[Indy_star]

Can I make some feature requests for problems I've noticed while using it. I know your working on some bugs and some of these sort of fall into Bugs, but want to share my wife's expereience with it and what she complained to me about to make it more friendly.

1. From the EPG, could you allow to jump around by entering a channel number and the EPG will jump to that point. For example, if I have 100 channels, I'm on channel 1, but the channel my wife wants to watch is somewhere between 80-90, from within the EPG, she types in 80, the EPG jumps to that position and allows her to select her channel when she finds which one it is? Our current workaround is go to channel 80 before opening EPG, which works, just not ideal as its an extra step.

2. Better handling of stream errors. I have quite a few channels that are rtmp streams, and on occasions they go down. What happens is PTVL gives me an error that the stream doesn't work and then starts to close the threads and close PTVL. When I open PTVL back up, it is again trying to start the rtmp stream that is down and starts to close again before I'm able to change the channel. Its like an endless loop.

On that note, could someone just tell me where in Settings2.xml is the line that tells what was the last channel watched? Would help me when working around the problem mentioned.

3. Allow changing of channel or even better opening of EPG while a channel is loading. When it takes more the 15 secs for a stream to open it usually means it is down and I would like to just use the EPG to select another channel to watch. This may or may not be possible, but I ran into this problem yesterday. USTVnow had a problem (including through my webbrowser) and it just continuously said working and would never time out. I couldn't get off the channel through PTVL and had to edit the settings2.xml which my wife wouldn't be able to manage.

I simply love this Addon, and will be donating to this project. Once I added my HDHomerun, it took it to the final level for me to cut the cable and my wife is almost in agreement with me if I can keep it as friendly as possible for her to deal with problems when they arise and I'm not around to fix them.

[Lunatixz]

Can I make some feature requests for problems I've noticed while using it. I know your working on some bugs and some of these sort of fall into Bugs, but want to share my wife's expereience with it and what she complained to me about to make it more friendly.

1. From the EPG, could you allow to jump around by entering a channel number and the EPG will jump to that point. For example, if I have 100 channels, I'm on channel 1, but the channel my wife wants to watch is somewhere between 80-90, from within the EPG, she types in 80, the EPG jumps to that position and allows her to select her channel when she finds which one it is? Our current workaround is go to channel 80 before opening EPG, which works, just not ideal as its an extra step.

2. Better handling of stream errors. I have quite a few channels that are rtmp streams, and on occasions they go down. What happens is PTVL gives me an error that the stream doesn't work and then starts to close the threads and close PTVL. When I open PTVL back up, it is again trying to start the rtmp stream that is down and starts to close again before I'm able to change the channel. Its like an endless loop.

On that note, could someone just tell me where in Settings2.xml is the line that tells what was the last channel watched? Would help me when working around the problem mentioned.

3. Allow changing of channel or even better opening of EPG while a channel is loading. When it takes more the 15 secs for a stream to open it usually means it is down and I would like to just use the EPG to select another channel to watch. This may or may not be possible, but I ran into this problem yesterday. USTVnow had a problem (including through my webbrowser) and it just continuously said working and would never time out. I couldn't get off the channel through PTVL and had to edit the settings2.xml which my wife wouldn't be able to manage.

I simply love this Addon, and will be donating to this project. Once I added my HDHomerun, it took it to the final level for me to cut the cable and my wife is almost in agreement with me if I can keep it as friendly as possible for her to deal with problems when they arise and I'm not around to fix them.

We all want this as wife friendly as possible!! I appreciate the requests, some of which may not be possible because of XBMC limitations...

1. This may be possible without a full rewrite... but no promises.

2. Error handling is always a concern. The code I've implemented is doing an okay job, till I find a better method. If you find a lot of your channels going offline try increasing the channel reset for that channel. Set that specific channel to reset daily. This will trigger a stream check. BTW The setting you are looking for is in setting.xml called "currentchannel".

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Force a Channel Reset Code:

Code:

<setting id="Channel_###_rulecount" value="?" />
<setting id="Channel_###_rule_$_id" value="13" />
<setting id="Channel_###_rule_$_opt_1" value="%" />

### = Channel Number
? = amount of rules you have, if you only had the rename rule then you have "2"
$ = rule number, if this is the second rule you have, then it's "2"
& = how many days till a force reset, "1" is good for stream offline checks.

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3. Currently isn't possible. Once you select something to play PTVL isn't in control anymore XBMC Player is... PTVL won't respond till the player is finished loading. I maybe can force the EPG/Overlay to load, but I believe XBMC won't give focus to PTVL so your keypresses wouldn't register. Making the display useless...

Hope that helps...

