New user here, I just installed and tried to test 3.6.6 on a clean Windows 8.1 machine. I have a new HDHR3-US (HDHomeRun Dual) that I would like to use for pulling in ATSC video and recording shows. The tuner is working because I can view it in the HDHR View application and in Windows Media Player.
When I launch NextPVR and attempt to go through the Device Configuration, I am met with an error. I go into Settings > Devices. The program scans for and detects both of my tuners without issue. I then select Tuner 1 > Devices Setup. In the new windows I click "Scan" to begin scanning for channels, but NextPVR immediately creates an error stating "Unable to start device"
The HTPC boots with a minimum of what is needed just to do the work of recording and playback, the startup consists of 2 regular programs, the tray and the GUI. In 3.5.7 (prior version), it showed up above the task bar and worked fine. 3.6.6 has changed this to show the task bar over it and requires me to click either with the left mouse (taking my Air Mouse and turning the mouse function on to do so) and clicking anywhere on the window, or by hitting the "right context menu button" (on it, which basically is a "back" button).
The codec's being used were the ones recommended (and I left them that way), upon boot this morning, it did it's usual EPG update and ran the GUI. At noon today I was wanting to watch a pre-recorded show, which normally has no problems, but today, the audio was chopping up badly. I've seen this with 3.5.7 and figured it was an isolated incident, but now I'm seeing it in 3.6.6. The only sounds being used are by the software, a restart cleaned the issue up (the machine was on for 4 hours with the GUI sitting idle, no other sound was played and the TV wasn't on until I went to use it). I've run into this once before with 3.5.7 as I said, but the result is, after having it running any sound trying to play on anything results in an issue (sounds like a damaged codec), now some shows the last time would play fine, just ones on ABC wouldn't (most likely a specific codec being used by the LAV Audio to play back the sound for that channel's specific audio encoding). Not totally frustrating, 20 seconds to restart and I was back to playing.
The TV shows I'm recording, seem to lose the first few seconds of their slotted time, and I do see the machine power out of sleep well beforehand, which is confusing as to why I'm losing the start of shows. Not sure what to say about that, but it was doing this with 3.5.7, not talking half a second, but seconds (like up to 30 seconds), shows end on time though and as of yet, I've never seen a show say 60 mins for length, always 59 minutes and random seconds from 30 up. Recording to an SSD (no spin time).
The "back" button (right context menu, right mouse button): I turned it off in the settings so I could use the back button feature, the problem is, there's no "Settings" in the menu, so I can't get at it without plugging a mouse in, is there an option for that or can there be one? (I've not had time to look honestly.)
The Guide (works great by the way, like the width limit you put on it, it's fine, though I did reduce it to the value you were aiming for as a max), does it's job nicely, but I push the back button and the menu flashes and goes away. I have to double tap the back button to get it to stay, is this normal? Also, I'm scrolling up and down using the arrows on the remote and say at 9PM, looking for shows and as I scroll up or down, I wind up at 6PM, because a show went from 8 to 10PM on one channel (movie) and the one below it was a 2 hour premier at 7PM and a 90 minute show on another one at 6PM. Makes it cumbersome to go guide surfing when the spot the guide is at for time, keeps changing.
Short and Long skips with the >> and >| keys on the remote, take 2 seconds to show any video (DX9 -> EVR, tried everything, still happens), audio still works fine and is rather instant, so I can at least listen for hopefully commercial bits while trying to skip past them manually when comskip can't find them (typically due to channels squishing the screen to roll a banner across the bottom when something "newsworthy" happens). Not sure how you're reading the mpeg stream (I know audio is easier to skip through than video), but would it be possible to scan and find a proper frame to work from in the video and stop there rather than a calculated jump? If you could, I don't think anyone would be upset if you jumped X seconds and a few frames past, just to show a frame on-screen at the end of the skip. Just find it difficult at times knowing if I push the >> (10) or >| (30), if I'm in the show or the commercials still. Also when comskip thinks it hit a commercial and it jumps half way through the part of the show, so then I have to go looking. Slows down the viewing of some shows.
