Loading Local Video Files

[Syler]

I have been wanting to create a UI in the browser, with Apache, for all my video files which are in various formats. I have tried loading various video files in the browser but support for different formats is limited.

I have seen a suggestion to transcode(I know very little about transcoding) the files on the fly to a format that the browser can play. That got me wondering if I would be able to use the NextPVR transcoder/player to load these video files? Is there an entry point that I can pass vid.avi to?

[sub]

This a relatively complicated aspect when it comes to browsers. Generally browsers can only play mp4 files, and with some extra javascript components m3u8/hls. Some browsers can play mkv files, but most cannot.

NextPVR does have logic to transcode it's recordings on the fly to m3u8 streams, so they can be played in the browser. Unfortunately it's not so straight forward to use from a developers perspective. They need to be in NextPVR's database as a recording, and you have to be calling it from a logged in session etc. ie, you can't just pass in a filename and it'll transcode it.

[mvallevand]

If you want to play them via NextPVR you could import avi files as recordings if that is what you want to do. My import utility does that.

NextPVR uses generic transcoding so if this is something you don a lot of using jellyfin, Emby or Plex makes a lot more sense.

Martin

[Syler]

Thanks. I didn't think it would be that easy. I think I will have to look at seeing if I can do something with FFmpeg.wasm,which seems to be able to do what I want?

https://blog.scottlogic.com/2020/11/23/f...embly.html

[mvallevand]

That won't help with NextPVR. NextPVR behind the scenes is already using ffmpeg or more specifically the libraries it uses are pretty much standard for all applications doing transcoding.

If you pre-transcode transcode them to h264/aac you should be able to play them via File Open if that is what you want.

Martin

[Syler]

I just tried to import a recording but it doesn't seem to have worked, it is not showing in the recording section?

[Syler]

I doesn't need to be done with NextPVR, I just thought there might be a way of using it to do it more easily and not have to use a second local server.

All I want is to be able to create a UI in the browser that lists all my video files and can open them in a video player in the browser. It would be good if this could be in the same interface as NextPVR just so that it is all in one place. I have figured out how to add to the NextPVR browser UI I just can't get them to load.

[Syler]

I have got the recording import to work now and it seems fine for my purpose. Now I just need a way to automate the creation of the xml file and to create a UI to organise them.

[Syler]

I now have basic automation for the xml import file but I am having a problem with files with spaces in the name.

<filename>/home/syler/test/cat 2.mp4</filename>
From the log:
- not adding non-existant file:"/home/syler/test/cat 2.mp4"

I tried quoting the path and replacing spaces with %20 but it does not work. How can I get it to work?

[mvallevand]

Did you try the linux escape of a slash(\) before the space?

Martin