uidroid & NextPVR V4

[meccano]

I've recently been testing uidroid 1.7.22 on a TV Box and I noticed what appears to be a minor problem.
The builtin configuration detects NextPVR V4 servers but if you attempt to connect to one
then uidroid fails in an endless loop.  To get out of the loop you need to go into
the Android settings and delete all data associated with the app.

Do any releases of uidroid support NextPVR V4.2.5?

My main problem, apart from the above issue, is that random videos fail to play and return error messages:

Star.Trek.Strange.New.Worlds.S02E03.Tomorrow.and.Tomorrow.and.Tomorrow-0.ts
ERROR_CODE_FAILED_RUNTIME_CHECK

Cabaret 1972.mp4
ERROR_CODE_IO_UNSPECIFIED

My understanding is that I need to follow up on these issues with the Exoplayer developers.

[mvallevand]

I moved your post from sub's Android client forum.

No it will never support v4. I will check to see what I can do about selecting a v4 server and if it isn't too much work I will ignore them. The trouble is some users still run v4 and v5/6 on the same PC on the same port or don't do the manual install on the proper port. Another problem is it is 2023 not 2019.

For playback it might not be ExoPlayer. What Android device and platform are you using? For the mp4 file it might be the codecs. Either way, if you upload files for me to OneDrive, GooglDrive, Dropbox etc, to check I can a look.

Martin

[meccano]

Martin,

Thanks for your response.
You can download my sample videos from here:

http://meccano.crabdance.com/pvr/uidroid/

I have a Sunvell T95Q TV Box with Android 9.0.0
Kodi 19.5 / knewc 2.9.4 play the videos with no issue
uidroid 1.7.22 fails

There seem to be several recorded videos that fail with ERROR_CODE_FAILED_RUNTIME_CHECK, another is:
The Travel Show_20230702_06300700.ts

[mvallevand]

Kodi is a remuxing player and it can absolutely handle more codecs then ExoPlayer.

As suspected Cabaret is High 10 profile which is not a supported profile for ExoPlayer https://developer.android.com/guide/topi...deo-codecs You can change your profile when creating the file, it is not that common to get h/w support for it.

The Travel Show and STSNW play fine here though, are you running a current version of NextPVR? You might be suffering from the comskip zero issue, which I believe sub fixed. You can try edit the edl file and change the 0.00 to 1.00 and see if that is the problem.

The chip in your player is also many generations behind. I will try it on a current generation $25 player later on.

Martin

[mvallevand]

For Cabaret a normal high profile transcoded file works

ffmpeg -i "Cabaret 1972.mp4" -vcodec h264_qsv -acodec copy cabaret.mp4

Martin

[mvallevand]

@meccano could you explain your server setup a bit better so I can test the v4 issue you described. My test environment is pretty complicated setup.

Martin

[meccano]

At this instant:
192.168.0.106 has NextPVR 6.1.4.230625
192.168.0.110 has NextPVR 6.1.3.230521
192.168.0.111 has NextPVR 6.1.4.230625 & NextPVR4 on port 8865

I plan to get rid of NextPVR 4 anytime now, but I'm having weird problems with Nlite that leave me perplexed.

I tested uidroid further last night and found many more video files that won't play; I have lots of old videos.
I'll have to stick to Kodi/knewc for now, until I get a newer player - I find it very difficult sorting out which players are "newer".
Can you suggest a specific player, available in Canada, that supports ethernet, hdmi, usb, uidroid and kodi?

[mvallevand]

Thanks, I am not going to bother to support dual boot systems which is probably your biggest issue, a different TCP port won't help uiclients which use UDP discovery, you would need a manual configuration to load it. If you add <UiServerPriority>##</UiServerPriority> to the General selection of config.xml that should let it auto select by the highest priority so 106 and 110 should load first.

Maybe try yauiclient as an alternative to nlite.

Did you try NextPVR recordingss with the comskip file edited? I am curious if that was the problem on your device.

If your downloaded and ripped files are all Hi10 then yeah you have a problem. Many other formats should work but older crap like DivX forget it.

A good starting point for players is the Android version yours is Android 9 my phone is Android 13. My players are typically Android 11 right now.

Focusing on your device there are lots of generations of Amlogic chips this might help https://wiki.coreelec.org/coreelec:devgeneric The NE devices are the latest technology. You can search by chip name on amazon.ca and walmart.ca The cheapest are going to be s905w2

Most modern cheap devices like the ONN with DRM support (yours won't have that) can also use a USB hub for Ethernet.

Martin

[meccano]

I should have said that when I first posted my complaint, ONLY V4 was installed on 192.168.0.111.
You comments about UDP discovery maybe explain my weird Nlite issues.

[mvallevand]

If only 111 was running setting the priority would help. nlite and yauiclient will allow you to specify the server not using discovery.

Martin