Dlna?

[observer_11]

Is there any chance NPVR will ever support DLNA clients?

[sub]

Maybe. There is a lot of variation in the types of media that DLNA clients can play though, so I can imagine it being a support nightmare.

[johnsonx42]

If I take an HD MPEG-2 .ts file recorded by NPVR and stick it on a DLNA media server (router running openwrt with the minidlna aka ReadyDLNA service installed), and try to play it directly with a Samsung bluray player which is supposed to be DLNA compliant, it won't play well at all. If I take the same file and simply remux it into an .mkv container (no transcoding at all), the file plays perfectly. I understand this to be a common scenario.

So the very first thing that happens if/when sub adds DLNA server code to NPVR is the users all gripe that their recordings won't actually play anywhere, and now they want on-the-fly remuxing or transcoding. Support nightmare.

I agree with the basic idea of having a DLNA service built-in to NPVR, but the actual result would be far from perfect.

[kcmcdona]

I have taken another product and combined it with Nextpvr to achieve this functionality in a very useful manner. The free Serviio DLNA servier (http://www.serviio.org) works very well for me in exporting not only the output of Nextpvr, but a wide variety of other media to almost any dlna client that I have tried with it. The downside is that it does not utilize the output of comskip to skip commercials during playback. So, I have resorted to cutting commercials as part of the postprocessing, so that any DLNA player, (Samsung TV, Ipad, smartphone, etc.) also benefits from the commercial skipped output of npvr.