I have been using NextPVR for about 3 years now - works great! Recently I have experienced a number of crashes for NRecord.exe. The logs do not show an issue, everything looks fine and then the process just seems to stop. Looking at the windows event log I found the following:
I have the NPVR Recording Service configured to restart after 1 minute on failure - which it did.
I am running version 4.0.4, .Net 4.6.2 Windows 7 Pro, Service Pack 1
I knew I shouldn't have done the upgrade right before TV shows came on. I noticed that the new version had been out for over a month so I thought I would quickly upgrade. Big mistake! Now when I try to watch live TV I just get a black screen and maybe an occasional audio blip. I checked to see if the shows were recording and they are recording fine. I figured it is some sort of a decoder issue with watching live TV? Any ideas, I would appreciate them!
The system has 4 turners, there's only 1 show on in that time slot (10pm), on 2 channels, wanting to record both using the All Episodes, All Channels setting (have it as such), all this seems to do is pick the first one in that hour and record it only, sadly, that caused the show to be lost due to a bad signal interruption, the other station probably was stable, but I wouldn't know, it never tried to record it.
4.0.4, occasionally will when you click on a show and select play, will refuse to play, just get a black screen, back out and click and play again, and it's a crapshoot if it works or not. Also, the "skip" ahead or back (seeking) on a show where the signal went south (at the beginning, middle, anywhere really) can cause the comskip to record properly, but the player itself will refuse to skip ahead or back, the instant you try manually, it starts at the beginning of the stream. It also cannot play through bad signal loss files (had one today of The Orville, wouldn't play through it, but Windows Media Player will).
Not sure what to say, but anyone with satellite, cable, ota, with a signal failure part way through the show, will not be able to play it and if they on the mere luck can play it, you can't skip through it forward or backward, (comskip can't do it either).
Still seeing that 2 second video frame lag on all skips (including automatic commercial skip), the audio works though.
GuruSR.
P.S. Any chances of moving the "settings" to an actual menu item and out of that super tiny window that will most likely look like a small box on 4k?
I came back from holiday and now my iptv channels don't play and I get this error (unable to find available capture device the remote server obtained the error:401 unauthorised). the epg is still working and I checked the m3u link on vlc player and it is working I have also deleted nextpvr including the user file and reinstalled still no joy. I have hit google pretty hard today but I'm totally baffled can anyone help I would normally have given up by now but nextpvr is the best pc media centre imo so would like a fix
Just recently NPVR is recording all of these 6 minute 40 second .ts files to the temp directory and filling up my hard drive. I never changed anything so i don't know where to turn this off. I have to go in and delete them before they crash my computer. I've been using this for about 2 years and this just started. How do i turn it off ?
Thanks
Mike
I have set up the Hauppauge 950Q with Nextpvr, and everything works very well when I'm recording OTA ATSC broadcasts. However I'd like to record some TV shows off my cable box as well, and I'm not sure how to do IR commands in that case.
Is there an IR blaster I can get? Does it connect to the Hauppauge 950Q tuner directly, or does it connect to the computer via USB directly? How do I configure it in settings afterwards?
While I was looking through my NRecord.log for info on the archiving problem, I also saw a couple of messages and errors that I'm curious about. None of these are critical, but when you have a chance, if you could look at them, it might help a bit with troubleshooting in the future.
Here's the section of the log file for a recording starting (the full logfiles are attached to my message about archiving):
Code:
2017-09-23 18:59:01.392 [DEBUG][10] DefaultDirectoryChoice: first
2017-09-23 18:59:01.392 [DEBUG][10] Advanced manual recurring recording is using name: Series Premiers
2017-09-23 18:59:01.392 [DEBUG][10] Preferred filename is 'Live PD Police Patrol Overtime.S01E01.Police Patrol'
2017-09-23 18:59:01.393 [DEBUG][10] allocating recording target filename: E:\NPVR Recordings2\Live PD Police Patrol Overtime\Live PD Police Patrol Overtime.S01E01.Police Patrol.ts
2017-09-23 18:59:01.393 [DEBUG][10] About to start recording (213803 on 1566): E:\NPVR Recordings2\Live PD Police Patrol Overtime\Live PD Police Patrol Overtime.S01E01.Police Patrol.ts...
