Just built a new system on a min-pc and found out the search from the client app not working.
I get the search menu, select a character, press return and nothing.
The web app works OK.
I have installed NextPVR 5.1.2 on my Windows 10 PC, and I have configured it to use a Hauppauge WinTV-quadHD tuner card. I can scan and watch live TV channels, but I have a problem with recording and playback. Whenever I try to record a program, either manually or with a schedule, the recording fails and I get an error message saying 'Recording failed: No video data received'. I also can't play back any recordings that I made before, as they are all corrupted and show a black screen. I have checked the log files, and they show some errors and warnings, such as 'Failed to open file', 'Failed to write to file', and 'Failed to read from file'. I have attached some screenshots of the recording settings and the log files.
Can anyone please help me fix this problem and enable recording and playback on NextPVR?
I'm using a Terratec H5 USB tuner and "Scan Channels" comes up empty as soon as I click the button.
I'm using the attached INI that should be trying to check as many possible channels as possible, but no luck.
Scans with other INI files come up empty as well, so that can be ruled out.
Doesn't make a difference whether the Media Portal 2 service is running or not, so that can be ruled out as well (e.g., conflict due to a locked resource)
A scan comes up with plenty of channels if I use Media Portal 2, so the hardware itself must be working.
There would theoretically be an alternative using TVHeadend, but on a Windows machine that only adds truckloads of new problems through the Linux subsystem and a whole world of hurt thanks to tutorials that have been outdated for over a decade.
A forum search led to an old thread that never came close to a solution, so that didn't help either. https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...erratec+h5
NextPVR seems to be my only remaining option for a working integration with Jellyfin, but I first need to get it wo work in itself, without hooking up another application.
Hope someone can help me find a solution.
Thanks in advance!
I have NextPVR running on Windows. I would like to get Comskip set up.
I installed Comskip to C:\comskip
I created a ParallelProcessing.bat file in C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts
containing:
Code:
@echo off
"c:\comskip\comskip" %1
However, I see no evidence of commercials being spotted, and pressing the play button when a commercial starts does not do anything.
What have I done wrong, please?
My C:\comskip\comskip.ini file contains:
Code:
; See comskip.txt in the distribution zip file for many settable parameters, read manual.html, tuning.html and debugwindow.html for how to tune and debug comskip
detect_method=43 ;1=black frame, 2=logo, 4=scene change, 8=fuzzy logic, 16=closed captions, 32=aspect ration, 64=silence, 128=cutscenes, 255=all
validate_silence=1 ; Default, set to 0 to force using this clues if selected above.
validate_uniform=1 ; Default, set to 0 to force using this clues (like pure white frames) if blackframe is selected above.
validate_scenechange=1 ; Default, set to 0 to force using this clues if selected above.
verbose=10 ;show a lot of extra info, level 5 is also OK, set to 0 to disable
max_brightness=60 ;frame not black if any pixels checked are greater than this (scale 0 to 255)
test_brightness=40 ;frame not pure black if any pixels checked are greater than this, will check average brightness (scale 0 to 255)
max_avg_brightness=25 ;maximum average brightness for a dim frame to be considered black (scale 0 to 255) 0 means autosetting
max_commercialbreak=600 ;maximum length in seconds to consider a segment a commercial break
min_commercialbreak=25 ;minimum length in seconds to consider a segment a commercial break
max_commercial_size=125 ;maximum time in seconds for a single commercial or multiple commercials if no breaks in between
min_commercial_size=4 ;mimimum time in seconds for a single commercial
min_show_segment_length=250 ; any segment longer than this will be scored towards show.
non_uniformity=500 ; Set to 0 to disable cutpoints based on uniform frames
max_volume=500 ; any frame with sound volume larger than this will not be regarded as black frame
min_silence=12 ; Any deep silence longer than this amount of frames is a possible cutpoint
ticker_tape=0 ; Amount of pixels from bottom to ignore in all processing
logo_at_bottom=0 ; Set to 1 to search only for logo at the lower half of the video, do not combine with subtitle setting
punish=0 ; Compare to average for sum of 1=brightness, 2=uniform 4=volume, 8=silence, 16=schange, set to 0 to disable
punish_threshold=1.3 ; Multiply when amount is above average * punish_threshold
punish_modifier=2 ; When above average * threshold multiply score by this value
intelligent_brightness=0 ; Set to 1 to use a USA specific algorithm to tune some of the settings, not adviced outside the USA
logo_percentile=0.92 ; if more then this amount of logo is found then logo detection will be disabled
logo_threshold=0.75
punish_no_logo=1 ; Default, set to 0 to avoid show segments without logo to be scored towards commercial
aggressive_logo_rejection=0
connect_blocks_with_logo=1 ; set to 1 if you want successive blocks with logo on the transition to be regarded as connected, set to 0 to disable
logo_filter=0 ; set the size of the filter to apply to bad logo detection, 4 seems to be a good value.
