I have one PC that for some reason just fast scans the tuner devices and doesn't find anything. Yes, I've been down this road before and fixed the problem on others using the documented resolution for that. It doesn't seem to work on this PC. Rather than spend time on figuring it out, I exported channels from a working PC and imported to the non-working PC as I've done in the past. (The channel refresh is due to the fact that new channels have become available.)
The imported list does not match the list on the exporting PC.
The first channel was completely missing. I looked closer and found all the channel numbers are wrong.
4.1 missing.
4.2 was 1
4.3 was 2
6.1 was 3
6.2 was 4
etc.
I tried editing the exported XML so that the <NUMBER>4</NUMBER> that appeared on all 3 of the first channels were 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 respectively. I edited the following channels similarly. An import gave the error "Unexpected error importing channels. Input string was not in the correct format."
I suspect I am the only person in the world with a 2002 Modular Technologies DAB PCI card running under Windows 10 and recording various radio programmes, but it only has 32-bit drivers so I'm looking to move to using NextPVR for my radio recordings instead so I can upgrade at last to 64-bit Windows.
So I've started to try using NPVR to record from DVB-T/DVB-S radio channels that I have tuned and in my EPG. And it does record, but the resulting .ts file sizes are enormous.
Looking at the file properties, it seems the file is a bit confused about its contents. An example is a 1hr recording which is as follows:
The file size is 778MB.
The Details of the file when I view Properties in Windows file explorer show Video info with no frame width or height but a data rate of 1592kbps, and total bitrate of 1784kbps; and an Audio bit rate of 192kbps.
When I play it in Windows Media Player and open the file info from there it doesn't mention video content at all and just shows the 192kbps of audio.
To my mind the recording file should therefore be 192Ã60Ã60÷8÷1024 = 84MB, but because it's keeping 1.5Mbps space for video content that doesn't exist, it's making a file nearly ten times as big.
Is there a way to address this? Can I ask NPVR to record in an audio-only format for selected scheduled recordings, or flag selected channels up as being audio-only so it doesn't keep space for video in recordings?
Over at Silicondust forums, there is much ado about grid style menus and patents, everyone is stating that the WMC Windows Media Center menu is patented by Rovi. So to use it, they must either get their information from Rovi (they can use it for free) or pay them to use the menu style. (if all of the makes sense).
So, since NextPVR is very similar to WMC in menus (but gets the EPG info from Schedules Direct), does NextPVR pay Rovi a licensing fee, OR, is it different enough that it doesn't matter?
Is anyone else having issues with the font in NextPVR having upgraded from Win 7 to Win 10? The font has become much thicker (almost as if it is constantly in bold). This means that on the TV guide, nearly energy show title is cropped shorter (where 10 characters would fit before, now only 6 do).
When using XBMC with the 'native' live TV add-on the way it handles different audio formats is annoying. SDTV 2 channel audio is processed by XBMC and I need the PC remote to control the volume, but DVD AC3 audio is sent to pass through and I need my amplifier remote to control the volume. HDTV multichannel audio (AAC I think?) is output by my current version (Frodo) as AC3 to my amplifier, but later builds of XBMC will only output 2 channel audio. I've experimented with all the available XBMC options and there's no simple solution that fixes all these quirks.
So (getting to the question) I wondered if I could fix the problem at source: If I used XNEWA exclusively as the front end, is it possible to tell NPVR to transcode what ever stream XNEWA is using on-the-fly and force all audio to AC3?
EDIT:
I see in advanced settings I have options for native, pvr, vlc and timeshift. I'm thinking VLC might be useful here? Where would I look to set up transcoding options for this?
I've noticed the following message for a lot of entries on this screen marked "failed": "Recording service not running at recording time."
It seems that if I delete the recording file after viewing it with something other than NPVR, like VLC, then delete it, the Recordings->What's New screen shows this message. The message does make one pause and think something may have gone wrong.
If the file can't be found, why include it in the list at all? It contributes clutter and confusion.
I am getting a lot of buffering. In Kodi, I created the advancedsettings.xml file in the user directory with suggested settings off of the wiki. No change. Is there something here I need to do?
Having battled with ubuntun, Mythtv & Tvhead, I took the plunge and forked out a Windows 10 pro license as Ubuntu wouldn't play nice with my Intel integrated graphics cards.
I just wanted to say thanks to all who have worked and developed next PVR, I'm using this with the current Kodi Jarvis B3 and it works excellently, I'm amazed how easy and quick it was to set up... Thanks for this great app, it's much appreciated...
Is there a way to automatically archive recordings once complete or on a schedule?
The computer I am using has a small internal drive and a microSD slot. Unfortunately, recordings are very choppy when recorded directly to the microSD (SanDisk UHS-1 64GB), but are fine if recorded to the internal drive. Watching the recordings from the SD is fine, the issue is with writing.
I would like the default recording location to be the internal disk, but once the recording is complete, archive it to the SD (or on a schedule instead). Is it possible to access the Archive function via batch script? If not, is it possible to modify the database after moving the files so that the moved/archived recordings do not disappear?
