NextPVR 7 looses recordings after post processing

[ballfam]

I have had this issue in the past, but it has come back again. I have been running stable for some time now, and I just upgraded to 7.0 yesterday, nothing else has changed. It took me a beat to notice, but since I upgraded, after a show has finished recording and it gets processed by PostProcessing.sh, it disappears from the database. The PostProcessing script contains this (at the end of the script):

Code:

# remux to mkv in the Plex location
ffmpeg -fflags +genpts -i "$1" -vcodec copy -acodec copy -c:s copy  "${plex_file%.*}.mkv"
# tell NextPVR where it went
/opt/dotnet/dotnet /opt/nextpvr/system/NScriptHelper.dll  -rename "$1" "$plex_file"
#delete original
rm "$1"

so, it's remuxing to MKV in a different location, in theory, updating the database with the new location, and then removing the original. All worked perfectly before the upgrade, and the file still showed up in the recordings in NextPVR. After the upgrade it disappears.

I'm going to take a guess that either I need to manually update  NScriptHelper.dll, or the DLL location changed, or it now takes different parameters.

It is entirely possible that I replaced this file with a patched version from Martin a while back that may no loner work in the latest release (if it wasn't updated by the new install).

Martin, Sub, any ideas?

Thanks

[ballfam]

BTW: looks like it hasn't been updated since March:

Code:

# ls -l /opt/nextpvr/system/NScriptHelper.dll
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23552 Mar 29  2024 /opt/nextpvr/system/NScriptHelper.dll

I'm guessing it just doesn't work with the new version.

[mvallevand]

I don't release patches and only offer minimal workaround support for NScriptHelper since I don't use it or test it so I and can't be bothered with figuring out all the issues. Maybe try some testing renaming.

Definitely your file date is wrong though and it must be the new version. Maybe your don't use the deb installer.

Martin

[ballfam]

I'm also seeing this error in the log:

Code:

2024-12-19 14:06:12.965 [DEBUG][17]    > A fatal error was encountered. The library 'libhostpolicy.so' required to execute the application was not found in '/opt/nextpvr/system/'.
2024-12-19 14:06:12.965 [DEBUG][17]    > Failed to run as a self-contained app.
2024-12-19 14:06:12.965 [DEBUG][17]    >  - The application was run as a self-contained app because '/opt/nextpvr/system/NScriptHelper.runtimeconfig.json' was not found.
2024-12-19 14:06:12.965 [DEBUG][17]    >  - If this should be a framework-dependent app, add the '/opt/nextpvr/system/NScriptHelper.runtimeconfig.json' file and specify the appropriate framework.

[ballfam]

This is how I installed, and it seemed to work OK:

Code:

curl https://nextpvr.com/nextpvr-helper.deb -O
apt install ./nextpvr-helper.deb --install-recommends

I am, of course, root at the time

[mvallevand]

My test works so you need to figure out why yours isn't

/opt/nextpvr/system/NScriptHelper.dll
martin@lenovo:~$ /opt/dotnet/dotnet /opt/nextpvr/system/NScriptHelper.dll -isrecording
NOT RECORDING

That is an install not an update and don't run a fresh install as root

Martin

[ballfam]

Same error as in the log:

Code:

# /opt/dotnet/dotnet /opt/nextpvr/system/NScriptHelper.dll -isrecording
A fatal error was encountered. The library 'libhostpolicy.so' required to execute the application was not found in '/opt/nextpvr/system/'.
Failed to run as a self-contained app.
  - The application was run as a self-contained app because '/opt/nextpvr/system/NScriptHelper.runtimeconfig.json' was not found.
  - If this should be a framework-dependent app, add the '/opt/nextpvr/system/NScriptHelper.runtimeconfig.json' file and specify the appropriate framework.

Possibly my system is too old and needs an updated library. I'll check it out

[mvallevand]

Looking at stable I see it is packaged wrong and I don't have a 7.0.0 version I can give you. See why I hate supporting this app?

Martin

[ballfam]

A quick check with google seems to indicate it's an issue related to dotnet 2.0. Looks like the new version is requiring something I don't have. If I work it out I'll post.

[mvallevand]

Try these two files at least the dates seem ok. This isn't a problem that Google can fix.

Martin