Recording IPTV Issues

[kalebroc]

Hi guys,

I'm hoping that someone here can help - so this is my issue - I have a dedicated PC to act as the NextPVR backend, it does nothing else except sit on my network and acts as the NextPVR server, it is an Intel Core i7-3770K, 8GB RAM, 480GB SSD (as system drive), 1TB Hard Drive (as recording drive), Windows 10 Pro x64. As I said this PC does nothing else except NextPVR, it just sits in the corner of the office 24/7. As recently as about a week ago, this PC was wiped & setup from scratch with a clean install of Windows 10 Pro x64 v2004, latest version of NextPVR & Private Internet Access VPN, there is no other software on this PC. I then use other PC's on the network running Kodi as my frontend. The problem I'm having is with the recording of the IPTV - Live TV is working great, the real issues seems to be with any recording of a program which is over 40 to 50 mins in length. I have a few programs that are setup with a recurring timer and these tend to be 30min in length, 99% of the time these recordings are fine, once I try to record anything over the 40 min mark then the issues arise. So for example - the F1 qualifying - an hour and a half in length, the Kodi frontend reports the right time of the recording, start to play and bang - approx 40min into playback it just stops. The same with the Indycar race from a night ago a 3 hour recording and I managed to watch approx 55min of that and then the same - it just stops and will not play anymore. I just can's seem to figure it out. The file does exactly the same in VLC player, plays to the same point and then just stops even though it reports the correct length of time at the start of playback. I've tried some video file repair tools but all they do is cut the file back to the time that the error occurs. I'm at a bit of a loss really!! I've attached the logs, just hoping that somebody way better at this stuff can point me in some direction.

Thanks

Kalebroc


  nrecord.log.zip (Size: 1.07 MB / Downloads: 4)

[mvallevand]

The short answer is the time to Kodi is how long the recording was running and has nothing to do with the length of the file, the quality of the recording. or how long a provider streams data. For reliable recordings you need a reliable source.

What I see in the logs is a mix of failed opening and 403 errors during a recording. With a poor provider on highly watched shows that can almost be expected.

Martin

[kalebroc]

Thank you for the reply, that's exactly the answer I was kind of expecting, I was hoping beyond hope it was something to do with my setup. Oh well, I guess that's the joys of IPTV isnt't it? And of course up to a couple of weeks ago all was working fine but I suppose with more sport being shown now more streaming is going on . If anyone knows of a really reliable IPTV provider I would really appreciate it, and as it turns out my subscription is up in a couple of weeks with my current one so I guess it's back to more internet research and trying a few different providers. Thanks again

Kalebroc