[Mugobeer]

Hi All -

Last fall I was happily using three Windows 10 systems (two 64 bit & one 32 bit) as media centers (primarily for watching live or time-shifted TV) using the then current version of Kodi with NextPRV.

About the time of the Anniversary Update things started to get flaky and continued downhill from there. For the last month or so all three systems report “PVR Addon couldn't be loaded" so I’m now unable to use the “TV” part of Kodi. A screenshot of this error is posted at http://kodi-npvr.mugobeer.com/Images/npvr_error.png .

Along the way I’ve tried many different versions of Kodi, and done complete removal/reinstallations of both Kodi and NextPvr but nothing has helped.

I've uploaded the logfile w/ debug enabled to http://paste.ubuntu.com/24625893/ and the system information is at http://paste.ubuntu.com/24626076/.

(Please note: This is not an intermittent thing. A system would be running fine for many days and then suddenly just quit working.!)

If anyone has any ideas how I might fix this, please let me know. Also please let me know what other information might be helpful.

Thanks in advance,

Mugobeer (aka Dave)

[Karellen]

Hi Mugobeer,

Your log looks clean. Was the log running when it crashed? The log won't reveal much unless it catches the problem

[sub3]

Is the NextPVR web server running? ie, can you open http://127.0.0.1:8866 in your browser on this machine?

[Mugobeer]

Hi Mugobeer,

Your log looks clean. Was the log running when it crashed? The log won't reveal much unless it catches the problem

Hi Karellen -

Thanks for the reply. The log you looked at was captured when the system "crashed" (it doesn't really crash, the TV section of Kodi just doesn't work!). The log snippet below was captured with debugger turned off - this is the section where things go haywire - System is 64 bit , Win 10 Build 14393
****************************************************************
00:37:07.992 T:912 WARNING: JSONRPC: Could not parse type "Setting.Details.SettingList"
00:37:08.109 T:912 NOTICE: initialize done
00:37:08.109 T:912 NOTICE: Running the application...
00:37:08.109 T:912 NOTICE: starting upnp client
00:37:18.904 T:4484 ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: Timeout was reached(28)
00:37:18.904 T:4484 ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 0 for http://127.0.0.1:8866/service?method=ses...evice=xbmc
00:37:18.904 T:4484 ERROR: XFILE::CFileCache::Open - failed to open source <http://127.0.0.1:8866/service?method=session.initiate&ver=1.0&device=xbmc>
00:37:18.906 T:4484 ERROR: ADDON: Dll NextPVR PVR Client - Client returned bad status (1) from Create and is not usable
00:37:22.173 T:4484 ERROR: PVR::CPVRClients::UpdateAddons - failed to create add-on NextPVR PVR Client, status = 1
***************************************************************************************************

Same section of log from my test system (also 64 bit, Win 10 Build) that Kodi still works fine on:
************************************************************************************
00:50:50.276 T:9760 WARNING: JSONRPC: Could not parse type "Setting.Details.SettingList"
00:50:50.328 T:9760 ERROR: Unable to locate window with id 615. Check skin files
00:50:50.431 T:9760 NOTICE: initialize done
00:50:50.431 T:9760 NOTICE: Running the application...
00:50:50.431 T:9760 NOTICE: starting upnp client
00:50:50.437 T:9772 NOTICE: ES: Starting UDP Event server on port 9777
00:50:50.437 T:9772 NOTICE: UDP: Listening on port 9777 (ipv6 : false)
00:50:50.855 T:9400 NOTICE: Skin Helper Service --> Skin Helper Service version 1.1.3 started
00:50:50.856 T:5232 NOTICE: Skin Helper Service --> WebService - start helper webservice on port 52307
**************************************************************************************************
Up to this point the logs are pretty much identical - perhaps if you take a look at this section of the log I posted with the debugger enabled you can spot something.

Thanks for any assistance you can provide.

Dave

[Mugobeer]

Is the NextPVR web server running? ie, can you open http://127.0.0.1:8866 in your browser on this machine?

Hi Sub3 - Thanks for your interest. That page does not open but in my case Kodi and NextPVR are running on the same systems. On my test system (almost identical to the systems that Kodi is failing on) the NextPVR server is not running but Kodi starts and runs fine.

Anything else you can suggest?

Thanks again,

Dave

[sub3]

Is the NextPVR web server running? ie, can you open http://127.0.0.1:8866 in your browser on this machine?

Hi Sub3 - Thanks for your interest. That page does not open but in my case Kodi and NextPVR are running on the same systems. On my test system (almost identical to the systems that Kodi is failing on) the NextPVR server is not running but Kodi starts and runs fine.

Anything else you can suggest?

If your NextPVR web server isn't starting correctly, you may need to do this: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/...ov-update/

[p3ngwin]

i have exactly the same problem as OP, same message within Kodi upon startup. I have a single Windows 10 Pro PC running Kodi 17.1.

i tried to open http://127.0.0.1:8866 but no dice, site can't be reached despite NEXTPVR service running in the systray.

