Posts by emveepee

  • TVHeadEnd - BBC 4 has vanished

    Sorry to perhaps hijack this thread but it could explain the users problem. When I compare the two results from libdvb I only see the video and audio pids change of note. The tsid changes but that is for all frequencies so that probably can be ignored.

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  • TVHeadEnd - BBC 4 has vanished

    Thanks. I was wondering if TVHeadend knows not to overwrite the non broadcasting channels during the update, since they still are in the scan they just don't have video and audio PIDs.

    NextPVR users a separate libdvb style conf file for tuning, that is were the replacement needs to take place

  • TVHeadEnd - BBC 4 has vanished

    WSL2 won't give you h/w kernel support or or driver support you can't get in Linux. You can always just install NextPVR on Window if you want an that extra tuner in LE. NextPVR also supports multi-rec so technically you get more than one channel for one tuner as described above.

    Because of the Kodi UI you won't really notice that it is another backend. However If you only want one PVR with multiple instance install NextPVR directly LE or just move the LE tuner to Windows. I'd probably wait though since the version 7 of NextPVR is about to be released.

  • HAUPPAUGE Wintv-Nova-S2 01676 USB TV TUNER

    Quote from petediscrete

    There’s no need to discuss Windows here. This is a forum for a Linux based application. In fact it’s a complete non discussion.

    I was not asking either of you to run Windows my comment is still valid for users with open minds reading this looking for alternatives to non working tuners. Integration does not mean everything in your home must run pure open source Linux and not Windows, macOS or Apple/Android tablets. There are plenty of LE users who to access backends that are running Windows for their shares or severs like Emby, Jellyfin, Plex, PVR (Media Portal, NextPVR) and DLNA as examples and to suggest otherwise is just ridiculous.

    No my Vista is not used for anything but PVR testing but I consider it well protected for Internet issues. I would consider that buying any generic network device for SAT>IP on ebay running god knows what OS version with no updates is potentially more risky.

    For power if you want a 24 hour non-transcoding solution I don't think you can beat a generic arm32/aarch64 device like the RPi but there are limits to a 3A power source needed for USB tuners, hard disks, external 2.5Gb networking etc. With better power supplies I think a NUC or PC running x64 Linux or Windows will have similar power drain but the power management of Windows is going to better. I am a PCIe fan so my server requirements are slightly different and when moving to Linux from Windows 5 years ago I had to give up on letting my system sleep because my internal and external Hauppauge tuners and my USB connections were never correct.

  • HAUPPAUGE Wintv-Nova-S2 01676 USB TV TUNER

    When you can't get good Linux drivers I stick with my general recommendation for non-haters reading this to try Windows since many people have access at home to a free or nearly-free old PC that support most tuners. You can even install a clean Windows run headless, without a license (many cheap PCs even include a BIOS based license ). I know some people complain about stability but I have a 17 year old headless Vista system that replaced a Linux MythTV setup that still sleeps, responds to WOL and wakes up daily for EPG updates and test recordings 10 and it transcodes better than a current RPi.

    Please no Windows vs Linux discussion needed, my main PVR backend and most test systems I have are Linux based and they are quite reliable too but Linux is just not for everyone. LE clients don't care what the backend runs.

  • HAUPPAUGE Wintv-Nova-S2 01676 USB TV TUNER

    To be fair I checked the amazon.co.uk 1 star reviews and you shouldn't really be surprised by the lack of Linux support. Even some other variations won't work. Same for their PCTV model. Maybe with Hauppauge web store you can communicate with a real person who can check. I only mentioned Windows since like it or not that is what vendor support and many people here will just tell you to get a SAT>IP box to avoid firmware issues.

  • SDL Application

    I think the user has a right to ask questions about using the LE platform which doesn't necessarily even need Kodi to be useful, without just being dismissed. Posting doesn't mean you have to support him.

    I have also wondered how I might use LE as a base to run an SDL | libmpv application since the OS provides a lot of good things that a Linux distro might not have. I just haven't been able to set up the ninja packages correctly

    Martin

  • Getting TVheadend to work

    Those are the frequencies working in Australia with NextPVR's tuning files for Windows DVB and also SAT>IP with forced 7Mhz wide spacing. We have found auto wasn't working well with all tuners.

    Worldwide everyone agrees the Linux dtv-scanning-tables suck and the fact that they need to be submitted via the Linux media mailing list sure doesn't help users.

  • Trying to understand how to enable DVR

    Although I agree most IPTV and all PVR VOD I see on the various Kodi related forums are pirated, the legitimacy of streaming non-DRM'd URL's from the slyguy site or the the Samsung links is open to debate. Most "official" media streaming Kodi addons fail that test.

    The main reason that that slyguy URLs fail would be they are often geo-locked. There are also some that have more than one video stream or multiple programs in the PMT which aren't supported by most players. If you want help with NextPVR go to the NextPVR forum. The author happens to live in NZ too which might help

    Otherwise random URL's you find on GitHub just cannot be considered reliable enough for PVR.