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Total Time Reflects Guide Duration not Actual Duration

 
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Total Time Reflects Guide Duration not Actual Duration
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2020-10-30, 05:32 PM
First, I love NextPVR, it works perfectly for my OTA channels. :-) 

However, I have have had mediocre luck recording IPTV streams.  Some come full length, most are short.

I figure the culprit is my bandwidth I have 25Mbps shared by 6 People.

My issue is the Kodi client displays an hour long TV episode as 60 min even though many are shorter some much shorter.  When I look at the actual files, they show (in windows) as the correct length of time.  

This introduces a situation when fast forwarding where if I go too far, but still well within the time remaining bar, the recoding just stops and sometimes it crashes Kodi.

Does anyone know a way to tell NextPVR or the Kodi client to use the actual time of the file itself rather than what the guide says it should be?

Thank you!
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2020-10-30, 05:41 PM
(2020-10-30, 05:32 PM)ElGordito Wrote: However, I have have had mediocre luck recording IPTV streams. Some come full length, most are short.

I figure the culprit is my bandwidth I have 25Mbps shared by 6 People.
Most certainly could be that.

IPTV providers are also notorious for having crappy streams, or overloaded servers, and streams that just disappear. They might appear superficially to be ok, but you might find they can't be relied on to the degree you'd hoped.
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2020-10-30, 07:32 PM
Actually I think it currently is the duration with padding not guide time but if it could be the mediainfo duration that would be excellent. If you could somehow add a filesize for Kodi even better. Right now this is only an advanced option and the client uses the filesystem if it can.

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2020-10-31, 03:23 PM
(2020-10-30, 05:41 PM)sub Wrote:
(2020-10-30, 05:32 PM)ElGordito Wrote: However, I have have had mediocre luck recording IPTV streams.  Some come full length, most are short.

I figure the culprit is my bandwidth I have 25Mbps shared by 6 People.
Most certainly could be that.

IPTV providers are also notorious for having crappy streams, or overloaded servers, and streams that just disappear. They might appear superficially to be ok, but you might find they can't be relied on to the degree you'd hoped.

Yes, I kinda figured. Undecided 
Any comment of the duration question? 

(2020-10-30, 07:32 PM)mvallevand Wrote: Actually I think it currently is the duration with padding not guide time but if it could be the mediainfo duration that would be excellent.  If you could somehow add a filesize for Kodi even better.  Right now this is only an advanced option and the client uses the filesystem if it can.

Martin

Not sure how it could be.  I'll get 30 minutes of an hour show (confirmed in windows file explorer) and the Kodi client's timeline bar shows ~60 min (sometimes it is 58 or 59) what it was supposed to be from the guide.  Unless the media is somehow being marked incorrectly?
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2020-10-31, 06:37 PM
NextPVR reports the times for the recording as the time it recording started, and the time it stopped. There could certainly have been gaps anywhere within that time. Ultimately if you're having issue with this, about all you can do is look for a more stable source.
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2020-10-31, 08:38 PM
(2020-10-31, 06:37 PM)sub Wrote: NextPVR reports the times for the recording as the time it recording started, and the time it stopped. There could certainly have been gaps anywhere within that time. Ultimately if you're having issue with this, about all you can do is look for a more stable source.

Bummer. Maybe a future configuration option would be to use the actual file duration for guys like me. :-)

Thank you for the replies. :-)
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2020-10-31, 09:09 PM
Sometimes the tools that quickly calculate duration are wrong too which is why sub's suggestion to use reliable providers and tuners makes the most sense.

Martin
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