IPTV m3u file parsing problem

[sydneybrit]

Hi there

I have an m3u playlist provided by my IPTV provider which is not being parsed correctly by NextPVR and I am not sure why.

In the latest NVPR version, .mp4/mkv urls in the playlist end up in a folder called "On Demand". However, when I import the m3u playlist, a significant number of VOD movies don't appear in the "On Demand" folder.

Here is one that did:

#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-name="Mad Max Fury Road (2015)" tvg-logo="http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/G/01/imdb/images/logos/imdb_fb_logo-1730868325._CB514892123_.png" group-title="MOVIES",Mad Max Fury Road (2015)

And here is one that didn't:

#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-name="Love Actually (2003)" tvg-logo="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTY4NjQ5NDc0Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNjk5NDM3._V1_UY1200_CR90,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg" group-title="Christmas Collections",Love Actually (2003)

The difference between the 2 EXTINF entries appears to be in the "tvg-logo" strings, with the latter having a more complex URL.

I can still find the channels if I look in "All Channels", however the channel name appears to be scrambled e.g. the string...

#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-name="Love Actually (2003)" tvg-logo="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTY4NjQ5NDc0Nl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNjk5NDM3._V1_UY1200_CR90,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg" group-title="Christmas Collections",Love Actually (2003)

has been loaded as channel:

1814 0,630,1200_AL_.jpg" group-title="Christmas Collections",Love Actually (2003)

Any ideas?

[sub]

Can you try the latest NShared.dll from https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...post520761 and let me know if it helps? I'm pretty sure I recently included a fix for the problem you describe.

Delete your channels and reimport them.

[sydneybrit]

Hi Sub

The updated Nshared dll has corrected the channel naming on m3u import, but now I have a different problem...

All the channel groups are showing correctly on the NextPVR Windows interface, but none of the VOD channel groups are showing in either the IOS app or Kodi NextPVR client.

Cheers

[sub]

Yeah, sorry I'm aware of this - I purposefully disabled them in the API used by Kodi (and the iOS app), because the Kodi PVR interface was having problems loading large numbers of channel groups, like the VOD from some IPTV providers.

[sydneybrit]

Hi Sub

Thanks for the update.

Yes, I've had problems with the Kodi app in the past with too many channel groups. They way I get round it is to delete a number of groups in NextPVR after I have imported the m3u. Generally this seems to do the trick.

Any chance you could send me a version of NShared with the API enabled?

Cheers

[sydneybrit]

Hi Sub

Is it going to be possible to get a version of NShared with the Kodi API enabled?

Cheers

[sub]

The next release has a tickbox in the Settings screen, defaulted to off, to send VOD channels to Kodi.

[sydneybrit]

That sounds great Sub!

Is there an ETA on the next release?

Cheers

[sub]

Next couple of weeks.

[sydneybrit]

That's great. Look forward to it!