With the following set-up
xbmc gotham (version 13.2-6)
mythbackend (version 0.27.4-2)
on Arch Linux, I compiled the latest git master branch and observed the following problems:
If I build the *.zip file from sources (with or without dependencies), xbmc reject the file because of some failed conditions.
If I insert the pvr.mythtv directory in the addon folder, the plugin is loaded, but does not work (38 channels are shown, but only the channel number, not the station name; trying to open a channels results in an error message (channel not available)). This is even worse compared with the older (outdated) cmyth-plugin, which shows the channels by its proper name (but with the same error when trying to open a channel).
mythfrontend works pretty well, though, which indicates thet there is no general problem with the dvb-s(2) card set-up.
Could you give any advice about what is missing here?
Mark
(2014-12-29, 15:51)emwebe Wrote: [ -> ]With the following set-up
xbmc gotham (version 13.2-6)
mythbackend (version 0.27.4-2)
on Arch Linux, I compiled the latest git master branch and observed the following problems:
If I build the *.zip file from sources (with or without dependencies), xbmc reject the file because of some failed conditions.
If I insert the pvr.mythtv directory in the addon folder, the plugin is loaded, but does not work (38 channels are shown, but only the channel number, not the station name; trying to open a channels results in an error message (channel not available)). This is even worse compared with the older (outdated) cmyth-plugin, which shows the channels by its proper name (but with the same error when trying to open a channel).
mythfrontend works pretty well, though, which indicates thet there is no general problem with the dvb-s(2) card set-up.
Could you give any advice about what is missing here?
Mark
I think you need to build pvr.mythtv from the gotham branch on git from
https://github.com/janbar/xbmc-pvr-addons
For the pvr.mythtv you don't need to configure with dependencies.
Mike
(2014-12-28, 20:31)kmallick Wrote: [ -> ]I will try out the mythtv pvr addon and see how well it runs on the frontend.
Success finally. I left the frontend connected to the network overnight to pull data from backend and get updates. I can see TV in the Confluence menu and I can watch live tv on my remote OpenELEC/Kodi frontend using the mythtv pvr plugin.
My frontend is running on a Acer Aspire Revo 1600. The sound is great. However the video is stuttering on live TV and recorded shows. Now only if I could figure out what could be causing it.
(2014-12-29, 19:42)kmallick Wrote: [ -> ] (2014-12-28, 20:31)kmallick Wrote: [ -> ]I will try out the mythtv pvr addon and see how well it runs on the frontend.
Success finally. I left the frontend connected to the network overnight to pull data from backend and get updates. I can see TV in the Confluence menu and I can watch live tv on my remote OpenELEC/Kodi frontend using the mythtv pvr plugin.
My frontend is running on a Acer Aspire Revo 1600. The sound is great. However the video is stuttering on live TV and recorded shows. Now only if I could figure out what could be causing it.
If your mythtv-backend tuners are using any of DVB-S/DVB-S2/DVB-T/DVB-T2 (basically anything producing .ts ) set "Enable demuxing MPEG-TS" in the Advanced tab of the pvr.mythtv Addon. See
http://kodi.wiki/view/MythTV_PVR section 5.3 Advanced, it might clear up the stuttering.
Mike
Also:
How is it connected? Ethernet? Wifi? If the stuttering is restricted to HD, but SD is OK, suspect a bandwidth issue.
Does the Revo have hardware decoding? I suspect an Atom does not have the horsepower to decode HD in software.
Hi, thanks again for everyone's work on this addon, it makes a huge difference in my viewing!
How often does the new addon refresh the list of recorded programs from the myth backend? I'm finding that when recordings get added they don't seem to show up in the addon until a backend restart or some long period of time has passed.
(2014-12-29, 21:46)allan87 Wrote: [ -> ]Also:
How is it connected? Ethernet? Wifi? If the stuttering is restricted to HD, but SD is OK, suspect a bandwidth issue.
Does the Revo have hardware decoding? I suspect an Atom does not have the horsepower to decode HD in software.
Revo ion decodes mpeg2 and h264 in hardware via vdpau, so that shouldn't be the problem.
(2014-12-29, 21:46)allan87 Wrote: [ -> ]Also:
How is it connected? Ethernet? Wifi? If the stuttering is restricted to HD, but SD is OK, suspect a bandwidth issue.
