When I fast forward shows recorded from ABC playback freezes. This is a consistent problem and only happens for shows recorded from ABC. Occasionally playback will freeze without fast forward. Has anyone else seen this issue and have any ideas?
I'm yet another one trying to transition away from WMC to NextPVR.
I have a HD HomeRun Extend and HD Homerun Prime. I'm able to tune into the OTA channels using the Extend without any problems. However I get a black screen for the cable channels.
Just to be clear i cut the cord and i only get internet access through Comcast. However my Prime still works for the local channels when using WMC. When i try to tune the same channels using NextPVR i get a black screen.
I recently upgraded my home theater PC from windows XP to windows 7. I was running 3.6.6 before and still am. I have only noticed this problem since moving to Windows 7. This is going to be easiest to explain by example.
Let's say I set a 1 hour program to record (ATSC). In this example, lets say the program starts at 7:00 and runs to 8:00. At 7:13, I launch NPVR, go to recordings and see my program at the top of the list with status "Recording". I select that program and start to watch it. The progress bar at the bottom of the screen shows 0:00 to the left and 0:13 to the right since 13 minutes of the program has been recorded. I press skip forward on my remote (or keyboard) and it jumps ahead 1 minute. The progress bar now shows 0:01 ---- 0:13. Maybe I watch for a few minutes, the left hand progress updates, but the right hand is stuck at 0:13. If I keep skipping forward, I get to the point that I am at the 13 minute mark. So, now the progress bar shows 0:13 ----- 0:13. But, maybe 5 minutes have transpired, so now 18 minutes have been recorded. If I don't touch anything, and I can watch the program, so lets up 2 more minutes, so now I am up to 15 minutes in, but the progress bar still shows 0:13. If I press skip forward, it takes me back to 0:13 and starts me over there again. No matter what I do, I can't skip forward to any time past 0:13. It is like when I enter the program, the total duration stops updating, and so NPVR is preventing me from skipping past the end (which it should), but the problem is the end is wrong.
So, I press stop and that takes me back to the recordings menu. Let's say it's 7:20 now. I press play again (resume is not an option) and it takes me back in at 0:00. Again, I can either watch or skip forward (and backwards) all I want (including past the magical 0:13 mark) up to the new mark of 0:20.
It seems that when I enter a live recording, it is taking the current duration as the end and never updating it, but the recording itself is flawless.
Here is what changed:
I went from a dual core PC to a quad core PC. (so different motherboard)
upgraded from XP to Win 7.
I was using an On-Air GT as a 3rd tuner and remove. Still using it. Had a little trouble getting it to run under Win 7 and the company is now out of business, but I got it to work.
I had 2 PCI single tuners from Philips. However, the new Mother Board only had PCI-E slots, so I bought a Hauppauge 1229 WinTV-HVR-2255 dual tuner.
I was running 3.6.6 in both cases. This new machine is a fresh install of NPVR and then I imported my old recordings.
So, not sure if this a XP/7 thing or a tuner thing, or something else.
I have been using Windows Media Center for 8 years now. But since Microsoft removed it from Win10, I'm currently looking for an alternative. NextPVR looks fine, so far. However, there's one issue that I haven't been able to resolve:
After installing NextPVR, the PC keeps waking up each night at around half past two. According to powercfg, it's due to NPVR Recording Service. NRecord.log contains EPG update entries (see attached logfile).
So far I haven't found a way to prevent NextPVR from waking up my PC only for updating the EPG. How can I configure NextPVR to only update the EPG while the PC is already running?
I run my NPVR setup on a small atom powered HP T5740 thin client and for years it has worked great. Up until this week I have run it off of a full sized mini pcie avermedia tuner card sitting sort of half way into a half height slot. You had to position it just right but it would work fine and all of my analog channels came in fine and my HD ATSC channels worked fine as well. Well I got a expansion module this week that allows me to put a full size PCI/PCIE card into the little thin client so I decided to swap out my old avermedia mini pcie card to a ATI TV Wonder HD 650 PCI card. I swapped everything over and installed the ATI drivers and NPVR saw the card with the ATSC/QAM/Analog tuners just fine. I then selected the tuners and told it to copy the channel configs from the old avermedia card and that worked just fine as well. Now here is where my problem lies. I can tune all of the analog channels just fine but they come up on the screen very shaky from the top to the bottom and the picture itself seems to be lower on the screen with the bottom ticket on channels like cnn cut in half and a white line of nothing at the top of the screen. The audio is even sort of distorted to by in sync with the shaking. I tried every video renderer and decoder combination there is but nothing changes. I think the little thin client does render stuff video software because NPVR doesn't think the hardware is strong enough to do it even though I can play 1080p files just fine in Kodi with the stock Intel GL40 graphics. I was really hoping a full sized pci card would be better but it looks like it might be worse than my little mini pcie avermedia card? I will attach a log file and any help you guys can provide would be much appreciated.
I've incurred a problem with server database npvr and am having a problem changing \\cp-pc\npvr\npvr.db3 back to \\hushpc\npvr\npvr.db3. Please give me some new direction. I just installed this software and was setting up the Live TV when I caused the problem. I also received an error message 0x80070005.
I installed Kodi 16 RC3 (I was using RC2) and now I cannot set or edit timers with NextPVR 3.6.6 backend.
When I try to edit/save a timer (such as change the pad or days of week of the timer),
I get an "an unexpected error occurred" dialog which tells me to look in the log.
I turn on debug logging in Kodi and restarted and tried again. I got the same error.
I can create new timers OK from the Guide by selecting to record the show.
I have a Hauppauge HVR-1250 TV tuner that I have been using to pick up OTA ATSC channels with Win Media Center. Since WMC is gone under Win 10 I'm looking for a replacement and while I know I'll never be able to get an exact replacement NextPVR looks pretty good. But I'm having some difficulties. I installed it and it is working with the TV tuner and did find all the local channels and does show them in Live TV. But I'm having trouble with the guide. It initially came up but with no data. Playing around I determined that the guide data defaults to come in from the ATSC signals. Unfortunately a couple of my local channels have not been displaying that data for a long time. In the Settings for Channels I would click on Update EPG and it would always start with the physical channel that doesn't have any data and time out. I managed to find the setting to change the EPG source while watching a live channel and tried the setting for XMLTV even though I don't have a file. Obviously that didn't work but even though I set it back to getting data from the channel when I click Update EPG in the Channel Settings the program always crashes with a popup that disappears quickly saying something about XMLTV!!!
Is there something I can try to get it to get to not crash or should I uninstall and re-install. Even if I do the latter I'm still not sure how to get the EPG fully populated.
PS: dont want to put this in the wishlist, because this is a whish to you (newa desinger)
