(2013-08-28, 20:11)milkman dan Wrote: (2013-08-28, 19:34)Powerhouse Wrote: Awesome work Krusty, keep it up.
For those of you with the SLOW CHANNEL Change problems, this was also happening in NextPVR and was mostly fixed by a Special Build of Frodo 12.2 (released by Margro). This was mentioned on page 5, but you can download it from here... http://www.scintilla.utwente.nl/~marcelg...html#frodo
I used the first one listed (not the one that uses DSPlayer), and it makes channel changes just a couple of seconds (verses the 8-10 seconds I was seeing).
These changes were supposed to be released in the official Frodo 12.2, but didn't for some reason, which is why Margro made this build of XBMC.
Hope this helps you all, as Krusty's work on this is awesome. Way better than using NextPVR, which I had all kinds of issues with.
Also, for those of you who use the skin ACE, MarcosQui (ACE skin creator), is going to put this into his next version of ACE (I believe in version 1.8, the current release is version 1.7). You can read about it here...http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=160636&page=2
Krusty- thanks for all your work on this. I've got it installed on my Windows 7 x64 working well with 12.2 (w Aeon Nox skin). I just grab OTA channels with a Hauppauge 2250 card. I must say, the EPG with this backend is way better than I was getting with NPVR previously.
My channel changes do take a while, so I'm going to try the margo build shortly.
And maybe I just haven't found it yet, but is there a way to schedule a series recording from within XBMC? Right now, I just see the ability to add a timer for a one time recording. But I have my settings complete in WMC with regards to series (new only, keep 5, etc). And there is no problem using WMC to schedule series recordings, just wondering if it a feature that XBMC currently lacks.
Thanks again for this - it's absolutely great!
Thanks I appreciate that. And we know channel change speed is a big priority.
I have actually already implemented series recording from xbmc. The problem is xbmc itself doesn't natively support it (so you aren't going to find it by looking hard). To make it work I created custom dialog windows in xml. If the addon finds these xml files in the current skin, it enables series recording. If you want to try it out, here are some instructions I wrote for one of the early testers:
In order to enable the addon to set 'series' recording and 'cancel' series recordings do the following:
Install:
If you look in the ‘resources’ folder of the addon you will see two xml skin files I created for confluence. These files need to be manually added to the confluence skin folder, or you can do what I did, and just create symbolic links to these files in the confluence folder.
If you aren't using confluence you can add these files to the skin folder you are using, but the dialogs will look funky since they are designed for confluence (they should work though). You can modify these files to look right in whatever your skin of choice is if you are so inclined.
Use:
So once installed, when you try to record a show after the initial confirmation, a new dialog will open (if it’s a tv series) asking if you want to record the series - and it has optional series specific settings. Similar for when you go to delete a timer, if it’s a series timer, it will ask you if you want to delete future recordings of the whole series.
If you decide to try it, let me know how it goes. There are more options for series recordings that can be added - wmc has a fairly rich set of options for it, I just implemented a basic subset for now.
--kr