[Indy_star]

We all want this as wife friendly as possible!! I appreciate the requests, some of which may not be possible because of XBMC limitations...

1. This may be possible without a full rewrite... but no promises.

This would be great, this was they only request I thought you would really be able to add with minimal complexity, but again, I don't understand the code so it may be a bigger deal then it sounds. Your work is inspiring me to learn Python.

2. Error handling is always a concern. The code I've implemented is doing an okay job, till I find a better method. If you find a lot of your channels going offline try increasing the channel reset for that channel. Set that specific channel to reset daily. This will trigger a stream check. BTW The setting you are looking for is in setting.xml called "currentchannel".

---

Force a Channel Reset Code:

Code:

<setting id="Channel_###_rulecount" value="?" />
<setting id="Channel_###_rule_$_id" value="13" />
<setting id="Channel_###_rule_$_opt_1" value="%" />

### = Channel Number
? = amount of rules you have, if you only had the rename rule then you have "2"
$ = rule number, if this is the second rule you have, then it's "2"
& = how many days till a force reset, "1" is good for stream offline checks.

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Great explanation, I can definatly implent this. Does every channel need a custom rule or can I use the same rule for multiple channels? Also does this work with strm files? I found strm to be the most reliable so all my rtmp I use are in strm files and I use channel type 7 to call the strm file. The reason I ask is even if I do a force channel reset through the settings, the strm files seemed to still be added to the EPG and I only find out they don't work when I try and watch it and the link doesn't work. Would this also work with the plugin:// in strm files as I'm moving as much as I can to use the native pluggins instead of the raw rtmp stream which tends to be a bit more dynamic then I expected.

3. Currently isn't possible. Once you select something to play PTVL isn't in control anymore XBMC Player is... PTVL won't respond till the player is finished loading. I maybe can force the EPG/Overlay to load, but I believe XBMC won't give focus to PTVL so your keypresses wouldn't register. Making the display useless...

I figured this much, but would it be possible to make the XBMC Player return control to PTVL once it has given the error and allow the user to change the channel? Right now as I mentioned PTVL closes when it encounters this error and it would make it alot easier to simply change the channel to a working channel instead of crashing completely and putting me in the PTVL loop of death.

Hope that helps...

Thanks Luna, as I also mentioned, I'm going to donate to this project as soon as I cut the Cable. Your donation will be my entire month of Cable bill, and I encourage everyone else that is doing the same thing to also donate 1 month of Cable when you do finally cut the cord. I'm excited to see where this project will be in 3 months, even 1 year from now as long as we can keep you motivated to keep up your hard work!

[Lunatixz]

Git Updated::

If you find missing channels. Switch background updating from "on" to minimal.
I didn't have time to write up a strm validation process, so chtype 9 strms are still being ignored. I suggest users open up the strm file with a text editor, copy the link and place it into settings2 instead of using the strm path...

If you experience a bug or crash, enable debugging in settings under "misc". Recreate the "bug" then send me a log from that crash...
Thanks

Not all LiveTV; TV and Movies will show art... I need to work on enhancing the parser, for now most major shows art will display.

All local media; dynamic artwork depends on your collection. read post 2

[Rastan]

Hi Lunatixz, Thankyou for the excellent work you have put in to this. I am just now making the jump from the old PTV to yours. I have just tried your latest GIT, transfered my settings.xml and settings2.xml to addon_data\script.pseudotv.live. All my channels scan in fine. Everything is noticibly smoother and faster in your version.

However there is some weirdness happening with the EPG. If I go to a movie channel and let a movie play and press pause all is well...





But when I press the "I" key to see info on what is currently playing PTVL timing is off and dispays info on something that is playing next. In this case A trailer of Spiderman 2.



I let it play a bit more whilst typing, now when I press the enter key I see it has shifted further still...


(Big Fish is off screen to the left)

Apologies if this has all been mentioned before, but I also noticed movie posters do not show either, all other artwork does. All my channels are local media.

Is there something I should do or is it a bug?

[Lunatixz]

Hi Lunatixz, Thankyou for the excellent work you have put in to this. I am just now making the jump from the old PTV to yours. I have just tried your latest GIT, transfered my settings.xml and settings2.xml to addon_data\script.pseudotv.live. All my channels scan in fine. Everything is noticibly smoother and faster in your version.

However there is some weirdness happening with the EPG. If I go to a movie channel and let a movie play and press pause all is well...

But when I press the "I" key to see info on what is currently playing PTVL timing is off and dispays info on something that is playing next. In this case A trailer of Spiderman 2.

I let it play a bit more whilst typing, now when I press the enter key I see it has shifted further still...

