'FRITZ!Box 6590 Cable' as "SAT>IP" device (actually DVB-C) does not work well

[mvallevand]

Did you try

file://filename_used_by_iptvsimple

Martin

[_Michael_]

Like this?:
file:\\D:\tvhd.m3u
There is no error or success message, simply nothing happened. (With the unix style '/' I got errors.)

[sub]

Digital Devices: German TV tuner technology landed in New Zealand, wow.

Actually, it was imported from Germany. I needed an 8 tuner DVB-S SAT>IP device, and this was the best option.

I have also a Digital Devices Cine C/T (V6) dual Tuner card (DVB-C, too) but here it simply tells "Unable to start device: Device failed to start". So this HW does not work at all …

I did have to make a change recently for a Digital Devices PCIe device that another user had. You might be having the same issue they have - try the attached patch.

[sub]

So the error "2019-04-27 23:37:46.783 [ERROR][8] Unexpected error in RTSPKeepAlive (terminating thread): System.Threading.ThreadAbortException: Thread was being aborted." in file "ndigitalhost-24.log" is expected?

Yes, you'll often get this message when it is stopping a SAT>IP. It's not a tidy message, but it's not related to your issue.

[mvallevand]

Like this?:
file:\\D:\tvhd.m3u
There is no error or success message, simply nothing happened. (With the unix style '/' I got errors.)

You might need this patch https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...post533240

Martin

[_Michael_]

Thanks, I replaced the DLL and tried:

1. file:\\D:\tvhd.m3u
   
2. file://D:/tvhd.m3u
   
3. file://D:\tvhd.m3u
   

Non worked, new: no error message at 2.
Attached is my used M3U file.

[_Michael_]

I did have to make a change recently for a Digital Devices PCIe device that another user had. You might be having the same issue they have - try the attached patch.

Yes and no: The initial error is gone, i.e. now the channel scann works. Then I started live TV and … the same as with my FRITZ!Box: At channel switch the picture gets frozen. Difference: The new channel delivers data, i.e. the new created *.ts file in '...\Puplic Videos\' is several MBs large. I was then trying to collect a clean log file summary. This is not possible, after restarting the NPVR service the Live TV option says "Unable to find available capture device" and that is it. A PC reboot is not changing anything. The NRecord.log (attached) tells "enabled and present" next line "does not have channel".

[_Michael_]

It seems I have a mix of Fritzbox and DigitalDevices channels -> I have to cleanup this 1st, i.e. my post above is (may be) obsolet.

[_Michael_]

… i.e. my post above is (may be) obsolet.

1) It is, now the Digital Devices Cine C/T (V6) tuner card runs well with NPVR 4.2.4 190307. The CPU load is also OK: approx. 12 % one my core i3 . Back to the orig. thread issue:
2) In Post #5 you asked me if the buffer TS file has some size and I was telling no. This has changed today, see my post #27.

[_Michael_]

Proposal: We should concentrate on the "IPTV Device" setup. As I mentioned in my post #9 "PVR IPTV Simple Client" of Kodi runs well with my FRITZ!Box. Martin tells then I should do the same with NextPVR. I tried but failed. The issue that I cannot load my M3U file (post #26) is may be easier to debugg?!
The 'NPVR.log' tells for all of my three made M3U load attempts:
2019-04-28 09:38:18.684 [DEBUG][1] Downloading m3u
2019-04-28 09:38:18.685 [DEBUG][1] Loaded m3u
2019-04-28 09:38:20.958 [DEBUG][1] CaptureSourceEnabled property returned True
2019-04-28 09:38:20.982 [DEBUG][1] CaptureSource.LoadAll()