Freezing/Buffering on Windows 11 (NPVR app only)

[nextpvrnoob]

If you want to send me the m3u/xml urls, I'll check it here.

I will DM you

[mvallevand]

an Extra?

It is a type of tuner NextPVR supports https://github.com/sub3/NextPVR/wiki/Extras.  I would start creating a file that looks like this called extra-testing.xml and placing it in the user folder, rescanning tuners and see if it is more stable.

Code:

  <extras>
    <channel name="Laff TV">
      <command>ffmpeg.exe</command>
      <args>-v panic -i https://urltolafftv -codec copy -c:s copy -f mpegts - </args>
    </channel>
  </extras>

[sub]

nextpvrnoob, can you try replacing your existing NShared.dll with this one?

[nextpvrnoob]

Hi sub and Martin,

Appreciate your explanation, Martin.

I decided to try sub’s NShared.dll first and I’ve been running it for almost an hour without issues.

I will continue to test and report back tomorrow.

Thank you both for your time and efforts

[nextpvrnoob]

Hi Team,

Sorry to keep you waiting.

The .dll definitely solved 99.9% of the live tv issues.

I’ve been having some issues with recordings. Like before, time stamps are out of wack and two of my recordings just end abruptly and the remaining is unplayable.

I’ve been trying to recreate the issues with verbose logs enabled so I will report back once I get a nice clean log working this weekend with a sample file.

[sub]

Ultimately the recordings are just a dump of whatever comes from your iptv provider. ie, NextPVR doesn’t generate the time stamps in the streams.

[nextpvrnoob]

Hi sub, still taking some time to collect logs.

What I seem to have discovered is that the random stoppages that make the rest of the recording unplayable occurs when there is a unexpected disconnect.

I can live with bad time stamps because the recordings are still watchable but the disconnects make them unwatchable. I understand that npvr should reconnect automatically but I’m unsure how it is handled with a recording in progress on the backend.

When I watch live and record at the same time, if a disconnect occurs and I can manually reconnect to continue watching and no issue persists however, the recording does not either resume or is not combining the two in to one recording.

Again, I’m not sure how the logic is supposed to work here so any info is good.

[mvallevand]

If it disconnects it will not retry.  GIGO I suspect the original logic would have worked better for this situation since it moves you to the other server.

Martin

[nextpvrnoob]

I thought ffmpeg handles the reconnect

[mvallevand]

NextPVR doesn't use ffmpeg for downloading unless it is not standard, but no ffmpeg will drop bad connections too. For NextPVR to fail it will try about one minute until the cached m3u8 segments run out.

Martin