Alright I am thinking I just need to upgrade the hardware in my computer but I would like to get some thoughts before I go doing such things. Here's my problem. If something is recording and we're watching live TV on the main box, and then someone tries to watch something on a different device connected through wifi, there is a lot of buffering and or stuttering. Else if it's not recording both live streams are clear.
I'm not sure if it's the HTPC's hardware or my networking job. The HTPC is a single HHD, 8GB, intel i3, integrated GPU of sorts. I'm currently not near the PC to give exact specs. My networking job is as follows. The tuner and HTPC are connected to a secondary router with wifi turned off. That router is plugged into a network powerline adapater to connect to the main router that has the the modem connected and has wifi turned on.
It seems that any web interface will not show in Edge. Now I wonder how to disable transcoding in order to save limited resources. I'm aware that it would be impossible to play all national channels still on MPEG-2, but that's less important. Add filter by service type on Now page?
Not only that. I found that even some browsers like Opera will play it inside simple html5 page.
It might be useful to add optional EPG parameter which would enable VLC to display current song?
Im using emby and would like to use NextPVR as backend for live tv. And here is my problem:
Emby plugin for NextPVR can not use the groups in NextPVR server, so it shows me always "All channels", which are quite a lot (>1000).
I can rearrange this channels from within NextPVR settings, but then I have to move each channel step by step to the beginning by pressing the + button (which takes 0.5 seconds for each step). This means, for a channel on position 1000, I have to click 1000x the plus button, which takes 500 seconds at least. I have 20 channels to move, so this would be a hard working weekend for me ;-)
Ok, I can not believe that there is no good way to do this... I really need help here.
I just found a problem recording made with one of my HDHR Prime (cablecard) tuners a few weeks ago. The problem recording is Chicago Med.S02E10.Heart Matters.ts. As I was watching Chicago Med, I noticed that at the end of it, an episode of Nightwatch began playing. The odd thing is that Chicago Med is on channel 811 and Nightwatch is on channel 829.
I don't have the nrecord.log file from 23 days ago. But my recordings log file shows that HDHR Prime Tuner 1-1 was used for both this recording and Nightwatch immediately following it:
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Thu 01/12/2017 19:59:02.09 Recording "E:\NPVR Recordings2\Chicago Med\Chicago Med.S02E10.Heart Matters.ts" from channel 811 on tuner "HDHR Prime Tuner 1-1"
Thu 01/12/2017 21:01:00.52 Recording "E:\NPVR Recordings2\Nightwatch\Nightwatch.S03E07.105 and Rising.ts" from channel 829 on tuner "HDHR Prime Tuner 1-1"
And my postprocessing.log file, shows that Chicago Med did appear to keep recording through the full 5 minute post-padding with the Postprocessing.bat being invoked at 21:05:
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Postprocessing.bat invoked for recording "E:\NPVR Recordings2\Chicago Med\Chicago Med.S02E10.Heart Matters.ts" (OID 186591) from channel 811 at Thu 01/12/2017 21:05:00.27
So it seems that after NextPVR changed the channel the HDHR tuner was tuned to, it kept recording the new channel's stream during the post-padding time into the .ts file of the first show. And, I think that this situation may be causing even more problems for playback because channel 829 is broadcast in H.264 while channel 811 is broadcast in MPEG-2. So the Chicago Med .ts file starts out as MPEG-2 video but then ends with H.264 video.
Well, this is odd. I was watching a recording , took a break out in my shop, came back an hour or so later, and now the sound is gone! Checked the sound from the desktop that runs NextPVR, no problem. Took the sound cable out of the desktop and plugged it into another source and there was sound through my amp and speakers, so no problem there. The only thing left is that NextPVR is no longer working with the LAV sound decoders. I installed a new copy and still nothing. I am stuck. Hope someone can figure out why no sound. I can still record and watch them through KODI, but I really prefer using NextPVR. Logs below.
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UPDATE:
Well this really got odd. I found some time to remove all the sound codec packages, did another download, and a reinstall. After a restart of the desktop, all the sound is back. There must have been a microscopic bug crawling around in one of the chips. Best answer I can come up with......
I use LibreELEC running on an RPi 3 as my primary NextPVR user interface/client. I have the recording devices mapped as SMB drives from my NextPVR server to the RPi and use advancedsettings.xml with path substitution redirect the player to access the .ts files directly from the SMB drives rather than via NextPVR's HTTP streaming (in order to get .edl skipping support).
