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RE: [RELEASE] PseudoTV (Video) Addon - Virtual EPG and TV Channel Surfing Script for XBMC - jelly - 2012-04-14 02:04

For people with a Harmony Remote who want to use the video/audio settings, i use 'F4' which brings up the weather and the V/A settings menu at the same time in PTV. You'll need to use 'guide' to close the weather menu and then 'menu' to close the V/A settings menu. Not perfect but at least you can access video/audio settings.

Unless there's another way to map the 'm' key somehow, i couldn't see any answers in the thread.

The Mac sound issue isn't so much of a problem when it's plugged into my amp via optical, the sound still pops but it doesn't cut out at all which makes it usable if slightly annoying still.

Is it possible to have a movie play on a channel every day at a certain time? I tried 'best schedule but it didn't work, im assuming this is only for episodes as it asks for the episode number.

RE: [RELEASE] PseudoTV (Video) Addon - Virtual EPG and TV Channel Surfing Script for XBMC - -89- - 2012-04-14 09:29

I can't get a script to work. How would I make a script that:

Fetches 25 episodes
- Must be within the past 2 weeks (so only new stuff is on it)
- Excludes The Colbert Report
- Excludes Attack of the Show

I can't get the excluding stuff to work.

Also, I made a playlist to air only certain TV shows on a channel. But, when I use it in action, it's the only channel that doesn't list the metadata for the episodes, just the file name.

RE: [RELEASE] PseudoTV (Video) Addon - Virtual EPG and TV Channel Surfing Script for XBMC - mlte - 2012-04-14 12:51

create a smart playlist?

RE: [RELEASE] PseudoTV (Video) Addon - Virtual EPG and TV Channel Surfing Script for XBMC - myrlar - 2012-04-14 15:15

(2012-04-13 17:42)mwkurt Wrote:  
(2012-04-13 16:00)myrlar Wrote:  Hi Jason102! (and everyone else)

I've been told about this addon as it might do what I'm hoping to do... So I'll ask if it is possible and what configurations options I need to do it...

I want all my channels to play in order of unwatched (xbmc video unwatched marker) video. The tv shows would be randomised, but the sequence of episodes from the each specific tv show would be in order. Is that possible?

Also, since they are running in order, I'd like the video to no continue to play when i'm not watching the channel. In other words, the channel that is currently selected is the only one progressing through time. Is that possible?

Thanks!

Looks like a great addon btw!

Yes..it can do what you want. Please go to this page http://pseudo-tv.blogspot.com/ and look at the channel rules Jason has implemented. Give it a go and let us know how it goes for you. If you need further help, let us know.

Basically you will use these rules "Only play unwatched shows", "Play shows in order", "Always Keep Paused" and "Resume". You can make the channels based on genre, TV Studio or make a playlist containing specific shows to include. There are other selections but I find these to be more than enough. The only problem that some folks have with this is that when one or more shows has many more episodes than other shows. You may end up seeing more of one show in a row than you would like...but there are some ways around that as well.

Mark

Thanks! I'll check it out.

Edit: found the settings and it is now doing what I wanted. Thanks for your help!

You are right about a tv show eps stringing together... What are some of the ways I can try to stop eps from the same tv series from showing one after the other?

RE: [RELEASE] PseudoTV (Video) Addon - Virtual EPG and TV Channel Surfing Script for XBMC - myrlar - 2012-04-14 16:29

So I've recently found out about this addon. Wow it's a great idea! The sad part is that I seem to be having problems when I have videos on smb directories Sad I'm using the latest eden and pseudotv versions, with no luck.

At any rate, I decided to change my network shares to mapped drives, and then link them in xbmc that way. Seems to have done the trick!

Has anybody else had the same problems with smb based videos?

RE: [RELEASE] PseudoTV (Video) Addon - Virtual EPG and TV Channel Surfing Script for XBMC - Jason102 - 2012-04-14 17:35

Myrlar: I did make some changes to smb access, but it shouldn't affect Windows boxes. Can you get a debug log?

RE: [RELEASE] PseudoTV (Video) Addon - Virtual EPG and TV Channel Surfing Script for XBMC - Steveb - 2012-04-15 04:06

Hi Jason102, I have a small niggle with the epg window regarding the Season/Episode info. It displays the info twice, also if I deselect show season/episode in the visual settings the info remains. Not a big fan of showing season/ep info so it would be nice to remove it. Wink

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EDIT Could the double Season/episode info have something to do with this ?
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=113702&pid=1049580#pid1049580

RE: [RELEASE] PseudoTV (Video) Addon - Virtual EPG and TV Channel Surfing Script for XBMC - boccman - 2012-04-15 04:43

Question

I use Metropolis ask my skin. When i change channels in PsuedoTV there is an info panel and seek bar that overlap on the top of the screen. What files contain the code that controls that behavior? I would ideally just like to have the bottom info bar shown when changing channels, because when both top and bottom info is show the screen looks to congested.

Thanks for the help.

RE: [RELEASE] PseudoTV (Video) Addon - Virtual EPG and TV Channel Surfing Script for XBMC - Steveb - 2012-04-15 05:31

(2012-04-15 04:43)boccman Wrote:  Question

I use Metropolis ask my skin. When i change channels in PsuedoTV there is an info panel and seek bar that overlap on the top of the screen. What files contain the code that controls that behavior? I would ideally just like to have the bottom info bar shown when changing channels, because when both top and bottom info is show the screen looks to congested.

Thanks for the help.

There are two ways to approach the overlap problem.

1. Disable "show info when changing channels" in PseudoTV visual settings.
2. Add + !Window.IsActive(script.pseudotv.TVOverlay.xml) to the <visible> tag in the DialogSeekBar.xml located in Metropolis 720p folder.

Or you could do both if you want no info at all when changing channels.Wink

Hope that helps.

RE: [RELEASE] PseudoTV (Video) Addon - Virtual EPG and TV Channel Surfing Script for XBMC - boccman - 2012-04-15 05:49

(2012-04-15 05:31)Steveb Wrote:  
(2012-04-15 04:43)boccman Wrote:  Question

I use Metropolis ask my skin. When i change channels in PsuedoTV there is an info panel and seek bar that overlap on the top of the screen. What files contain the code that controls that behavior? I would ideally just like to have the bottom info bar shown when changing channels, because when both top and bottom info is show the screen looks to congested.

Thanks for the help.

There are two ways to approach the overlap problem.

1. Disable "show info when changing channels" in PseudoTV visual settings.
2. Add + !Window.IsActive(script.pseudotv.TVOverlay.xml) to the <visible> tag in the DialogSeekBar.xml located in Metropolis 720p folder.

Or you could do both if you want no info at all when changing channels.Wink

Hope that helps.

Thanks for the quick help.

That worked great. Its better than having all of the info displayed when changing channels, but i would like to ask if there is a way to display just the bottom info bar when changing channels. (the bar that shows the logo, episode, flags..)?

Thanks again.