopping it, then resuming it, which usually gets the closed captioning parsing working, and then rewinding it back to the beginning so that I can watch it all with closed captioning. However, after I did the first half of the ritual, stopped the recording, and waited for the little resume arrow to appear next to the recording, something weird happened. After I stopped it at about 1:17pm, the little arrow appeared like it should, and I'm just sitting there staring at the recordings listing while sipping my drink, getting ready to resume the recording, and then suddenly...
It vanishes! The recording listing completely disappears right before my very eyes, like the Kodi was doing a rather unpleasant magic trick for me. The view of my four recordings in the 9-1-1 folder is replaced with the view of all the Recordings folders, except none of the folders are there, save for Ask This Old House, which was currently recording at the time. This happened after 1:18pm, so I exited out of Kodi, backed up its log, and then went and backed up the log on the server. I've attached those logs here, in the hopes someone can tell me how Kodi did this disappearing act and how I can stop it from doing it in the future.
The interesting part should happen after this line in the Kodi log, which is about when I stopped the recording:
I'm thinking this weird occurrence is related to the problems I've been having trying to get the NextPVR PVR Client Addon to work at all after upgrading to Kodi 17.6. Like I said at the beginning, I had to restart Kodi at least a dozen times to even access my recordings. During those dozen other times, the Addon either didn't load at all, giving me the "Addon couldn't be loaded" error message, or it "partially" loaded, in which case I can see the Channels listing, but the Recordings listing is either blank or it just shows the recordings that are currently recording at the time.
Here is the log from the server, which is only 2.29 MB, but won't upload to the forum because it's just a few BYTES over the limit, I think:
Remember, my server's clock is about 3 seconds ahead of / faster than the clock on the Amazon Fire TV I was using to watch my recording of 9-1-1, give or take a second, so remember that when trying to correlate events between the Kodi client log and the NextPVR server log.
It would really help if the ZIP file size limit were increased ever so slightly to 2.5 MB.
