I'm running NextPVR 3.9.2 on a Windows 7 PC. On the Settings | Clients page, I've enabled Web Server, using the default port 8866. The PC is hard-coded (by address reservation on my router) so it is always given the same IP address.

Other PCs and my mobile phone can browse to 192.168.1.8:8866 and see the listings and the recordings - usually...

But after a reboot of the NextPVR PC (eg after a power cut) the web server does not always seem to work. I can see this by running a TCP port-finder such as NMAP: the PC not listening on port 8866, which it normally does. Even if I run a browser on the NextPVR PC (as opposed to another one), there's no response.

Everything else works: the server can still access the recording device, it can still get listings updates. The recording service is running. The NextPVR console application is running. Other TCP services such as SMB/NetBios (for \\server\share access to folders) work fine.


The only remedy I've found is to kill the Ntray process and restart the NPVR recording service (which restarts Ntray), in the hope that eventually the web server will start listening on port 8866 - usually three or four kill/restart cycles will eventually kick it into action.

Does anyone have any suggestions for what other diagnostics I could run.

Recordings work but when I try to watch live TV in Kodi, the status screen shows that it is being sent but the computer with Kodi on it just spins the wait symbol. I am using Kodi 17.1 on a windows 10 machine with the NPVR server on a windows 7 machine. Attached are the log files from the server.

Great app, Sub!

I see the comskip commercial break marks when viewing a show but the commercials are not skipped. Is there a setting somewhere to turn this feature on? I couldn't find one. I searched this forum but couldn't find an answer.

Thanks.

This has been covered before but I bring it up because the problem still persists.
NextPVR 3.9.2
Tuner: Hauppauge WinTV DCR-2650 (2 HD tuners)
O/S: Windows 10 Pro (64-bit)

Note I confirmed with Comcast that most HD channels are now MPEG4. However a few channels (mostly local ones) are still MPEG2).

After reading old posts I went back and took a look at the NextPVR Settings. I saw that all HD channels were set to MPEG2 SD. That would explain why I could not see some channels. In NextPVR Settings:
In Device double-click on 1st tuner
Right-click on first HD channel and select Edit Channel
If I already could hear and see it: change Service Type from MPEG2 SD to MPEG2 HD
else if I could hear and but not see it: change Service Type from MPEG2 SD to H.264 HD
I had to do this for all the channels > 1000

To copy changes to second tuner:
Select 1st Tuner
Select Export Channels
Select 2nd Tuner
Select Import Channels

Now I am a happy camper...at least for watching live TV. I now have to see if I can set up a service for EPG data.

I am sorry if this has been covered, but it just started happening to me yesterday. I am using a Silicon Duct Home Run Prime without issuse, unless you consider a slow moving guide an issue. Starting yesterday after selecting a show from the guilde and pressing watch, the screen goes black, then returns to page where I would selected watch. I believe everything is configured correctly, but what do I konw. I would be grateful if someone could point me in the proper direction.

Thank you

As discussed in this thread, both of these recordings would freeze if I attempted to skip forward. Each is a 150mb chunk from the beginning of the .ts file:

Kimmel:
https://1.sharebylink.com/1/?PHyp2KXao6aP

Amazing Race:
https://3.sharebylink.com/1/?Ulv6f74iz113

Please let me know if you need any other information. Logs are available in the thread linked to above.

Thanks!

Hi,

Trying to create a media center server to my TV. I have 2 options for displaying the media files. I can see the PS3 Media Server or my WIN 10 Media Server on both Dish Network Media or my Vizeo Smart TV. Now here is the problem. I can click on my .ts or my .mpg files and neither will play the file. Is there a way to have Next PVR save in the MP4 format? I also have WIN TV 8. Both software are saving scheduled TV.

I want a dont touch anything, everything just works solution rather than a you can convert the files manually using this freeware / payware solution. WIN TV 8 is saving .mpg files. I believe it is converting the .ts file after the initial creation.

