[Lunatixz]

That didn't work. When I started PTVL it showed a message saying it was clearing the artwork cache but the logos and all other artwork remained. Here's a log:

http://1drv.ms/1mapZRL

? But, I didn't say to look for a popup, I asked you to trigger it thru the setting under misc. Did you try that? You should see the prompt artwork folder cleared.

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I've been using PseudoTV Live for a while and have several large (1000+ videos) YouTube channels. I'm also on a Raspberry Pi with a slow WiFi connection. Sometimes when switching between videos, it would load slowly, then attempt to switch to the next channel. The next video would eventually load and play, but as far as PseudoTV knew it had switched channels. The EPG would display as being on the next channel from the one playing, and when it was time to switch videos again, it would play the next video of the channel it switched to. I was able to stop this behavior by commenting out this section in resources/lib/Overlay.py:

This fixes the problem and PseudoTV works how I want it to. Could this be made a settable option?

No this is a required fail safe. Do you have play next video enabled in XBMC? If so try disabling it...

It happens whether that setting is enabled or not. Maybe make the notPlayingCount settable, even as a debug option? I'll try setting it to, say, 12 instead of commenting out that whole block and see if that works. I can't be the only one this happens to, and it makes PTV essentially unusable.

Not going to happen, this feature works as it was designed. You need to tweak xbmcs advandedsettings timeouts for your unique latencies.

PTVL isn't designed for internet connections with a high latency. If it takes more then 10s to load from YouTube... That's and issue on your end. YouTube has some of the fasted servers, it should be a near instant load.

[RockDawg]

That didn't work. When I started PTVL it showed a message saying it was clearing the artwork cache but the logos and all other artwork remained. Here's a log:

http://1drv.ms/1mapZRL

? But, I didn't say to look for a popup, I asked you to trigger it thru the setting under misc. Did you try that? You should see the prompt artwork folder cleared.

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Of course that's what I did and that initiated a popup saying it was clearing the artwork cache. Is it not supposed to show popup saying it's doing what you told it too? When PTVL opened I expected all artwork to be blank while it repopulated and that didn't happen. All artwork remained as it was including old logos that I have since changed.

[Lunatixz]

That didn't work. When I started PTVL it showed a message saying it was clearing the artwork cache but the logos and all other artwork remained. Here's a log:

http://1drv.ms/1mapZRL

? But, I didn't say to look for a popup, I asked you to trigger it thru the setting under misc. Did you try that? You should see the prompt artwork folder cleared.

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Of course that's what I did and that initiated a popup saying it was clearing the artwork cache. Is it not supposed to show popup saying it's doing what you told it too? When PTVL opened I expected all artwork to be blank while it repopulated and that didn't happen. All artwork remained as it was including old logos that I have since changed.

https://github.com/Lunatixz/script.pseud...lt.py#L113

There are two levels of artwork clearing, 1. folder and cache. 2. Cache only

1. Is only triggered manually in setting under misc.

2. Is triggered by the artwork service when needed.

When 1. Is triggered your user data/add-on_data/script.pseudotv.live/cache/
Artwork and logo folder should be removed.

Can you tell me if it is? This folders will automatically be rebuilt when PTVL runs.

[RockDawg]

I checked before clearing the cache again and all I have is a add-on_data/script.pseudotv.live/cache/logos folder and it is empty. I do not have an artwork folder. I checked while PTVL was running and old logos and artwork were showing.

[dfdeath]

The overlay occurs when changing channels too. That's the main place I want it gone actually..

why do you want it removed?

I like PTVL because it emulates real TV, and the loading screen breaks that for me a little bit. Just think it's cleaner without, though I have a pretty fast setup so my channels load quickly. Anyway.. not a huge deal.. just looking for a quick hack.

[Lunatixz]

The overlay occurs when changing channels too. That's the main place I want it gone actually..

why do you want it removed?

I like PTVL because it emulates real TV, and the loading screen breaks that for me a little bit. Just think it's cleaner without, though I have a pretty fast setup so my channels load quickly. Anyway.. not a huge deal.. just looking for a quick hack.

It was added to give users visual feedback, and as you stated shouldn't appear for a long if your channels load quickly. This is kinda a skin issue... It's not required by PTVL... the Loading Screen is part of the skin... Skins don't need to include it... but as for now the two skins I've made have them.

