Recorded TV programs not showing on NextPVR interface

[FrogFan]

I'm preparing to replace the computer I use to serve content to Kodi, including videos, pictures, and recorded TV (using NextPVR).  As part of that exercise, I'm reviewing my need for disc space, so I scanned my discs for recorded TV programs.  I have recorded TV programs spread across four disc drives.  I noticed that some of the programs that I have stored on these drives are not showing up as available in NextPVR's web or desktop interface.  I'm wondering how I might get them to show up again in the NextPVR interface.  Another note:  The list of programs that show up on the web interface does not match exactly with those that show up on the desktop interface.

As an example, there is a folder on one of my drives containing recorded episodes of a program called "Outer Limits".  I can play these programs using Windows Media Player, but these programs don't show up in either NextPVR's web or desktop interface.

I've attached a current log file and zip files that list the recorded TV content on each of the four drives. Thanks in advance for any help.

[mvallevand]

NextTool will import many video files for you, is that what you are looking for?

Martin

[BrettB]

Another note:  The list of programs that show up on the web interface does not match exactly with those that show up on the desktop interface.

Note (a learning of mine from a while back): (at least some of) the web interface recordings displays include scheduled recordings (marked with "PENDING") as well as completed/failed recordings. But the desktop and UI client interfaces only include the past recordings, not the pending ones. This situation was "by design", so I expect that it is still the same.

If your listing discrepancies between the web interface and the desktop/UI client interfaces differ more than PENDING entries, then it would probably be good for you to post a zipped set of logs where you view the listings from each interface and let us know which ones have discrepancies. There could be some (new) bug causing the differences.

[FrogFan]

NextTool will import many video files for you, is that what you are looking for?

Martin

Frankly, I don't know.  I'm not familiar with this tool or how to use it.  I had a look here and it looks like I should install version 7 of NextPVR before I try it.  Could you provide a link to where I can download and find instructions on how to use it?

I will note that the programs that are not showing up were recorded using NextPVR, in some cases several years (and several NextPVR versions) ago.  I only this week noticed they weren't showing up in the interface anymore.  So, it seemed to me that something about NextPVR might have changed that causes these programs to not show up.

If your listing discrepancies between the web interface and the desktop/UI client interfaces differ more than PENDING entries, then it would probably be good for you to post a zipped set of logs where you view the listings from each interface and let us know which ones have discrepancies. There could be some (new) bug causing the differences.

After starting the web interface, I selected "Recordings" and the "All Recordings".  A tile labeled "Matlock" appears in Web interface.  If I click on this tile, the interface switches to "Pending" programs and provides a list of Pending programs, but none of those pending programs are "Matlock".  I did a search on "Matlock" in the web interface and two programs were returned. 

When I again select Recordings and All Recordings, a tile labeled "The Price is Right at Night" appears.  When I click on that tile, I get another list of Pending programs, this time including a pending ...Price is Right... plus the pending Matlock programs that were left out of the Matlock display.

Neither Matlock nor The Price is Right at Night appear as recordings in the desktop interface.  This is probably correct because there are only "Pending" programs for these titles.

I noted that both the web and desktop interfaces show the program "Will Trent", so I decided to check on it.  When I click on that tile in the web inteface after selecting Recordings, All Recordings, it correctly returns a list of available and pending programs for Will Trent.  When I click on that tile in the desktop interface, it only returns the program that has already been recorded, which seems correct based on what you've noted above. 

After doing all of the above, I generated a new set of logs and posted them below.

So, I guess I'm reporting two problems here:  First, there are programs that I recorded using NextPVR several years ago that no longer show up as available to watch in either NextPVR interface.  If NextTool is the solution in this case, I need instructions of where to find it and how to use it, and maybe a little help on what caused the problem, in case I inadvertently did something wrong to cause it.

The second problem I'm reporting appears, on closer inspection, to be a problem with the web interface not correctly showing recorded and pending programs in some cases.

Eventually, I'll want these titles and programs to display correctly in Kodi, but it seems appropriate to get things working in NextPVR before trying to do that.

Thanks @Martin and @BrettB for the quick response.

[mvallevand]

The wiki is your friend https://github.com/sub3/NextPVR/wiki/NextTool There is a version 6 zip there.

