xnpvrcli - linux/unix client for NPVR

[mvallevand]

This is not implemented at the moment. I am not sure whether it is needed at all since unlike MVP/NMT one needs to configure a linux client anyway using a keyboard or remote login.

It should be there, especially if you are going to serve a mix of MVP, NMT and linux PC clients. I can add this if you want.

Martin

[tmrt]

It should be there, especially if you are going to serve a mix of MVP, NMT and linux PC clients. I can add this if you want.

Martin

I would be happy. It will certainly be more convenient and foolproof preventing users to specify wrong combinations of ports.

[martint123]

Thanks for this.
I am somewhat surprised, not to say gobsmacked that I jave managed to get this to work on my "joggler" device see: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...O2-Joggler
I managed to get it to boot ububtu 10.10 (I think) from a USB stick, installed this software along with mplayer and it sort of works.
It is just a touch screen device and touches seem to be ignored with this application. I have to VNC into the device to control it via the PC keyboard - the PC mouse is ignored as well).
But it displays menu's and recordings fine - live TV does not work at present.
I have spent very little time on it as yet, so things can only get better.

[mvallevand]

One of the reasons I stopped my Android port (for my tablet) was that the MVP protocol doesn't support mouse clicks or actions that you get in VNC. They could be added I suppose but I felt the client and server side work required are worth the effort.

Martin

[martint123]

I suppose I did it out of curiosity and thoughts of maybe using it as a way of finding/scheduling shows without powering up the TV and stuff.
There is an onscreen keyboard available but seems to be locked out when the emulator is running. Just a tiny clickable cursor pad with enter and escape would make it usable. As there is only one USB port and that is used by the memory stick, I can't use a local keyboard without a hub and that starts making it all a bit clumsy.
I guess it is not a practical device anyway more an exercise to let me know how far linux has moved one from my old days of using it as justa file and web server.

[forzaKGB]

I wonder if it would be possible to run the linux client on OS X?

[NewUserIdAgain]

Building it for OS X would be a possibility but I don't know hove much porting would needed. Might try when it moves out of alpha.

[NewUserIdAgain]

Hi tmrt

I saw that you made an update not so long ago and I have tried to run xnpvrcli on my Ubuntu Natty laptop.
I have compiled xnpvrcli and patched an compiled mplayer. when I run the application the NPVR GUI is displayed and I can navigate and schedule recording but i I can't play any video. I get the following error message from mplayer: "unknow profile: 'xnpvrcli' Error parsing option on command line: -profile"

Do you have any idea what is wrong?

[tmrt]

Hi tmrt

I saw that you made an update not so long ago and I have tried to run xnpvrcli on my Ubuntu Natty laptop.
I have compiled xnpvrcli and patched an compiled mplayer. when I run the application the NPVR GUI is displayed and I can navigate and schedule recording but i I can't play any video. I get the following error message from mplayer: "unknow profile: 'xnpvrcli' Error parsing option on command line: -profile"

Do you have any idea what is wrong?

In order to be able to customize mplayer settings for each particular setup independently of the general mplayer settings I have introduced profiles which are defined usualy in ~/.mplayer/config. There are four profiles: xnpvrcli, xnpvrcli-HD, xnpvrcli-alt, xnpvrcli-HD-alt. xnpvrcli is used by default, xnpvrcli-HD when the video width is more than 720 and the option -a is used. The alt profiles are fall-back profiles and are tried if mplayer fails to recognize the media file. I use them to skip the beginning of corrupted media files.

[NewUserIdAgain]

Thanks for the quick reply, adding an empty xnpvrcli profile gave me some live TV.
Could you share your profiles as a base for my experiments?