You can always try removing

Code:

<control type="label" id="101">
            <description>Background</description>
            <posx>0</posx>
            <posy>0</posy>
            <width>1280</width>
            <height>720</height>
            <label></label>
            <font>font30</font>
            <align>center</align>
            <aligny>center</aligny>
        </control>

from script.pseudotv.live.TVOverlay.xml

[Gumby]

Hi, Loving PseudoTV Live on the whole but I have uncovered an issue that may well be affecting many other users having channels that don't fully populate.

So I have about 20 channels which 'seem' to populate ok, on some I noticed a few repeats such as a film playing over and over. I put this down to an aspect of my settings2.xml being wrong.

Then I started using smart playlists to construct a few music video channels (local over SMB and they load all files fine if run direct through videos). One channel loads about 10 tracks (channels are set to 50 programs max atm) and the other channels don't load at all. (each should have about 400 tracks available to build up the channel).

This is the section from the LOG for a file that doesn't scrape:

19:28:42 T:3108 DEBUG: script.pseudotv.live-ChannelList: runActions 2 on channel 4
19:28:42 T:3108 DEBUG: script.pseudotv.live-VideoParser: getVideoLength smb://BEAST/Music Videos/Light Various/Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc..avi
19:28:42 T:3108 DEBUG: AVIParser: determineLength smb://BEAST/Music Videos/Light Various/Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc..avi
19:28:42 T:3108 DEBUG: script.pseudotv.live-FileAccess: trying to open smb://BEAST/Music Videos/Light Various/Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc..avi
19:28:42 T:3108 DEBUG: AVIParser: Duration: 246
19:28:42 T:3108 DEBUG: script.pseudotv.live-ChannelList: buildFileList.dur = 246
19:28:42 T:3108 DEBUG: script.pseudotv.live-ChannelList: buildFileList, failed...'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

The only difference being the final line which (when successful) reads:

19:28:39 T:3108 DEBUG: script.pseudotv.live-ChannelList: packGenreLiveID

So it appears to get the duration ok but then fails to add it to the playlist, happens on normal local (SMB) channels as well as those using smart playlists resulting in some repeating programs and also channels which will sometimes fail and be left out of the EPG completely. One odd thing is that even after a cleanup and channel re-build it is always the same music videos that DO scrape. There is no difference I can see that explains this as they are all in the same folders with identical permissions etc.

Can post full log if needed. This is a clean XBMC (13.2) and PTVL (0.48) install (with all dependencies checked and installed as well as librtemp installed as per post #1)

I hate to have to ask at all but any thoughts? At this point all suggestions will be very gratefully received!

[Lunatixz]

I checked before clearing the cache again and all I have is a add-on_data/script.pseudotv.live/cache/logos folder and it is empty. I do not have an artwork folder. I checked while PTVL was running and old logos and artwork were showing.

logos being empty is a good thing. It means the physical cache files were removed...

I'm thinking you're having an issue with XBMC texture cache... try deleting textureXX.db from your userdata/database folder... this will let XBMC rebuild it's thumbs...

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Hi, Loving PseudoTV Live on the whole but I have uncovered an issue that may well be affecting many other users having channels that don't fully populate.

So I have about 20 channels which 'seem' to populate ok, on some I noticed a few repeats such as a film playing over and over. I put this down to an aspect of my settings2.xml being wrong.

Then I started using smart playlists to construct a few music video channels (local over SMB and they load all files fine if run direct through videos). One channel loads about 10 tracks (channels are set to 50 programs max atm) and the other channels don't load at all. (each should have about 400 tracks available to build up the channel).

This is the section from the LOG for a file that doesn't scrape:

19:28:42 T:3108 DEBUG: script.pseudotv.live-ChannelList: runActions 2 on channel 4
19:28:42 T:3108 DEBUG: script.pseudotv.live-VideoParser: getVideoLength smb://BEAST/Music Videos/Light Various/Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc..avi
19:28:42 T:3108 DEBUG: AVIParser: determineLength smb://BEAST/Music Videos/Light Various/Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc..avi
19:28:42 T:3108 DEBUG: script.pseudotv.live-FileAccess: trying to open smb://BEAST/Music Videos/Light Various/Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc..avi
19:28:42 T:3108 DEBUG: AVIParser: Duration: 246
19:28:42 T:3108 DEBUG: script.pseudotv.live-ChannelList: buildFileList.dur = 246
19:28:42 T:3108 DEBUG: script.pseudotv.live-ChannelList: buildFileList, failed...'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

The only difference being the final line which (when successful) reads:

19:28:39 T:3108 DEBUG: script.pseudotv.live-ChannelList: packGenreLiveID

So it appears to get the duration ok but then fails to add it to the playlist, happens on normal local (SMB) channels as well as those using smart playlists resulting in some repeating programs and also channels which will sometimes fail and be left out of the EPG completely. One odd thing is that even after a cleanup and channel re-build it is always the same music videos that DO scrape. There is no difference I can see that explains this as they are all in the same folders with identical permissions etc.

