Kodi 22 and VOD

[mvallevand]

Is anyone interested in getting VOD files in Kodi?  There is a PR open now and I have been investigating possibilities but I will need cooperation and feedback from some NextPVR IPTV users to get this work.  I don't think I can extrapolate this from my PlutoTV experience.

So far I think I have figure out how to reduce the load time and memory requirements of a the large number of VOD files but I haven't figured out how to use a huge linear list of files.  NextPVR's web based approach seems great but it doesn't translated well for Kodi users.  Now, I guess I am interested in knowing how users of other applications and even Kodi pvr.iptvsimple deal with the TV and movies list.

Later one I will need some some m3u lists (URL's can be obfusgated) to help, right now I can fake them but I am making assumption on the filename conventions and m3u information that is available.

Martin

[mvallevand]

This is a reply to a spammer that I just purged so it probably reads funny but I don't want to retype it if there every is interest

I am, the main things I am interested in seeing is

1) Are filenames shown and they are ts, mp4 or mkv?

2) About how many are there.

2) sample EXTINF line from real providers for movies and tv.

I have been faking it by guessing.

Code:

#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="278"  group-title="1994 Movies" tvg-name="The Shawshank Redemption (1994)",The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
https://download.blender.org/peach/bigbuckbunny_movies/BigBuckBunny_320x180.mp4
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="19404"  group-title="1995 Movies" tvg-name="Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995)",Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995)
https://download.blender.org/peach/bigbuckbunny_movies/BigBuckBunny_320x180.mp4
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="238"  group-title="1972 Movies" tvg-name="The Godfather (1972)",The Godfather (1972)
https://download.blender.org/peach/bigbuckbunny_movies/BigBuckBunny_320x180.mp4
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="424"  group-title="1993 Movies" tvg-name="Schindler's List (1993)",Schindler's List (1993)
https://download.blender.org/peach/bigbuckbunny_movies/BigBuckBunny_320x180.mp4

Martin

[itsnotjeff]

I can provide this information as I have an active interest in VOD via Kodi.

The way I personally would like it setup is for Kodi to import VOD as a category in Movies or TV Shows. I read an idea once that I really liked, and can be setup with post scripts in NPVR, but I never got around to it. Essentially, after import, parse out the VOD from the xml and dump the streams into a dedicated folder. Then in Kodi, point this as a source for video and then Kodi can do the rest. It seems possible, but again never got around to trying it.

Anyways, my setup is using Ubunutu server and docker, but I can install things locally on windows if needed.
1. My provider uses mkv and mp4 for VOD it seems
2. How does NPVR distinguish VOD? I noticed that the URL for a standard stream using my provider is address/user/password/stream. Just looking at my m3u, it looks like VOD might be distinguished by adding /movie/ or /series/ before user. There are roughly 24k movies and ~162k series if I search by regex in my m3u.
3. See below

Code:

#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-name="D+ - Flip the Strip S01 E01" tvg-logo="https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/zIMY1iIAPZLTEUwpjZIQ9xVOsYi.jpg" group-title="DISCOVERY+ SERIES MENA",D+ - Flip the Strip S01 E01
http://<address>:<port>/series/<user>/<password>/<stream>.mp4
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-name="D+ - Flip the Strip S01 E02" tvg-logo="https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/zIMY1iIAPZLTEUwpjZIQ9xVOsYi.jpg" group-title="DISCOVERY+ SERIES MENA",D+ - Flip the Strip S01 E02
http://<address>:<port>/series/<user>/<password>/<stream>.mp4

...

#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-name="TOP - Tiger 3 (2023)" tvg-logo="https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/7wgED7Yx9VLcNWSO91VgwicHmMD.jpg" group-title="TOP MOVIES BLURAY (MULTI-SUBS)",TOP - Tiger 3 (2023)
http://<address>:<port>/movie/<user>/<password>/<stream>.mp4
#EXTINF:-1 tvg-id="" tvg-name="TOP - Napoleon (2023)" tvg-logo="https://www.themoviedb.org/t/p/original/9Rt6mfCxUfAXNR8jFf3PJyT8JE3.jpg" group-title="TOP MOVIES BLURAY (MULTI-SUBS)",TOP - Napoleon (2023)
http://<address>:<port>/movie/<user>/<password>/<stream>.mp4

By the way, I know NPVR is closed source, but do you ever look for additional devs? I would be interested in supporting the project.

[mvallevand]

The Kodi PR in question is here https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/25711 and it won't integrate with TV/Movies which require physical media but a new menu for media that pvr.nextpvr could filter

Unfortunately your VOD is the kind of crap I expected, sticking the channel name in the title of the show makes no sense. This will be shown with D's and not F's. For the movie Napolenan will show with T's. The regex for S/E and movie year will work hit basic rules.

I also don't know how NextPVR filters VOD before it goes into Kodi. Clearly sending all ~200k items with a flat list won't be manageable. Not everyone will want MENA shows as an example but I expect the filtering to be brutal to configure on regular basis.

As for development pvr.nextpvr is open source and sub has exposed everything that I expect we need, I just need to get motivated to see if this is going anywhere.

Martin