One nice feature that Windows Media Centre had was to be able to schedule a "speculative recording" from a wish list - to be able to say "record any programme with a title that matches X even though nothing like this is in the EPG at present".
Sometimes trailers for a new programme may be shown on TV even though it is too far ahead for the EPG, and it's nice to be able to set-and-forget - schedule it now so it gets recorded when it later gets into the EPG.
Likewise I may add movies to a "wish list" so they get recorded when/if they ever get broadcast at some unspecified time in the future.
I wonder if this functionality might be possible with a future version of NPVR.
I'm seeing a consistent issue when watching live tv and switching between an IPTV channel and a channel from the HDPVR2. I get no audio, and a message about "missing audio? you dont have a ac3 decoder selected", when of course I do. Changing decoders doesn't help.
i found this in the logs, maybe it is helpful. Logs zip attached.
Just installed 4.0.4 and now TV playback now crashes (freezes) every time after about 3-4 minutes. Visual Studio just-in-time debugger reports:
Unhandled exception at 0x75F79A47 (msvcrt.dll) in NextPVR.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation writing location 0x1CEDD500.
Windows 10 pro, dual monitors.
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I recently installed a Hauppauge WinTV-quadHD card in my PC. I am running Windows 10. I installed NextPVR on my Windows PC successfully. I can go to 127.0.0.1:8866 in a browser window and see NextPVR. I want to use NextPVR as a client on an Android Kodi box on my network so that I can access my live local TV channels and recorded shows on my PC server. I have an EZStream Ti8 box physically connected to my router and am connecting my server PC wirelessly to my router. The problem is that I cannot find specific instructions on configuring the server and client to talk to each other. More specific online setup info would be nice. I continue to get "Lost Connection" messages on my Kodi box. That doesn't tell me much.
In NextPVR on my PC, I can go into Settings->Clients but can't find any documentation that tells me what I'm supposed to be setting in here. What is the Number of Servers setting supposed to be? Am I setting this to 1 since I have NextPVR installed on my PC? I have checked Enable Web Server. I assume I'm supposed to do that. What about Username and Password? Username and Password for what? My Kodi box? Am I supposed to change this from what appears to be a default of admin and password? Is this a userid and password of the client or of the server? Am I supposed to click on Allow Remote Access in the XBMC&Touch Clients section? The Access PIN is set to a default of 0000. What is this used for? Am I supposed to do something with this on the client?
I have gone into Settings on my Kodi box and turned on the PVR and enabled the NextPVR client. For the server name, what am I supposed to use? The default is 127.0.0.1. The Wiki page says this is okay to use if server and client are on the same PC. What am I supposed to use if they aren't? The name of my PC is Mike-PC. I tried entering that as the server name in the NextPVR client on the Kodi box but I still get a lost connection. Am I supposed to be setting a static IP address for my PC? Is an IP address the only valid thing that can be used here or is an actual name allowed? Neither seems to work for me. Both give Lost Connection messages on my Kodi box.
What is the significance of port 8866, the default port setting? Am I supposed to be configuring something for this port in the setup info on my router or firewall on my PC, or both? What is required to have both the Kodi box and network PC see each other?
I cannot find specific setup/configuration info for any of this online. Just generic "put a server address here" info. Can someone please point me to online setup info for NextPVR server and client that gives specifics on what I'm supposed to use in the fields on both the server PC and the client, as well as what router and firewall settings are supposed to be tweaked? Am I supposed to setup some type of port forwarding for 8866 somewhere? Some newbie setup info would be nice. I have spent 2 full days trying to configure this without success.
As far as I can tell, NextPVR is working on my network PC where my tuner card is installed. I can see programming info and view Live TV channels just fine. But just can't find any specific info on setting up NextPVR client on Kodi. By the way, when I enable NextPVR on Kodi, am I supposed to get a new "TV" menu item tab or am I supposed to be seeing NextPVR in the existing "Live-TV" tab? I don't see either. What am I supposed to be seeing in Kodi if the NextPVR client is working successfully? Currently, Lost Connection popups from NextPVR is all that's happening on my Kodi box.
Thanks for any info you can give me. I really appreciate it.
i get this message when i try to view a certain 2 shows folders of recording(wheeler dealers & overhallin'), i can view the rest of them just fine but the same 2 folders i keep getting that message from. any ideas as to what i can do to fix it? what logs would you need?
I set my recordings to pad by 3 minutes pre and post and if I record two show back to back on the same channel the first recording gets a glitch when the second recording starts. For me, NextPVR has always had intermittent minor glitches when overlapped recordings start going back to when it was still gbpvr. However, it's gotten MUCH worse with 4.0.4 compared to 3.6.6 or other older versions I've used. Older versions didn't always have a glitch and if there was one it was contained within a single GOP and was a minor playback annoyance I lived with. With 4.0.4 the disruption is several seconds long. During playback with MPC-HC (using LAV filters) it manifests as several seconds of the program repeating and worse it messes up my commercial editing flow (see below).
The resulting recordings often can not be processed correctly by Avidemux and that's my editing tool for commercial removal. About 50% of the time the saved output from Avidemux abruptly cuts at the spot of the recording glitch. The issue with truncated Avidemux's output did not happen with recordings from NextPVR 3.6.6 or earlier versions.
So a specific example:
I record Lucifer on Fox from 8:00-9:00pm on Monday night and The Gifted from 9:00-10:00pm. So at 8:57pm there is a several second glitch in the recording of Lucifer when the recording for The Gifted starts. FWIW, the glitch is not in the recording of The Gifted (at the very start)
Here's a trimmed .ts snippet (~10MB) of the above mentioned glitch. Just unzip it with 7-Zip and see how it plays. This particular glitch resulted in truncation by Avidemux.
This issue is bad enough that I plan to revert back to 3.6.6 from 4.0.4.
I'm using multiple HD HomeRun tuners recording broadcast ATSC OTA in the US on a gigabit network. The recording system is running Windows 10 Pro on a 4C/8T Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 CPU with 32GB of ECC RAM and the recordings go to a 1TB Samsung 850 Evo SSD that is not used for anything but "DVR" space. The system is basically idle and should be more than capable for basic headless "DVR" duty.
I've been playing with NEWA off and on for a couple days, and I can't find any configuration that works. I have a working NextPVR system on my home server, which I can access remotely through Kodi DVR just fine. I can reach the NEWA home screen / guide from anywhere, but whenever I try to watch anything, depending on the system, I get either a blank window or a window that claims to be missing a vlc plugin.
I have an Ubuntu system and a Windows 10 system, both have VLC installed, tried any and all browsers, made the (x86) path change where applicable, done everything I can think of... researching the vlc plugin it is requesting, it doesn't seem like it exists. There are some references to having it stream directly through VLC, but I can't find any way to enable such behavior. I've googled all I can google, to no avail. But people here seem to be using NEWA somehow... can somebody give me a clue here, what are y'all doing that works?
I have the Hauppauge Quad tuner (model 1609) and have noticed repeatedly that if I'm viewing a channel on one of my Kodi boxes and have 2 or more available channels available, NextPVR steals the channel being used for viewing for a scheduled recording. Why does this happen? Is there anything I can do to prevent this problem from occurring?
After looking over some of my logs to troubleshoot a problem with X-Newa, Martin suggested that my server may be taking excessively long to start playback and that there were some unusual log messages.
Please could you take a look at the logs and tell me if you see anything wrong?