Can post full log if needed. This is a clean XBMC (13.2) and PTVL (0.48) install (with all dependencies checked and installed as well as librtemp installed as per post #1)

I hate to have to ask at all but any thoughts? At this point all suggestions will be very gratefully received!

Thanks for your post... this looks like an extremely easy fix, but you really should have provided me with the full log of this error so I could have fixed it... I'm against snippets... not point to them since your only showing me a few lines when I need to know what led up to the error!

If you happen to still have that log post the link, and I'll look into it.

[Lunatixz]

::Update::

For those advanced users that want to play with "Experimental" new features... you can try the latest Development branch!

It features a rewritten "Direct Plugin" Chtype 15 along with the new "Direct Playon" Chtype 16.

Information on setting2.xml format changes for Chtype 15 can be found here:
(Because of format changes, Community list is outdated until v.0.4.9 is officially released.)
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1785136

For Playon to work you need to create a XBMC Video Source titled "PlayOn"
Add new source, navigate to upnp sources and select playon... it should appear as a source upnp://09324908320948230948320498.
Title it "PlayOn" <- Name is important! without PTVL will not know what source is actually playon.

New settings2 for chtype 16 (Playon) will be:

Code:

<setting id="Channel_#_type" value="16" />
<setting id="Channel_#_1" value="hulu/Recently Added/Recently Added Feature Films" />
<setting id="Channel_#_2" value="" />
<setting id="Channel_#_3" value="25" />
<setting id="Channel_#_4" value="0" />
<setting id="Channel_#_changed" value="True" />
<setting id="Channel_#_rulecount" value="1" />
<setting id="Channel_#_rule_1_id" value="1" />
<setting id="Channel_#_rule_1_opt_1" value="Hulu Recent Movies" />

Code:

<setting id="Channel_#_type" value="16" />
<setting id="Channel_#_1" value="hulu/Your Subscriptions" />
<setting id="Channel_#_2" value="" />
<setting id="Channel_#_3" value="25" />
<setting id="Channel_#_4" value="0" />
<setting id="Channel_#_changed" value="True" />
<setting id="Channel_#_rulecount" value="1" />
<setting id="Channel_#_rule_1_id" value="1" />
<setting id="Channel_#_rule_1_opt_1" value="Hulu My Subscriptions" />

_1, Plugin path, paths match what you see when navigating the plugin.
_2, Exclude list, can be files or directories
_3, File limit (applies to each directory). So 25 will parse 25 files per 25 directories found.
_4, sort order, same as other sort order rules.

Playon will allow Hulu, Amazon, Netflix to integrate easily with PseudoTV Live!

If you are interested in signing up for playon services please use my link below or in post 1,

For a limited time sign up using my link below or in post 1 and receive a free google chromecast with the purchase of playon + playon later lifetime

[Gumby]

Hi Luna,

Apologies, I know you prefer the full log and agree it should be posted as a rule. In my pride however I thought I knew best and that MY snippet would be the section you would need to see!

Here is log:

http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=283861

If there is a simple fix I will be very grateful and quite chagrin to boot

[dfdeath]

Playon integration, that's awesome! Just curious, what are load times typically when switch to a Playon stream?

[Lunatixz]

Playon integration, that's awesome! Just curious, what are load times typically when switch to a Playon stream?

You tell me I just added the feature, it's less then 24hrs old...

BTW seek isn't available to playon... all shows will start from the beginning.

[bry]

Playon integration, that's awesome! Just curious, what are load times typically when switch to a Playon stream?

About 10 seconds on average

[Lunatixz]

Playon integration, that's awesome! Just curious, what are load times typically when switch to a Playon stream?

About 10 seconds on average

can you test dev build v.0.4.8c has playon autotune... can't get amazon to work (never really had success with playon, amazon)... need you to test for me please.
Thanks

[bry]

Hi

Playon integration, that's awesome! Just curious, what are load times typically when switch to a Playon stream?

About 10 seconds on average

can you test dev build v.0.4.8c has playon autotune... can't get amazon to work (never really had success with playon, amazon)... need you to test for me please.
Thanks

Absolutely. As soon as I get home I'll test on my staging machine