[TheImmortal]

With the last update the channel change has sped up, but now on channels with multiple language sound tracks I sporadically get the wrong language or more then one language playing at the same time.

Here a 7-zip of both a wtv and a ts file of a show with this issue:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bwwnao9F...sp=sharing

Thanks for being proactive and having the clips ready. This audio track stuff is in the heart of the new parser, and I had a worry that I didn't test enough with multiple audio tracks. Hopefully sorting it out won't be too difficult....

woah, that simultaneous spanish and english is kind of freaky.

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I believe krusty has at least partially got some of these extra features working, by having a custom dialog that pops up when you start a recording from EPG, asking if you want to series link it or not. So its not built into XBMC PVR but there is limited ability for addons to popup custom dialogs at some points etc. If this isnt working at the moment it might have been disabled but it used to be there at least

Yeah, here are the instructions again:

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
link 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 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. Similar for when you go to delete a timer, if it’s a series timer, it will ask
you if you want to delete the whole series-timer.

Hoopsdavis - You wouldn't happen to have the above referenced xml files modified for the Arctic skin by any chance?

[hoopsdavis]

Yes, you also have them if you have the addon folder.

Look here: \pvr.wmc-windows-1009\pvr.wmc\resources\skins\Confluence\720p

[krustyreturns]

OK I had a stream hang. This tine I was able to switch channels and serverWMC was able to resume.

details:

server OS Win 8
serverWMC 1063
local XBMC 12.2 on Win 8
local wmc pvr client 1009

Hauppauge 2250 ATSC tuner (PCIe card)

First started LiveTV on ATSC chan 5.1 @ 12:11:09
stream available in 8.17 sec

Changed channel to 4.1 @ 14:49:49
stream available in 1.90 sec (!)

LiveTV froze/ XBMC entered "pause" @16:02:32
log line 568:

Code:

2013/09/14 16:02:55.368    GetNextGuid> possible meta split across guid header at location: 1E2480000 (8,091,336,704)
2013/09/14 16:02:55.368    GetNextGuid> Header before offset: Guid: Unknown 5, len: 36, pad 4, sId: 17, Cnt: 0, isValid: False
2013/09/14 16:02:55.369    Parse> Exception:
2013/09/14 16:02:55.369    Parse>   Pass: mux2ts
2013/09/14 16:02:55.369    Parse>   Guid count: 2311175
2013/09/14 16:02:55.369    Parse>   Header: Guid: DATA_GUID, len: 34, pad 6, sId: 12, Cnt: 2311174, isValid: True
2013/09/14 16:02:55.369    Parse>   re-throwing exception
2013/09/14 16:02:55.523    Remux> error: System.Exception: bad buffer passed to GuidHeader contructor: Remuxer.common.ByteBuffer  pos: 0 lim: 0 cap: 0
   at Remuxer.demux.microsoft.WtvToPesDemuxer.parse(JobStreamI stream, MuxManager muxManager)
   at Remuxer.muxer.MuxManager.mux(JobStreamI stream)
   at Remuxer.Remux.Start()
2013/09/14 16:02:55.605    Remux> ended, run time: 73.07 min
2013/09/14 16:03:03.093    StreamFileSize> stream file for client Win8HTPC size check, count: 25, file size: 8,172,666,880

Full log is here:

http://pastebin.com/V1ngWj13

scott s.
.

Hey Scott,

I really want the wtv file generated from this run. Please look in your tempxbmc folder in your 'recorded tv' folder. Inside this folder you should see a folder called 'savedfordebug' hopefully this wtv file will be in it. After a day goes by these files are cleared out to save disk space so please rescue it. I know the file will be big and getting it to me will be a challenge, but we'll deal with that later. For right now, just see if you can rescue it. I'm going to PM you too.

[krustyreturns]

Yes, you also have them if you have the addon folder.

Look here: \pvr.wmc-windows-1009\pvr.wmc\resources\skins\Confluence\720p

Hoops, I think he wants to know if you modified their look to work with your particular skin.

