2014-07-29, 22:14
Hello all,
First and foremost I want to say this community of xbmc enthusiasts has really gotten me into raspberry pi's and having a new way to watch and stream media. My wife has graciously given me 2 months to get this system up and running and so far, like many other threads, I have been unable to fully satisfy the requirements and now look to post a long thread message as a last straw before I may have to go back to paying Directv way too much for crap results. I will work this thread from the top down and any advice will be greatly appreciated. The three things that are needed are:
1) Free Netflix/Hulu on xbmc (I already have accounts for both)
2) Play recorded TV shows that I record through windows media center (wmc)
3) Watch live television
For the first one, I haven't been able to find any recent .zip files to download for Netflix or Hulu, so unless something has just come out this one may be a moot point. Google searching has come up with results from 2010 (Bluecop repository that doesn't work) and 2011 (Lifehackers article that talks about a paying service to acquire these xbmc addons)
For the recorded TV show issue, my current setup is:
-Windows 7 (64 bit) laptop 2.4GHz processor, 4GB RAM
-Linksys WRT54GL with DD-WRT flashed to it
-SiliconDust HDHomeRun PLUS 2-Tuner ATSC DLNA/UPnP HD Compatible Streaming Media Player, HDTC-2US
-Mohu Leaf Indoor HDTV antenna ($29.99 one)
-RASPBERRY PI MODEL B 756-8308 Raspberry Pi B overclocked to 800MHz
-Gotham pvr version 0.2.99
-ServerWMC version 1.0.0.36, build 1154
All the connections are hardlined to the router and receive approx 40mb/s download and 12mb/s upload according to speedtest.net
Issue with recorded tv:
Like what most people say, it plays great on my laptop so I can rule out the antenna giving bad data to WMC. However, when I attempt to play it on my raspberry pi I get delays in the video where the audio is way off and it becomes unwatchable after the first 30 secs. After a few weeks of googling, I have tried to edit the settings file in serverwmc to allow for more buffering wait time. I have also added the advancedsettings.xml file to openelec (rpi equivalent of xbmc) in order to allow for more cache and more buffer time. Still to no success. Here is the log: http://pastebin.com/aQEuqFWu
My next troubleshooting step will be to try to load Openelec onto a usb stick in hopes that I can overclock the raspberry pi because I am all out of options and watching the recordings on my laptop won't cut it.
Finally, issues with watching live TV in real time (not recorded) has been even less successful. Here is a log for that: http://pastebin.com/mtsVcdp9
TLDR: You guys rock and thanks for any help! I really want this to work and I am googling potential solutions as you read this
First and foremost I want to say this community of xbmc enthusiasts has really gotten me into raspberry pi's and having a new way to watch and stream media. My wife has graciously given me 2 months to get this system up and running and so far, like many other threads, I have been unable to fully satisfy the requirements and now look to post a long thread message as a last straw before I may have to go back to paying Directv way too much for crap results. I will work this thread from the top down and any advice will be greatly appreciated. The three things that are needed are:
1) Free Netflix/Hulu on xbmc (I already have accounts for both)
2) Play recorded TV shows that I record through windows media center (wmc)
3) Watch live television
For the first one, I haven't been able to find any recent .zip files to download for Netflix or Hulu, so unless something has just come out this one may be a moot point. Google searching has come up with results from 2010 (Bluecop repository that doesn't work) and 2011 (Lifehackers article that talks about a paying service to acquire these xbmc addons)
For the recorded TV show issue, my current setup is:
-Windows 7 (64 bit) laptop 2.4GHz processor, 4GB RAM
-Linksys WRT54GL with DD-WRT flashed to it
-SiliconDust HDHomeRun PLUS 2-Tuner ATSC DLNA/UPnP HD Compatible Streaming Media Player, HDTC-2US
-Mohu Leaf Indoor HDTV antenna ($29.99 one)
-RASPBERRY PI MODEL B 756-8308 Raspberry Pi B overclocked to 800MHz
-Gotham pvr version 0.2.99
-ServerWMC version 1.0.0.36, build 1154
All the connections are hardlined to the router and receive approx 40mb/s download and 12mb/s upload according to speedtest.net
Issue with recorded tv:
Like what most people say, it plays great on my laptop so I can rule out the antenna giving bad data to WMC. However, when I attempt to play it on my raspberry pi I get delays in the video where the audio is way off and it becomes unwatchable after the first 30 secs. After a few weeks of googling, I have tried to edit the settings file in serverwmc to allow for more buffering wait time. I have also added the advancedsettings.xml file to openelec (rpi equivalent of xbmc) in order to allow for more cache and more buffer time. Still to no success. Here is the log: http://pastebin.com/aQEuqFWu
My next troubleshooting step will be to try to load Openelec onto a usb stick in hopes that I can overclock the raspberry pi because I am all out of options and watching the recordings on my laptop won't cut it.
Finally, issues with watching live TV in real time (not recorded) has been even less successful. Here is a log for that: http://pastebin.com/mtsVcdp9
TLDR: You guys rock and thanks for any help! I really want this to work and I am googling potential solutions as you read this