Linux HOW-TO watch Live TV in XBMC for Linux with Tvheadend, the easy way!

Kjetil N Wrote:Yes it does,
In fact for me it is much more stable now than running the Ubuntu desktop 11.10. I had a lot of craches when changing channels etc, and the channel epg would not load on half the restart of xbmc.


Now I'm running the latest Xbmcbuntu with the latest PPA of opdenkamp pvr version, all is very well. I have screen blanking each time I go to full screen in tv mode and everytime i start a movie, but I guess I just need to play around with my xorg conf.

I strongly recommed running the script to get the right refresh rate after install, then you will get glitch free pic.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=70068

Cheers.

Kjetil

I'm not a total beginner but certainly not proficient enough to know how you would go about adapting the script\command to install beta 3 pvr, I've got the odd crash happening with beta 2 pvr.

What should I change to get beta 3 installed, instead of beta 2?

Ta

Also a seperate question, I'm sure has been asked before, but how would I go about updating tvheadend to the latest version, the 2.12 HTS version is very old and doesn't have some of the satellites listed like Astra 1N and requires a lot of faffing around adding muxes manually each time so not ideal, also I'm sure newer versions would fix some bugs no doubt.

Ta, also

EDIT - muxing 110 right now. Deleted hts-tvheaded --purge, got the current git and set it up (note on the tvhead instructions, they forgot to include "sudo make install" . Any idea how to get it to start on reboot after building from source.

How long should muxing take, it is at zero initial but the log is still tuning for both 110 and 119. It's been going for a while. I clicked the button to start mapping but nothing has chnged in there yet although it did say it started the probe.

when it is done scanning can I delete the mux's that remain at zero.

sorry if I missed this, I installed xbmcbuntu beta 3. Then I ran the script on page one, it installs beta 2 for some reason. did I miss something.

Thanks,

Dave

rodercot Wrote:sorry if I missed this, I installed xbmcbuntu beta 3. Then I ran the script on page one, it installs beta 2 for some reason. did I miss something.

You missed the fact that the package from the script is still beta 2 . Watch http://packages.pulse-eight.net/ for the next release. I guess there will also be a post in this thread.

rodercot Wrote:Does anyone have an inkling on how to get dbs-s working with DN. I am going out of my mind trying. I have not even got past oscam I get a cannot bind socket in the log al the time. There are a lot of posts and how-to's none of them seem to enable the proper birds. i have oscam 1.10 I have tried setting a newcmad reader etc... but the local ports and ip's have me confused. has anyone been successful.

Thanks,

Dave

Hi Dave,

I have Tvheadend and oscam working with my subscription card. Do you need help with oscam, tvheadend, or both?

jacksback Wrote:Hi Dave,

I have Tvheadend and oscam working with my subscription card. Do you need help with oscam, tvheadend, or both?

Thanks, Both I guess, right now here is my status

tvheadend - Nit-o ID = 0, cwc - connected with 4 providers all zeros beside the id's. - scanned 50 muxes 35 are good 975 services does not seem to be mapping any services to channels.

oscam - not installed I did not think it was needed with cwc in tvheadend. I also notice that if I restart tvheaded then it re-scans at least 30 of the 35 muxes everytime. My final issue is I cannot enable any pvr client in xbmc, I click enable and nothing happens they stay disabled.

Dave

Not sure if I should start a seperate thread or not, but:

I'm having some pretty big performance issues.

Current setup (for Dutch Ziggo Digital TV):
Ubuntu Desktop 11.04
XBMC-PVR Eden Beta 2
TVHeadend
Oscam 1.10 (accessing a Smargo Smartreader)
Using a DVB-C SiliconDust HDHomerun HDHR3-EU

I never had any performance issues with Ubuntu 10.10 running XBMC Dharma (non-PVR), so the current issues are both strange and infuriating

Anyway, I have a lot of XBMC freezes (system freezes sometimes even, but mostly just XBMC), really slow channel changes, if the new channel comes up at all. XBMC crashes often, even when just opening a video locally or on the network.

I feel there's several issues at hand. The CBMX crashlogs show 2 seperate segfaults: one is about an NVidia lib and the other for the stdin (and more, but std library stuff about inputs). I'm not home right now, so I'd have to add chrashlogs later if anybody wants to see them.

I've been working on this install for several nights, as I had a difficult time setting it up at first (tried several full install write-ups like this one, but most were dated, or had SOME issue making it unusable). So I'm at a loss and I hope anybody can help me out

thanks!

[edit]
What I forgot to mention: I keep having some strange behaviour with audio. When watching live tv I have to switch from coax/optical (from HTPC to receiver) to HDMI (from HTPC to TV to Receiver) to get sound, but I don't have to switch the receiver to the TV input. So it's still going over the optical-out.

I'll bite. how do you import sat ini files or xml files. I/ve created list and the roadmap shows that it is possible but I cannot find any instructions on where to put the files or how it needs to be formatted.

Dave

rodercot Wrote:EDIT - muxing 110 right now. Deleted hts-tvheaded --purge, got the current git and set it up (note on the tvhead instructions, they forgot to include "sudo make install" . Any idea how to get it to start on reboot after building from source.

How long should muxing take, it is at zero initial but the log is still tuning for both 110 and 119. It's been going for a while. I clicked the button to start mapping but nothing has chnged in there yet although it did say it started the probe.

when it is done scanning can I delete the mux's that remain at zero.

sorry if I missed this, I installed xbmcbuntu beta 3. Then I ran the script on page one, it installs beta 2 for some reason. did I miss something.

Thanks,

Dave

Could you point me in the direction of those instructions please matey?

I'm not sure with new version but read that the old 2.12 although it appeared to add the ability to update the satellite list by the user, in fact the list was hard coded into the binary and it wouldn't respond to external additions, if that was ever added, I don't know. You would think it would have been but just something to bare in mind so you don't destroy your brain in frustration if it doesn't work.

here is the link,

There were a few features and they ended up linking to here, on the actual #92 item there is a link to an ini file to dl as well. The readme or manual REALLY needs an overhaul for this program. The lnb/sat conf is not documented, There should be some kind of response from the probe - is it working not working. I have been working over a week to get this running; oscam works I can click on a play icon in the services menu and it connects but still will not map any channels.

LnB1 - 0 - DBS
Lnb2 - 1 - DBS
Lnb3 - 2 - DBS
LnB4 - 3 - DBS

I have 50 muxes, 900 services with the networks listed but no mapping. for the heck of it I scanned 91 B*V and it found a bunch of muxes and channels got identified with call signs etc before the scan was even completed. I did not try and map those, On D*N 110 119 I do not even the get the call signs listed under services.

http://www.lonelycoder.com/redmine/issues/72

@cowfodder - I sent you a pm, you say you have it working, please post a how-to somewhere. you have posted on both tvheadend and vdr forums, there are several looking for NA assistance.

Dave

Hi,

I was using TVHeadend with two sources: dvb-c and IPTV, both worked fine.
I merged the same (radio) channels and they switched flawlessly.
Yesterday I removed my DVB-C device and reconfigured tvheadend with only iptv tv and radio channels.

I tagged the radio channels with the radio tag (as it was with the dvb-c radio channels). I just noticed that in xbmc (latest build) my radio channels show up in the tv channels listing and not in de the radio channels listing?
From within the tv channel listing the radio channels do not play: it 'hangs' on 'buffering... 0%'

Does anybody have a tip or clue on how to have my iptv radio channels 'behave' like radio channels in xbmc?
When merged with the same dvb-c radio channels the iptv radio stream worked very well (when dvb-c was not available due to eg recording)

Thanks in advance.
Ruud.