cut_on_ar_change=1 ; set to 1 if you want to cut also on aspect ratio changes when logo is present, set to 2 to force cuts on aspect ratio changes. set to 0 to disable
delete_show_after_last_commercial=0 ; set to 1 if you want to delete the last block if its a show and after a commercial
delete_show_before_or_after_current=0 ; set to 1 if you want to delete the previous and the next show in the recording, this can lead to the deletion of trailers of next show
delete_block_after_commercial=0 ;set to max size of block in seconds to be discarded, set to 0 to disable
remove_before=0 ; amount of seconds of show to be removed before ALL commercials
remove_after=0 ; amount of seconds of show to be removed after ALL commercials
shrink_logo=5 ; Reduce the duration of the logo with this amount of seconds
after_logo=0 ; set to number of seconds after logo disappears comskip should start to search for silence to insert an additional cutpoint
padding=0
ms_audio_delay=5
volume_slip=40
skip_b_frames=0 ; Set to 1 to force Comskip to skip frames for higher processing speed.
max_repair_size=200 ; Will repair maximum 200 missing MPEG frames in the timeline, set to 0 to disable repairing for players that don't use PTS.
disable_heuristics=4 bit pattern for disabling heuristics, adding 1 disables heristics 1, adding 2 disables heristics 2, adding 4 disables heristics 3, 255 disables all heuristics
delete_logo_file=0 ; set to 1 if you want comskip to tidy up after finishing
output_framearray=0 ; create a big excel file for detailed analysis, set to 0 to disable
output_data=0 ; create a dump of the user data channel, used for CC and XDS (such as V-Chip info). Can be use together with output_framearray to remote debug CC decoding
output_videoredo=0 ; The old videoredo format
output_videoredo3=0 ; The new videoredo v3 format.
output_womble=0
output_mls=0 ; set to 1 if you want MPeg Video Wizard bookmark file output
output_cuttermaran=0
output_mpeg2schnitt=0
output_mpgtx=0
output_dvrcut=0
output_zoomplayer_chapter=0
output_zoomplayer_cutlist=0
output_edl=3
edl_skip_field=3
output_dvrmstb=0 ; Set to 1 if you're running DVRMS-Toolbox
output_edlx=0
output_vcf=0
output_bsplayer=0
output_btv=0 ; set to 1 if you want Beyond TV chapter cutlist output
output_projectx=0 ; set to 1 if you want ProjectX cutlist output (Xcl)
output_avisynth=0
output_vdr=0 ; set to 1 if you want XBMC to skipping commercials
output_demux=0 ; set to 1 if you want comskip to demux the mpeg file while scanning
sage_framenumber_bug=0
sage_minute_bug=0
live_tv=1 ; set to 1 if you use parallelprocessing and need the output while recording
live_tv_retries=4 ; change to 16 when using live_tv in BTV, used for mpeg PS and TS
dvrms_live_tv_retries=300 ; only used for dvr_ms
standoff=0 ; change to 8000000 when using live_tv in BTV
cuttermaran_options="cut=\"true\" unattended=\"true\" muxResult=\"false\" snapToCutPoints=\"true\" closeApp=\"true\""
mpeg2schnitt_options="mpeg2schnitt.exe /S /E /R25 /Z %2 %1"
avisynth_options="LoadPlugin(\"MPEG2Dec3.dll\") \nMPEG2Source(\"%s\")\n"
dvrcut_options="dvrcut \"%s.dvr-ms\" \"%s_clean.dvr-ms\" "
windowtitle="Comskip - %s"
Is there a way to get the dropdown, in the manual channel mapping to xml file, in alphabetical order
With lots of channels its a long process finding the channel to match
Hello Everyone. I've had this problem before. Previously, used Win 10 to add an IP addressable network path similar to below.
Update the Nextpvr service with the LOG on as a local user
In the Web console, go to General, and select "Add Other Recording Directory"
\\192.168.0.112\Public\recordings
And this worked fine.
