nextPVR will not start and no log written

[JohnWmAustin@gmail.com]

I have been testing nextPVR and was ready to demonstrate it with the real TV. I did not do a clean shutdown of the Win 8.1 PC, moved all to the living room and plugged in the Sony Bravia and started it up.

ndxtPVR spins the wheels hard for a couple of minutes and dies silently without adding to the log. There was some stuff in the log but the program never appends to it. I will have to post this and then go to the Windows machine to add the log.

Should I uninstall and reinstall or wait for advice?

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Is there a message in the Windows Event Log?

You could try renaming config.xml to config.old, to see if it'll run. It'll create a new config.xml if it can't find a previous one.

[JohnWmAustin@gmail.com]

Added log after deleting twenty thousand repeated messages.

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Thanks. The config file was full of nulls.

Working now.

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Now I get "unable to comm... with recording service". Did some of my settings disappear? The TV Listings plugin became disabled. Looks like some other stuff got stomped on. Good thing I all ready watched last night's Jeopardy episode.

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Now I get "unable to comm... with recording service".

Is the recording service running? If so, zip and attach the logs directory.

Did some of my settings disappear?

Yes, all of them that were stored in your config.xml.