I have already downloaded DIVX, which seems to have a pretty good manual converter solution but the conversion process is slow, even on my dedicated gaming PC. I also have Wondershare, which seems to be faster. (but I dont want to have to use these)

Thanks

This past Friday night NextPVR correctly recorded back-to-back episodes of The Amazing Race. These were the first recordings I had watched since I installed comskip and I was excited to see how well it worked.

First episode played perfectly. I was able to skip around, pause, etc. - no problems.

Second episode - when I tried to "skip" forward (to get to the start of the episode), NextPVR seemed to freeze, then it displayed a message "This recording was watched to completion. Would you like to delete this recording?". I renamed the comskip files for this episode, but the same problem occurred. If I play the .ts file in a third-party player (Media Player Classic or VLC) it works fine.

I have had this same problem occur before, so it seems to happen on a recording-by-recording basis. Some recordings are perfect, others freeze/dump out if I do anything other than let them play.

Any help greatly appreciated.

PC: Win7, x64...should have plenty of power/memory

Source: HDHomeRun (the old dual model), recording OTA HD (KHOU in Houston).

I have posted an update to Searchlite on the wiki with several improvements and features.

Upcoming

This feature provides a list of upcoming new shows and season premiers on TV (primarily US and UK channels) and on several streaming services (Netflix, Amazon, Hulu etc) for the months ahead. Shows not in EPG can still be recorded as an Advanced Rule.

Advanced Query
(new option on Alt-Y or Menu->Query)

Search on NextPVR using advanced rules to make as custom a query as you'd like. A possible example is

Hi, I just made the upgrade to NPVR 3.9.2. My server is on Microsoft Windows WHS2011 - the latest windows upgrades were also installed at the same time.

On my NMTs (A110s) the menus operate fine, but when I playback a recorded .ts file the playback will run for a few seconds max and then crash - either back to the recordings menu or with a lockup (black screen) of the NMT which then requires a reset.

The same files played through the native NMT interface play fine (so I have a long winded work-around). The NPVR PC client also plays the recordings OK.

Syntax checker output run against the my test NMT shows:

[COLOR="#0000CD"]Checking for mvpmc share on BLINK
mvpmc F:\ServerFolders\Public\mvpmc

Checking GB-PVR.html links
F:\ServerFolders\Public\mvpmc \GB-PVR.html not found

NMT IP Address: 10.0.0.210 MAC 0006DC43541B

GB-PVR Not Installed

N-PVR Installed F:\ServerFolders\Public\NPVR
<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/NETWORK_SHARE/BLINK:mvpmc/npvr.cgi">N-PVR</a>
<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/NETWORK_SHARE/NETWORK_BROWSER/browser.cgi">N-PVR via Network Browser</a>
<a href="http://localhost.drives:8883/USB_DRIVE_A-1/mvpmc/usb_a.cgi">N-PVR via USB</a>

config.xml entry found Client Type PCH2
MVPName Test_PCH
MVPClientType PCH2
MVPWidth 1180
MVPHeight 680
MVPOffsetX 40
MVPOffsetY 32
MVPSendIncrementalUpdates true
MVPAspectRatio default
MVPSkin Default
MVPPreferredMenuStyle slideout

Enabled true
Port 8866

The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error.

Checking NMT Version
01-17-101217-15-POP-403-000

Checking NMT Display
720p 60Hz

Calling NMT Source
BLINK:mvpmc
smb://BLINK/mvpmc Username: Password Length: 0

BLINK:Videos
smb://BLINK/Videos Username: PCH Password Length: 7 [/COLOR]

I cleared the logs, restarted the NPVR server and attempted to play some recordings on the test machine. The first two dropped back to the menu screen and the last one froze the NMT - zipped logs attached. My TS files are all recorded from a DVB-S2 sat card, mostly in HD but SD recordings playback also fail in the same way

Any and all suggestions gratefully received.

Chris