Eden PVR builds

ntadej, thanks for the reply. In fact, I did try the oneiric packages, but they failed to install due to dependency issues. I ended up with precise’s own packages, but they obviously don’t contain PVR.

Okay, I guess I’ll have to wait for the precise release then and hope there’ll be xbmc-pvr builds then.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) is not supported when installing through http://packages.pulse-eight.net/ ?

Any way to force an installation on 12.04?

BTW: I assume these are build with --enable-libbluray. Correct?

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1093535

Has anyone had any success running the MediaPortal with XBMC using the following system configuration?

XBMC (2:11.0-pvr+p8~git2012) running on Ubuntu Oneiric 64
MediaPortal PVR Client (1.2.2.111)

MediaPortal Server 1.2.2.0 running on Windows 7 64
MediaPortal TVServerXBMC 1.2.2

XBMC crashes every time I enable the PVR client. XBMC does not log any error messages when it crashes and the debug output of MediaPortal shows that a request/response interaction occurred without any errors.

I would greatly appreciate it if someone could provide me with some ideas of where to continue my investigation and/or what systems they have used where MediaPortal works with XBMC.

Thanks,

grooter

Hi Grooter,

I hadn't tried out a PVR build for over a year, but thought I'd give it a go last week to see how the development was going - so thought I'd post my findings to see if it helps in any way.

I'm running Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit and installed Mediaportal 1.2.3 Final (available here)

I followed the TV Setup guide (found here) to scan for channels etc...

I installed Magro's PVR Build (found here) and I downloaded the TV Server Plugin (found here) - both of these have been updated today, so the ones I installed were actually the previous versions. The TVServerXBMC.dll file needs to be copied and pasted into the plugins directory of the mediaportal folder - full instructions can be found here

I completed the instructions from Magro's page and was up and running.

The main issue I had, which was completely down to the Mediaportal software, was finding certain HD channels - I had to put in the single transponder details for it to find them, but once I'd done that all worked fine.

I was actually pretty pleased with the results - the picture quality was good, especially, as you'd expect, the HD channels. I didn't realise that you could pause live TV - I'd assumed that the lack of forward/rewind functions also meant no pausing, so this was great to have. The recordings system worked well, even without the ability to series record.

I didn't have any crashes or issues watching or recording TV, my only issues were with the channel list - I was led to believe that if you unchecked channels in the mediaportal configuration software and reorganised the order of the channels, this is how it would display in XBMC. This wasn't the case, so I had over 700 channels in no obvious order, most of which I didn't want. The best way I found to organise them was to actually delete the unwanted channels in the Mediaportal configuration software (you can delete all the scrambled channels in one go) and then re-order in XBMC. This worked, although sometimes when I went back in, the channel order was messed up again, but went out and back in and all was fine. The issue with this solution is when it comes to re-scan for channels, that I would imagine one does every now and again - the deleted channels will then show up again.

So, there's definitely some improvements to be done, but it's loads better and more stable than this time last year - my worry is that some of these improvements, that are needed, may be with the Mediaportal software, rather than the XBMC PVR builds.

Ultimately, I've reverted to WMC for my TV viewing and recording for the time being, mainly due to the lack of series record and partly timeshifting. Unfortunately, I couldn't leave Mediaportal on my machine, as it somehow interferred with the channel signal in WMC, even though I'd turned off the TV Service, so have had to uninstall completely, but I will defintely try again in a few months.

Keep up the good work Magro and Dushmaniac, not sure if my post has helped Grooter or not, but certainly I didn't have any crashes when enabling the PVR client - I used Aeon MQ3 for testing

(2012-04-26 16:52)-EaS- Wrote:  Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) is not supported when installing through http://packages.pulse-eight.net/ ?

Any way to force an installation on 12.04?

BTW: I assume these are build with --enable-libbluray. Correct?

Did you figure something out for 12.04, I had a working 11.10 build that I upgraded yesterday (back-up machine that I am replacing hardware in) so I thought I would try the upgrade. It all went fine and the last pulse xbmc build works fine as it was already installed but yes the ppa gets disabled. Alexander Surkov has a ppa for 12.04 with pvr but I was not sure to try it. I am not sure I will stay on 12.04 yet as i am running mythbuntu on my frontends with a .24 myth backend and my vdr server runs on that machine as well which is 10.04 and database .24. It means I will need to build a new backend machine as well. Not to into that right now.

http://www.loggn.de/ubuntu-xbmc-reposito...vr-livetv/

thx,

Dave

not sure if this is a false positive or not, but magros pvr eden v2 link gets deleted by symantec endpoint and says contains "ws.reputation.1" signiture, and has known about this threat for previous 48 hrs.:-(

Dam0

(2012-05-04 12:43)rodercot Wrote:  

(2012-04-26 16:52)-EaS- Wrote:  Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) is not supported when installing through http://packages.pulse-eight.net/ ?

Any way to force an installation on 12.04?

BTW: I assume these are build with --enable-libbluray. Correct?

Did you figure something out for 12.04, I had a working 11.10 build that I upgraded yesterday (back-up machine that I am replacing hardware in) so I thought I would try the upgrade. It all went fine and the last pulse xbmc build works fine as it was already installed but yes the ppa gets disabled. Alexander Surkov has a ppa for 12.04 with pvr but I was not sure to try it. I am not sure I will stay on 12.04 yet as i am running mythbuntu on my frontends with a .24 myth backend and my vdr server runs on that machine as well which is 10.04 and database .24. It means I will need to build a new backend machine as well. Not to into that right now.

http://www.loggn.de/ubuntu-xbmc-reposito...vr-livetv/

thx,

Dave

I ended up using ppa:alexandr-surkov/xbmc-pvr indeed. I also made a test install on 11.10 with xbmc-pvr/tvheadend from the pulse-8 repo.
There were no differences in functionality or stability as far as I can tell, besides that playing bluray's doesn't work in the surkov version.

Is it possible to install a eden-pvr build on ATV2?

I would like to use this build on debian, but instead of standard source for apt there is some script which doesn't work on debian. Can you provide apt address?