The recently added change Artwork feature is very handy. Being able to CTRL-Click on an image to find alternatives works pretty well.
I do wonder if there might be some consideration given to giving the user some ability to "tweak" the search string when searching for artwork. This might allow the user to refine the search, or to completely change the parameter in the event that no results are returned from the original search.
Two current examples:
ABC TV - All Creatures Great and Small - the search finds artwork for the old 1978 series. Fortunately a couple of images from the 2020 series get picked up in the search so that's OK. The choice is limited, but sufficient. However, if the search was refined to search only for the 2020 series, there would be consioderably more items to choose from.
SBS TV - Magical Train Journeys in Switzerland - no artwork found at all, but Plex appears to find it, and has renamed the show to "Traumhafte Bahnstrecken der Schweiz"
There are other cases where SBS have translated the show name to English and no artwork is found by NextPVR.
I thought it might be a neat feature to allow the user to edit the search line to either refine the search (say by adding (2020) to the first case), or putting a completely new search parameter in place (for non-english shows).
Is the TVos app still in development? If so, is commercial skipping a planned feature?
Also, how well does it currently handle watching in progress shows? So far, the closest I have found to handling viewing of recordings that are in progress is the the Kodi plugin (the only issue being it gets confused by com skip information that is provided and accessed during the broadcast - workaround is to post process comskip)
Last couple of nights I've been recording on both tuners of my HDHomerun HDHR4-2DT and I upgraded to the latest NextPVR version 7.0.0.241105.
Since the update, I've noticed that one of the tuners stays on after the recording is completed.
The NPVR Device Status says it's sending the stream to (latest occurence):
- \\.\pipe\NPVR_a755a2e9-99a3-4a7d-9535-02647727603a:pids=18
I can't find any way to kill this stream other than to power down the tuner box.
Not sure what's going on here, but things are not working the same as they were under the old version.
If I'm installing from scratch on an empty PC, is there a recommended distribution of Linux to use as the base?
I can see there is a .deb file for ease of installation so I assume one of the Debian based ones is better in that regard, but from there does it make any difference?
I have NextPVR setup on PC (IPTV channels) and I can pause video, also rewinds all that, is any way to have that with NextPVR ad-ons and IPTV Simple Client with Kodi?
I've found a thread similar to what I'm looking for but it was in 2016 so I would like to know if something change since? In 2016, Sub wrote:
Quote:NextPVR knows if you're recording a movie, but it doesn't do anything differently because of it.
There is nothing to stop you setting up two recording directories, 'movies' and 'shows', and scheduling movies to record to the 'movies' directory, and have everything else defaulting to 'shows'.
I'm having two distinct storage unit, one for movies and the second one for TV Shows. Right now, I can manually select in which place to put the recording but as NextPVR already knows if it's a movie or a TV Shows, I suppose it could select the proper directory without me having to go into the advanced mode.
So, two questions. Is it still a manual process like it was in 2016?
If so, is there a way to get the information, let say after the recording is made to have a script to move the recording to the proper place based on the information NextPVR has on that recording?
BTW, I'm on linux so more looking into a way to script it. A windows executable would not help much.
I've read the few threads regarding similar problems and I don't seems to see the equivalent. I've installed nextpvr on ubuntu 24.04 with the nextpvr-helper. This work a1. I battled with using HDPVR2 and finding an IR blaster that work with my Motorola/Arris receiver which now work very well. So the last thing I wanted to do is to use a CIFS share on my trueness server. The share already exist as it's used by plex and nextpvr when it was on Windows. So, I've created a nextpvr user on truenas and give him full control on this share.
On the ubuntu side, I've added the following line to /etc/fstab:
The aid 44 is for the video group. If I su to user nextpvr on the ubuntu VM, I can access /mnt/recordings, create file, delete them and modify them. If I start recording, nextpvr create the directory and a few files in the directory and even record the first few second of the video but then, the .ts file stop receiving data. That said, nextpvr continue to record for the whole duration of the movie but we only have a few seconds of data.
Code:
drwxr-xr-x 2 nextpvr video 0 Dec 21 14:08 .
drwxr-xr-x 2 nextpvr video 0 Dec 21 14:08 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 nextpvr video 23 Dec 21 14:08 'Blue.Beetle.(2023).timing'
-rwxr-xr-x 1 nextpvr video 6329584 Dec 21 14:08 'Blue.Beetle.(2023).ts'
-rwxr-xr-x 1 nextpvr video 1127 Dec 21 14:08 'Blue.Beetle.(2023).xml'
This is an example of the recording. As you can see, I have the usual files created and written to. But as you will see in the log, after writing those files and filling between 4 and 6 MB of the movie, we can see Permission denied.
It make no sense to have access for a few seconds and then, having access denied to the path. I'm attaching the whole logs for anybody to look at but I think the cut/paste section above is what is of interest. Note that I can play the .ts (very short but still) and that if I delete it from nextpvr, it remove everything including the directory.
It may not make sense but is it possible that nextpvr change identity between the initial file creating and for the rest of the append to the .ts file?
There are 4 devices listed under 'Devices' and all of them have channels listed next to them. The one labeled 'IPTV Device' with no URL has channels too so I'm not seeing an option to add another device. How can this be resolved? Is there a way to rename that device so the blank IPTV Device shows up, allowing for import?
Last night I watched a recording using the NextPVR plugin on Kodi Omega, running on a FireTV stick. Today, I noticed that the backend was not running and the following were the last entries in the terminal:
