Movie Selection

[hdpvr-doug8796]

I wanted to work on a project to integrate Netflix/Hulu/HBOMax etc recording into NextPVR by using chrome capture, a scrapper to scrape movie titles and output as channels/episode guide - could you perhaps make this xml to be interpreted as a more scrollable movie list, and hide the EPG? TV would be more difficult with episodes etc so movies would be first.  The main benefit is using adblockers to watch Hulu/DisneyPlus etc with ads.  This may never happen, but I was curious.

Essentially I would pull all of the movies on the streamer, set up x amount of channels and have the guide data just be all the movies through a script.  Then you could hide the "channels" and have them only play in another menu where the script would trigger and they would play with no ads and be able to dvr.

This way nextpvr could be truly be on its way to being all-in-one DVR stop, it could also compare movies on your current streamer to tv and recommend movies to dvr from TV that arent in your paid streamer.

I will release my code with it working as channels in NextPVR, and then perhaps you could have its own section so that it can be interpreted differently?

[mvallevand]

What is "this xml" XMLTV already supports movies, and there is a VOD from xml and m3u for movie importing.

Personally I'd just record it and see if comskip works and if not skip in the recording, the ads often tell you how long to skip so time skip would work well. Thumbnails help too.

Martin

[hdpvr-doug8796]

What is "this xml"  XMLTV already supports movies, and there is a VOD from xml and m3u for movie importing.

Personally I'd just record it and see if comskip works and if not skip in the recording, the ads often tell you how long to skip so time skip would work well.  Thumbnails help too.

Martin

Preferably would like without ads. Right now I stream my pc to living room with moonlight/sunshine .  That way I can watch hulu w/ ads on my tv with no ads. It would be nice to have support for this on nextpvr through chrome capture.  With the option to record movies that I am paying to access on hulu/netflix. Right now I can pull all the movies and have them in guide form, but they esentially will trigger the script to go to hulu.com go to search bar, type movie and and click play. They should be able to be used anytime, but the only way I know how to use in nextpvr now is to have them be in a guide and you can only click live shows with that.

My goal is to have NextPVR be an all in one streamer/recorder and do more than it can now. Which NextPVR is great, as they say if it aint broke dont fix it, but I just think it would also be great to have streamer support as well as TV.

Maybe sub would be interested as well since I assume Netflix is popular in NZ as well.

Maybe my official code I release it does have ads that way we don't really get into any legal problems?

Basically, similar to Playon, but without the 5 dollars a month.

[mvallevand]

You probably would want to do that the with an vod xml file which calling a special extra, but I feel that is beyond your programming skills so you probably should park the idea. That is what I was doing with Pluto On Demand before I had to pull the addon because the EPG was being abused and posted publicly.

Basically the idea it to create one extra listing each movie with the name, command and arguments you want. I would make the command a batch/script file and the batch file could process the argument however you want. If you can do it all with ffmpeg then just use it that way too. Get it working as an extra and then we can explain how to turn it into a vod file.

The biggest problem with vod and chrome capture is vod assumes a video ends.

That's it for my input.

Martin

[hdpvr-doug8796]

You probably would want to do that the with an vod xml file which calling a special extra, but I feel that is beyond your programming skills so you probably should park the idea.  That is what I was doing with Pluto On Demand before I had to pull the addon because the EPG was being abused and posted publicly.

Basically the idea it to create one extra listing each movie with the name, command and arguments you want.  I would make the command a batch/script file and the batch file could process the argument however you want.  If you can do it all with ffmpeg then just use it that way too.  Get it working as an extra and then we can explain how to turn it into a vod file.

The biggest problem with vod and chrome capture is vod assumes a video ends.

That's it for my input.

Martin

OK, so you don't recommend this be released into the wild? I would have one script scrape the streamer, on server side, and the other script would be the chrome capture node, hulu.com/?mov="x".  I will keep you posted when I get it working somewhat.

[mvallevand]

If it works who am I to say what can and can't be released or used by user to user.

Martin

[hdpvr-doug8796]

If it works who am I to say what can and can't be released or used by user to user.

Martin

OK, what format should vod be? You gave me the right script for extras, but how does vod differ?  Would vod xml file show as a device as well?  I will try and do more research.

[mvallevand]

It doesn't differ in format, just how and when it runs. As I said get the extra working and I will give more info, but I don't want to waste a lot of time answering questions on this.

No it is not a device and you won't be able to get them from UI clients.

Martin

[hdpvr-doug8796]

It doesn't differ in format, just how and when it runs.  As I said get the extra working and I will give more info, but I don't want to waste a lot of time answering questions on this.

No it is not a device and you won't be able to get them from UI clients.

Martin

I know its theoretical, but would kodi work or could ui client add later if it worked decently?

[mvallevand]

Is it working well as an extra already?

Martin