[RELEASE] PseudoTV Addon: Virtual EPG and TV Channel Surfing Script

played around with my ptv skin if anyone wants.
links and info are in the next post

created 2 sets. one with bottom info and one with top info

bottom info


top info:
http://i.imgur.com/D89eBsZ.jpg


EPG:




skin:
http://www.mediafire.com/?gz4kcmc2xpbdcuc


in the rar file (in the 720p folder) you will see a few xml files
the EPG large fonts and the EPG regular are 2 options that you can see in the pictures above. just rename the ones you want to script.pseudotv.EPG.xml
same goes to script.pseudotv.TVOverlay.xml - just select if you want the top info or bottom info.

the default ones are set to top info and large font EPG.
(ignore the hebrew fonts - i use a hebrew scrapper)

hope you like it

all these posts are great, and I sure would like to get to the point of changing skins, but this script doesn't load. does anyone have an idea why?

(2013-06-14 01:03)Lunatixz Wrote:  

(2013-06-13 22:40)defdave Wrote:  I've been running PseudoTV for months without any major issues until yesterday and I can't figure this one out.

My PseudoTV setup is pulling videos from three separate networked hard drives, all streaming from one computer (not my htpc). I have made zero changes to network sharing or streaming settings but all of a sudden yesterday, the videos on one of my hard drives refuses to show in PTV. The weird thing is, I can pull up windows explorer and navigate to the network share folder and click on any video and it plays fine in vlc.

I even tried a fresh settings2.xml file but still no go. Any ideas guys?

Did you check your file and network permissions? are you using static or dynamic IPs?

Thank you for the reply. When you say file and network permissions do you mean a setting within xbmc or windows? The IP of the media source PC is static. The XBMC htpc is dynamic. The problematic network share is called "video 3" and it's never given any problems over the past nearly year of usage. Also, the content from this network share is able to be accessed by a laptop, a Wii, and by the HTPC itself, other than in pseudoTV. It's really strange.

I can pull any video from the network share in question by navigating to FILE within xbmc and all folders show up and videos play. Same thing outside of xbmc by using windows explorer>computer>network>video 3 (my problem smb folder). It's only pseudotv that's giving me this problem and I have no idea why since I had made zero changes the day this occurred. Please keep in mind that PseudoTV is pulling content from two other network shares (both located on the same computer as 'video 3') with no problem. I have tried clean settings2.xml files, no luck. I uninstalled and reinstalled PseudoTV, no luck. I'm at my wits end here. I know it's got to be something simple I'm just not seeing. Any advice would be VERY much appreciated!

(2013-06-17 01:09)geebs61 Wrote:  

(2013-06-17 00:54)Lunatixz Wrote:  

(2013-06-16 16:56)geebs61 Wrote:  I finally got around to trying out Best-Effort scheduling, and I have to say... It isn't working. Am I missing something? For example, I have set a schedule so that every Sunday ("U"), one movie from channel 52 will play on channel 2 at 7:00pm (19:00). But after I set this and restart PseudoTV, the EPG still doesn't show that there is any movie scheduled for that time? Does it just not show up in the EPG, is that how it is supposed to work? I've tried it on several different channels and the EPG never reflects the best-effort scheduling.

When you channel interweave only the main channels rules apply (channel 2's rules overwrite channel 52's rules)

Yes. I am aware. Channel 2 is the only channel with any rules in this situation. 52 has no rules, and is just a movie channel. Channel 2 is ABC, and 52 is Walt Disney movies. Both channels work perfectly, except the "best-effort scheduling" rule. This rule will not work, no matter what I schedule, when, or where.

Right now the rules on channel 2 are as follows:

Interleave 110 every 1 show (commercials)
Interleave 100 every 2 shows (bumper
Best effort schedule channel 52 Sunday nights at 7:00pm (19:00)

Which gives me a schedule of "show/commercial/bumper/show/commercial/bumper" etc. Which is exactly what I want. But when 7:00pm on SUnday comes around it continues the "show/commercial/bumper/show/commercial/bumper" schedule.

It follows all rules perfectly, but seems to ignore the best effort scheduling rule. Without exception. On every channel. With every video. At every minute of the day.

It is literally the only rule I can't get to do ANYTHING at all.

Well, I figured out what was wrong. There are 2 settings to "best effort scheduling" that I never saw, because they were cut off in the window. It didn't help that I have been using PseudoTV manager to set up channels, and these settings don't exist in that program. Unfortunately, since they aren't being properly set with PTV Manager, it fills them with the values of the two previous settings by default? I attached a pic. I have to go in and manually reset these values in the pseudotv configuration to make it work.



But this brings up another problem. I am using the Aeon Nox theme, and it seems that it wont display all the items in the advanced rules list. In fact, the only theme I have used that displays it well is Metropolis. The menu will only show the first 7 rules, and will not scroll. In Metropolis is scrolls, allowing me to access and edit all the rules. In Nox it wont scroll at all, and in every other theme it doesn't display a background for the window at all, all the text is black, and there is no indicator of what is highlighted. Is this something I need to take up in the Nox thread, or does anyone here know how to fix that? It is already annoying that I have to go in and fix a rule that should have been set right with PTVManager, let alone have to change the whole freaking theme to do it too.



I love PseudoTV, and have been using it with simple playlists, network, and genre channels for months, but trying to get these advanced rules to work right has been a cavalcade of failures.