Must be Doing Something Wrong with TV Listings

[mvallevand]

Nothing worked, so I decided to byte the bullet and uninstall/reinstall NextPVR, expecting to have to redo all my settings. Great News: Got Recordings. Programs that hadn't recorded and previously still showed up as pending showed up as Failed. But, to my surprise, all my settings were still there.

Had three batch files in "Scripts" - PostStartUp, ParallelProcessing and PostUpdateEpg which didn't keep things from running, but also didn't process ComSkip.

Bad News in Settings: TV Listings and TV Recordings still appear on Plugins page even though I had deleted them. Genre Coloring set on Misc2 doesn't work. In Recordings "Sort" works, but "Filter" doesn't. Any way to get NextPVR back to it's virgin state?

Next Up: Find sports to record to test NextEnd extending sports and subsequent programs. Explore NexPVR config to see what features of TV Listings and/or GuidePlus that I was interested in implementing are now built into NextPVR as someone mentioned earlier.

Now that I see the line I wanted in NRecord I don't think you need to reinstall. You might need to edit config.xml to have TVListing and TVRecording not show up in Settings and remove the folders from the Plugins Folder if they are there (I don't see them in NPVR.log though)

Your scripts are more complicated then I would like to see for a new user. For sure it looks like you might need a path to comskip Also this should be on one line with --oid %3 --sd

start /b "" "%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\NPVR\NextEnd.exe" --sd
start /b "" "%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\NPVR\NextEnd.exe" --oid %3

Since NextEnd has it's own logging, I would stick with the vanilla postupdateepg and poststartup scripts shown on the NextEnd wiki page

Martin

[GWCowling323]

Unisntall NextPVR ... then go to C:\Users\Public and delete the NPVR folder ... for completeness, you can also delete the NPVR folder in C;\Program Files or in C:\Program Files (X86)

My advice would be to uninstall NextPVR, delete the NPVR folder in Users\Public and then re-install NextPVR and get that working and doing recordings before you start with NextEnd or Comskip or anything else. Then, change one thing at a time ... for example, do NextEnd and only NextEnd and nothing but NextEnd until NextEnd is working as you want it ... and then do, for example, Comskip.

Did a complete removal and reinsatallation of NPVR. Everything went great until I tried to watch a program and got a message about MPEG-2 filter. Went to Decoder settings and everything was disabled. Reinstalled Main Concept/AC3 decoders, but they didn't show up. Nothing to choose from in the list box and the .... to the right of the list box did nothing. I think I'm learning to Country line dance - one step forward two steps back.

[GWCowling323]

Your scripts are more complicated then I would like to see for a new user.
Martin

All I did was slight editing of the sample batch files from the Wiki. If that's complicated, why are they there?

[GWCowling323]

Since NextEnd has it's own logging, I would stick with the vanilla postupdateepg and poststartup scripts shown on the NextEnd wiki page
Martin

If I'm not mistaken, that's exactly what I did.

[GWCowling323]

You might need to edit config.xml
Martin

First things first. This OP didn't want to get into the config.xml file yet. OP, is that Old Person or some other Millennial term I'm not familiar with.

[mvallevand]

If I'm not mistaken, that's exactly what I did.

You have other logging stuff in there. They are empty by default so you added them

All I did was slight editing of the sample batch files from the Wiki. If that's complicated, why are they there?

Javawiz explains that on the wiki too. I just don't think that it is necessary.

First things first. This OP didn't want to get into the config.xml file yet. OP, is that Old Person or some other Millennial term I'm not familiar with.

No offence meant, Original Poster (BTW I have referred you to google search before) Given my age I don't call anyone old.

Martin

[mikeh49]

It's Original Poster, the person who started the thread.

[GWCowling323]

Did a complete removal and reinsatallation of NPVR. Everything went great until I tried to watch a program and got a message about MPEG-2 filter. Went to Decoder settings and everything was disabled. Reinstalled Main Concept/AC3 decoders, but they didn't show up. Nothing to choose from in the list box and the .... to the right of the list box did nothing.

Does this mean I have to reinstall WinTV for the decoder lists to show up?

[Graham]

Does this mean I have to reinstall WinTV for the decoder lists to show up?

You will re-install decoders as a part of the installation of WinTV. You can ignore WinTV after the installation and WinTV will not interfere with NextPVR.

[GWCowling323]

You will re-install decoders as a part of the installation of WinTV. You can ignore WinTV after the installation and WinTV will not interfere with NextPVR.

Thanks Graham. That worked, although I had to reinstall the AC3 filters again after reinstalling WinTV.