I have updated iGL to download fanart from thetvdb and themovie db and save it in NextPVR format in media\show (title.fanart.jpg) This is currently not used in NextPVR but sub serves it to XBMC PVR with his latest Kodi update.

Martin

Hello,

I'm trying to set up web streaming via NEWA. I installed VLC (the 64 bit version as I'm on a 64bit platform), and the paths in the NEWA webinterface look ok. When I click "view live" in the EPG, a new tab opens, but it stays blank.
To start, I'm using Firefox on the same PC as where NextPVR is installed. How do I start finding why it does not work?

Thanks!


Jörg

OK, so here's my current quandary.

I recently switched my tuner setup from an original HDHR to a HDHR Plus and have successfully configured the HDHR Plus to record to H.264 format and I wrote a postprocessing script to run VideoRedo QuickStreamFix, outputting the file to VideoRedo TVSuite's "H.264 Matroska MKV" stock output profile. For content recorded by the HDHR Plus, everything is peachy keen - files play back perfectly in NPVR with pretty much any of the H.264 codecs I throw at them (and also in MPC-HC).

So, I figured I'd go back and run that same postprocessing script at all of the recordings I have kicking around in the old format (MPEG2-TS recorded by my original HDHR). Obviously, since the VideoRedo QuickStreamFix has to do a major re-encode to output to matroska, this takes a lot longer, I've been fine with that - but now I am discovering that none of my resulting files will play in MPC-HC or NPVR. It's literally the same postprocessing script, so it has to be something with the input files. I can still play them back in VLC, but that's not super awesome to me, obviously I want them to be able to play through NPVR.

Below is a screenshot of MediaInfo from 4 files, the two on the lefthand side of the screen are from files which were originally recorded by the older HDHR and re-encoded to matroska by my postproc script, and are the "problem" files. On the right - is MediaInfo from two working files, one from a Matroska-encoded DVD rip (upper) and one from a HDHR Plus-recorded program that went through my postprocessing script.

I'm beginning to think I'll need to use a different encoding script for the files generated by my older HDHR, but could use some help determining where exactly the problem is.

Thanks!

Schedules Direct isn't updating I assume due to the SD API change. My PostUpdateEPG.bat is an follows:

C:\EPG
cd "C:\EPG"
mc2xml -T login:password -a -A -d 300 -D shed.dat -o SHED.xml

What do I need to change for SD to update? Thanks.

I've attached an updated version of the addon for use with the latest Windows version of Kodi Helix, and an updated NShared.dll to support the new functionality. I've specifically been testing with Kodi 14.0-BETA1 (November 3rd).

I'd appreciate any feedback on this functionality before I submit for inclusion in the Kodi.

Changes:

Quote:- supports ATSC style major.minor numbers in Kodi
- supports recording artwork
- supports fanart (fullscreen backgrounds)
- fixes a problem playback of radio stations when bitrate was too lower for the buffering

When using iGL to update previously recorded shows I found the filename looked a little funny.

When running "imageGrabLite.exe --oid 1055 --rename --zap2it" the previous file name
Saving Grace/S03E08-Popcorn_090804.avi
was renamed to
Saving Grace.S03E08.-Popcorn.avi
Note the '-'.

Although iGL matched the recording - see attachment - it used the old subtitle, but subtracted the SxxEyy information keeping the '-'. The season and episode information is updated, see the content of scheduled_recordings event_data before and after iGL below.

This is a little inconsistent, I would really like if the old information would be replaced by the newly found information and if renaming would use the subtitle string that matched the search. (Two issues)

Thanks for your help.

Volker

P.S.: This is the metadata before the iGL call:

I just used ImageGrabLite to update and rename the information on some previously recorded shows and it mostly worked, but I have one stubborn episode (so far) that doesn't work.

I got the OID from the npvr.db3 using SQLite manager and called it with command line options --oid 1417 --rename --zap2it . Logfile attached.

I also checked that the entry in npvr.db3 is OK, and it seems to be. The subtitle matches the episode name. I also attached the data for this entry.

Is this not matching a bug or a feature?

Thanks for an otherwise excellent program!

Finally got around to installing the update. Server upgrade seems to be working fine but the client upgrade has problems. The epg is not working on the client (it is on the server). I checked and the address in the xml.config file is correct (https://json.schedulesdirect.org/20140530). Everything is recording properly on the server, I just can't set a new recording on the client.

Also, every time I try and change a program on the client I get a box stating I basically have SQLite database problems. I have no idea what that's about.

I would send a log file but I don't know what you want, server or client and which log file.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

This is copied from another forum section as I got it in the wrong place initially!

Hi,

This is for Sub mainly. I'm currently maintaining the Sky TV custom data grabber for MediaPortal TVE3. It was developed by DJBlu who is currently on a long term leave (military service of some form I believe) and uses two components, a custom data grabber dll (coded in C#) which is inserted in to the main code as a way to capture full PIDS by referencing certain details (in MP it is a separate DLL and then referenced in TSWriter), there is then the custom plugin which does the activities.

The plugins are the real heart and these can capture all the OpenTV data and insert this in to the database for the tv engine to read and use to record programs, allows for proper series linking from the main sky feed, can make the engine act like an STB by doing refreshes to add/remove channels, select certain channels within a defined LCN range, region picking for channels etc. Imagine EPGCollector (without the support of the other types of guide, yet) but 'built' in.

While I currently use MP, I am curious about Mediabrowser as a front end due to a number of reasons and wondered whether it was possible to get a version of the custom data grabber integrated in to NextPVR and then the plugins integrated as a plugin as nextpvr appears to work with it. I also like the built in decoding client as that was very quick when I last used PVR (before I found and got DJBlu to add NZ to the sky plugin).

The data grabber needs to be integrated into some form of TS writer so it can be called by the plugin. The plugins themselves need access to the database where the channels are stored, access to the tuners as it uses the engines tuners, and it needs to be able to run constantly in the background so it can do its updates or refreshes as necessary.

As MediaPortal is Open Source, it was easy to make the modifications and then merge with the latest master when they update (they do not support this work as TVE3 is in code freeze) but NextPVR is closed I believe and so I'd need pointers to access the stuff directly.

The advantage of this system is that it can be expanded to cover others such as MHEG5, Mediahighway etc. SJB has done an immense amount of work on EPGcollector and the tags contained can easily be used to find the other guides.

Thoughts and comments? It's all on github under benoire or Djblu (for the custom data grabber) so if it does peak your interest, have a look!

Anyway, thanks for your time!

Cheers,

Chris

Hi

Does nPVR support the Sat>IP Protocol at all? I've got a mass of cables behind my servers which I would like to get rid of and the sat>ip tuners (or even better IP-LNB) would solve this issue.

Chris