I recommended the NextPVR to a customer who *was* using another program (not naming it), which was giving him grief, while NextPVR actually runs quieter in the background than his old program, has a working guide, his viewing of Live TV is a black screen (no sound either). I've tried the recommended codecs on his machine and everything except EVR (since it's an XP machine), am at a loss for what to do. The title bar does show the stream being shown (uncertain if it's actually recording anything, as I didn't have a lot of time to deal with it, will look into it more next week). But, while in the settings on 3.5.7 and 3.6.6, a crash happens, if you can give me more information (if NextPVR can log everything for you to find it), what logs you want when it happens, just ask, it's very repeatable, see attached. It happens regularly when in the settings menu, but not when using the GUI alone.
I have been having trouble since I took off a NAS for renovations and have noticed an error that this killing NRecord service
Application: NRecord.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.NullReferenceException
Stack:
at NShared.RecordingService.WorkerThread()
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(System.Object)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object)
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()
The last line in the logs are always something like this
2016-01-14 19:59:03.374 [DEBUG][9] Started recording (15093:1:K:\The Big Bang Theory\The Big Bang Theory.S09E13.The Empathy Optimization.ts)
2016-01-14 19:59:03.385 [DEBUG][9] Invalid file passed to StartParallelProcessing(): 'K:\The Big Bang Theory\The Big Bang Theory.S09E13.The Empathy Optimization.ts'
I found a post from when I bought it 26 Jan 2008, almost exactly 8 years ago. It has served me very very well. Unfortunately, whilst it is still functional, it started singing recently, or rather, a high-pitched electronic whine, which doesn't go away and annoys the dog.
So I am glad I bought the PCH-A110 about 5 years ago (mid-2011), as a replacement, as all this time I thought I will never use it when I stumbled over it searching amongst my pile-of-old-and-once-useful-but-now-useless-electronic-gadgets-from-day-gone-by.[URL="http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?30857-Popcorn-Hour-A-100&p=253781#post253781"]
I think I have everything setup right. I have my internet coax split using a simple coax splitter. One part goes to my modem for internet and the other goes to my tv tuner which is a KWorld UB435-Q USB ATSC TV Stick. I installed NPVR and went into settings->devices and then went into device setup for the type: ATSC device BDA 2875 TVTuner (my UB435-Q) and scanned for channels but it didn't find any.
I only subscribe for internet from time warner cable, do they not also transmit free channels on the coax as well?
I tried searching but did not run across this exact issue. Hopefully this is useful to anybody else with a similar issue.
NexpPVR has been working fine in my setup with a Hauppauge WinTV HVR-950Q. Last week I upgraded to a WINTV-dualHD USB tuner. Then the fun started ...
The new tuner worked great, except when my computer resumed from sleep/standby. I was getting a lot of recording failures. It seemed that the tuner and recording service was somehow not getting started in time and the recording aborted. Everthing else failed after that until a reboot.
I finally got into Windows 7 Control Panel> Device Manager> USB Root Hub (for the hub that was connected to my tuner)> USB Root Hub Properties> Power Management, and un-checked the box that says "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power".
If it's not to soon to say so, it has been recording fine for the past few days ... as well as sleeping/resuming on schedule :-)
I have tried everything i installed then i then made batch file with directory where grablite is in my c drive programs 86. Batch is in script im looking for log file to post but cant find can some one help i have spend a week and cant make it work bottom line im trying to get it to rename my files once it npvr record because. i have a name of show but all these numbers just want name thanks
I have not been able to get NextPVR changing channels by use of the windows MCE IR blaster that I have. I have tried IRSS that I found on these forums at: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...el-Changer , but I can't get it to operate properly. I'm hoping that someone here can help me find an IR blaster software that works the Windows MCE IR blaster that can be used with NextPVR.
So, I started using zap2xml for my EPG data after mc2xml stopped working right with Microsoft's changes. It works pretty well, but I just discovered something when I was getting ready for the free preview weekend on Showtime.
My system gets both the east coast and the west coast feeds of the premium channels like Showtime. Unfortunately, Zap2it (and thus Zap2xml) give both channels the same text name, and the xml file created when loaded into NextPVR seems to only recognize one of them.
Here is an example of the channel id data from my xml file - channel 865 is Showtime East, 866 Showtime West:
