NextPVR Forums - Windows

recording one channel causes serviceto crash -

Thu, 28 May 2026 03:17:24 +0000

hi Martin....

'we got one' as they say....

recording abcnews at noon - the nextpvr service crashes and wont restart - even after a reboot.

this has happened before and i need to either delete the db file or uninstall/reinstall to get nextpvr back

interersting aside - in some of the log files its looking for a languages folder that does not exist

the main problem - if i try to record any abc channel, it takes out the service and kills it with fire.

these logs were gathered manually - there is no access to settings to press the 'get logs' button

NPVR.log.zip (Size: 783.47 KB / Downloads: 1)

is there a way to force iptv input streams through ffmpeg?

Sun, 24 May 2026 09:12:35 +0000

Hi Folks...

I don't really understand how iptv recording works so i may be barking up the wrong tree...

i use the mjh m3u8 playlists to watch and/or record live ,free iptv....

ive had a recurring problem where the recordings fail with "recording interrupted" and a few other issues that i don't want to trouble anyone with here...
....it seems like if there is a glitch in the stream, it causes the recording to fail.

now...i have tried using ffmpeg command line on a few recordings, and it seems to be able to handle the glitches - you can see it as warnings in the scrolling logs....
but the resultant .ts file comes out complete.

hence the question - is there a way to pipe all the channels in a m3u8 playlist to go through ffmpeg first? (i'd like to see if ffmpeg can help out with glitchy channel streams)

Ive tried putting the mjh playlist .m3u8 into an 'extras.xml' but it does not show any channels...(admittedly i got the code lines to do it from AI slop)
I would be prepared to manually put all the channels in the extras file, if thats the way to do it, but i'm lazy and wondering if there is another way?

This is what i put in "extras.xml":

ffmpeg.exe
-i "https://i.mjh.nz/au/Sydney/kodi-tv.m3u8" -vcodec copy -acodec copy -f mpegts -

but even i dont think this makes sense

any advice would be greatly appreciated...

DVB subtitles off centre

Sun, 24 May 2026 01:14:42 +0000

Using webapp and each of the latest npvr versions.

Some subtitles are so off that they're partially cut out of the screen.

However, some other times they are indeed centred. Don't know if channel related, can’t find a pattern.

Using kodi all is fine.

Invalid file, no error reported

Sat, 23 May 2026 05:20:39 +0000

Overnight, a scheduled recording is reported as successful, but in fact the .ts file is only 28Mb and is not playable (with VLS for NPVR). It's on a channel that has worked fine before, and it has the timestamp when it was due to end, so it looks like it didn't fail (e.g. loss of signal) and was truncated

Any thoughts?

Logs and file list image attached

Many thanks

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logs-20260523-0610.zip (Size: 1.39 MB / Downloads: 1)

NextPVR and DISH

Fri, 22 May 2026 20:57:12 +0000

I'm trying to understand the benefit of using NextPVR in conjunction with Dish Network (or similar service).
When I started with NextPVR years ago I had a cable card, which was a very sweet arrangement.
Recently I've been playing with an IPTV service, which is a legally gray area at best.
I'd like to go fully legit, but if I do go with Dish would I still get any benefit from NextPVR?
I tried the OTA route but my location makes that impossible.

Converting .TS files

Sat, 09 May 2026 22:27:56 +0000

Not sure that this sub-forum is the right one for this topic, so mods please move it to a sub-forum where it might fit better.

I have a dedicated offline Windows 10 laptop that I use to watch baseball games on the treadmill (otherwise the experience would be tedious to the point of inducing insanity). For years, I happily recorded games on Windows Media Center and transferred the .WTV files to the laptop via sneakernet. The laptop has a receiver connected for use with the WMC remote.

As Verizon has sunsetted our CableCARDs, this model for viewing will become obsolete once I finish watching the last game recorded via CableCARD. In anticipation of this event, I tried putting .TS files produced by NextPVR (using a Hauppauge HD PVR 2 1512) onto the laptop, to play via VLC. However, I don't have a remote that (to my knowledge) will control VLC, at least not with the granularity that a WMC remote can control WMC (30-second skip forward, 6-second skip back). So I resorted to converting the .TS files into .WTV files so that I could use the WMC remote.

