Sometimes when watching TV through Kodi the picture will freeze and Kodi then completely locks up although I can still hear the audio coming through. I have to reboot the system to get it working again. The Kodi log shows the below just before the crash:
Is there a way to set things up so that Kodi doesn't crash if this error is encountered? Is this a problem with the NextPVR addon or a deeper Kodi problem?
I'm using Windows 10, Kodi Javis Beta 4, standard Confluence skin and the latest Next PVR 3.6.6 available (5th Dec) (although Iâve just realised there was a patch release yesterday - so havenât updated to the new release of 3.6.6).
I'm in the UK where we have a number of part time channels, for example BBC3 broadcasts after 7:00PM and CBBC & CBBeebies stops broadcasting after 7:00PM.
When I change a channel to one of these channels that are no longer broadcasting, I get the expected "channel unavailable" message which is standard in Kodi. However, I then get a message saying that the "Next PVR tuner is no longer available". if i wait a couple of minutes i can then re-tune to a different channel although the "Next PVR tuner is no longer available" message is still visible and the only way I can get rid of it is to re-boot Kodi.
I appreciate Iâm using a beta version of Kodi, Iâm not sure if this is a known issue with the addon or Kodi itself? Iâm guessing it's nothing to do with the Next PVR backend, wasnâtâ sure whether to post here or in the Kodi forums, apologies if I should have posted over there although it looks like Sub frequents both forums.
I was originally going to save this post as draft and attach the logs when I get home... but Iâve just realised there's not a save button! Will upload logs tonight!
I've had this happen 2 or 3 straight nights now. I'm not sure if it's windows related or NPVR. A recording is going on between 2am and 3am. I wake up in the morning to find that it has stopped recording and NPVR has locked up. It looks like it was at 2:23am or so. I've attached all the logs, probably many non-relevant, for some hopeful assistance.
I recently installed NextPVR on my server hoping to use it as a replacement for WMC in the future. I went to select decoders in the settings menu but none are showing up. I have Cyberlink PowerDVD 15 installed on the machine, should the decoders that come with it be showing up in the settings--> Decoders menu? The machine it's running on is running Windows Server 2012 R2 if that makes a difference. I would really appreciate any advice you can offer.
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?
