Recordings not playing in Kodi 19.1

[ceejayemm]

Some of my recordings will not play in Kodi 19.1 (Windows). These recordings are the corrected 'bad' recordings  from a previous V5 Linux support call:

Database locked error (nextpvr.com)

which ended up with the original .ts files in question being reimported to NextPVR via the NextImport utility.

The example shown in the log files (Kodi and NextPVR attached) relate to a viewing of 'The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)' which started at 2021-06-15 21:02.

The recording will not play at all in Kodi 19.1 with an immediate reference to errors in the Kodi log files.  This file shows the first error at:

2021-06-15 21:03:03.667 T:16176  ERROR <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.nextpvr: Unknown recording streaming state 0 0 1

followed by various other related (?) errors

Interestingly, this recording WILL play in the web app viewer - which completely surprised me !

Other recordings will play as expected in Kodi

I am using the Kodi 19.1 app in Windows 10 Pro 64 bit with the standard NextPVR plugin v8.2.3

How do I get these recordings to be viewable ?

Thanks 

Chris

[mvallevand]

That's not a Kodi debug log so I can't see much but check the chunksize in the Kodi settings for recordings.

Martin

[ceejayemm]

Martin

I have guess you mean setting the Recording Chunk Size in the Streaming Options of the Next PVR PVR Addon ? I have over the last few days tried a variety of settings for this all to no avail. I think I have now been able to generate a Kodi Debug log file for you which is attached during which I have used settings of 48 and 66 for the chunk size.

There are no obvious errors reported from NextPVR but I can provide a logfile set for that if you need it.

Chris

[ceejayemm]

Martin

I have installed the latest version of your KNEWC addon (v2.9.4) and all the recordings which won't play in the standard addon will play in KNEWC.

Chris

[mvallevand]

OK NextImport was not setting end time in NextImport.xml and this is crucial for Kodi PVR.  I use the -import option which doesn't use the xml file. This update should create recording with the correct end date.

This Kodi issue is also another reason that manually creating these xml files is problematic.

Martin

[ceejayemm]

Martin 

Thanks for looking into this for me. Can you tell me what the various options in  NextImport do ?  I have only found the basic options list by not supplying any option, as in:

sudo -u nextpvr /opt/dotnet/dotnet  /opt/nextpvr/system/NextImport.dll

Option not specified {--import, --merge, --emby, --export, --copy, --file, --mosaic, --vod}

From previous threads I worked out that --import would transfer recording details from one database to another, but that's not what I wanted to do hence the use of the --export option.

Thanks

Chris

[mvallevand]

I'll try to do something a little more formal later here is a rough start. It's tough because basically I don't need much feedback for the RFC so it is impossible to do all the use cases and I have had to to this one person at a time.

Many options work the the same with an optional filespec. The filespec be as deep as you want ie.

/home/pi/nas_recordings/Films/
/home/pi/nas_recordings/Films/The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)/

If you don't provide the filespec option you will be prompted to scan the whole filesystem

--import/--export filespec From the filespec it finds all filenames (ts, mkv, mp4, avi, mpg and wtv ) as the source and get extra metadata from the xml file, nfo or ADS on Windows. If there is no XML file, the filename needs to have the specific filename formats mentioned earlier. Only missing files will be added.

--export you know, it creates NextImport.xml which allows editing metadata before importing via the browser. Alteratively --importxml filename will run the same API the browser users to import the xml file.

--import writes directly into the database

--merge is slightly different --merge "database" filespec copies from the metadata in the "database" it is many used for moving platforms or to a new PC's. Matches are based on the filename without path. So if you have "oldpath/Cruella (2021).ts" in the merge database all the metadata from this database is added to "newpath/Cruella (2021).ts" There is no need for xml or other metadata

--copy will copy all file rows with metadata from C:/Users/Public/NPVR/npvr.db3 that are not in C:/Users/Public/NPVR-data/npvr.db3 as is. Basically helps users upgrading from v4 to v5.

Martin

[ceejayemm]

Martin

Thanks for supplying the new version of NextImport and the accompanying details.  I have reimported all the 'faulty' recordings using the new version and they all now play correctly in Kodi using the standard NextPVR plugin.

Thanks again for your help resolving this problem.

Chris