[ssimon]

Hello, I am hoping someone can help with this weird problem.

I have installed XBMC Live v9.11 Camelot onto the HD of my Acer Revo 1600 and all seemed OK. I had to downgrade the graphics drivers from the stock 190.42 to to 185.18.36 in order to fix the lack of multichannel AC3 & DTS bitstraming through HDMI (solution HERE)

Anyway, with the Audio problem solved I attempted to scrape my video collection (set content type as Movies, and tried both Imdb and TMD) but without any luck. The "getting movie information" progress bar took forever to complete and when it did NONE of my movies had any new artwork or synopsis.

Even the attempt to add a single movie to he database failed, and I got a pop-up name box with a long string similar to "JDOENSFIN1NCHFGSSQDIFHDSKF.AVI" as the file name. Somehow the file names of the movies are getting jumbled, and then maybe that is why they cannot be found.

If I am doing something wrong, please let me know, or is this a known bug in Camelot?

Thank you kindly.

P.S. I forgot to mention that networking works just fine, the RSS feeds show up and I can even remotely control XBMC with XBMC Remote, so I doubt this is a pure networking issue...

[dan1son]

I'm not sure if you used to be running any other version of XBMC on that box (possibly an older SVN build?) but you might want to delete .xbmc (or at least the library databases) in your home directory (assuming you're running Linux). Not exactly sure where those are in Windows, but I'm sure you can find em.

The only time I've seen the library do what you're saying is when my video library database was in the wrong format, which can happen if you attempt to go from an SVN build to a released build or even SVN to SVN if they change it.

[tslayer]

Debug log.

[ssimon]

Thank you kindly [dan1son] for your prompt reply.

This is all Linux. I had originally installed XBMCLive v9.11 RC1 (clean direct CD install) and then upgraded it to latest 9.11 Camelot.

I performed the update using

Code:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

Version in XBMC now shows as December 24 build. (Camelot)

I did not attempt to scrape till after the audio was fixed and that is where I am now.

Sorry for my ignorance with Linux, but what files exactly should I delete and from where? ( I can SSH in just fine).

P.S. Hi [tslayer], I would be happy to do a debug log... Let me look into how to accomplish that....

UPDATE: Hi [tslayer], HERE is the Debug Log you requested.

[dan1son]

Well RC1 to the release shouldn't have any database changes. I'd take a look at the debug log. Maybe you have some other issues related to the box not being able to communicate with the scraper sites themselves.

The files in question are located in ~/.xbmc/userdata/Database

[ssimon]

Thanks [dan1son],

Still working on figuring out how to do the Debug Log, and also finishing up a backup of the entire system (so I can restore it easily in case I mess something up)...

I will post the log as soon as get it...

[ssimon]

OK, I think this will help, here are the contents of the "~/.xbmc/temp" folder where the log was created:

Code:

xbmc@htpc:~/.xbmc/temp$ ls -la
total 719464
drwxr-xr-x  5 xbmc xbmc      4096 2009-12-28 18:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 xbmc xbmc      4096 2009-12-25 23:48 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 xbmc xbmc     69840 2009-12-27 14:19 array.so
-rw-r--r--  1 xbmc xbmc     40186 2009-12-28 00:02 binascii.so
-rw-r--r--  1 xbmc xbmc     23539 2009-12-27 14:19 _bisect.so
-rw-r--r--  1 xbmc xbmc     39939 2009-12-28 18:22 collections.so
-rw-r--r--  1 xbmc xbmc     53397 2009-12-27 19:01 contact.jpg
-rw-r--r--  1 xbmc xbmc     36026 2009-12-28 00:02 cStringIO.so
-rw-r--r--  1 xbmc xbmc    140968 2009-12-27 14:19 datetime.so
-rw-r--r--  1 xbmc xbmc     31566 2009-12-28 00:02 fcntl.so
-rw-r--r--  1 xbmc xbmc     45375 2009-12-27 14:19 _locale.so
-rw-r--r--  1 xbmc xbmc     34450 2009-12-28 00:02 math.so
-rw-r--r--  1 xbmc xbmc     26423 2009-12-27 14:19 md5.so
-rw-r--r--  1 xbmc xbmc 735143936 2009-12-27 19:26 O3$51$1415865457$1415865458$1415865479$2758046491.avi.xml
-rw-r--r--  1 xbmc xbmc     42101 2009-12-27 14:19 operator.so
-rw-r--r--  1 xbmc xbmc    374369 2009-12-27 14:19 pyexpat.so
-rw-r--r--  1 xbmc xbmc     28602 2009-12-28 00:02 _random.so
drwxr-xr-x  2 xbmc xbmc      4096 2009-12-28 18:40 scrapers
-rw-r--r--  1 xbmc xbmc     28509 2009-12-27 14:19 sha.so
-rw-r--r--  1 xbmc xbmc     96608 2009-12-28 18:22 _socket.so
-rw-r--r--  1 xbmc xbmc     47442 2009-12-28 18:22 strop.so
-rw-r--r--  1 xbmc xbmc     46564 2009-12-27 14:19 struct.so
drwxr-xr-x  2 xbmc xbmc      4096 2009-12-25 23:48 temp
-rw-r--r--  1 xbmc xbmc     37529 2009-12-28 18:22 time.so
drwxr-xr-x  4 xbmc xbmc      4096 2009-12-26 00:04 weather
-rw-r--r--  1 xbmc xbmc    188453 2009-12-28 18:40 xbmc.log
-rw-r--r--  1 xbmc xbmc     35844 2009-12-28 00:46 xbmc.old.log
-rw-r--r--  1 xbmc xbmc     39991 2009-12-27 14:19 zlib.so
xbmc@htpc:~/.xbmc/temp$

Notice the weird huge XML file called "O3$51$1415865457$1415865458$1415865479$275804649.avi.xml" !?!?

