This app is a client for the popular NextPVR software. NextPVR is free media center software you can install on a Windows PC, which enables the use of ATSC / DVB / Analog TV tuners, and other. NextPVR by Menten Holdings Ltd. Is a freeware personal video recorder (PVR) and a media center that will let you play video and audio files on your PC. Sadly, there is no information about NextPVR for Mac, therefore, you will have to use an alternative video recorder for Mac.
This app is a client for the popular NextPVR software. NextPVR is free media center software you can install on a Windows PC, which enables the use of ATSC / DVB / Analog TV tuners, and other supported video capture devices. With NextPVR installed on your PC, this app lets you watch Live TV, view the TV Guide, manage your recording schedule, and watch recordings. NextPVR can be downloaded from Requirements: - NextPVR 4.2.1 or higher running on a PC on your local network.
TV Tuner or video capture device supported by NextPVR. This software supports most DVB-T / DVB-C / DVB-S / ATSC / QAM digital tv tuners. Fixed layout issues on smaller screen size devices (iPhone 4S/5/5S/iPod).
fixed alignment issue with status message in player (when in landscape mode) - fixed an issue with word wrapping on the 'All Recordings' screen. added 'watch' button in TV guide for currently airing shows - fixed issue where tuner could stay in-use if you're watchin live tv when the app is switched to the background - fixed issue with deleting a server you'd manually added - slight improvements to artwork caching. 1.0 Jul 8, 2016. Bigbook08, Decent app This app is ok, but could use the following: Fully licensed Dolby Audio, Better playback controls, Ability to download recordings from server to play on the go, either converted or same as on server. Ability to remote control app from another device also a request for the Windows program. Better airplay support for playing shows and live tv on newer devices Server: ability to capture and convert to h.264 and convert and preserve audio for playing on the go.
The app also needs proper pause on background support as playback stops when you tap a notification or bring up control center. Add a pop up dialog for choosing whether to play a video from the beginning or not without long pressing the recording. With the above features the app would be amazing.
Bigbook08, Decent app This app is ok, but could use the following: Fully licensed Dolby Audio, Better playback controls, Ability to download recordings from server to play on the go, either converted or same as on server. Ability to remote control app from another device also a request for the Windows program. Better airplay support for playing shows and live tv on newer devices Server: ability to capture and convert to h.264 and convert and preserve audio for playing on the go.
The app also needs proper pause on background support as playback stops when you tap a notification or bring up control center. Add a pop up dialog for choosing whether to play a video from the beginning or not without long pressing the recording. With the above features the app would be amazing.
4.2.3 available (11th November) This is a fairly minor release, rolling the patches posted for 4.2.2 into the main release. See next post for some comments on the future versions of NextPVR. Changes: - much faster Search screen when using a client install - fixed problem where sometimes the app would claim no audio decoder was available when switching to channel on different source. fixed issue with entering manual recording start/end times on the popup window - fixed issue with typing channel number on manual recording popup - fixed issue with streaming recordings with name that ended in '.' Devices Supported NextPVR supports a wide range of capture devices. Supported digital tuners include DVB-S/S2, SATIP, DVB-T/T2, DVB-C, DMB-T, ATSC and ClearQAM.
NextPVR also supports specialist component/HDMI capture devices (like the Hauppauge HDPVR, HDPVR2 and Colossus), and Copy-Freely devices (like the Hauppauge DCR-2650 and HDHomeRun Prime). Old-school analog and FM capture devices are also supported, if SoftPVR components are available on your PC. User Interface NextPVR's user interface is designed to be easy to use for the entire family. NextPVR's interface provides a TV Guide for scheduling recording, Recordings screen for watching/managing your recordings and schedule, and Library screens for watching movies, listening to music, and viewing photos. Integration NextPVR enables you to view it's user interface out to devices like Samsung TV and Blu-Ray players, and LG TVs. You can also use the great X-NEWA to access NextPVR's interface on any platform able to run Kodi/XBMC. If it better suits your needs, you can also use the built-in addons in Kodi/XBMC, or MediaBrowser3, to user the backend television services provided by NextPVR Sections/Browse similar tools.
I've been using NextPVR for over 10 years now. If you're primary requirement is to schedule and watch TV shows over the air, then I don't think there is any better software out there. It may lack some of the pzazz of some other media players but often that is all they are (media players) and don't offer intelligent scheduling of all your favourite TV shows from one or multiple TV tuners. For example did you know that if the channels you want to watch are on the same DVB mux, it can record multiple shows at the same time, all from a single tuner.
It can avoid recording the same show, reschedule a show to resolve a conflict with recordings, keep the last X episodes of a series etc. I would say the software is pretty much bullet-proof and I don't recall the last time I ever had the software barf on me. (There were a few issues with FF/RW when the playback code was rewritten but these gremlins are pretty much all ironed out now). You do however need to ensure that you have the necessary codecs installed (not supplied with NextPVR) if you wish to playback other formats as NextPVR just asks windows to use whatever the default codec is for that file type.
Most folks use decoders from LAV, MS or various codec packs that are available. If you just want software to playback movies that you have downloaded or ripped off a disc, NextPVR can cater for these files just fine although there may be other products that can provide more bling to your viewing experience. As a true client/server app, it supports playback from other pcs/laptops/browsers and mobile devices (being actively developed). The author has also been investing a lot of time in ramping up support for IPTV during the last 12 months. I would prefer to call it donateware rather than freeware as I feel that regular users of the product should support the author who dedicates a huge amount of his time to this project and the forum is friendly, responsive and helpful.
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