First time here and I want to give a big thanks to Sub and the other supporters for this outstanding program! As a long time user (10+ years) of Snapstream BeyondTV, I have finally found a replacement for my end-of-life DVR!!!

This question is not really a bug-fix request, for as far as I can see the NextPVR software is running perfectly on my setup. I have Windows 7-SP1 (32bit) and NextPVR 3.6.6 installed onto my boot drive C. I record my shows onto other physical drives D, F.

This past week I had other issues with my PC, so I decided to roll things back to a boot drive image C that I had taken a week earlier.

The weird thing now is that the newer recordings, on external drives, made since the image was taken show "Recording service not running at recording time." I can live with that, because I know I was the cause. NextPVR time-travelled a week into the past and now has no memory that these recordings were originally successful.

But NextPVR will not allow me to play the "Failed" shows from the NextPVR Recordings GUI. The only option is to delete. If I start another media player, such as Kodi, I can still play these particular "Failed" shows just fine.

So my big question, is there anything I can do to get NextPVR to mark these newer shows as "Ready"? Is there a config or database somewhere that I can update? Or is this something I should have backed up before the system restore?

Thanks for any advice!

Hi!

Switching from tvheadend to npvr to use a HDMI Capture "card" with a Virgin Media cable box. Currently running 3.6.6 on W10 and trying to setup devices / channels, but struggling to do this with an HD-PVR2.

Pre-req: All hardware works fine. NPVR (and Kodi) can see the channel the STB is currently tuned to.


Is the channel list from the STB thats the problem.

1) I have a "lineup" file which contains the channel listings available on the STB. Can't find a way to import this XML file. Not supported I guess?
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2) I have another tuner (free-to-air), works fine and uses the first 61 channels. When using "Import" on Devices and the HD-PVR2, the channels are sorted alfabetically and assigned the next free number, 62 and up:
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As per the image, "BBC One London" is on Channel 74 but is supposed to be channel 101. I right click and select "Edit Channel Settings", nothing happens?

3) I "Export Channels", modify the entry for "BBC One London" and "Import Channels". "BBC One London" is now on 101. Happy days!
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This is a manual and labour intensive process. Also, as the channel listing from Virgin Media changes with the seasons and various special events, it would be rather cumbersome to manually try and keep the channels within npvr upto date.


So, the question: Can this be automated? How do others do this? Has someone already written a snippet do modify npvr.db3 to do this?
Google and seaching the forums didn't turn up anything?


JJ

I have been using an old Dell business machine with a 80gig hard drive for over a year. My storage has been a 1tb passport USB drive. I have had to battle disconnects frequently and have tweaked the system with no luck. Yesterday I bit the bullet and purchased a WD 2tb internal hard drive. I used a USB drive connector and Macrium Reflect Free software. The whole process of cloning and installing the new drive went well. Now I am Archiving my 100 shows (my wife insists she will watch soon).

I settled on the Purple WD drive since it was engineered for Surveillance and would handle spinning for 24 hours straight. The old OS is Vista and there is an issue with any drive over 2tb so that's the size I settled for.

All in all this has been a great update.

Hi.

Im new here, both on the forum, and as a nextpvr user, so please forgive me if this is a basic issue

I've got a TBS6991SE dvs-s2 sat receiver. Installed drivers and the nextpvr software. working so far. Scanning for channels (its a Dual tuner card, but only one tuner is activated since i only have one CI card yet for testing)..

Software is finding channels. But when i go to live tv on my computer, it tries to change channels, and a few seconds later i get the message that the tuner were required for a recording (which it is not - since i havent told it to record anything). I assume its a failsafe errorcode or something like that.

I've browsed this forum and found nothing that really helps me. Some mentioning disable epg update during live tv. But that have been disabled all time.

Any help would be greatly appreciated - and please let me know, if you need further info of any kind.

Thank you

Claus

I am trying to use NextPVR to schedule a recording through the rocket from a cable box. The problem I am having is that I cannot get any audio to play. When I start the input the program tells me that I do not have a decoder selected for ACC. I tried to solve this problem by installing the LAV decoders but even after they are installed and selected I still cannot get sound to play.

I have 2 desktop monitors and 1 tv for a total of 3 monitors. They are in extended setup and the tv is 3rd. When i maximize, it either goes to primary or secondary. never the actual tv. what should i do.
btw, i'm switching over from beyondtv. i still have a sagetv setup on another pc, but beyondtv has been having issues lately with overlay and 3d accelerated.

Wife acceptance factor on NPVR's series recording from live TV is high and may be enough to score a win over Kodi in our ongoing battle to replace our beloved WMC. However, NPVR tends to crash on me multiple times an evening, and the wife acceptance factor for crashing in the middle of her show is very low. I'm very PC savvy, but am not sure how to troubleshoot this. Nothing else crashes. Windows remains stable post-crash. Nothing obvious in the logs (attached), and I can restart NVPR without a problem after a crash. Appreciate advice.

Sub, what happened to the analog devices file? my m780 used to be in there, and still is, but look at the listing!?!

It used to be there? Where did it go ... :confused:

k.

After moving to a new place that actually has OTA reception, I started playing around with the HDHomeRun setup I used way back when in college. After many hours of setup, I thought I had everything working. I was able to get schedule information synced every day, I had commercial detection tagging all my recordings, life was wonderful. Being an old man, I was more or less only recording Jeopardy. My roommate then tried recording something and had a weird problem. He recorded a program on a different station, and shortly after starting, the screen froze and he was back in the recording menu with a prompt asking if he wanted to delete his finished recording. I quickly discovered that there was a commercial detected at the start of the program. If I removed the commercial tags, the recording would play just fine. However, if I attempted to skip around the recording at all, I got a frozen screen for about 10 seconds, and then eventually was booted back to the recording menu with the end of video prompt. As a sanity test I opened the raw file in a few other video players (vlc/mpc) and the video worked just fine. My guess is that there's just enough corruption that nPVR can't build a seek index, but my other video players are smart enough to just deal with it. I use ffdshow to decode both the sound and audio, and to confirm that the problem wasn't there I tried alternating disabling the video and audio decoders. In both tests, the playback would end as soon as I did any skip. As a further test, I tried recording a few other short bits from the "bad" station. I could skip just fine in these tests. Im guessing that the actual recording was just long enough to pick up enough corruption to break everything.

I finally started looking through the npvr.log hoping to find anything. This is what I saw when I made a skip in the "corrupted file"