UPDATE: Seems this huge file is created when you right click on a movie file hosted via DLNA through TwonkyMedia and choose "Manually Add to Database". The system becomes frozen and the file seems to grow untill the HD is full or XBMC is reset!


OK, HERE are the contents of the Debug "xbmc.log" file tslayer requested.

As you can see, the filenames of all the videos seem all garbled...

Also, here are the contents of the ~/.xbmc/userdata/Database folder:

Code:

xbmc@htpc:~/.xbmc/userdata/Database$ ls -la
total 220
drwxr-xr-x 3 xbmc xbmc   4096 2009-12-28 18:25 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 xbmc xbmc   4096 2009-12-27 18:18 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 xbmc xbmc   4096 2009-12-25 23:48 CDDB
-rw-r--r-- 1 xbmc xbmc  47104 2009-12-25 23:48 MyMusic7.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 xbmc xbmc  20480 2009-12-26 16:29 MyPrograms6.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 xbmc xbmc 111616 2009-12-28 18:25 MyVideos34.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 xbmc xbmc  20480 2009-12-27 23:54 ViewModes.db
xbmc@htpc:~/.xbmc/userdata/Database$

Any ideas what is going on with these weird filenames? [see update above]

Thanks in advance for your help.

[ssimon]

OK, until the experts on here have a definite answer I will venture to say that after looking over the logs myself this and the other problem I am having (see HERE) are related to an incompatibility between XBMCLive 9.11 and the DLNA server TwonkyMedia v4.4.4 that is serving my audio & video content over my LAN.

I did a test and placed 2 files (one WMV and one MKV) on an SMB share and amazingly they were both scraped just fine by XBMC using the "Movie" type and pulling info from IMDB!!!

Are incompatibilities between XBMC and TwonkyMedia known?

Is there a different version of TwonkyMedia that is compatible with XBMC?

[peterkant]

@ssimon: I'm having the same problem with the AC3 audio you mentioned in your first post (no multichannel AC3 with nvidia 190.xxx) in my revo 1600, I tried to downgrade to 185.18.36 but I'm getting some errors in the process and I can't make XBMC work after that.

Do you remember how you managed to downgrade the driver? I googled for something like that but I couldn't find a solution that works in my system.

Thanks!

[dan1son]

ssimon,

I'm not familiar with the scraping on DLNA servers since I use NFS with basic file scraping. I do know when I first attempted to use a UPNP server (probably a year or so ago) scraping didn't work... I'm not sure if that's the same with DLNA, but if it's sending odd filenames (which it looks like it's doing) then it's not going to scrape them correctly.

I'd suggest using SMB (windows share, also works on macs) for the time being. If your filenames are correct it should scrape that way with no problem.

[ssimon]

Hi [dan1son] and thanks again for the follow-up.

I am now 100% sure of what is going on, and it IS an incompatibility between XBMC and TwonkyMedia, a DLNA/UPnP certified server.

As a side test I upgraded my TwonkyMedia Server for windows to the latest v5.1.2 and got the same failure to scrape as with the previous v4.4.4 so this seems to be a systemic issue of XBMC with DLNA/UPnP Servers (at least fully confirmed with TwonkyMedia).

I did switch to using SMB shares and am scraping now just nicely. However it seems that Twonky was doing a better job of feeding content than regular Windows SMB so I am concerned about playback speed/quality.

I am hopeful the XBMC developers will fix this DLNA/UPnP compatibility issue soon...


Thank you again for your assistance!

[ssimon]

@ssimon: I'm having the same problem with the AC3 audio you mentioned in your first post (no multichannel AC3 with nvidia 190.xxx) in my revo 1600, I tried to downgrade to 185.18.36 but I'm getting some errors in the process and I can't make XBMC work after that.

Do you remember how you managed to downgrade the driver? I googled for something like that but I couldn't find a solution that works in my system.

Thanks!

Hi [peterkant], you are hijacking this thread so I will reply only once. PM me if you need more info.

I can tell you what I did, however you do this at your own risk as I am NOT a Linux expert! ( I Goggled this myself for many hours )

In the end what worked was a combination of 2 parts/installs (but I am sure one of the experts here could tell you of an easier way) as follows:

Code:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-180 nvidia-180-modaliases

Once it is done, do this:

Code:

sudo wget ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/185.18.36/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.36-pkg1.run

sudo sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.36-pkg1.run

then Reboot!

Once you restart, issue this command to verify the version installed:

Code:

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version