Kodi 17.3 X-NEWA Setup Issues

[meccano]

Hi,

I am setting up a new Android box running Kodi 17.3
to interface with my existing NextPVR setup
but I'm having a couple of issues.

I can successfully use the Kodi Videos option to play
recordings via smb and commercial skipping works perfectly.

However when I use X-NEWA, I cannot play streamed recordings.
They always start buffering but fail with "Player Error".
I have an advancedsettings.xml file that should,
as I understand things, automatically switch
X-NEWA from http to smb playback.
But it appears to be ineffective when I try to play
a recording via the NextPVR Recordings menu.
Have I got advancedsettings setup wrong?
How do I fix these buffering/player errors?

These log extracts show both successful (via smb)
and unsuccessful (via http) tests of The Daily Show:

kodi.log:
12:41:16.073 T:18446744073427740976 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: Opening: smb://WILLIAMS7/D/Recordings/The Daily Show/The Daily Show_20170714_00000030.mkv
...
12:42:57.380 T:18446744073427740976 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: Opening: http://192.168.0.107:8866/live?recording...e7511e090a

web.log.1:
2017-07-15 12:42:56.202 [DEBUG][27] RollingFile(D:\Recordings\The Daily Show\The Daily Show_20170714_00000030.mkv)..
...
2017-07-15 12:42:56.202 [DEBUG][27] About to stream recording: D:\Recordings\The Daily Show\The Daily Show_20170714_00000030.mkv
2017-07-15 12:42:56.203 [DEBUG][27] Sent 56400 bytes
2017-07-15 12:42:56.209 [ERROR][27] Unexpected error streaming recording: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (0x80004005): An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Send(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, SocketFlags socketFlags)
at NShared.Streaming.StreamingHelper.StreamNativeRecording(Socket conn, Dictionary`2 parameters)
2017-07-15 12:42:56.209 [DEBUG][27] Sent total of 56400 bytes

My related question, if I use X-NEWA to playback Recordings
via the NextPVR Videos option, is commercial skipping supposed
to work when the recordings are no longer in npvr.db3?
I frequently move recordings to alternate directories
which causes them to be removed from the NextPVR Recordings list.

My full logs, advancedsettings.xml, config, etc. are available here:

http://meccano.dlinkddns.com/pvr/kodi_test_20170715/

Thanks!

[mvallevand]

I can't access the files on your web server. Just zip those same files up and post them here.

That being said, since your either convert or import mkv files as recording the nextpvr http pvr recordings interface won't work and that little snippet shows that is what is being used. That to me looks like either the advanced settings is wrong or you have moved the file and the npvr,.db3 name is wrong.

For advancedsetting sthe format should be like this https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...post499809

Once we have to your logs files etc it will be easier.

If you do move files you should change these default config.xml settings to false and also consider nscripthelper for moving filenames in the database.

Code:

<AutoRemoveMissingRecordings>true</AutoRemoveMissingRecordings>
    <CheckForRenamedRecordings>true</CheckForRenamedRecordings>
    <NoRemoveWhenTreeMissing>true</NoRemoveWhenTreeMissing>

Comskip should work in x-newa web client mode in the Video Library assuming the advanced settings are good.

Martin

[meccano]

Yes, I forgot to mention that I repackage my SD .ts files as .mkv so that
they can play back properly on my Samsung Smart TV. They're kept in
the same directory so the recordings still appear in the NextPVR Recordings menu.

Sorry about my web server config, this is now fixed.
I've also attached my logs. The link you quoted is
that one I used to create my advancedsettings.xml.

[mvallevand]

Thanks. Your advanced settings need <substitute> markup around both from and to pairs. If that doesn't fix it change d and g to upper case D and G since linux is case sensitive for folder names. If that also fails, make sure that debug logging is turned on and resend the Kodi.log showing the failure. Since you are editing advanced setting this line should set the log level

<loglevel>1</loglevel>

I find this better then through the GUI since there will be no OSD debug info.


Martin

[meccano]

I simplified my advancedsettings.xml and retested.
Thanks for the tip about the loglevel setting, it is more convenient.

Unfortunately, playback continues to fail, my logs are here:

http://meccano.dlinkddns.com/pvr/kodi_te...170719.zip

(Due to size restrictions, the NextPVR forum wouldn't let me upload this zip file.)

[mvallevand]

You seems to have a plugin (maybe a video screensaver?) spamming the logs

The logs definitely still show that it is not found but the advancedsettings look ok assuming you aren't using a password protected share

05:51:41.214 T:18446744073049209136 DEBUG: D:/Recordings/The Daily Show/The Daily Show_20170714_00000030.mkv
05:51:41.258 T:18446744073049209136 DEBUG: not found

Your other example had WILLIAMS7 instead of an IP could you try that in advanced settings. Maybe upload the logs showing you playing from the Kodi video library

Martin

[meccano]

Martin,

I finally figured out my problem. When I initially setup native Kodi access to
videos I used the Windows hostname as I used the smb browser function.
This caused the id/password to be saved in passwords.xml associated with
the Windows hostname.

When I setup X-NEWA the Windows hostname would not work at all so I used
the IP address instead. But this meant that X-NEWA could not access my videos
on the file share as it had no proper smb id/password; I did not realize that it was
so closely associated with the native Kodi configuration.

Everything was resolved when I switched to an IP address instead of using the
hostname. In the meantime I am trying to figure out why the hostname fails:

https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...site-Error

To answer my other commercial skipping questions above:
1. The filetype makes no difference; both .ts and .mkv work the same
2. Recordings moved to alternate drive letters and accessed via video library
also skip commercials just great!

Thanks for your assistance. X-NEWA is a great product.

David