Error when trying to download VoDs

[ModdingFriendly]

Hey (me again) 

I'm having issues accessing the VoD on a xtream connection, I get all the channels perfectly but when I enable VoD it appears to error out. 

Is there something I'm missing or is there just an error with the provider and I can't use NextPVR for VoDs (with this provider)? 

Thanks for any help <3 

```
[89] Got request [166.99.0.120]: /services/service (setting.scan.status)
[89] method=setting.scan.status
[89] parameters:
[89]    method: setting.scan.status
[89]    format: json
[89]    sid: aed48fe7-4918-48bc-8c08-a0396e560b0c
[89]    client_ip: 166.99.0.120
[89]    user_agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
[89]    host_callback: ...
[89] setting.scan.status
[89] {"stat":"ok",
"complete":false,
"status":"Downloading Movie VOD",
"channels": [
]
}...snip...
[41] Unexpected error processing XC VOD:System.ArgumentException: Can not convert Null to Int32.
  at Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JToken.op_Explicit(JToken value)
  at NShared.Recorders.IPTVScanner.XCWorkerThread()

...

[87] {"stat":"Failed","code":11,"msg":"Scanner not active"}
```

[sub]

I just checked here, and it downloaded XC VOD ok. It's likely your provider is returning some slightly different information. I can't really check that easily though.

Why not just use m3u import instead? Most IPTV providers support it, even if they say they don't.

[ModdingFriendly]

Sorry my general knowledge of XC vs M3U is a little lacking, if you want I could dm you the link and you could have a look to see if its something that I could easily fix through changing the type.

Edit: I have been able to get M3U working. Thanks for the pointer! <3

[ModdingFriendly]

Sorry @sub I have a quick follow up question, do you work with the Jellyfin plugin? Are VODs sent along as a new channel? (Is it something that donating unlocks? because that's the last thing I need to make this perfect)

[mvallevand]

I wrote the Jellyfin plugin and their PVR API doesn't support VOD, which doesn't really matter since the NextPVR API doesn't support VOD either.

Best to download from the VOD menu and then VOD shows up as recordings.

Martin

[ModdingFriendly]

Do we know if it's possible to get the url column from the vod table? I want to avoid downloading as much as possible (due to space constraints and NextPVR being run in Docker so I'd prefer keeping the Transcoding in Jellyfin)

(I know I could open the DB, query it and use that but just in case there is a proper way to get the information from an API endpoint or not)

[mvallevand]

Not sure what you are trying to achieve programmatically but you already have the URL column via the m3u file,

NextPVR shouldn't be transcoding downloaded VOD, or recordings and Live TV is only transcoded for web player. Jellyfin is considered a direct play client.

Martin

[ModdingFriendly]

Necro-ing a real old thread (sorry) the reason why I was caring about if it was possible to send the VoD via the Jellyfin Plugin was I can have 4 streams live at once per IPTV device. If I strip out the strm files then if someone is watching TV via NextPVR in Jellyfin and someone else decides to watch a VoD the service kicks the oldest subscription and streams to the new one. I was hoping if there was support for the Plugin to track against the tuner limit so this wasn't a problem. 

If it's not a thing then c'est la vie (maybe a good future upgrade)

[mvallevand]

VOD is really meant to be used differently then Live TV. The design is to queue up your VOD via the VOD menu perhaps when not everyone is watching Live TV with a bonus of (perhaps) much faster than real time downloading. With planned queuing you have less risk of hitting any limits too.

After that you can watch the VOD downloads when you want since they become recordings in NextPVR and Jellyfin.

Martin

[ModdingFriendly]

Interesting, thanks for the insight. I always see the VoD as another Jellyfin Library like an extension of the media that I specifically own.

Just a difference between how I thought it would be used. Thank you again for all your help