EPG info is displayed in "Recordings" but not "Videos"

[baj1]

Greetings,

I have a bunch of recordings from NextPVR v4 that I imported into the v5 .db3 file with some help from Martin and others on the forum (thanks!).

Unfortunately, when I view or play these recordings through the UI from the "Videos" menu the show description from the EPG does not display, either in the preview (prior to playback) or in the OSD when the Blue Button is pressed during playback.

I used sqlitebrowser to go through the .db3 file and see that the EPG info does appear in the SCHEDULED_RECORDING table in the event_details field.

I did discover, though, if I dig through the "Recordings" menu and find the exact same recording, the EPG info is displayed in preview AND on the OSD during playback.  Does this make sense?  NextPVR must be doing something different in Recordings and Videos?

All of my newer recordings made under v5 show the EPG correctly in preview and playback from both Recordings and Videos.

I'm running Linux Mint for the server, and Kodi with knewc on the server as well as several clients and have the same results on all clients.

Any thoughts on how to fix this?

Logs attached, if that gives any more info.  I was experimenting with Psych.S01E01.Pilot, but it's pretty wide-spread from what I've seen.

Thanks,
-Brad

[mvallevand]

Do your new recordings have the xml file with the metadata?

Martin

[baj1]

Ah, they do. I was thinking that was all tied to just the db3 file info.

[sub]

Generally "videos" was about other files, rather than recordings. It doesn't look in the database for file details etc.

[baj1]

So that's a change in v5? It seemed to have worked in v4.

I guess we are odd-balls. The Videos/folder view is a much more logical way to watch recordings, for us anyway.

[sub]

No, that's always been the case.

What does your videos screen look like (screenshot)? There is a couple of different options, and they behave slightly different in this regard.

[sub]

The Videos screen mostly looks for older style file-based metadata, like nfo files, etc. It can use NextPVR xml file sitting in the same directory as the recording, with the same filename but with .xml extension. From what I can see, there was no logic to ever try looking this stuff up in the database.

[mvallevand]

In V4 the metadata could also be information stored as a Windows ADS on a Windows drive and not on a share, not sure if the Video Library read this.. In V5 that is not possible, plus in Linux it isn't available anyway.

Martin