I was thinking about changing from Windows 10 to Windows Server 2012 R2 on the PC that runs nextPVR. I use Windows Server 2012 R2 for my movie server and teamed 2 NICs and noticed it was easier to stream to multiple media servers (Raspberry Pi3 using Kodi) in my house. I was thinking of doing the same thing with the PC currently running nextPVR. I am hoping that teaming NICs would allow my media servers to watch TV to maybe get rid of some cable boxes.

Enough rambling, would Windows Server 2012 R2 be a better solution? Does anyone have a similar setup or can offer some advice?

Thanks

Howdy folks,

I have an rpi3 client. I understand there are other forums that support it and belieb me i am asking for support there too... on its own issues.

This time I've confirmed a nextpvr issue by running upstairs to where my server is and trying to play a channel in nextpvr right after the rpi had problem. Choosing any channel, even SD in nextpvr made a blank screen. This instance occured on 7/21/2016 ~ 2:15pm ... i was going to pastebin just those logs but then i read your sticky and you want all the logs in the folder, zipped. so here they are.

the other logs may tell tales of rpi3 buffering and stuttering during playback, and big time trouble when channel switching. i am working on optimizing its configuration. when set to just one channel, it can work 80%... it's on wifi so it buffers every once in awhile and i expect to fix with cache settings. it is butter smooth bringing up menus and cpu is not stressed. it's really close to working. if you're intrersted in my rpi3 issues, here's a link:

https://discourse.osmc.tv/t/rpi-buffer-s...wifi/17948

Otherwise, please help with why nextPVR sometimes comes up blank the way it just did this pm? sometimes it goes right into a channel and works fine, outside of buffering issues.

Also, i havent touched the settings in ffdshow (ffdshow mplayer codecs are what i use for everything in the decoders page, lav does nothing, and you all say better performance than windoze dtv whatevers)

Are there settings i may use in nextpvr to optimize the stream and make it more wifi friendly? but in all seriousness, why this morning it startup fine, now it comes up blank? i bet if i restart it'll work ok for awhile.

Many thanks for your helps.

i confirm closing nextpvr app and service, then restarting them has produced an sd image on my pc, also within 5s we may switch to hd espn and that works too.

Making progress on changing the channels on my STB using a USB-UIRT and uutx.exe to send the IR codes.

I can send the codes fine from the command line and the channel changes. That works fine for single digit channels. But for more than one digit I have to have several uutx commands in the bat file, one for each digit. That also works okay.
However if I use that same bat file in this option in Nextpvr it doesn't seem to execute the bat file at all. I know that it's invoking that part of the code since if I have uutx.exe as the exe and the hex string for the code to send as the argument that works okay. But I need to send more than one code and a bat file seems to be the only way. nrecord.log indicates that it tried to execute the bat file

<tuning>
<type>HDPVR</type>
<locator>
<channel>18</channel>
<input>1</input>
<audio_input>RCA Front</audio_input>
<blaster_executable>C:\Apps\xmlTVNZ\18.bat</blaster_executable>
<blaster_args>{channel}</blaster_args>
</locator>
</tuning>

but there is no error nor is uutx executed.

Have I missed something here?

The commands with codes work - the bat file does not

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I am using the TV Listings plugin from the NextPVR TV Listings wiki page.

My issue, as you can see from the image, is when you go to Listings and choose Categories the popup box doesn't scroll so if you have more categories than 15 your mouse curser goes off the screen and it is anyone's guess which category you get

I've looked at Skin\Default\TV Listings\CategoriesPopup.xml and I see where there is a markup for scrolling but am lost in getting it to work.

Any ideals? I do recognize compatibility is for NPVR_v3_3 and I am using NPVR 3.7.7


category-popup-npvr.png @ Chambers.pw

Also could the wiki author point to this forum instead of GBPVR. It just gives 404 error.
This plugin is discussed here: http://forums.gbpvr.com/forumdisplay.php?f=45

I am one of the hold outs from Windows 7 and wanting to convert to Win 10 before next week when I will have to pay for it. I have a Silicon Dust HomeRun Prime cable card device setup to the storage drive of my computer which has served me well for years. But WMC is gone from Win 10 as we all know. I have 30 or more hours of HD TV programs recorded from WMC in the .wtv format that I would like to import into Next PVR which uses the .xml format. I'm so happy to be able to finally find a simple program like NPVR because I found Kodi just to damned complex for an old guy like myself. Is there an easy way to convert the WMC files to .xml so that I don't loose all that programing when I upgrade to win 10? I would certainly be grateful for any assistance that anyone may be able to offer.

Love the category search feature on this plugin!

Two suggestions I have.

After the search, it would be really nice to be able to group by title. WMC has this feature. It just shows one title for each movie. You click on it and it gives you options for other showings.


It would be nice to be able to search for series. Schedules Direct does not always seem to but this in genre. But I think the showType might list series. It would be nice to be able to search on showType.

I'm attempting to update the EPG via a batch command and it seems as though NPV isn't running the batch file.

I've placed the file named "UpdateEPG.bat" in the following folder (C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts) and have set the time in the app but it doesn't appear to kick off, any ideas?

The .bat file works as I can manually kick it off and the tvguide.xml file is updated.

VB,

Hi,

I have been trying out schedule direct and just spent a while linking the channels correctly to the right SD information.
I then thought I would refresh the EPG to see how much data SD actually gave & I got a crash when it gets to the stage : updating recording schedule
It pops up an error NextPVR has stopped working and allows me to debut or close program.

I have attached my NPVR.log file below in case that helps.
I have not included other logs have they have not been changed for at least an hour (having opened and investigated the logs myself).

Thanks

Phil

There seems to be a bug where comskip pauses after skipping a break and requires pressing the ff button to resume play. Any help on a fix will make my wife extremely happy. Thank you.

Upgraded to Windows 10 again. No problems this time apart from this one minor niggle. Although Ir.exe is listed as a startup program in Win10, and set to start automatically, it never does start.
(Ir.exe is the driver for Hauppauge remote controls, which work perfectly with NextPVR once the program is added to Irremote.ini as per the Wiki).
Ir.exe runs fine when I double-click on the .exe, or use 'Restart IR' in the Hauppauge folder, so not a big deal but it always started fine in Win7...
Anybody else experienced startup programs not running in Windows 10? Some threads on Win10 forums say turn off UAC, but that seems a bit drastic...

BTW only upgraded to NextPVR from GBPVR a couple of weeks ago - the end of the Radio Times XMLTV guide data was the final push I needed - I may have been the last GBPVR user on the planet