It's pretty basic, but here is a plugin I've been working on for displaying content from a Plex Media Server (http://plexapp.com) as a backend. This is an
application that scans catalogs and can transcode for android/iphone/AppleTV and other devices (tvs etc) video files from a server.
I've ignored the transcoding part, as NextPVR doesn't need it as our pcs are generally powerfull enough and have all the codecs required to play back most things.
It can support UNC paths (if the server is removed from your NextPVR machine) or use local paths if you Plex Server is the same machine.
It works via NMT - but for this to work I think (mvallevand may have to correct me) it would expect UNC paths.
Also at the moment the only sections types it will display are TV Show, Movies and Home Movies (personal media - that is not checked against IMDB or TVDB - this is where I put my NextPVR recordings). This means at this release photos and music are not supported.
I only wanted a rudimentary Movie database with watched status tracking. Using Plex I was able to do this. As it currently does everything I want, it may not be developed much further....apart from adding multiples servers. Someone else may or may not want to take the music sections and run with those.
To add a UNC path to Plex, under edit a section, add a manual directory instead of navigating to a drive letter.
Here are some pictures.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]32303[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]32304[/ATTACH]
And here is the plugin. Unzip to the NextPVR data directory (On windows 7 this is in c:\users\public\npvr on Windows XP, I assume it's in C:\Program Files\NPVR still).
0.7.4.1 - 16-02-2013
0.7.4 - 16-02-2013
0.7.3 - 14-12-2012
0.7.2 - 23-11-2012
0.7.1 - 22-11-2012
0.6 - 10-02-2012
0.5 - 22-12-2011
0.4.2 - 22.12-2011
0.4.1 - 21.12-2011
0.4 - 20-12-2011
0.3 - Initial Build
application that scans catalogs and can transcode for android/iphone/AppleTV and other devices (tvs etc) video files from a server.
I've ignored the transcoding part, as NextPVR doesn't need it as our pcs are generally powerfull enough and have all the codecs required to play back most things.
It can support UNC paths (if the server is removed from your NextPVR machine) or use local paths if you Plex Server is the same machine.
It works via NMT - but for this to work I think (mvallevand may have to correct me) it would expect UNC paths.
Also at the moment the only sections types it will display are TV Show, Movies and Home Movies (personal media - that is not checked against IMDB or TVDB - this is where I put my NextPVR recordings). This means at this release photos and music are not supported.
I only wanted a rudimentary Movie database with watched status tracking. Using Plex I was able to do this. As it currently does everything I want, it may not be developed much further....apart from adding multiples servers. Someone else may or may not want to take the music sections and run with those.
To add a UNC path to Plex, under edit a section, add a manual directory instead of navigating to a drive letter.
Here are some pictures.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]32303[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]32304[/ATTACH]
And here is the plugin. Unzip to the NextPVR data directory (On windows 7 this is in c:\users\public\npvr on Windows XP, I assume it's in C:\Program Files\NPVR still).
0.7.4.1 - 16-02-2013
- Added some more logging around PopulateList to see where an object ref error was being caused.
0.7.4 - 16-02-2013
- Added some timers that for progress within the video - used for trakt integration only.
0.7.3 - 14-12-2012
- Added Previous Channel (Control-W) command to go up a level
- Changed the filter in the settings dialog to hide the items sections rather than show. Also You can use either the types (photo, movie or show) or the sections names (TV Shows, Movies, Photos) - case sensitive.
- Added a user selectable timeout value for checking online status of th server
0.7.2 - 23-11-2012
- Added a filer in the settings dialog, enter in the types to display - eg movie for movies, show for tv shows. Only these will be shown.
0.7.1 - 22-11-2012
- Fixed bug in TV Shows where cover art wasn't showing for the Show or season
- Hopefully improved watch status processing for NMT devices - it works on the principal of the actual duration your watch it for, rather than pulling it from NextPvr - as it doesn't supply the position.
- This version is debug compiled so it might have a little bit more logging, hopefully for smacrae
- Changed how the Music and Photos sections are hidden, should work better.
0.6 - 10-02-2012
- Added simple path replacement functionality - replaces source text with dest text. Eg G:\serverFolders replaced with \\aragorn
- Added Media Flags to media preview, shows audio codec and video codec. Videos with no summary show more icons. They can be turned on or off in the skin file. (This update requires the updating of the videos.xml skin file as well).
- Fixed bug where deletes would not work.
0.5 - 22-12-2011
- Added delete functionality with confirmation dialog
- Added resume/restart dialog
- Added contextual buttons depending if Folder or item
- More bug fixing around the Notify method.
- Added "*" to description if not watched.
- Added "Viewed"/"Not Viewed" to description.
- Added "x% Watched" to media that is partially watched.
0.4.2 - 22.12-2011
- Fixed bug where the plex.log grew to ridiculous size as it logged every action from npvr.
0.4.1 - 21.12-2011
- Fixed bug where if the plugin was never entered, it kept npvr open
- Added some more error messages when populating the list, so hopefully the user gets more of an idea of a problem without having to view the logs.
0.4 - 20-12-2011
- Changed lo location to nppvr\logs
- Added resume and storage of playback position in plex
- Introduced and fixed a bug where the plugin wouldn't allow Npvr to exit.
- Fixed a bug where if the server name was specified and not found it wouldn't use a server. Added a better check for server name.
0.3 - Initial Build
- Basic Navgation and playback