If there is anybody with some skinning ability out there, another approach would be to modify these xml files so that the look is self contained in the xml. That way at least they would look more uniform as they are moved from skin to skin. Even better is if someone could modify them to make them look right for the more popular skins .

There are other wmc settings that can be added to the series-record dialog, like days of week, etc, (you can look at wmc to get ideas) that wouldn't be hard to implement if people are interested.

[hoopsdavis]

Yes, you also have them if you have the addon folder.

Look here: \pvr.wmc-windows-1009\pvr.wmc\resources\skins\Confluence\720p

Hoops, I think he wants to know if you modified their look to work with your particular skin.

If there is anybody with some skinning ability out there, another approach would be to modify these xml files so that the look is self contained in the xml. That way at least they would look more uniform as they are moved from skin to skin. Even better is if someone could modify them to make them look right for the more popular skins .

There are other wmc settings that can be added to the series-record dialog, like days of week, etc, (you can look at wmc to get ideas) that wouldn't be hard to implement if people are interested.

Hey Krusty, no I've not modified them yet, but I'll take a look.

I tried putting them in the skin folder I'm using but no changes. Is there a certain folder they need to be added to within the skin folder?

[krustyreturns]

OK I had a stream hang. This tine I was able to switch channels and serverWMC was able to resume.

details:

server OS Win 8
serverWMC 1063
local XBMC 12.2 on Win 8
local wmc pvr client 1009

Hauppauge 2250 ATSC tuner (PCIe card)

First started LiveTV on ATSC chan 5.1 @ 12:11:09
stream available in 8.17 sec

Changed channel to 4.1 @ 14:49:49
stream available in 1.90 sec (!)

LiveTV froze/ XBMC entered "pause" @16:02:32
log line 568:

Code:

2013/09/14 16:02:55.368    GetNextGuid> possible meta split across guid header at location: 1E2480000 (8,091,336,704)
2013/09/14 16:02:55.368    GetNextGuid> Header before offset: Guid: Unknown 5, len: 36, pad 4, sId: 17, Cnt: 0, isValid: False
2013/09/14 16:02:55.369    Parse> Exception:
2013/09/14 16:02:55.369    Parse>   Pass: mux2ts
2013/09/14 16:02:55.369    Parse>   Guid count: 2311175
2013/09/14 16:02:55.369    Parse>   Header: Guid: DATA_GUID, len: 34, pad 6, sId: 12, Cnt: 2311174, isValid: True
2013/09/14 16:02:55.369    Parse>   re-throwing exception
2013/09/14 16:02:55.523    Remux> error: System.Exception: bad buffer passed to GuidHeader contructor: Remuxer.common.ByteBuffer  pos: 0 lim: 0 cap: 0
   at Remuxer.demux.microsoft.WtvToPesDemuxer.parse(JobStreamI stream, MuxManager muxManager)
   at Remuxer.muxer.MuxManager.mux(JobStreamI stream)
   at Remuxer.Remux.Start()
2013/09/14 16:02:55.605    Remux> ended, run time: 73.07 min
2013/09/14 16:03:03.093    StreamFileSize> stream file for client Win8HTPC size check, count: 25, file size: 8,172,666,880

Full log is here:

http://pastebin.com/V1ngWj13

scott s.
.

Hey Scott,

I really want the wtv file generated from this run. Please look in your tempxbmc folder in your 'recorded tv' folder. Inside this folder you should see a folder called 'savedfordebug' hopefully this wtv file will be in it. After a day goes by these files are cleared out to save disk space so please rescue it. I know the file will be big and getting it to me will be a challenge, but we'll deal with that later. For right now, just see if you can rescue it. I'm going to PM you too.

[ryvanzandt]

Krusty

Installed the newest build on my win 8 machine. When I start the server it starts one of the tuners on my HD Homerun dual tuner. It never stops it. Not sure if this is by design for the channel speed up. Let me know what you need from me.

Ryan

[krustyreturns]

Hey Krusty, no I've not modified them yet, but I'll take a look.