2017-09-23 18:59:01.393 [DEBUG][10] Free space 1130492379136 (E:\)
2017-09-23 18:59:01.393 [DEBUG][10] HDHomeRunRecorder.StartStream()
2017-09-23 18:59:01.393 [DEBUG][10] HDHomeRunRecorder@2.0
2017-09-23 18:59:01.393 [DEBUG][10] HDHomeRunRecorder@2.1
2017-09-23 18:59:01.393 [DEBUG][10] HDHomeRunRecorder@2.2 nextPort=36316
2017-09-23 18:59:01.393 [DEBUG][10] HDHomeRunRecorder@2.2.0
2017-09-23 18:59:01.393 [DEBUG][10] HDHomeRunRecorder@2.2.0@allocated
2017-09-23 18:59:01.393 [DEBUG][10] HDHomeRunRecorder@2.3
2017-09-23 18:59:01.393 [DEBUG][10] Allocated port: 36316
2017-09-23 18:59:01.393 [DEBUG][10] HDHomeRunRecorder@3
2017-09-23 18:59:01.393 [DEBUG][10] HDHR 'Model': hdhomerun3_cablecard
2017-09-23 18:59:01.393 [DEBUG][10] HDHR 'Application': Default
2017-09-23 18:59:01.393 [DEBUG][10] About to start HDHR device. Checking status for information sake... (could tell if it's already in use elsewhere)
2017-09-23 18:59:01.393 [DEBUG][10] Executing: C:\Program Files\Silicondust\HDHomeRun\hdhomerun_config.exe 131EA0C1 get /tuner1/status
2017-09-23 18:59:01.430 [DEBUG][10] Status: ch=none lock=none ss=0 snq=0 seq=0 bps=0 pps=0
2017-09-23 18:59:01.561 [ERROR][89] Unexpected error looking up metadata: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at NShared.TheTVDBMetadataPlugin.LookupMetadata(MetadataEntity entity)
2017-09-23 18:59:01.784 [DEBUG][71] Using URL: https://json.schedulesdirect.org/20141201
2017-09-23 18:59:01.877 [DEBUG][71]
{"account":{"expires":"2018-06-20T02:23:17Z","messages":[],"maxLineups":4},"lineups":[{"lineup":"USA-MN58526-X","modified":"2017-09-13T01:58:19Z","uri":"\/20141201\/lineups\/USA-MN58526-X"},{"lineup":"USA-OTA-55106","modified":"2017-08-27T00:39:56Z","uri":"\/20141201\/lineups\/USA-OTA-55106"}],"lastDataUpdate":"2017-09-23T20:55:20Z","notifications":[],"systemStatus":[{"date":"2015-09-08T00:00:00Z","status":"Online","message":"No known issues."}],"serverID":"20141201.web.1","datetime":"2017-09-23T23:59:01Z","code":0}
2017-09-23 18:59:02.347 [DEBUG][71] Got poster
2017-09-23 18:59:02.430 [DEBUG][10] Executing: C:\Program Files\Silicondust\HDHomeRun\hdhomerun_config.exe 131EA0C1 set /tuner1/lockkey 100566
2017-09-23 18:59:02.494 [DEBUG][10] SetIncomingPort@2
2017-09-23 18:59:02.494 [DEBUG][10] SetIncomingPort@exit
2017-09-23 18:59:02.494 [DEBUG][10] Executing: C:\Program Files\Silicondust\HDHomeRun\hdhomerun_config.exe 131EA0C1 key 100566 set /tuner1/vchannel 829
2017-09-23 18:59:02.546 [DEBUG][10] ForcedIP.xml does not exists
2017-09-23 18:59:02.570 [DEBUG][10] 131EA0C1 can be found via adapter with ip address: 192.168.143.10
2017-09-23 18:59:02.570 [DEBUG][10] Executing: C:\Program Files\Silicondust\HDHomeRun\hdhomerun_config.exe 131EA0C1 key 100566 set /tuner1/target rtp://192.168.143.10:36316
2017-09-23 18:59:02.574 [DEBUG][10] SetIncomingPort@2
2017-09-23 18:59:02.574 [DEBUG][10] SetIncomingPort@exit
2017-09-23 18:59:02.575 [DEBUG][10] StartStream() returned handle=46
2017-09-23 18:59:02.575 [DEBUG][10] Allocated Handle: 46
2017-09-23 18:59:02.575 [DEBUG][10] Temp at 9/23/2017 6:59:12 PM
2017-09-23 18:59:02.575 [DEBUG][10] Started recording (213803:46:E:\NPVR Recordings2\Live PD Police Patrol Overtime\Live PD Police Patrol Overtime.S01E01.Police Patrol.ts)
2017-09-23 18:59:02.582 [DEBUG][75] cached catalog does not exist
2017-09-23 18:59:02.586 [DEBUG][10] Starting: C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\ParallelProcessing.bat "E:\NPVR Recordings2\Live PD Police Patrol Overtime\Live PD Police Patrol Overtime.S01E01.Police Patrol.ts" 829 213803 1566 "Live PD: Police Patrol: Overtime"
2017-09-23 18:59:02.630 [DEBUG][80] Got fanart
2017-09-23 18:59:02.694 [DEBUG][102] Got landscape
2017-09-23 18:59:02.695 [DEBUG][113] Downloading metadata and artwork took + 1316ms
2017-09-23 18:59:02.986 [ERROR][89] Unexpected error looking up metadata: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at NShared.TheTVDBMetadataPlugin.LookupMetadata(MetadataEntity entity)
2017-09-23 18:59:03.134 [DEBUG][89] Got poster
2017-09-23 18:59:03.789 [DEBUG][116] Got fanart
2017-09-23 18:59:03.943 [DEBUG][100] Got landscape
2017-09-23 18:59:03.945 [DEBUG][75] Downloading metadata and artwork took + 1363ms
1. There are a couple of Unexpected errors which I don't think are important, but can be confusing when looking for "real errors":
Code:
2017-09-23 18:59:01.561 [ERROR][89] Unexpected error looking up metadata: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at NShared.TheTVDBMetadataPlugin.LookupMetadata(MetadataEntity entity)
...
2017-09-23 18:59:02.986 [ERROR][89] Unexpected error looking up metadata: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at NShared.TheTVDBMetadataPlugin.LookupMetadata(MetadataEntity entity)
2. There is a message which says "cached catalog does not exist". What does that message mean?
Code:
2017-09-23 18:59:02.582 [DEBUG][75] cached catalog does not exist
3. Finally, can you eliminate the extra blank line when checking the HDHR status? I thought that you had done that before, but I'm still seeing it.
I've been using NextPVR's Archive function to move around some recordings. And it appears that when it moves a recording, it is not moving the *-thumbs.jpg file from the old location to the new location. (See the archives at 12:05-12:11 today in the NRecord.log file.)
Here the DeleteAdditionalExtensions from my config.xml:
