It's amazing that you got Multiview working so quickly. Android/Fire TV users are still waiting for Multiview.
I'm using VLC as the backbone viewer and VLC's hardware acceleration helps with making it CPU friendly. At the moment, it is a basic select channels and play with no real options yet. Just getting it working was a sweet feeling though. Fortunately, others have already done this and have plenty of example of implementing it.
Have you tried time shifting live tv? I was attempting that with VLC when I came across your project. VLC did allow for pausing but the moving around within the buffer was problematic for me.
Will your program work if it is running on a different Windows PC than the Channels DVR server?
Yes. It connects to the Channels server over the local network.
I have it working on recorded content as well as commercial skipping. Live TV is going to be tricky though. I haven't really messed with that yet. I have been spending most of my time on getting the Live TV guide to work with remote controls, keyboards and my remote control app. That has been very time consuming.
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Great! I imagine that it will work remotely too if I create a Wireguard VPN to my router with local LAN access enabled, and I look forward to testing that functionality.
As long as the server is accessible on the local network and you clients connect to it locally, it should work fine. The app is connecting through Bonjour/Zeroconf. It scans the local network for the CDVR beacon and connects that way.
I asked Google if "Bonjour/Zeroconf works over Wireguard" and the answer I got back was 'Bonjour/Zeroconf (mDNS) generally does not work over WireGuard by default because it relies on local network multicast traffic, while WireGuard is a unicast Layer 3 VPN. To make it work, you must use a reflector/proxy (like Avahi) or set up Avahi, allowing allow-point-to-point=yes and enable-reflector=yes to pass multicast traffic."
I have seen something similar with the Fire TV CDVR app. I set up Channels DVR at a friend's house and wanted to access my CDRV server remotely using my Firestick, so I created a Wireguard tunnel to my router. Auto-discovery failed and then CDRV asked for a local IP address on my LAN, and that worked. Do you think you can ask for a local IP address if Bonjour/Zeroconf discovery fails?
I'll add that to my list.
Thanks. I think I would use that feature quite a bit starting in June when I am away for the summer.
The Fire TV CDVR app also saves previously entered local IP addresses, but that is less important when working from a PC with a keyboard since I can easily enter the local IP address. Normally, when I am away from home I use CDVR QR code sign-in process, which works really well. However, if there is already a CDVR server on the local network, the app automatically connects to it and I did not see a way to connect to my remote CDVR server without using Wireguard. Perhaps there is a way to do it and I have not figured it out yet.