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Add-on:DVBViewer Client

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DVBViewer Client

See this add-on on the kodi.tv showcase

Author: Manuel Mausz

Type: PVR
Repo: Kodi.tv repo v19
Kodi.tv repo v18

Summary: Kodi's frontend for DVBViewer
Home icon grey.png   ▶ Add-ons ▶ DVBViewer Client

DVBViewer Media Server; supporting streaming of Live TV & Recordings, EPG, Timers.

1 Installing

To install this add-on you must do so from the Add-on manager from within Kodi by going to

  1. The home screen
  2. Add-ons
  3. Download
  4. PVR clients
  5. DVBViewer Client
  6. Install
Live TV and PVR Setup Guide:
  1. Introduction
  2. Setting up the recording software
  3. Configuring live TV settings in Kodi
  4. The basics of Live TV and recording
  5. Live TV Artwork

2 Overview

DVBViewer Client is a Kodi PVR add-on for the DVBViewer Media Service, supporting live and timeshifted TV playback (also for scrambled channels), recording playback, EPG, manual and EPG-based timers and timer rules.

For more information about DVBViewer Media Service, please see DVBViewer.

2.1 DVBViewer Recording Service

Kodi Leia will be the last version supporting the older Recording Service. Users are encouraged to upgrade. New features like series timers, EDL support and storing recording play position and play count on the backend is only supported with the newer Media Server.

3 Installing DVBViewer PVR backend software

Please see DVBViewer

4 Connecting Kodi to DVBViewer Media Service

Note: Most versions of Kodi have the PVR add-ons included by default. Your first step in setting up a given PVR add-on is to enable it by going to Settings -> Add-ons -> Disabled add-ons -> PVR and selecting your add-on and then pressing "enable".
For Ubuntu clients click "SHOW" for PVR add-on install instructions

PVR add-ons should be installed automatically, unless users configured their package manager to not install recommended packages. To manually install a PVR add-on:

sudo apt-get install [pluginname]

e.g. to install the Demo plugin:

sudo apt-get install kodi-pvr-demo


Package name Description
kodi-pvr-argustv Argus_TV
kodi-pvr-demo Kodi PVR demo add-on
kodi-pvr-dvbviewer DVBViewer
kodi-pvr-iptvsimple Add-on:IPTV_Simple_Client
kodi-pvr-mediaportal-tvserver MediaPortal
kodi-pvr-mythtv MythTV PVR
kodi-pvr-nextpvr NextPVR
kodi-pvr-njoy Njoy
kodi-pvr-hts Tvheadend
kodi-pvr-vdr-vnsi VDR
kodi-pvr-vuplus VUPlus
kodi-pvr-dvblink
kodi-pvr-filmon
kodi-pvr-hdhomerun
kodi-pvr-pctv
kodi-pvr-stalker
kodi-pvr-vbox
kodi-pvr-wmc
  1. Go to Settings -> Add-ons -> Enabled add-ons -> PVR Clients and select the DVBViewer Client add-on
  2. Select "Configure"
  3. By default, you should only need to fill in DVBViewer Media Service IP address.

5 Settings

5.1 General

PVR.DVBViewer Client.settings.png
DVBViewer Media Service IP address
The hostname or IP address of the server where DVBViewer Media Service is installed and running. If on the same machine then 'localhost' or 127.0.0.1 can be used.
Webinterface Port
Port of Media Service Webinterface
Username / Password
Login credentials for the Media Service Webinterface
Use Wake-on-LAN to wake up service
Enable or disable Wake-on-LAN (WOL)
MAC address
MAC address of the device to wake up



5.2 Live TV

PVR.DVBViewer Client.livetv.png
Use favourites instead of channel list
Display channels of favourites file instead of whole list. Small favourites list speeds up startup time.
Use local favourites file
Allows to specify a local favourites file. If disabled the remote (stored on the Media Service Host) will be used.
Enable Timeshift
Enable or disable timeshift support. Timeshift support can be enabled on playback or on (first) pause.
Timeshift buffer path
The path to the timeshift buffer file. If you watch a channel for a long time you might run out of disk space (depends on your free space). Switching channel will truncate the file.



5.3 Recordings

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Group Recordings
Group by recording directory, recording date, first letter, tv channel or series
Enable EDL support
Enable or disable EDL support.
The EDL file has to be named like the recording and placed next to it. The file extensions has to be .edl. Only classic mplayer edl format is supported. That is multiple lines of [start time] [end time] [action]. Frame or hour style format entries are not supported.
Requires DMS 2.1.0.0 or later.
Start time padding / Stop time padding
User specific offset which gets added to the values of each EDL entry



5.4 Advanced Settings

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Put outline (e.g. subtitles) before plot
Some skins don't display the outline so some EPG information is hidden. Values are: Never, In EPG only, In recordings only, Always
Enable low performance mode
Disables loading of channel logos and recording thumbnails. Use on low performance devices such as the Raspberry Pi
Enable transcoding
If enabled, Media Service will encode the video stream on the fly to some other format. Setting specifies the container format and can be either TS, WebM or FLV.
Custom Live TV timeout (0 to use default)
Changes the timeout (curlclienttimeout) from Kodi's default for Live TV connections
Stream read chunk size
Changes the chunk size to use when reading streams (0 to use Kodi's default)
Enable Transcoding
Enable or disable Live TV transcoding. See below.
Transcoding URL parameters
URL parameters to be passed to the Media Service transcoding API. For example to specify the ffmpeg preset (e.g preset=medium 768 kbit&subs=1). See transcoding_params_en.txt for all supported URL parameters.



6 Support

7 Development

Code for the client is available here: https://github.com/manuelm/pvr.dvbviewer/

Please submit bug reports here: https://github.com/manuelm/pvr.dvbviewer/issues


7.1 External Links

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