Enable Direct Streams

[2leftfeet]

Martin,

What does "enable direct streams" do in 19.0? should it be enabled or not?

[mvallevand]

No it should not, I do have a mode that allows direct streaming bypassing NextPVR completele much like IPTV Simple and it can even play Kodi plugins but I have never got around to documenting it. I use it for web radio to get Shoutcast data.

The mode is there in Leia to but it simply showed up as an error that LiveStreams.xml was not found.

Martin

[Bossmann316]

@mvallevand how to stream from Kodi plugin in Nextpvr and enable direct streams?
Is it possible to use a Kodi plugin as source in Nextpvr I use the Telia play addon with iptv simple to Watch live tv and it works fine .
My m3u looks like this for first channel
plugin://plugin.video.teliaplay-se?menu=play&streamType=live&streamId=1
and for second channel
plugin://plugin.video.teliaplay-se?menu=play&streamType=live&streamId=2
Pvr simple connects to Telia addon and i can watch all channels but i would like to use the m3u in Nextpvr. Is that possible in any way?

[mvallevand]

Yes you probably could use likely those URL's for playback in Kodi with NextPVR as the channel and EPG source, but as I noted above they bypass NextPVR so they cannot be used as input to NextPVR for recording, it would be LiveTV only. If that is what you are looking for let me know.

Martin

[Bossmann316]

ok , no recording needed. But can i access them on all clients in my house ?
PC one , Nextpvr server and Telia play addon.
PC 2, 3 ,4 ... Only kodi with nxpvr clients. Would that work ?

[mvallevand]

No, you would need to install the Telia addon on each Kodi client since the plugin is doing the playback. Instead of pvr.nextpvr calling the NextPVR backend it redirect the request to the plugin, much like IPTV Simple.

Basically the function works after you add IPTV URLs as a channel to NextPVR. You can add any URL, NextPVR can't use it.

You need to create a mapping file LiveStreams.xml in programfolder/wwwroot/public that looks like this

<streams>
<stream id="###">plugin://plugin.video.teliaplay-se?menu=play&streamType=live&streamId=1</stream>
<stream id="###">plugin://plugin.video.teliaplay-se?menu=play&streamType=live&streamId=2</stream>
</streams>

The id's are found using http://localhost:8866/service?method=channel.list

This is all done automatically via a python script for Internet radio but other use-cases are pretty manual.

Martin

[Bossmann316]

Ok thanks for answer. That is not what i want.
Kodi on Apple tv has no widewine so i cant use telia addon. I was hoping the Next pvr server could read from kodi plugin and share it over network.

[mvallevand]

Sorry my fault, when I said recording I should have been clearer, live tv is still recorded before streaming to clients. DRM'd input cannot be a source to NextPVR.

Martin