On a new Windows install, Server 2016, the Log on local user is not giving me access to the network and says "Unable to add recording directory:" from NextPVR. NextPVR works correctly as expected and records to the local C: virtual drive.
I have been using UIDroid since the original version, on two shield devices.
Went to use it last night on my 2019 Shield, and it opens up as per normal, but I cannot select anything, and cannot exit out of the application.
(have to force close the app)
I then discovered the latest version, so tried upgrading, only to discover that it does the same thing.
Curiously, UIdroid still works fine on the older 2017 Shield in my bedroom.
I installed the app onto both shields, and I believe that version was from March 2022, and was version 1.6x
I then completely nuked the uidroid app from my 2019 shield and rebooted.
I then installed the V2 app from the first post in the UIdroid forum.
Instead of a menu with everything non- selectable, I just get black screen, and can not access the settings menu.
After repeated app launches, I managed to get it to display the settings screen, and then manually entered my NextPVRserver details.
Still just get black screen.
I then installed an old version of UIdroid (1.44 or something), and it just worked as normal.
I then tried upgrading it to the latest V2 version apk.
The same thig happened, and the menu just becomes unelectable, and you have to force close the app.
Currently I seem to have completely screwed things on the shield 2019, and no version of UIDroid will work after installing anymore.
Tried clearing the cache, killing all data for the app. All unsuccessful.
Kodi nextpvr addon working fine, and likewise any other 3rd party IPTV app that can use m3u from NextPVR.
It's just UIdroid that no longer works on my 2019 Shield.
I am thinking it is a permissions issue, as when I go into the shields apps, and locate the app and select it, and then clear cache and data.... both do not change.
(ie. both would normally go to 0)
So, in the interim, I have had to nuke the app, and just using Kodi now until I find what is causing the behavior.
(grin) Uidroid on my Fire Cube devices work fine, but have not upgraded them to the latest version.
I swapped back to using Shield devices, as I have micro stutter issues with Fire Cube 3rd gen, and despite marathon efforts, I can not resolve it.
So, shield 2019 has no micro stutter, but now has no UIdroid either.
Not complaining, just making an observation, and posting to see if it could be an Nvidia Shield 2019 update that causes this behavior.
I have not completely powered down the device, so that might be the next thing I try, and then install the same version of UIdroid that is on the 2017 shield.
Hope I am posting in correct forum. (Apologies if I am not)
Have been using the NextUI client for a while now. (UIdroid I believe)
Anyway, I have it installed on my Amazon Fire Cubes, and my Nvidia Shields.
Not sure what has happened, but tonight the NextUI client on my shield just stopped working.
It comes up with the main screen, and shows the menu on the left, and can scroll up and down, but when I select any option like TV Guide, or even exit, nothing happens.
I went to the forums and found 2 versions in the first post.
Originally I used the exodebug file or whatever it is called, so I tried the latest one, and it installs, but just has black screen foever, and I can't seem to access the settings via long press of dpad.
Which one should I use on the Nvidia Shield?
Also tried the Mediaix version, and it can not find my server, and does bring up the settings screen, and I manually enter my server details, then it just exits out, and I can then not get it to work again.
Only thing I noticed, is that my NVidia Shield in living room recently updated some apps via the Playstore regular updates.
I have Kodi and Tivimate installed, and both are working with my Windows based NextPVR server, and it shows active donator status etc.
Have tried uninstalling NextUI, and rebooting, then installing latest version, all no avail. Also tried rebooting NextPVR windows server.
I just tried the Nvidia Shield in my bedroom, and NextUI is working perfectly. (it is a 2017 shield)
The Shield in the main living room is a 2019 model, and the version reported is '1.6.12'
I have just updated to NextPVR 5 and I am using it with a HDHomeRun Connect Quatro, a 4-tuner network device. I have been using this setup for a long time, maybe 5 years, with different NextPVR versions. I have never had a problem like this before. suika game
Lately, I have noticed that all tuners are locked to a channel but not in use by NextPVR (or any other app). It seems NextPVR does not release the tuners after using them. I don't know when exactly this happens. I am using the XMLTV EPG Grabber, which I switched to from the Schedules Direct EPG Grabber a year ago. Could this be the cause of the problem?
When this happens, I cannot watch or record any TV until I reboot the HDHomeRun device using the HDHomeRun utility. Then everything works fine again.
Is this a bug or a setting issue? It is annoying because it is affecting my recordings and forcing me to restart the device often.