NextPVR might delete recordings automatically check these setting in config.xml especially that last one. I leave the top one false.

<AutoRemoveMissingRecordings>true</AutoRemoveMissingRecordings>
<CheckForRenamedRecordings>true</CheckForRenamedRecordings>
<NoRemoveWhenTreeMissing>true</NoRemoveWhenTreeMissing>

Martin

[FrogFan]

The wiki is your friend https://github.com/sub3/NextPVR/wiki/NextTool There is a version 6 zip there.

NextPVR might delete recordings automatically check these setting in config.xml especially that last one.  I leave the top one false.

<AutoRemoveMissingRecordings>true</AutoRemoveMissingRecordings>
<CheckForRenamedRecordings>true</CheckForRenamedRecordings>
<NoRemoveWhenTreeMissing>true</NoRemoveWhenTreeMissing>

Martin

Thank you, Martin.  The NextTool version in the Wiki available for download is 2.5.0.  I assume that's the version that works with version 6 of NextPVR.  It'll take me awhile to familiarize myself with the use of that tool.  I'll post back here as I get through that.

Meanwhile, I've changed AutoRemoveMissingRecordings to "false" in Users\Public\NPVR-data\config.xml.  The other settings are correctly set to "true".  This change had no impact on the recordings display in the web interface but I didn't expect it to.  I assume it will mitigate the problem I'm experiencing in the future.

[FrogFan]

Sorry to be back again so soon. 

So, I reviewed the Wiki entry for NextTool and couldn't get it to work.  Here is what happened.

First, I downloaded version 2.5.0 and extracted the contents of the zip file to C:\Program Files\nextpvr

I attempted to delete NextTool.deps.json and NextTool.runtimeconfig.json as directed.  I found and deleted NextTool.deps.json but NexTool.runtimeconfig.json was not there.  I went ahead and pressed on by executing the following command in the C:\Program Files\nextpvr directory:

NextTool import D:\Recorded TV,

whereupon I got the following error message:

Cannot use file stream for [c:\Program Files\NextPVR\NextTool.deps.json]: No such file or directory
Unhandled exception. System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Runtime, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (0x80131040)
File name: 'System.Runtime, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'

So, just for grins, I put the deleted .json file back and tried to run it again and got the following error message:

Could not resolve CoreCLR path. For more details, enable tracing by setting COREHOST_TRACE environment variable to 1

So, I'm officially "stuck".  Thanks in advance for any further help.

[mvallevand]

My date is wrong on the wiki, it should be 2024 on v2.5 it does say .Net 8 though.

You want 2.4.

Martin

[FrogFan]

My date is wrong on the wiki, it should be 2024 on v2.5 it does say .Net 8 though.

You want 2.4.

Martin

Sorry, Martin, but I continue to struggle.

Went to 2.4.0, replaced files with the same names in \Program Files\nextpvr and deleted the two files as directed in the wiki.
Issued command.  It didn't run.  Struggled with embedded spaces in folder names and gave up.  Renamed folder from "Recorded TV" to "Recorded_TV" (no embedded space) and re-issued command.  It continues to error out.  Here is the message I got:

C:\Program Files\NextPVR>NextTool import D:\Recorded_TV
Cannot use file stream for [C:\Program Files\NextPVR\NextTool.deps.json]: No such file or directory
NEXTPVR_INSTALLDIR C:\Program Files\NextPVR\
NEXTPVR_DATADIR C:\Program Files\NextPVR\data\
NEXTPVR_DATADIR_USERDATA C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\
Folder not found D:\Recorded_TV

The directory D:\Recorded_TV exists and contains recorded TV programs.

Thanks much for your patience.

[mvallevand]

Embedded spaces would simply need quotes but other than that they should work. I just tried it here and it works.

Code:

]NextTool.exe --import "c:\Recorded TV"
NEXTPVR_INSTALLDIR D:\v8\programs\
NEXTPVR_DATADIR D:\v8\programs\data\
NEXTPVR_DATADIR_USERDATA C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\
Folder: Recorded TV

Is that a symlink or something? Permission errors or a corrupt disk could explain why it got deleted from NextPVR.

Martin