XMBC Addon for NextPVR

[kjhughes]

Is the addon open source ?

I have NextPVR and XVMC on a HTPC and am getting a pretty poor experience (nPVR works fine, but channel changes through XBMC take forever and XBMC LiveTV frequently hangs), would like to troubleshoot/get to grips with it.

Thanks .. KJ

[mvallevand]

Most of these problems that relate to http streaming are in xbmc itself or in the ffmpeg file handling and it is open source.

Martin

[sub]

nPVR works fine, but channel changes through XBMC take forever

NextPVR is delivering the new channel data to XBMC within a second or so, but XBMC is very slow to start playback. This specifically relates to a problem in XBMC with the way it finds the audio and video streams. All XBMC PVR backends that use http exhibit the same problem.

Margro posted a build of the XBMC forums which includes a fix, and gives fast channel changes. They're still debating how/when it'll be included in the mainstream XBMC builds.

[kjhughes]

All XBMC PVR backends that use http exhibit the same problem.
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Thanks for the info.
Does it have to use http? did I see something about XBMC being able to pick the LiveTV up from the recording/file on disk ?

.. Ken

[sub]

Thanks for the info.
Does it have to use http? did I see something about XBMC being able to pick the LiveTV up from the recording/file on disk ?

Yeah, it pretty much needs to do it using http. Modifying it to play recordings from disk wouldn't be a big job, but very little gained. Modifying it to do live tv from disk would be a big job, and require more complicated configuration - not worth it in my book since they've already found the source of the problem with http stream and it's only a matter of time before the patch is included in the main branch. Until then, you can always use the Margro build to get quick channel changes.