Hi
When I schedule a show to record and select Record Season (New Episodes On This Channel) it records old and new episodes. Is there any way to just record the new episodes?

My PVR has a Hauppauge 1609 tuner card. It came with a winky dinky remote control, that doesn't seem to work with NPVR, it didn't even seem to work with the Hauppauge software to well either. I would like a remote that works with all my other devices (TV,DVD player and Direc TV receiver more may be added later). I know Logitech has several remotes, at least one of which is suppose to be compatible with more devices then most other remotes. I do not want to buy it though without being sure it will work with my card.

Anybody have any recommendations for a good reliable remote control. For what it is worth I prefer Logitech devices ad currently have a Logitech mouse and keyboard if it happens to use the same USB receiver.

I am currently using a wireless mouse and keyboard as a remote.

Thank You

First please let me say that I have wanted a PVR for years. For the last decade or so I have only Direc TV which my understanding, there is no tuner card that will work. In other words to watch TV with Direct TV you have to use their DVRs and receivers. I recently decided to put up an aerial antenna and was surprised at how many channels I could get. So I decided that I would use my tax refund to build a PVR. However, I still do not have it set up the way I want it, need more money for that!

That being said I have been experiencing quit a few issues of NextPVR, these are listed in ascending order of importance:

1. First npvr hangs or freezes, then in a few seconds Windows forces it to close. Sometimes opening the program and continuing the video it will crash again and other times there are no issues. I cannot swear to it, but it mostly seems to be only happen with programs recorded on one channel. This can occur several times watching a ½ hour program, however I am currently almost 2 hours since the last crash
   
2. Channel 2.2 (LAFF) has four fours of one show I want to record daily, this show is the main reason I put up the aerial in the first place, for some reason only 2 hours of the four are recorded
   
3. Occasionally, some of my channels disappear, for a lack of a better way to put it. I currently do not have a remote that works, so I tune using the on-screen controls with a mouse. Sometimes channels 2.1 (ABC), 2.2 (LAFF) and 2.3 (BOUNC) are not available. Of these three 2.2 is the only one I currently care about. I am not sure about any others. I usually only watch shows that have been record so I can skip through the commercials.
   
4. I am not sure if it is from signal loss on the aerial that I am using or if it is a glitch with the software or what, but it seems video is skipped or missing.
   
5. I am using Schedules Direct to download programming data. However, it does not download data for all channels. I realize that they may not have data for all channels, I just want to verify that there is not something else going on. Some of the channels are again 2.1 2.2 and 2.3. For these channels I download the data over the antenna which only downloads about 12 hours at a time, that makes me a little uncomfortable, but if that is the way it is, then I will just have to deal with it. If it would at least download 24 hours at a time it wouldn’t be too bad.
   
6. Sometimes the video is in slow motion and the audio at normal speed for a few seconds, may 5 or 10 but not more than that. Then they are both at normal speeds
   
7. Occasionally, even though npvr is fast forwarding through the video at a high rate I still hear audio. When I stop it from fast forwarding it skips to the end of the video.
   

Hi,

I've got a problem which only happens when Kodi wakes from sleep. After the PC wakes, I find that I never have any guide data and on some occasions I have no channels at all. Restarting Kodi fixes the problem. Guide data and channels seems to be all present and accounted for if I access it through NextPVR itself.

I'm using NextPVR 4.0.4 and Kodi 17.4 (I've tried nightly builds to see if it fixes the problem but it doesn't) on a Windows 10 Pro OS. Can send logs if required just let me know which ones (I've found the auto log uploader to be a bit flakey as it generally says the website's unavailable but here's (https://paste.ubuntu.com/25659622/) a log I did manage to upload).

I'm at a loss to explain what's going on here. I don't think it's NextPVR but could it be the plugin? Could it be a firewall rule issue (I'm not sure how the addin accesses NextPVR's info)? Any thoughts?

SRJ.

Anyone try one of the very new HDHR Quatro boxes yet? Just got one today and the HDHR DVR picks it up by scans are not working in NPVR. No firewall problems that I can see.
I'll try again and if no luck, can send logs.

Currently using zap2xml and I am having problems with a couple of channels (Cartoon network and Nickelodeon) The Guide shows all of the correct shows that are airing but does not give me specific episode information (episode synopsis, or season or episode number). Has anyone run into this problem before and know how to fix it? Don't know if it matters but the service provider is Comcast.

Hi there

I record a lot of music videos with next pvr.

Some recorded music videos show a dotted white line across the top of the edge of the video.

NOTE - it only happens with some video clips, it seems to depend on the aspect ratio of the video clip whether it happens or not?

When viewing the video clips live on tv in next pvr or kodi the whole videos are stretched to the edges of the screen so there are no black borders around the edges usually.

However when I then view the recording the video is smaller with a black border showing around it rather than stretched to the edge of the screen like the live original?

Is there a way to make the recordings record and/or playback the same way (ie so the video clip takes up the whole screen), I assume this would resolve the problems of the white lines?

If not is there some way to stop the white lines?

I have attached a logs and 3 screenshots, 1 shows video without the white lines, 2 others show the white lines.

I appreciate any assistance.

Steve

I have NextPVR installed on a PC driving a DTV via HDMI and a NVIDIA GeForce 210 and using a wireless keyboard and mouse. Everything worked beautifully until I started fiddling.
Now, when I start the app the Main Menu page displays but the scaling (correct term?) is wrong. If I click on Recordings, I get Search. If I click on Live TV, I get Music. If I click on Pictures, the app Exits. I can't get to TV Guide or Live TV from the Main Menu. You get the idea!
All the functions appear to work fine, I just can't access them from the Main Menu.
I have tried the typicals, like delete and re-install.
Any ideas?
Thanks in anticipation.

I recently updated to windows 10 and was a long time WMC user for OTA TV through my antenna. With the upgrade i decided to switch over to NEXTPVR for my OTA viewing. I am 100% happy with how easy the set up was and the interface but is there a way to fine tune the picture quality? I have an LG 55OLEDC7P and the live TV is very pixelated. I understand that im stretching a 1080i picture to 2160p but it looks like its just stretching the picture rather then up converting it. Where the pixel edges are pretty much just sharp corners with no smoothing at all?

On my old 1080p TV with WMC live TV the picture was outstanding and better then with my 4K TV. Are there any tips you can give me to optimize the OTA video quality so that it looks smother and better? I looked in NEXTPVR but im not finding any settings. Do I need to adjust the TV setting or even the Nvidia? I would rather adjust in NEXTPVR because other video from Netflix or BD disc is great and i have no issues there.

When recording programmes that are on several different channels (eg new episodes on one channel and repeated episodes on another, or where the same programme is available on both SD and HD channels) it would be useful for there to be a Settings | Recording | File Naming tick-box option to include either the channel name or the channel's LCN in the filename, to allow them to be distinguished. The channel name is included in the matching XML file, but this is only created once the recording has finished, and isn't visible during recording. Also, it is useful to be able to check in the Status Monitor tray icon.

Maybe a filename could be BBC News at One_LCN 101_20171005_13001330 versus BBC News at One_LCN 1_20171005_13001330 or else BBC News at One_BBC One NE&C_20171005_13001330 versus BBC News at One_BBC One HD_20171005_13001330. Including the channel gives added confirmation in the status monitor that the correct version is being recorded, and to distinguish new from repeated episodes when they are saved to the same folder (because they are the same programme title).

This feature is one of the few things that I miss that was in Windows Media Centre.