Recently I've been having problems with several recordings where the playback will stall for various lengths of time. Sometimes Kodi will display a Buffering message. Other times it just stalls for a while before beginning playing again. Often this happens during/after a commercial skip or a manual skip forward during playback. So far, I haven't been able to track down the cause. I don't think that it is network/hardware related. It seems more like it is related to the contents of the .ts file because some files will exhibit this problem multiple times during playback and other files will play just fine.
I just updated to the latest LibreELEC Beta (v. 1.95.2) and am still having the problem. When the problem happens, the kodi.log file is showing some/all of these errors:
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WARNING: CRenderManager::WaitForBuffer - timeout waiting for buffer
ERROR: CDVDAudio::AddPacketsRenderer - timeout adding data to renderer
ERROR: Previous line repeats 73 times.
NOTICE: CVideoPlayerAudio::Process - stream stalled
And when this situation just happened while playing a file, I turned on debugging (at 14:43:42 in the attached kodi.log), continued waiting and watching through a couple of skips, and then zipped the attached logs.
I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing similar problems or has ideas about where I look next to try to fix the issue(s).
Also, I also noticed an HTTP 404 error in the logs when I pressed the Info key, but I don't think that is at all related. Maybe something else to look at fixing, though:
I need some Linux help and am wondering if any of the experts out there could guide me here. I am by no means proficient with Linux (just know some basic commands).
I am experimenting with the OpenElec version of Kodi and it seems to behaving quite nicely. However, I have one issue that I need some help on.
If I put OpenElec in suspend mode (sleep), then wake it up, the NextPVR addon does not function - it appears it needs to be refreshed or restarted - I suppose this isn't first time someone has stumbled over this issue.
Is there a way to restart the addon from within Kodi (without rebooting the box) or preferably, use a script (like I do in Windows) that automatically fires off when the box wakes up that kills the old instance of the Nextpvr addon and restarts the addon?
If a script is required, would someone kindly post one that would work in this instance? I have never written a Linux script, so any help would be appreciated.
npvr version 3.9.2._161119
I have re-installed npvr but the error still persists
Vlc 32bit has all defaults set within Win10 B1607
The configuration page has the correct location for vlc
The streamer window appears, using all defaults, click stream =error
I have read other posts here and tried the suggested 'answers' =error
I have added firewall exceptions
I do not see any errors in the web.log
This error message is not something I can resolve myself so appreciate any comments you may have to resolve this.
Thank you for your time
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The system cannot find the file specified
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file specified
Source Error:
Line 211:
Line 212: //Start the VLC process on the server
Line 213: proc = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(psi);
Line 214:
Line 215: //Set the priority of the started process based off of user configuration
I've got a Windows 10 PC running NextPVR 3.9.2.(161119) using a Hauppauge PCTV 290e DVB-T2 receiver.
Everything was running fine until I had to move things around in my lounge, which required me unplugging everything and reconnecting it.
Now NextPVR won't record anything, and if I try LiveTV I get the message "Unable to find available capture device (Unable to locate tuner filter (PCTV 80e/290e/460e BDA 2875 TVTuner))".
I've reloaded NextPVR, gone into Devices, removed all devices and set them up again. It seems to find the Tuner ok and even finds the channels. In devices I now have this listed:
I am hoping someone in this forum can help me because something really odd is happening.
I have the web server enabled in the NPVR software. Default port 8866. My Windows PC has a static ip of 192.168.0.17
I am familiar with network configurations so I can assure you that my router has a port open to send all traffic to my NPVR windows PC that comes in on port 8866
Here is where things get strange for me.
I can ping my WAN IP address and get a reply. All seems to be working fine.
So, if I go to my phone or tablet, I type http:\\50.325.46.99:8866 (Not really my IP address, but, you get the picture. I just didnt want to post the real IP) and I get page cannot be displayed.
But the part that is strange is, even if I type my local IP on my tablet or phone http:\\192.168.0.17:8866, it STILL comes up page cannot be idsplayed
the only place the web server actually works is if I open a browser on the PC that has NPVR installed and use my local IP. I can't even use http:\\50.325.46.99:8866 on the PC with NPVR as it still cannot display the page.
I hope this is making sense
I attached my log files (not sure if they will help in this case, but, they are there)
