Feature request for Recordings

[JavaWiz]

Sub - bringing up a prior topic -
I find in my current configuration, I typically watch my recordings on clients, not the main server. I continue to have problems watching recordings (i.e. streaming from the server) on clients even if they are in mpeg-ts format (blank screen, no audio). However the files play fine in the Videos view. When watching I prefer the Recordings view so I only get more recent recordings to select from.

Yeah NextPVR was only ever been able to stream mpeg-ts to client PC. This is the only format NextPVR records, so its the only one I've implemented support for.

Unfortunately each and every file format would require a different sort of client/server server implementation, with different custom directshow filters etc, so its a big job to add support for each type of format. Instead I just decided to focus on the one type the app recordings, and not worry about the multitude of different file formats users could be transcoding to. mkv, divx/xvid avi, mp4, mpeg-ps etc

Sorry. If it had been easy, I would have added support for more types.

I'm wondering if it is feasible to allow a user to choose, when in client mode, to either request server to stream or playback file (like in Videos) via a config entry. This way, users should be able to playback on clients, even if they transcode to a different format.

[sub]

I don't really want it to become a mainstream feature, so I wont add GUI settings for it, but there is something in the next release that's enables people do this. After the next release, ask me about the <RecordingDirectoryTranslation> setting in config.xml.

[JavaWiz]

Perfect, thanks.

[jksmurf]

I don't really want it to become a mainstream feature, so I wont add GUI settings for it, but there is something in the next release that's enables people do this. After the next release, ask me about the <RecordingDirectoryTranslation> setting in config.xml.

I currently use Air Video Server to play files recorded by NPVR on my iPAD, it works OK for most recordings, but I would have preferred to use NPVR. Is this setting something that will do a similar kind of transcoding? If yes, I assume that could view via the NEWA interface (as there is no iOS client version of NPVR?)

[sub]

I currently use Air Video Server to play files recorded by NPVR on my iPAD, it works OK for most recordings, but I would have preferred to use NPVR. Is this setting something that will do a similar kind of transcoding? If yes, I assume that could view via the NEWA interface (as there is no iOS client version of NPVR?)

No, this wasn't about transcoding video formats or anything like that. It was simply a way of getting Recordings to play from a fileshare rather than streaming using the client/server protocol.