Does the Revo have hardware decoding? I suspect an Atom does not have the horsepower to decode HD in software.
Everything is connected via ethernet cat5e. I just checked and the "Enable demuxing MPEG-TS" is ON in my OpenELEC.
Acer aspire revo 1600 has atom 270. As best as I know it does vdpau very well. The front end has 4 GB memory installed and the GPU memory is set to 512K in bios. I am a little perplexed about the stuttering issue now.
I am having the same issues with openelec 5.0 and OSX Yosemite with Kodi Helix installed.
Issues I have seen are stuttering while playing liveTV (fixed by enabling demuxing), playback freezes after a few minutes of watching and the log says "MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)Read: read position is ahead" repeatedly unless I pause for a few seconds and then play. I see these issues with both MythTV 0.27 and 0.28.
Everything was working fine on openelec 4.2.1 and liveTV works fine with mythfrontend, I checked the CPU use on the mythbackend machine and it never goes above 7%.
When the playback freezes I see this in the log:
CDVDMessageQueue(audio)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothing available
CDVDMessageQueue(video)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothing available
Log file
When the playback freezes in Kodi the liveTV recording continues in MythTV, it seems like the mythTV addon is reading to far ahead and then playback freezes.
Any ideas on how to fix MythTV playback on Kodi Helix?
(2014-12-29, 16:38)MikeB2013 Wrote: [ -> ] (2014-12-29, 15:51)emwebe Wrote: [ -> ]With the following set-up
xbmc gotham (version 13.2-6)
mythbackend (version 0.27.4-2)
on Arch Linux, I compiled the latest git master branch and observed the following problems:
If I build the *.zip file from sources (with or without dependencies), xbmc reject the file because of some failed conditions.
If I insert the pvr.mythtv directory in the addon folder, the plugin is loaded, but does not work (38 channels are shown, but only the channel number, not the station name; trying to open a channels results in an error message (channel not available)). This is even worse compared with the older (outdated) cmyth-plugin, which shows the channels by its proper name (but with the same error when trying to open a channel).
mythfrontend works pretty well, though, which indicates thet there is no general problem with the dvb-s(2) card set-up.
Could you give any advice about what is missing here?
Mark
I think you need to build pvr.mythtv from the gotham branch on git from https://github.com/janbar/xbmc-pvr-addons
For the pvr.mythtv you don't need to configure with dependencies.
Mike
This was indeed part of the problem, after switching to the gotham branch I was able to include the addon in xbmc/gotham by manually unzipping the zip-file into the ~/.xbmc/addons/.
I could see now the channel list, recordings, epg infos, etc., again. But live-TV still does not work. The error log is full of errors of the type:
"ERROR: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)__connectAddr: failed to connect (22)"
and
ERROR: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: OpenLiveStream: Failed to open live stream
ERROR: CDVDPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [pvr://channels/tv/Alle TV-Kanäle/9.pvr
From the mythbackend log, I got some messages like "client uses protocol version 75, but we use 77!", but the latest of these messages was before the switch to the new pvr mythtv it seems...
I would be grateful for any hint that might solve this problem.
Is your backend set up with a 0000 pin number?
(2014-12-29, 20:02)MikeB2013 Wrote: [ -> ] (2014-12-29, 19:42)kmallick Wrote: [ -> ] (2014-12-28, 20:31)kmallick Wrote: [ -> ]I will try out the mythtv pvr addon and see how well it runs on the frontend.
Success finally. I left the frontend connected to the network overnight to pull data from backend and get updates. I can see TV in the Confluence menu and I can watch live tv on my remote OpenELEC/Kodi frontend using the mythtv pvr plugin.
My frontend is running on a Acer Aspire Revo 1600. The sound is great. However the video is stuttering on live TV and recorded shows. Now only if I could figure out what could be causing it.
If your mythtv-backend tuners are using any of DVB-S/DVB-S2/DVB-T/DVB-T2 (basically anything producing .ts ) set "Enable demuxing MPEG-TS" in the Advanced tab of the pvr.mythtv Addon. See http://kodi.wiki/view/MythTV_PVR section 5.3 Advanced, it might clear up the stuttering.
Mike
I was having a similar problem (but was getting grey bars, like signal error bars). Making this change fixed the problem I was having. Very glad to have it working - have returned 3 different antennas to date, thinking it was an antenna problem
Thanks!