In Progress Recordings

[kmarq]

So from lots of post digging it seems that if you are using the PVR addon you can only watch a recording up until the point it was live when you started watching. Kodi will not handle growing HTTP streams. X-NEWA gets around this using SMB sharing. I was wondering if anyone knows

1) Is any work being done in Kodi to support growing HTTP streams? NPVR doesn't seem to be the only PVR addon impacted by this issue
2) Is there any possibility of adding SMB streaming as an option within the addon
3) Does anyone know if MediaBrowser has the same issues?

If neither of those have any support then it looks like I will want to get X-NEWA setup and working for the long term. I'm hoping that one of those two will be addressed though sooner rather than later. While I really appreciate the work going into X-NEWA it seems like this is a really basic/common use case that I'd hope could be supported more directly with the PVR addon.

Thanks

[craigrs84]

So from lots of post digging it seems that if you are using the PVR addon you can only watch a recording up until the point it was live when you started watching. Kodi will not handle growing HTTP streams. X-NEWA gets around this using SMB sharing. I was wondering if anyone knows

1) Is any work being done in Kodi to support growing HTTP streams? NPVR doesn't seem to be the only PVR addon impacted by this issue
2) Is there any possibility of adding SMB streaming as an option within the addon
3) Does anyone know if MediaBrowser has the same issues?

If neither of those have any support then it looks like I will want to get X-NEWA setup and working for the long term. I'm hoping that one of those two will be addressed though sooner rather than later. While I really appreciate the work going into X-NEWA it seems like this is a really basic/common use case that I'd hope could be supported more directly with the PVR addon.

Thanks

I'm working around this by avoiding the plugin as much as possible. I import the NPVR recording into the TV/Movies tab rather than using the plugin.

There are a couple different options. ImageGrabLite is popular and may work well for you. However I believe this doesn't import the NPVR recordings into XBMC until after the recording is finished so it wouldn't necessarily help with the case you've described.

You may try this one instead which I've developed myself: https://github.com/craigrs84/XpvrScraper/tree/master
It's similar to ImageGrabLite but in some regards it's less ambitious (I've scaled back from my previous attempts). For example it doesn't try to rename the NPVR files into an XBMC compatible format. Instead it creates an NFO file for each NPVR recording (which some people may find annoying but it doesn't bother me too much). The tradeoff is that you can start watching your scheduled recording right after it starts; there's no requirement to wait until it's completed. The wife is happy with this system.

[mvallevand]

The iGL approach to the in-progress scenario is to use the --nfo option in ParallelProcessing and --rename in PostProcessing.

Martin

[craigrs84]

The iGL approach to the in-progress scenario is to use the --nfo option in ParallelProcessing and --rename in PostProcessing.

Martin

Thanks I forgot about that. EDIT: does renaming after the recording completes create a duplicate entry in XBMC that needs to be cleaned out?

[mvallevand]

Not for me. I don't use TV Shows as much as I used to with XBMC standalone, but I think you will always get duplicates unless you use my default settings since Kodi sees NextPVR filenames as multi episode.

Martin

[jcjefferies]

This reminded me of a recent problem I had watching an in progress recording with the Web Client. This may be a variation of the HTTP problem playing in progress recordings I had several months ago but cured by not using HTTP. I don't know if it was a one off problem as I don't often watch in progress recordings but what I saw was the time bar visible during pause and skip was not updating correctly. I started watching about 40 mins into the recording and the time into the recording updated when I skipped the adverts but the length of the recording stayed at 40 mins. I could watch the recording past 40 mins but when I tried to skip forward at the next advert I was taken back to the 40min point.

Chris

[mvallevand]

Web client uses http unless you either record to a share and use \\ip\share notation or use advaancedsettings.xml to map drive letters to the share.

Martin

[jcjefferies]

Is this a second substitution setting in advancedsettings.xml I have to add? Would it be for the NextPVR data directory? As I said I have no problem playing recently started recordings to the end but its just skip dosnt work past the point in the recording had got to when I started to watch from the beginning.

Chris

[mvallevand]

Is this a second substitution setting in advancedsettings.xml I have to add? Would it be for the NextPVR data directory? As I said I have no problem playing recently started recordings to the end but its just skip dosnt work past the point in the recording had got to when I started to watch from the beginning.

Yes if you skip too close to the current end of the file Kodi will play out the buffer instead of refreshing it, I guess I am so to used to this that I forget. You also can't resume because NextPVR will think you stopped at the last known duration. I just made a change to store the expected duration not the current duration since this annoys me from time to time.

Martin

[snorkel01]

I just ran into this issue on kodi 14.2.
Are there any work arounds or plans to address this?
It's super annoying when you watch a recording in progress and it dies after it reaches the length of the recording when you started watching it.