I've been looking into automatically skipping intros since I know this is a feature that Plex users like. Some of you have probably used the feature on Netflix where you get to intro and there is a skip button. I researched this and there are a few ways to do it but I found is using an open source netcore 6 library on github called soundfingerprinting it is actually not as hard to implement as I originally thought.
To be fair I have only tested this with this two shows, "Star Trek: Picard" which is an annoying at almost 2 minutes and "The Big Bang Theory" which is probably too short to reach for the remote at 20 seconds but all tests have been spot one.
The issues I see would be
- creating the mp3 for the intro. I got "The Big Bang Theory" from here https://www.televisiontunes.com/ and it was pretty easy manually creating one is a little bit harder. It would need to be a wav for the database but the mp3 is easier to distribute.
- distributing the mp3s
- matching the program title (especially with OTA data)
- It won't need comskip but I will need to be able merging the skip into the comskip edl file. Note for Kodi I'd have have option to have it a manual or automatic skip.
Is this something any of you are interested in? If so I'll post some more instructions on how I'd like some sample files to test this.
Hey all, I actually just setup NextPVR on my Linux Mint (Ubuntu) server in the last 2 weeks. I have IPTV M3U as the source and am trying to add 60min Post Padding to Baseball team games. It seems to stop right at the actual EPG ending and not adding the 60 minutes. I'm uploading the log which shows at 21:00 some constant unexpected error.
2022-05-17 21:00:02.026 [DEBUG][135] HTTP input source starting
2022-05-17 21:00:02.282 [DEBUG][135] Unexpected error in HTTP input source: System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
at NShared.Shim.InputSourceHTTP.WorkerThread()
then eventually says this
2022-05-17 21:09:20.524 [DEBUG][135] Too many retries...giving up
Since that's the time when the post padding should start, I'm assuming that is related. Any help would be appreciated. I'm a bit new to NextPVR on Linux but I did try NPVR on Windows many moons ago. If other logs are needed, I'm all ears.
I recently changed my default padding settings to -1 for pre-padding and +1 for post padding. I want the recordings to start 1 minute after the epg start time and continue to 1 minute after the epg end time.
I've found a few issues with scheduling recurring recordings using these settings.
Scenario 1 - EGP lists the following shows on the same day & channel:
4 PM Local News
5 PM Local News
If I schedule the 4PM to record "daily in this timeslot", it will schedule both the 4PM and 5PM shows in the pending recordings (while recurring shows only the 4 PM show). If I go into pending recordings, I can delete the 5 PM versions but they will reappear after the next EPG update.
Scenario 2
9 PM The National
10 PM The National
11 PM The National
If scehdule the 10 PM to record daily in this timeslot, it will scehdule all 3 shows in the Pending recordings (while recurring will show only the 10 PM show).
Scenario 3
2 AM View From Above
2:30 AM Business News
3 AM View From Above
3:30 AM Business News
4 AM Veiw From Above
If I schedule the 3 AM show to record daily in this timelslot the 2 AM and 4 AM shows will also schedule in Pending recordings (while recurring shows only the 3 AM show).
The show correctly record 1 minute after the start time to 1 minute after the end time. If I go into pending and remove all the unwanted duplicate showings, they will all reappear after the next EPG update.
If I use a positive pre-padding value or zero, I don't have any of these issues, it only seems to be when I set pre-padding to -1.
I have 2 providers with some groups with the same name.
when I add one group in and can see the channels in that group in the guide.
then I add the second group and the group in tvGuide shows only the channels in the 2nd group.
all of the channels in both groups show up in a search for a program on channel(s) in both groups.
So I figure if I could rename the first group before bringing in the groups for another provider would sollve the problem.
So my question(s) is(are)
1) how can I rename a group?
2) what else that I haven't thought of can I do?
Posted by: M4c - 2022-05-16, 11:17 AM - Forum: Linux
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Hello,
I have problems getting Live TV running.
My setup is the following:
Raspi 4 with openHABian and openHAB 3 running on it.
Technisat SkyStar USB HD tuner.
NextPVR Version: 5.2.7.220410
NextPVR is running, the tuner is detected, video folders are available with owner nextpvr and set correctly.
Channel scanning works and adapter0-DVB-S-channels.conf is created.
Code:
openhabian@openHABianDevice:/var/opt/nextpvr $ ls -al
total 944
drwxr-xr-x 7 nextpvr root 4096 May 16 12:42 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 16 12:17 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 nextpvr nextpvr 350659 May 16 12:36 adapter0-DVB-S-channels.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 nextpvr nextpvr 19658 May 16 12:19 config.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 nextpvr nextpvr 19666 May 16 12:19 config.xml.old
drwxr-xr-x 2 nextpvr nextpvr 4096 May 16 12:43 logs
drwxr-xr-x 4 nextpvr nextpvr 4096 May 16 12:17 media
-rw-r--r-- 1 nextpvr nextpvr 540672 May 16 12:42 npvr.db3
drwxr-xr-x 2 nextpvr nextpvr 4096 May 16 12:17 scripts
drwxr-xr-x 2 nextpvr nextpvr 4096 May 16 12:17 thumbs
drwxr-xr-x 3 nextpvr nextpvr 4096 May 16 12:17 web
When I then try to start live TV the following errors are shown: Streaming Failed (transcoder exited) or Failed to start requested stream
The log files show the following entry: [ERROR] Failed to get tuning params for (3sat) from /var/opt/nextpvr/adapter0-DVB-S-channels.conf
I reinstalled NextPVR two times now, but always the same result.
Does someone have any suggestions for me how to solve this problem.
Thanks in advance.
M4c
BTW:
I created a reduced tuning list (MyList). While scanning, the transponders from my tuning list are scanned, but afterwards all other transponders for Astra 19.2E are scanned as well. This is not my major problem, but I do not understand why scanning doesn't stop after my reduced tuning list transponders are scanned.
I am wondering if it is possible to get the signal strength to show up in the Kodi UI with NextPVR?
Currently, it does not...I can see, in my logs, signal strength and quality are there at the NextPVR end of things (e.g. below, strength -16, quality 25)...but clearly they don't make it to the Kodi UI (Matrix 19.4, have checked in both Estuary and Confluence, both show 0 for both the SNR/Signal Strength fields).
Hardware at the server end is a Win10 machine with a Hauppage twin tuner thing in it. Clients are ODroid N2 machines running latest CoreElec (19.5rc1), or Win10 running Kodi 19.4)
Thanks to work of user @ceejayemm there is now a wiki to go along with the NextTool utility. This utility has been around for a while first as NextImport and then NextTool, but I never got around to an official release until now. It certainly helps @ceejayemm also went through the extra effort of testing the app since a few things have changed along the way
Main functions
- imports video files from disk as recording, based on filename bringing in metadata if available from NFO and some XML files.
- imports video files from other PVR apps (TVHeadend, embedded WMC, SageTV, TVMosaic, SiliconDust DVR, Emby and NextPVR backups)
- manages media/shows artwork
If you have questions about the application itself or feature requests you can post them here but for support and actual usage problems please post them in the support forum https://forums.nextpvr.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=12
I've just downloaded and installed the latest version of NPVR, (see Thread Subject for details), and I've found that the former NPVR Desktop Client opens in the browser, and the NPVR menu icon no longer appears in the System Tray.
Is anybody else experiencing this?
Also, I have all the LAV filters installed, but neither the NPVR Browser Application nor the "Desktop Client" will play Live TV.
Previous NPVR versions would recognise the LAV filters, but this version doesn't seem to.