For some reason trying to use NextPVR's native application results in live TV with audio but no video, and a complaint that "The Microsoft DTV-DVD decoder on your machine has MPEG-2 support disabled, please try another decoder."

I tried the suggested solution to create the .Net folder, but it was already there and hence i guess not the problem.

I'm not sure what happened, because everything was working fine a few weeks ago.

Should i try and get some logs to see if they reveal any clues despite OP's logs not showing much ?

[Mugobeer]

Is the NextPVR web server running? ie, can you open http://127.0.0.1:8866 in your browser on this machine?

Hi Sub3 - Thanks for your interest. That page does not open but in my case Kodi and NextPVR are running on the same systems. On my test system (almost identical to the systems that Kodi is failing on) the NextPVR server is not running but Kodi starts and runs fine.

Anything else you can suggest?

If your NextPVR web server isn't starting correctly, you may need to do this: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/...ov-update/

Thank you, Sub3! Problem solved (for me, anyway). - You hit the nail on the head. (I was wrong when I said the NPVR server wasn't running on the one system that was working - my bad. But it was 1:30am local time so my brain was probably half asleep.)

I got two of my "broken" systems going today just by starting the NPVR server. For some reason I was thinking that only needed to be running if Kodi was on one system and NPVR on a different system. My third broken system is at my cottage but I fully expect the same fix will get it going when I'm out there on the weekend.

The "emby" link you provided has some good good information and seems to explain how the mess came about. Anyone having this type of problem should take a look at it.

Thanks again, Mugobeer

[Mugobeer]

i have exactly the same problem as OP, same message within Kodi upon startup. I have a single Windows 10 Pro PC running Kodi 17.1.

i tried to open http://127.0.0.1:8866 but no dice, site can't be reached despite NEXTPVR service running in the systray.

For some reason trying to use NextPVR's native application results in live TV with audio but no video, and a complaint that "The Microsoft DTV-DVD decoder on your machine has MPEG-2 support disabled, please try another decoder."

I tried the suggested solution to create the .Net folder, but it was already there and hence i guess not the problem.

I'm not sure what happened, because everything was working fine a few weeks ago.

Should i try and get some logs to see if they reveal any clues despite OP's logs not showing much ?

I had the same problem with the decoders awhile back. You can Google "LAV decoders" and download and install a free set. That should take care of some of your problems.

Dave

[sub3]

For some reason trying to use NextPVR's native application results in live TV with audio but no video, and a complaint that "The Microsoft DTV-DVD decoder on your machine has MPEG-2 support disabled, please try another decoder."

You've currently got it set to use the "Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder" for MPEG2 video. Unfortunately this decoder will only work on Vista/Win7, or on later versions of Windows if you also have the Microsoft DVD Player app installed.

As suggested above, you could try installing and selecting the LAV Video Decoder. Alternative you could install and select the ffdshow video decoder (though make sure you enable MPEG2 support in the decoder installer, because it defaults to MPEG2 being disabled).

I tried the suggested solution to create the .Net folder, but it was already there and hence i guess not the problem.

I'm not sure what happened, because everything was working fine a few weeks ago.

Should i try and get some logs to see if they reveal any clues despite OP's logs not showing much ?

As mentioned above, OP's problem is now solved.

You might need to supply your NextPVR logs, so I can take a look what is causing your problem.

[rbrinson]

I just wanted to follow up on this issue. Last night my Nexus 7 Android tablet was automatically updated from Kodi 17.1 to Kodi 17.2, and now the NextPVR add-on is not loading on that device as well. So, that makes two devices, my Nexus 7 Android tablet and my NVIDIA Shield Android TV, where Kodi 17.2 fails to load the NextPVR add-on. I'll connect the Nexus 7 tablet to my computer tonight and pull the debug logs.

[GeoffG]

i have exactly the same problem as OP, same message within Kodi upon startup. I have a single Windows 10 Pro PC running Kodi 17.1.

i tried to open http://127.0.0.1:8866 but no dice, site can't be reached despite NEXTPVR service running in the systray.

For some reason trying to use NextPVR's native application results in live TV with audio but no video, and a complaint that "The Microsoft DTV-DVD decoder on your machine has MPEG-2 support disabled, please try another decoder."

I tried the suggested solution to create the .Net folder, but it was already there and hence i guess not the problem.

I'm not sure what happened, because everything was working fine a few weeks ago.

Should i try and get some logs to see if they reveal any clues despite OP's logs not showing much ?

I had the same problem with the decoders awhile back. You can Google "LAV decoders" and download and install a free set. That should take care of some of your problems.

Dave

I would exercise extreme caution when downloading LAV decoders as my system was infected with a virus. You do not need a decoder for NextPVR if your front end is Kodi.