Nextpvr IPTV device http m3u8 streams not stopping?

[iTzturrtlex]

So I have a channels list imported into nextpvr they are all m3u8 streams imported from an iptv provider. The channels work fine, I am using kodi as a frontend btw. However whenever I change channels the other channel continues to play in the background by nextpvr. You can see it in the status in the taskbar, also the ffmpeg process continues to run downloading the channel, sometimes even after restarting my computer.

Another problem I'm having is that when a channel is not working, i.e. the stream has gone dead, which isn't that often, kodi or nextpvr will just try and load it forever, at which point I have to force close them, is there a timeout on bad stream feature?

[sub]

Sorry, this is an experimental feature that is a long way from functional. At this stage NextPVR is only really intended for use with TV tuners and other video capture devices.

[iTzturrtlex]

Ok that's fine. Do you need more details on the error so you can fix it in future releases?

[sub]

No, I know why this is happening.

[iTzturrtlex]

Ok are you gonna fix it in the next update? If so when will that be? Thanks for all your hard work btw, I'm considering donating

[sub]

To be honest, I wasn't really intending to do anything about it at stage. As mentioned, it was only really an experiment. I'll see if I can find some time to take a look though.

[iTzturrtlex]

Ok it would be a great if you could. I already use a dvb tuner which works great, apart from a few bugs with kodi krypton.

The only other option would be to use another backend but it took me so long to map the channels to the correct numbers and corresponding schedules direct channels. Also I'd rather have it all working with one backend and I think nextpvr is the best one out there.

[sub]

I've made some improvements for the next release that should help.

[Mattyb3806]

I have been hoping for this!!! I have some mpeg ts m3u8 streams that I tried out today. Overall it works fairly well. Only issues that would stop me from using it daily is when a channel doesn't load you will be waiting for awhile. The other issue is it leaves some fairly large .ts files in the temp folder. They don't continue to grow after I stop the channel so at least the streams are stopping and I would have no problem running a batch file to clean the folder up periodically. I'm really looking forward see what happens with this. Thanks Sub!