New MythTV add-on using libcmyth

Jimmer Wrote:Are you also using shared thumbnails? Are you using a mixture of xbmc installs or are they all natty desktops? For instance, I thought sharing the library between Hardy and Maverick might have caused the problems, but have eliminated that now.

Interested to know what might be specific to my set-up....

Jim

Also works on my XBMC live (Dharma based with tsp42 XBMC) No shared thumbnails.

/D

dodoadoodoo Wrote:Also works on my XBMC live (Dharma based with tsp42 XBMC) No shared thumbnails.

/D

If it is working for you without the crashes, then maybe it's something in my build enviroment, need a newer version of a lib, maybe?

But: the latest and greatest xbmc mainline works just fine.... also I can't share a library between the current mainline code and tsp's: it complains of a database compatibility error. Something must have changed in mainline. I just don't understand why it's only affecting me?!

Jim

mronkko Wrote:How do I enable the extra debug information?

The record plays fine. Just seeking forward causes the player to exit.

I have seen the same (or similar) issue with Mythbox add-on running under Dharma. The playback exits upon either skipping forward, or using fast-forward on too higher setting (e.g. it won't exit at 4x, but will exit at 16x). The exact same recording being played back via mythfrontend works fine at all speeds, so it maybe something to do with the way XBMC accesses the file from MythTV.

I'm so excited about this..

But - I can't get it to work.

When I try to enable a PVR add-on, it just won't enable.
Then, when I try to turn on Live-TV, it says, no PVR add-on enabled.

Just compiled from git today.

Gonna try deleting all existing (mainline master) userdata and see.

PS - it core dumps when I disable Live-TV. (so I did it manually through the settings)

OMG - It's fantastic!

The only thing I can't see it doing, is grouping the recordings into programmes.

ie. Show all the programmes that are recorded, rather than all episodes?

I'm wondering if I just switch my main HTPC onto this.
(Currently running xbmc master nightlies - which is fairly stable)

This is really good.

My logic says if you can work with dtierney a bit to group the recordings differently, then can't we push it into the xbmc master?

stevellion Wrote:This is really good.

My logic says if you can work with dtierney a bit to group the recordings differently, then can't we push it into the xbmc master?

There has been quite a bit of discussion over this in the past and as you say dtierney implemented a system where everything was grouped into folders.

I personally prefer having a list of recordings by date so i can watch things back in order.

This is probably something that will need to be addressed in the pvr code rather than individual plugins, however there was some work done towards taking the pvr recordings into xbmc library as recorded shows and movies.

This may be a better solution for people like yourself who like to browse the files in that way?

just a thought,

Dubstar_04

dubstar_04 Wrote:There has been quite a bit of discussion over this in the past and as you say dtierney implemented a system where everything was grouped into folders.

I personally prefer having a list of recordings by date so i can watch things back in order.

This is probably something that will need to be addressed in the pvr code rather than individual plugins, however there was some work done towards taking the pvr recordings into xbmc library as recorded shows and movies.

This may be a better solution for people like yourself who like to browse the files in that way?

just a thought,

Dubstar_04

One could maybe implement something (PVR-wide) like what Mythbox has done. It has a split screen, the top pane has "All recordings" and then a list of programs. The bottom pane is the episodes. So when you highlight All recordings", all episodes (in reverse date order) appear in the bottom pane, then if you highlight a show, it filters the bottom pane to only show episodes for that program. It's a bit clunky but it works.

I think having this feature should be in addition to having the ability to "import/view" the episodes in the TV/Movies library. I like to keep the recorded TV separate from my library, unless I explicitly want to import an episode to the Library (in which I'd also want to trim out the commercials and/or transcode them to save space). Anyway this is a bit off-topic now, so I'll stop.

OK - here's what I mean, which I think serves both of us.

This screenshot is just from the myth:// source, just under Video. It shows "All Recordings", which are in date order, and also "TV Shows" which groups into shows.

As I have about 115 episodes of Peppa Pig (recorded each morning..) I want to see only the shows I'm interested in sometimes!

First screen - the views available


Second screen - All recordings, in order as specified (date)


Third screen - All Shows, but no episodes.

OK, pulled down git and built tsp's pvr client branch. Recordings seem to work well. The main issues for me are related to Live TV:

1. There appears to be some issues with the channel numbers. I noticed something similar with dteirney's plugin too. I have a cable connection from which I get local unencrypted (i.e. "clear") QAM channels. The myth backend, however, uses the subchannel notation when scanning and adding the channels (i.e. "2.1" for WGBH for example, see my posts on this thread, starting at page 42 or so: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=82015&page=42 ).

The PVR plugin does not appear to like it, and it appears to wrongly assign the channels. (i.e. it rounds "2.1" to "2", but when I try to play that channel, it's the wrong channel). This might be a PVR-wide issue, not just mythtv.

2. Sometimes (because of the wrong channel assignments), it attempts to play a "hidden" channel (at least hidden by me in the mythtv backend, because it was probably encrypted). When it tries to play some of these channels, it simply hangs, but pressing "stop" doesn't return back to the interface, it gets stuck and I have to manually kill xbmc.

Some other issues I noticed:

The interface pops up with "Next recording start time" timer event for a program that ended in 2010, in the popup on the main screen. It doesn't appear to check whether the program is actually in the future. (Again could be a PVR-wide bug).