(Big Fish is off screen to the left)

Apologies if this has all been mentioned before, but I also noticed movie posters do not show either, all other artwork does. All my channels are local media.

Is there something I should do or is it a bug?

Big fish!! what a great movie!, lol anyway... I have an idea of what could be causing it, I'll push a fix later, but the fix just like any other update of my build will require a force channel reset. This will allow PTVL to create new playlists with my changes in it.

[Rastan]

Hi Lunatixz, Thankyou for the excellent work you have put in to this. I am just now making the jump from the old PTV to yours. I have just tried your latest GIT, transfered my settings.xml and settings2.xml to addon_data\script.pseudotv.live. All my channels scan in fine. Everything is noticibly smoother and faster in your version.

However there is some weirdness happening with the EPG. If I go to a movie channel and let a movie play and press pause all is well...

But when I press the "I" key to see info on what is currently playing PTVL timing is off and dispays info on something that is playing next. In this case A trailer of Spiderman 2.

I let it play a bit more whilst typing, now when I press the enter key I see it has shifted further still...

(Big Fish is off screen to the left)

Apologies if this has all been mentioned before, but I also noticed movie posters do not show either, all other artwork does. All my channels are local media.

Is there something I should do or is it a bug?

Big fish!! what a great movie!, lol anyway... I have an idea of what could be causing it, I'll push a fix later, but the fix just like any other update of my build will require a force channel reset. This will allow PTVL to create new playlists with my changes in it.

I have never watched Big fish before.. honest!...lol. Not sure if you were joking, but it did get good ratings on IMDB
Thanks for looking into it and I will look out for your fix. Keep up the good work

[Lunatixz]

@ Rastan... No i'm not kidding, its a great movie...

[Guile]

I was using dish network for ustvnow over DirectTV... I changed the source for autotune, give it a day to sync up...

Will you be continuing support for ustvnow?

you should try searching the thread : http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1568639

Thanks for the great contribution there. Yeah, I'll remember to go through and search the 169 page thread for my answer. Again, thank you...SO much, Bry.

[Lunatixz]

Will you be continuing support for ustvnow?

you should try searching the thread : http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1568639

Thanks for the great contribution there. Yeah, I'll remember to go through and search the 169 page thread for my answer. Again, thank you...SO much, Bry.

LOL, thought I was bad... but... it was answered already tho

I"m working on two fixes for latest git:
1. EPG sync for local channels
2. Genre for local channels not parsing correctly

hopefully by the end of the night i'll push a fix

::Update::
Posted fix for genre parsing local media
Possible fix for epg issue reported by Rastan

[shess757]

+1 for Big Fish!

Luna really enjoying this add-on just keeps getting better! The post above from Indy_star reminded me a while back you were working on a default channel to start on, to help avoid the "death loop" I hadn't seen anything on this, perhaps I'm missing it, I'm usaly a few updates behind for stability as this is my main program for family viewing.

Another question I had was 2 part:
1 Some of my channel names are missing, these are custom channels built manually and added to settings2.xml using smart playlists



and #2 is there a way to have a fallback image for the image under now playing that would be sort of dynamic. What I mean is one image for live tv one image for youtube, one for TGUN, or just stream channels. Maybe linking them to the channel type? Here is my setting 2 for the missing channels I'm sure I'm missing something. Last update for me was last week completely clean install except settings2, but this has been around for me for a while.

As for your plugin question so far I really only stick to tgun and some live streams from nx in PTVL. Some of the others I do use but just through xbmc.
I also just switched over to aeon mq5 skin witch is amazing and everything works great with PTVL.

Thanks in advance,
Scott

[Rastan]

you should try searching the thread : http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1568639

Thanks for the great contribution there. Yeah, I'll remember to go through and search the 169 page thread for my answer. Again, thank you...SO much, Bry.

LOL, thought I was bad... but... it was answered already tho

I"m working on two fixes for latest git:
1. EPG sync for local channels
2. Genre for local channels not parsing correctly

hopefully by the end of the night i'll push a fix

::Update::
Posted fix for genre parsing local media
Possible fix for epg issue reported by Rastan

Thanks for the fixes Lunatixz. The EPG is 100% accurate again. I am going to rollout PTVL on all my machines now. Keep up the great work!!

On a side note, the TV and movie posters still do not show up for me when changing channels or pressing "I". (This is all for local media).

[MrsAngelD]

Small question but what does one have to do to enable doner features?

[Rastan]

Hi again,

I just tried out the latest PTVL on my computer downstairs. I get a script failed error and it won't even start up. I can only imagine how busy you are over there with coding, life and the upcoming holiday season. Hopefully if you have a sec you could take a look at the LOG and see what is wrong.

[MrsAngelD]

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