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xbmc freeze - bas.t - 2011-04-17
@ dushmaniac
Sometimes when I start playback of a recording xbmc freezes and becomes totally unresponsive. When this happens I have to reboot the pc.
The log is here: http://pastebin.com/q5fqw0mn
Cheers,
Bas.
- Nemphys - 2011-04-17
Using the latest build (compiled today), deleting a recording from the recordings menu does not work properly (this used to work until a few days ago): the recording is actually deleted from TvHeadend (though not the actual file; we talked about this in the past), a popup appears saying that the recording was deleted, BUT the recording is not removed from the recordings list and, after that, trying to do anything in XBMC (eg, move to another menu), makes XBMC hang (not crash).
Also, adding a manual timer does not use the channel specified and makes XBMC crash right after the timer is actually created in TvHeadend (with the wrong channel, though).
- opdenkamp - 2011-04-17
@Nemphys
the lockup when deleting a recording should be fixed in https://github.com/opdenkamp/xbmc/commit/9033a902659774d42452e3dbaba4253f17195d24
you shouldn't be testing the master branch every day though, since it's under development so things are likely to be broken from time to time. use the ppa build or take the pvr-ppa branch (which is the same)
- Nemphys - 2011-04-17
You're, right, I shouldn't.
The thing is, I am really eager to test the new commits and cannot wait for the next ppa merge, which is usually done every 10, or so, days!
After all, I think it helps having someone point out some bugs you might miss, right? ;-)
Being a developer myself (in other software sectors, though, never got around to work on C++/linux yet), I'm quite addicted to bug fixes. Wish I had the time to get my hands on this whole thing...
Thanx, keep up the good work!
- danz0l - 2011-04-18
not sure if anyone can help me here but here goes. Following the success of tvheadend and the pvr branch of xbmc with my DVB-S card i went and purchased a DVD-T usb device for freeview ( the other is serving freesat). After installing the firmware everything worked perfectly and now i have two adapters under /dev/dvb.
However on reboot it detects the usb before the PCI thus changing around the adapter mapping and rendering my already scanned in and painfully edited muxes invalid.
I found a work around in unplugging the USB device first, rebooting, then inserting the USB device, closing down and restarting tvheadend and all is right but thats kinda annoying on every reboot.
I know this is more a linux question but how do i force ubuntu to find the PCI dvb first or at least map it to dvb/adapter 1 before having the usb as /dvb/adapter 2 ?
Anyone with any pointers ?
- janumix - 2011-04-18
Try to look for "dbus" subsystem and force device detection order. Some configuration files are in /etc/dbus-1.
- decaturguy - 2011-04-18
danz0l Wrote:not sure if anyone can help me here but here goes. Following the success of tvheadend and the pvr branch of xbmc with my DVB-S card i went and purchased a DVD-T usb device for freeview ( the other is serving freesat). After installing the firmware everything worked perfectly and now i have two adapters under /dev/dvb.
However on reboot it detects the usb before the PCI thus changing around the adapter mapping and rendering my already scanned in and painfully edited muxes invalid.
I found a work around in unplugging the USB device first, rebooting, then inserting the USB device, closing down and restarting tvheadend and all is right but thats kinda annoying on every reboot.
I know this is more a linux question but how do i force ubuntu to find the PCI dvb first or at least map it to dvb/adapter 1 before having the usb as /dvb/adapter 2 ?
Anyone with any pointers ?
create /etc/modprobe.d/dvb.conf
add this
#DVB-S
options driver_name adapter_nr=0
#DVB-T
options dvb_usb_driver_name adapter_nr=1
- joethefox - 2011-04-18
danz0l Wrote:However on reboot it detects the usb before the PCI thus changing around the adapter mapping and rendering my already scanned in and painfully edited muxes invalid.
