It's pretty basic, but here is a plugin I've been working on for displaying content from a Plex Media Server (http://plexapp.com) as a backend. This is an
application that scans catalogs and can transcode for android/iphone/AppleTV and other devices (tvs etc) video files from a server.

I've ignored the transcoding part, as NextPVR doesn't need it as our pcs are generally powerfull enough and have all the codecs required to play back most things.

It can support UNC paths (if the server is removed from your NextPVR machine) or use local paths if you Plex Server is the same machine.

It works via NMT - but for this to work I think (mvallevand may have to correct me) it would expect UNC paths.

Also at the moment the only sections types it will display are TV Show, Movies and Home Movies (personal media - that is not checked against IMDB or TVDB - this is where I put my NextPVR recordings). This means at this release photos and music are not supported.

I only wanted a rudimentary Movie database with watched status tracking. Using Plex I was able to do this. As it currently does everything I want, it may not be developed much further....apart from adding multiples servers. Someone else may or may not want to take the music sections and run with those.

To add a UNC path to Plex, under edit a section, add a manual directory instead of navigating to a drive letter.

Here are some pictures.
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And here is the plugin. Unzip to the NextPVR data directory (On windows 7 this is in c:\users\public\npvr on Windows XP, I assume it's in C:\Program Files\NPVR still).

0.7.4.1 - 16-02-2013

• Added some more logging around PopulateList to see where an object ref error was being caused.
  

• Added some timers that for progress within the video - used for trakt integration only.
  

• Added Previous Channel (Control-W) command to go up a level
  
• Changed the filter in the settings dialog to hide the items sections rather than show. Also You can use either the types (photo, movie or show) or the sections names (TV Shows, Movies, Photos) - case sensitive.
  
• Added a user selectable timeout value for checking online status of th server
  

• Added a filer in the settings dialog, enter in the types to display - eg movie for movies, show for tv shows. Only these will be shown.
  

• Fixed bug in TV Shows where cover art wasn't showing for the Show or season
  
• Hopefully improved watch status processing for NMT devices - it works on the principal of the actual duration your watch it for, rather than pulling it from NextPvr - as it doesn't supply the position.
  
• This version is debug compiled so it might have a little bit more logging, hopefully for smacrae
  
• Changed how the Music and Photos sections are hidden, should work better.
  

• Added simple path replacement functionality - replaces source text with dest text. Eg G:\serverFolders replaced with \\aragorn
  
• Added Media Flags to media preview, shows audio codec and video codec. Videos with no summary show more icons. They can be turned on or off in the skin file. (This update requires the updating of the videos.xml skin file as well).
  
• Fixed bug where deletes would not work.
  

• Added delete functionality with confirmation dialog
  
• Added resume/restart dialog
  
• Added contextual buttons depending if Folder or item
  
• More bug fixing around the Notify method.
  
• Added "*" to description if not watched.
  
• Added "Viewed"/"Not Viewed" to description.
  
• Added "x% Watched" to media that is partially watched.
  

• Fixed bug where the plex.log grew to ridiculous size as it logged every action from npvr.
  

• Fixed bug where if the plugin was never entered, it kept npvr open
  
• Added some more error messages when populating the list, so hopefully the user gets more of an idea of a problem without having to view the logs.
  

• Changed lo location to nppvr\logs
  
• Added resume and storage of playback position in plex
  
• Introduced and fixed a bug where the plugin wouldn't allow Npvr to exit.
  
• Fixed a bug where if the server name was specified and not found it wouldn't use a server. Added a better check for server name.
  

• Basic Navgation and playback
  

I'm not quite sure where to post this so apologies in advance if it's in the wrong place.

I'm using nPVR and i like the icon view for videos but was wondering is anybody knew of a good / easy way to get hold of some images.

I'm guessing you can do something similar with music as well.

Hi all,

sorry in advance, I'm sending lots of questions at the moment and I'm sure some of these will have been answered before....but I can't find it ! But I do really appreciate all the help from everybody !

I've got NPVR up and running and it plays live TV and recordings no problem. But I have a number of MPEG2 videos (many created via Videoredo) which I cannot play via "Videos". I just get a black screen and no sound. It will play recordings via "videos" and it will also play DivX so I'm guessing it must be a codec issue but I'm not very good at the codec stuff.

I downloaded and ran "SD Pack 1.0" from DVB Support.net last night. It gave me some more MPEG2 decoders which I have tried but no luck. I've attached my logs and config file.

I'm running it on XP SP3.

Fantastic software by the way - I'm hooked !!

Hi.

May I know how can I create a new list of devices inside settings/devices?

I don't want the current list of devices.
How to make NPVR re-detect everything again?

As I have removed some tuners, shifted some tuners to different slots, added in some new tuners.

Don't wish to see those non present tuners inside the list.
Wish NPVR to re-detect and arrange the tuners properly again.

May I know how to do it?

Thank you!

I hope this isn't a dumb question. I've got an XP server so the nPVR config stuff is all stored in c:\documents and settings\all users etc etc.

Now, to get the client PC to work, this folder has to be shared right so the client can access it. well i can't for the life of me get it to work. I can create a copy in somewhere like C:\temp, share that and it works perfectly. But i cannot get the client to see the share under "documents and settings".

I am using the same user and password on both PC's.

This is obviously a security thing because its user data. Can anybody give me some pointers? And apologies is this is covered somewhere else but i couldn't find anything.

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i d like to.set gbpvr on.my current sys my detailed specs amd athlon 64 x2 5000+ mainboard msi o9a platinum graphikcard ati 6450 tuner card cablestar hd2 from.technisat dvb-c standard
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is this setup running with gb-pvr smoothlie or do i need some tweakin ?
my main interrest is watching tv movies listening music and recording how i.met your mother ^^
also watching bd and hdtv
please help me i tried many other solutions like mediaportal xbmc aso but nothing worked
thx
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I would like to be able to record just new / first run / not repeat episodes for a series. This information is supplied in mc2xml guide data from Windows MCE (as well as from Schedules Direct according to Martin). 'smajor' described a way to get this behavior by an option in mc2xml that appends a '*' to the end of titles of new episodes but this is not an ideal way to do it (especially if you want to record new episodes and repeats which would require you to schedule 2 recurring recordings).

What I mean is, all files in the video folder has no "picture" of them, so I wonder if there's an addon that will create a picture from each video
and where that is can be set in... let's say seconds, and the snapshot will be created of one frame (close/near) to the set seconds in the video.
Hope that is clear enough

Is there an addon for this?

Hi all,

My laptop wont hibernate itself using the normal windows idle activity. e.g I set it 10mins and it won't hibernate after 10mins (unless I have an HID event, then go idle). So the creates a problem with the system wakes to record as it won't go back to hibernation. To get around this problem I just use a hibernation command at the end of my PostPorcessing.bat file.
However if a recording fails (e.g device not found [becuase by usb fell out]) the PostProcessing.bat is not invoked.

Is there a why that I can get my latop to hibernate or run a batch file if a recording fails for any reason.

Many thanks.

When I playback Divx or xvid in NPVR the image really stutters. Sometimes the image comes behind the sound. Thing is, the playback does not go smoothly
DVD - Bluray - recordings, live tv goes fine

Using NPVR 2.2.6 final patches with SAF6 codec on Win7 32bit platform with Corei3 CPU

If anyone experiences this....