(2020-04-12, 10:54 PM)sub Wrote: EDIT: copied in from other thread:
Yes, it's working. The key words here are "where possible".
Web browsers can play very few types of content. Everything else needs to be transcoded. Pretty much the only time you're going to be able avoid transcoding for playback in the web app is if you're using IPTV channels (since they're already in a format a browser can play), or for some "Extras" devices (which are using H264 video + AAC audio).
Did you make a change with extras? I stopped transcoding mine because NextPVR also was transcoding them.
I just checked whether with streaming profile and the chckbox "Avoid transcoding wherever possible" checked transcoding would, in fact happen or not, and it seems to be happening...
From my local client web browser I would like to avoid transcoding and instead show the original stream, just as Kodi does.
I have posted this on the Kodi and Libreelec forums as I think this is a Kodi/Addon bug rather than a NextPVR issue but unfortunately I have had no luck getting a solution there.
When I stop Live TV or Recordings occasionally Kodi will completely freeze up and become unresponsive requiring a reboot. I have tried a few different ways of stopping playback such as pressing stop or pausing, going back to the guide page and then pressing stop but all have the same outcome with Kodi locking up.
I am running Kodi 18.5 on Libreelec 9.2 on a RPi4 but have had this problem on previous versions with a RPi3 also. I am using the latest version of the NextPVR addon that is available for Libreelec and have tried different options with regards to timeshift with no luck.
I have attached the NextPVR log below and have the Kodi log available although it is quite large.
I just installed the apple TV app to work with server v.5.0.2.200322 installed on a Synology NAS with Docker. But no luck so far, the application crashes as soon as I go inside the TV guide...
I've made a short video showing what's happening after freshly installing the Apple TV app. At the beginning, you can view nextpvr web view showing the TV guide (so it is correctly populated) on my laptop. The Apple TV correctly finds the server, connects to it and displays the EPG in the LiveTV tab. But when in the TV Guide tab, nothing shows up and clicking on it makes the application instantaneously crash.
The video is here:
If I can help in any way to find what's happening, tell me!
I have 2 tuner cards in my HTPC - 1 is single channel and 1 is dual tuner. I scan channels with the single channel tuner card and after re-scan (due to FCC repack,) I have 5 listings for 11.1 (CBS) and 3 or 4 for 26.1 (ABC.)
Using NextPVR as backend for KODI on Windows 10. I have issues getting the recordings to complete successfully on these 2 channels. I have created a group with only the instances of the channels that actually have signal for recording purposes, but I still get sporadic failed recordings on only these 2 channels, but no others.
I am loathe to reinvent the wheel and re-scan again. I suspect that NextPVR is attempting to record scheduled shows on these 2 networks from non-functioning instances of those channels that seem to reappear despite my having changed channel names/numbers, etc...
Following the prior discussion in another thread, I came to understand that transcoding settings are per client (for instance if using the normal web client).
And in fact, that is happening as I have setup two progressive web-apps: one calling external domain name of nextpvr server and one calling the local network name of nextpvr server, and in each one, I can, in fact have a different preferred streaming profile which is kept when I set it.
The same is not however true for the video encoder setting which every time I change it in one of the two clients it also changes at both.
As the video encoder setting seems to be related with only a few parameters change in the ffmpeg command issued when a stream is requested with transcoding (i.e. when each client initiates the request) it could also be a per client setting, whereas now it is system-wide setting as it seems.
Somehow landscape art is displayed for a few of my recordings in kodi (with the arctic horizon skin) and I've been trying to work out how it happened as it won't do it for any new recordings.
Do you know how to get this to work?
It seems for new recordings I'm only getting artwork sent as icons rather than landscape or poster (hence the padding on the "flushed away poster" artwork)
Hi,
I've just upgraded from v4 to v5. I removed v4 first then set up v5. Initially I had problems with Firefox with autoplay disabled. I have now enabled it for localhost:8866 and it works for BBC1. I am still getting a failure with Dave where the browser says "Streaming Failed (transcoder exited)" and I can't work out what to do. I've tried searching but failed. The set up is all on the one Win10 machine, browsing on localhost. Logs are attached.
