FF or RW??

mattyb · 2016-02-15, 07:06 AM

Is there any way to fast forward or rewind a stream through ndroid??

I've been using VLC as the media player but I'd be happy to move to something else if it offer comtrol.

Many thanks in advance.

bgowland · 2016-02-22, 08:29 PM

mattyb Wrote:Is there any way to fast forward or rewind a stream through ndroid??

It depends on what you mean specifically by FF/RW. Are you looking for "shuttle" control? If so then you may be out of luck. I generally use MX Player and I can usually 'skip' chunks by touching the progress bar but I can't get a proper FF or RW (2x, 4x... full motion playback).

Cheers,
Brian

mattyb · 2016-02-27, 01:22 AM

bgowland Wrote:It depends on what you mean specifically by FF/RW. Are you looking for "shuttle" control? If so then you may be out of luck. I generally use MX Player and I can usually 'skip' chunks by touching the progress bar but I can't get a proper FF or RW (2x, 4x... full motion playback).

Cheers,
Brian

The preferred functionality is the same as NextPVR, ie. either skip ahead/back by 1 minute or 10 secs. Any way of doing this?

bgowland · 2016-02-28, 04:22 PM

mattyb Wrote:The preferred functionality is the same as NextPVR, ie. either skip ahead/back by 1 minute or 10 secs. Any way of doing this?

Playback is dependent entirely on which 3rd party player app you use - nDroid simply passes a URL to the player app - more accurately, nDroid passes a URL to the Android OS and 'asks it' to find an app capable of playing a video stream. At this point all control is with the player app - if you can find a player app which allows 'chunk' skipping configurable to 10s / 1min etc then it could work.

Cheers,
Brian

mattyb · 2016-03-16, 07:26 PM

bgowland Wrote:Playback is dependent entirely on which 3rd party player app you use - nDroid simply passes a URL to the player app - more accurately, nDroid passes a URL to the Android OS and 'asks it' to find an app capable of playing a video stream. At this point all control is with the player app - if you can find a player app which allows 'chunk' skipping configurable to 10s / 1min etc then it could work.

Cheers,
Brian

Ok, I've found Moboplayer and it has a feature whereby I can configure a skip length as I wish. However I can't seem to get it to accept the stream. I click on 'Watch' and then select Moboplayer to 'open with' and then Moboplayer opens and nothing else happens/blank screen.

Any ideas?

Also, one other question. I'm finding that the Recordings page in nDroid does not update until a day or so after a recording has been made on NextPvr. Is there a way to speed up these updates? Sometimes I'd like to be able to stream a recording as soon as it's done recording, or even while it's recording, but it doesn't show up in the list.

Many thanks.

stustunz · 2016-03-16, 08:29 PM

plex with npvr channel

Graham · 2016-03-17, 10:13 AM

mattyb Wrote:Moboplayer opens and nothing else happens/blank screen.

Do you get different results when Moboplayer tries to play different video formats ... SD vs. HD or MPEG2 vs. H264?

bgowland · 2016-03-18, 08:19 PM

mattyb Wrote:Ok, I've found Moboplayer and it has a feature whereby I can configure a skip length as I wish. However I can't seem to get it to accept the stream. I click on 'Watch' and then select Moboplayer to 'open with' and then Moboplayer opens and nothing else happens/blank screen.

Any ideas?

ZIP and post the nDroid Service logs after you've tried streaming a recording and let me know date, time, recording name and I'll try to see what's happening.

Quote:Also, one other question. I'm finding that the Recordings page in nDroid does not update until a day or so after a recording has been made on NextPvr. Is there a way to speed up these updates? Sometimes I'd like to be able to stream a recording as soon as it's done recording, or even while it's recording, but it doesn't show up in the list.

Many thanks.

Hmmm, I'd need to check, I thought I'd fixed an issue with Recordings not updating a long time ago.

Cheers,
Brian

mattyb · 2016-03-20, 07:37 AM

stustunz Wrote:plex with npvr channel

I've read through the thread for this and it looks good. I downloaded the install files from github but not sure what to do with them?? I'm not familiar with Plex but I've had a bit of a play with it and it's definitely showing potential for what I want.

mattyb · 2016-03-20, 07:37 AM

Graham Wrote:Do you get different results when Moboplayer tries to play different video formats ... SD vs. HD or MPEG2 vs. H264?

Can't seem to get it to play anything actually!