(2013-06-11, 15:04)xkudeki Wrote:

(2013-06-10, 23:32)Lunatixz Wrote:

(2013-06-10, 13:50)xkudeki Wrote: Does anyone have an idea as to why some of my channels disappear? I have to close out pseudotv and restart the program to add them back..

Are you sure the channel that disappeared isn't being automatically reset and repopulated using background channel adding?

I dont think so since I dont have background updating enabled

(2013-07-04, 10:03)jmann217 Wrote: When I open my playlist inside of xbmc, there are no problems, every episode appears fine, I can't think of another way of explaining what happens when it is opened, it just works, which is what I meant by 'my videos appear inside the playlist'. Sorry if that wasn't clear. I only have one TV show in my playlist.

I'm using XBMC Frodo 12.2 and PTV 2.1.0.

I thought the naming scheme would be the SXXEXX format, unless I've misunderstood the question?

(2013-07-06, 06:48)Kanpai Wrote: Hello everyone. I have a particular channel setup i'd like to create, and i've scratched my brain trying to see if it's possible with the tools I have, including geebs' excellent modified rules.py, but I'm not sure I can do it.

Basically I have show-specific bumps, which i want to sometimes air in front of their series counterparts. So for shows A B C D E, and corresponding bumps BA BB BC BD BE, it might look like

B
C
E
BD
D
C
C
BA
A
D
BD
D
BE
E

It can't play bumps every time, because I don't have that many, they'd run too often. That seems to be the rub, as i currently interleave a bump per episode on a single series hidden channel, then interleave 2 episodes of that (a bump and an actual episode) into the real channel, for each series. Having the bumps interleave less frequently in the hidden channels means sometimes bumps appear after episodes and sometimes they appear by themselves. Thanks for any help or insight anyone can provide into this problem.

As an aside, I got some of my bumps from www.bumpworthy.com, mentioned by another user earlier in the thread as unrecognizable by PseudoTV. This is true - pseudotv's mp4 parser returns a duration of 0 for these files. I had other mp4s that played fine, so i compared them and found that the bumps had headers at the end of the file vs. the beginning. This is my best guess as to the problem, I can't debug any further as I don't speak python. Instead of transcoding them to avi like the other user I remuxed them to mkv as a workaround, in case others also have this problem.

(2013-07-06, 16:34)geebs61 Wrote: Could you make a smart play list that includes the all the episodes of the shows, randomize that, then use it as a base channel. Then take the bump/show channels you already have and interleave those into your base by 2's?

(2013-07-06, 18:30)Kanpai Wrote:

(2013-07-06, 16:34)geebs61 Wrote: Could you make a smart play list that includes the all the episodes of the shows, randomize that, then use it as a base channel. Then take the bump/show channels you already have and interleave those into your base by 2's?

Yes! That will do exactly what I want! Good thinking, I knew it was possible without programming, would've went there if I had do, but it's nice to avoid it. That extra # of episodes rule is key to that, so thanks again for your updated rules file, and the rest of your help.

(2013-07-07, 14:37)Daavid Wrote: Geebs, if you do come up with a more elegant UI for rules configuration etc. it would be great to have a look at. I know we can usually come up with what we want to do by using the rules etc. but a more user friendly approach to that would be awesome. If you ever go there, I'm happy to be a guinea pig.

Quote:22:13:26 T:1249625184 DEBUG: NEWADDON PythonCallbackHandler construction with PyThreadState 0x20f9dd0
22:13:26 T:1308820576 DEBUG: script.pseudotv-FileAccess: trying to open /root/.xbmc/userdata/addon_data/script.pseudotv/settings2.xml
22:13:27 T:1249625184 DEBUG: Previous line repeats 3 times.
22:13:27 T:1249625184 DEBUG: NEWADDON PythonCallbackHandler construction with PyThreadState 0x20f9dd0
22:13:27 T:1308820576 DEBUG: script.pseudotv-FileAccess: trying to open /root/.xbmc/userdata/addon_data/script.pseudotv/settings2.xml
22:13:27 T:1308820576 DEBUG: Previous line repeats 2 times.
22:13:27 T:1308820576 DEBUG: script.pseudotv-TVOverlay: storeFiles
22:13:27 T:1308820576 WARNING: FileSmb::OpenForWrite() called with overwriting enabled! - smb://<user>:<password>@<server>/Public/Shared%20Channels/settings2.xml
22:13:27 T:1249625184 DEBUG: NEWADDON PythonCallbackHandler construction with PyThreadState 0x20f9dd0
22:13:27 T:1308820576 DEBUG: CSmbFile::Close closing fd 10002
22:13:27 T:1308820576 WARNING: FileSmb::OpenForWrite() called with overwriting enabled! - smb://<user>:<password>@<server>/Public/Shared%20Channels/cache/channel_1.m3u
22:13:27 T:1308820576 ERROR: FileSmb->Open: Unable to open file : 'smb://<user>:<password>@<server>/Public/Shared%20Channels/cache/channel_1.m3u'
unix_err:'2' error : 'No such file or directory'
22:13:27 T:1308820576 WARNING: FileSmb::OpenForWrite() called with overwriting enabled! - smb://<user>:<password>@<server>/Public/Shared%20Channels/cache/channel_2.m3u
22:13:27 T:1308820576 ERROR: FileSmb->Open: Unable to open file : 'smb://<user>:<password>@<server>/Public/Shared%20Channels/cache/channel_2.m3u'
unix_err:'2' error : 'No such file or directory'

(2013-07-10, 07:19)surge21xx Wrote: I've only recently Started this Program over the weekend, but I must say I really enjoy it!

I do have a question about sorting. I've gone through and searched through this forum for as much as I could find, so I'm hoping I didn't miss this answer.

The way I would like to have a channel set up, is to have Two or 3 episodes of a show run in order, then have another Couple episodes of another show run in order and so on.

For Example:
Show1 S01E01
Show1 S01E02
Show2 S01E01
Show2 S01E02
Show1 S01E03
Show1 S01E04

From what I have read, it seems like Interleaving is the best possible way. I wanted to know if Interleaving channels is the only possible way? Or can this be done using a smart playlist and maybe one or more channel rules?

EDIT: After some stumbling around yesterday, I managed to figure out a way to modify the smart playlist to have a similar format, not quite how I want it, but it at least plays it in that similar order.

watch gallery

(2013-07-11, 18:11)phreaq Wrote: seems I had to manually create the ''cache" folder, and now it's populating it with m3u files.

Do I need to create other files too?

When I run this on two different XBMC installs, pointed to the same shared folder, the channels have different programs running, but the channels are correctly set (i.e channel 2 is watched TV shows, channel 3 is watched movies, on both)