You can specify your adapter number into the /etc/modprobe.d/options.conf (ubuntu 10.10) file. I've one DVB-S and one DVB-T with dual tuner and I've put into options.conf:
...
options budget_ci adapter_nr=0 (DVB-S)
options dvb_usb_dib0700 adapter_nr=1,2 (DVB-T)
...
EDIT: like decaturguy says
- Nemphys - 2011-04-18
Does anybody else have a problem recording h264 (SD, not HD) streams with TvHeadend, or am I the only one?
I have 2 tuners, 1 DVB-S2 and 1 DVB-T. Recording through DVB-S (mpeg2 video, mpeg2 audio) works just fine, no problems whatsoever.
The problems start when I try to record through DVB-T (h264 video, mpeg2 audio): audio is fine throughout the recording, whereas the the video stream is junk most of the time (plays ok at some very short parts, but is mostly unplayable). No errors on the logs, everything is supposed to be recorded ok.
Any ideas?
- danz0l - 2011-04-18
decaturguy Wrote:create /etc/modprobe.d/dvb.conf
add this
#DVB-S
options driver_name adapter_nr=0
#DVB-T
options dvb_usb_driver_name adapter_nr=1
Thanks everyone.
I was on the right lines myself but seemed to struggle finding the usb driver name lol. Found it this morning by pure accident however and used the config above and now all is fine. Many thanks guys ....
- danz0l - 2011-04-18
Does anyone have any transcoding scripts they have written or found to convert the mkv automatically to xvid upon successful recording ?
- bas.t - 2011-04-18
@ dushmaniac
Hi,
I've managed to get xbmc to freeze again. (your last build)
I started playing a recording, causing xbmc to hang and make it unresponsive. Audio of the recording plays. So I ssh'd into my xbmc box and killed xbmc. Without rebooting this time I started xbmc again and started playback of the exact same recording. This time it started playback just fine.
Looks like a bug to me, maybe you want to have a look at it?
the log of the hanging instance is here:http://pastebin.com/LWp3F3Xq
and that of the playng instance is here:http://pastebin.com/kXH0LgtU
Should you need more info, like the complete logs, I whould gladly supply you with it.
Thanks for your hard work!
Cheers,
Bas.
- opdenkamp - 2011-04-18
caching of pvr streams (both recordings and livetv) still needs some work, I know.
does xbmc lock up when you try to close the stream?
- bas.t - 2011-04-18
dushmaniac Wrote:caching of pvr streams (both recordings and livetv) still needs some work, I know.
does xbmc lock up when you try to close the stream?
No, while starting. After starting it is impossible to close it, or do anything at all, for that matter.
Btw, I start playback of recordings fom an nfs share. Not from within the tv->recordings section.
I only use the tv section to schedule my recordings from the epg (timeline). The other parts of it I will be using as soon as timeshift is working.
I am nevertheless so pleased with your (and others) work, I dropped mythtv. (that is: american laws against decryption, forcing me to use sasc-ng)
Cheers,
Bas.
- bas.t - 2011-04-18
In addition I have some feature requests.
Once deleting of a recording from within the television->recordings section results in deleting the actual .mkv file, I whould like it to be so that:
(might be done in a simple way by checking if the actual mkv file exists and otherwise don't show the log entry as a recording? So when I delete the mkv file outside of the pvr addon or even directly, there whould be no problem)
- If I stop playback of a recording, or when it reaches the end of the file, I should get a simple popup dialog which gives me the choise to either keep the recording, or delete it, or mark it as watched.
- Furthermore, when I instruct tvheadend to store it's recordings in a particular way, like in a separate directory for every day, I whould like the television->recordings section to show it to me in that way too (like the videos->files->etc.. section allready does).
Or it should at least give me the opportunity to let me configure the way it shows the recordings, thus possibly overriding the settings in tvheadend.
(mayby simply take ..../.hts/tvheadend/dvr/config as an argument?)
No more whishes here.
Well.., there is of course the time shift, but for now I just use my humax when I really want timeshift.
Thanks again to all that make this possible, and keep up the good work!
Bas.