This has worked OK, but there is a nagging visual issue where the WTV video looks choppy: for example, whereas the crawl line on the .TS file flows smoothly, on the .WTV conversion it moves along in little fits. The motion of a batted or pitched baseball looks similarly jerky in comparison to the .TS file.

What, if anything, can I do to mitigate/eliminate this issue? I'm open to solutions that will either (preferably) improve the .WTV output or, barring that, improve the VLC experience (a useful remote?).

In case it makes a difference, for the conversion to .WTV I'm using iDealshare VideoGo, at its highest settings for both video size and video quality.

Nextpvr seems to sort of crash

Sat, 09 May 2026 01:43:37 +0000

Hello,
I have been having Nextpvr sort of crash lately. It will crash to the point it will display a black box half screen. I still get audio. I have to exit Nextpvr via task manger then reopen it. I have enclosed pics as well as the logs. I hope we can figure this out.
Thank you,
Bruce

logs-20260508-2024.zip (Size: 780.76 KB / Downloads: 2)

Recurring Recordings

Fri, 08 May 2026 11:52:31 +0000

I'm trying to recreate a "Recurring Recordings" list for my custom UI.

If I look at the recurring_recordings table in the DB, I can't see how I would get the channel_OID or the recording type info.
There are some channel_OIDs in the table, but not all. I don't see any recording type info.

I don't know what to cross reference this table with to get the missing data?

HDHomeRun Emulation

Mon, 04 May 2026 09:51:56 +0000

I am playing with Prismcast, which is a plugin intended for Channels and Plex. It provides various means to interact with video delivered by various websites, such as one associated with one's cable provider. It also creates an emulation of a HDHomeRun tuner. Is there a way to get NextPVR to recognize the emulated tuner? It will scan for tuners and sees my physical ones, but not the emulated one.

The operation has timed out

Fri, 01 May 2026 15:33:57 +0000

Not sure what is going on, have 4 tuners on this system. Ignore the network drive P is unavailable messages (it's not attached currently)
I will reboot the server...
Art

logs-20260501-0907.zip (Size: 1.97 MB / Downloads: 1)

Showing duplicate of every channel lately

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:59:38 +0000

Any ideas how to fix this without wiping everything?

Lost devices after new install

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:27:41 +0000

My computers runs windows 10, last fully updated version
I did a full reinstall and tried to install the channels but nothing was found.
I noticed the tray application did not show being active when scanning
Then I noticed none of my devices (3 tuners) where shown in the tray application status window.
I removed everything npvr and reinstalled, same result.
The tuners do work with other SW and previously (last week) did work with an older npvr version
I can't see any problem in the log file (attached) so I have no clue what to do next.
Any help?

logs-20260428-0820.zip (Size: 20.01 KB / Downloads: 1)

Cableco DVR with six tuners, can NPVR use more than one?

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:08:13 +0000

Following up on a previous discussion:

As reported there, we now have three boxes from our cable company (Verizon), including two VMS4100 DVRs and one IPC4100 STB. As I understand it, the STB doesn't have its own tuners while the DVRs each have six tuners, such that in theory we could be recording up to twelve different programs at the same time.

Now here's the question: Is there a way for NextPVR to make use of these multiple tuners (using the appropriate hardware) so that we can record more than one program at the same time onto our PC, instead of onto the DVRs? Or are we limited to recording from one single channel on any single PC?

I suspect that the answer is the latter, but wish to confirm it. Or, preferably, refute it.

Epg Copying

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:57:50 +0000

How to copy EPG source from one channel to the rest. Tried Auto map and did nothing.

Probably for SUB?

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:12:11 +0000

I know you don't like getting involved with batch files, so I'm only including the command that's relavant.

"C:\Program Files\PuTTY\plink.exe" -ssh -pw ????? user@IPaddress ls "/usr/local/bin/ > /volume1/Volume_1/PostBatchLog.txt" > "C:\users\john\PostBatchLog.txt"

It's a simple command to output a directory from my NAS.

If I put this command in PostCancel.bat, and execute the batch file directly in windows, it works fine.
If I have it run automatically after canceling a recording it doesn't work.