Incomplete VOD Recordings from IPTV Streams

[nonuoha]

Just to confirm you're using it the way it was intended, are you going to the VOD page in the webapp, and clicking the 'download' button on the top-right of cover artwork?

Something must be wrong with my NextPVR server setup/configuration, I do not get the movie art or download button as shown in your screenshot. Hmmm!

If you can put your npvr.db3 file somewhere like onedrive or dropbox, and PM me a link, I'll check if it has VOD streams in the database.

If you don't it's possibly because something your IPTV provider was doing differently to most. I'll be able to check that, and hopefully fix for you.

I just sent you a PM with the link to my npvr.db3 file as requested.  Please let me know if you need additional information.  I also posted some updates with screenshots to this thread https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...#pid558991

It is a case of your IPTV provider doing things differently to the other services i've seen. Usually they clearly identify vod content, with a url to the file, and url to the artwork etc. In your case, it just looks like a channel, and also has no artwork available.

With a change to the code, I was able to get the streams to show up as VOD, but there is no artwork, so the VOD screens look a lot more boring than the examples I posted. The download function does work though, and when you use that and try to view the recording in the Recordings page, it does try to find some artwork based on the name. I've attached an updated dlls you can install. You need to use the 'update channels' button to pull in the VOD again before they'll show up.

Hi Sub,

I applied the two dll files you provided and it did make the VOD menu option availabe but created another issue.  Only the movies VOD playlist is downloaded and parsed.  Other playlists coul no longer be download even my live TV playlist.  Unfortunately, I replace the files without backup.  I've decided to uninstall NextPVR, purge application system files, and do a fresh install.  I'll provide progress report on the new installation.

Thanks!

[sub]

I applied the two dll files you provided and it did make the VOD menu option availabe but created another issue.  Only the movies VOD playlist is downloaded and parsed.  Other playlists coul no longer be download even my live TV playlist.  Unfortunately, I replace the files without backup.  I've decided to uninstall NextPVR, purge application system files, and do a fresh install.  I'll provide progress report on the new installation.

I did find a bug in that updated .dll, which would account for the other m3u not loading. This fixes it.

[sub]

It's a little confusing in your case, because you have a separate m3u for the vod content. Most people have them mixed in with the channels, and when you import you get of pile of channels, and the VOD is updated behind the scenes. In your case, you import the vod m3u, and I think there was one channel? I'd import that, so the IPTV device is properly created.

[nonuoha]

It's a little confusing in your case, because you have a separate m3u for the vod content. Most people have them mixed in with the channels, and when you import you get of pile of channels, and the VOD is updated behind the scenes. In your case, you import the vod m3u, and I think there was one channel? I'd import that, so the IPTV device is properly created.

I'll apply the new dll files as instructed.  Which of these locations would you say is the document root of NextPVR server /opt/nextpvr or /var/opt/nextpvr?

[nonuoha]

It's a little confusing in your case, because you have a separate m3u for the vod content. Most people have them mixed in with the channels, and when you import you get of pile of channels, and the VOD is updated behind the scenes. In your case, you import the vod m3u, and I think there was one channel? I'd import that, so the IPTV device is properly created.

I'll apply the new dll files as instructed.  Which of these locations would you say is the document root of NextPVR server /opt/nextpvr or /var/opt/nextpvr?

I forgot to explain why I asked the document root question.  Although my virtual host configuration is working, I would like to add the "DocumentRoot" tag to the virtual host file and see if it will improve performance. I've seen lots of questions on this topic and I would like to post my solution on linux server running apache.  This may help others who're interested.

[sub]

I think Martin mentioned it's in /opt/nextpvr/system. I manually install in my test system, and things are are in different places for my development machine

[mvallevand]

Document root for a web server is completely different though this is more a nginx or apache setting and nextpvr will just append to the root you set in in /www/data or however you set this up.

Martin

[nonuoha]

It's a little confusing in your case, because you have a separate m3u for the vod content. Most people have them mixed in with the channels, and when you import you get of pile of channels, and the VOD is updated behind the scenes. In your case, you import the vod m3u, and I think there was one channel? I'd import that, so the IPTV device is properly created.

Hi Sub,

I uninstall NextPVR server and purged system files and dependencies to see if the VOD will work as implemented after applying the modified dll files.  Unfortunately, it's not working for me.  Movies are stuck in "Sarting the device" and doesn't play.  I've also noticed significant slowness as soon as I applied the new dll files.  Thanks for looking into this.

[sub]

I uninstall NextPVR server and purged system files and dependencies to see if the VOD will work as implemented after applying the modified dll files.  Unfortunately, it's not working for me.  Movies are stuck in "Sarting the device" and doesn't play.  I've also noticed significant slowness as soon as I applied the new dll files.  Thanks for looking into this.

Do they now at least show up in the VOD section for you? That was the key change in this updated dll.

If they do show up in VOD, but you aren't able to just click on a show and watch it, does it let you click the download button, wait 20 seconds or so, then see it listed as recording in the Recordings page? Can you then watch it from there?

[nonuoha]

I uninstall NextPVR server and purged system files and dependencies to see if the VOD will work as implemented after applying the modified dll files.  Unfortunately, it's not working for me.  Movies are stuck in "Sarting the device" and doesn't play.  I've also noticed significant slowness as soon as I applied the new dll files.  Thanks for looking into this.

Do they now at least show up in the VOD section for you? That was the key change in this updated dll.

If they do show up in VOD, but you aren't able to just click on a show and watch it, does it let you click the download button, wait 20 seconds or so, then see it listed as recording in the Recordings page? Can you then watch it from there?

Unfortunately, the VOD menu disappeared completely before and after I applied the modified dll files to the new installation.