I tried putting them in the skin folder I'm using but no changes. Is there a certain folder they need to be added to within the skin folder?

Yes. Depending on your skin, inside your skin folder will be a folder called, either 720p or 1080i or some such. Inside these folders are all the xml files. You need to place these xml files in with the other xml files of the skin.

To see if its working, in xbmc request to record a show that you know is an episode of a series, after the first confirmation a new dialog should open asking if you want to record the series.

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Krusty

Installed the newest build on my win 8 machine. When I start the server it starts one of the tuners on my HD Homerun dual tuner. It never stops it. Not sure if this is by design for the channel speed up. Let me know what you need from me.

Ryan

Its by design, to help speed up channel changing. The next version I will release soon will have an option to turn it off if you don't like it. If you are desperate to do it now, PM me and can tell you what to do.

[drewscm]

You need to go into XBMC file manager, choose add source and then browse to your windows machine recorded TV share, when prompted provide a username/password that is valid on the Windows machine and check the remember password box. Without looking at your logs I'm guessing the PI can't access the share, in Windows 'Everyone" means everyone with an account on the machine. Also make sure that whatever user you use has full access to the share in the properties>security tab on the Windows machine. If this doesn't fix your problem then paste your xbmc.log and server log somewhere and post a link here

I can watch recorded tv through the share, but unable to get any video to play through the wmc.pvr addon for raspbmc.

[Dilligaf]

As a heads up the author of the Amber skin was nice enough to modify and include RecordPrefs.xml and DeleteTimer.xml in his skin. They are included in Github and obviously haven't made it to the version in xbmc repo yet. So series recording in Amber should soon work "out of the box"

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You need to go into XBMC file manager, choose add source and then browse to your windows machine recorded TV share, when prompted provide a username/password that is valid on the Windows machine and check the remember password box. Without looking at your logs I'm guessing the PI can't access the share, in Windows 'Everyone" means everyone with an account on the machine. Also make sure that whatever user you use has full access to the share in the properties>security tab on the Windows machine. If this doesn't fix your problem then paste your xbmc.log and server log somewhere and post a link here

I can watch recorded tv through the share, but unable to get any video to play through the wmc.pvr addon for raspbmc.

I understand that... Have you added Recorded TV as a source in XBMC file manager?? If you haven't then do so and retest, if you have then logs are needed.

[krustyreturns]

As a heads up the author of the Amber skin was nice enough to modify and include RecordPrefs.xml and DeleteTimer.xml in his skin. They are included in Github and obviously haven't made it to the version in xbmc repo yet. So series recording in Amber should soon work "out of the box"

Thanks for the heads up, that is very cool.

[Dilligaf]

As a heads up the author of the Amber skin was nice enough to modify and include RecordPrefs.xml and DeleteTimer.xml in his skin. They are included in Github and obviously haven't made it to the version in xbmc repo yet. So series recording in Amber should soon work "out of the box"

Thanks for the heads up, that is very cool.

If anyone wants them now they can be downloaded from here https://github.com/pecinko/skin.amber/tree/master/1080i

[bzellinger]

Thanks for releasing this. Please check the error in the log file. Thanks for looking!

Edit: Never mind.

[krustyreturns]

As a heads up the author of the Amber skin was nice enough to modify and include RecordPrefs.xml and DeleteTimer.xml in his skin. They are included in Github and obviously haven't made it to the version in xbmc repo yet. So series recording in Amber should soon work "out of the box"

Thanks for the heads up, that is very cool.

If anyone wants them now they can be downloaded from here https://github.com/pecinko/skin.amber/tree/master/1080i

I tried it, it hangs xbmc when it tries to bring up the recordprefs dialog. Just for yucks I plugged in my xml files into the amber skin to see what happens and they work, but the window background is transparent.

[Dilligaf]

Weird, just tried again and it's all working. Set a series recording and set prefs OK then deleted from timer screen and got the prompt to delete just this episode or entire series recording. Are you using the release version or your dev version?? Possibly something changed?

When I originally tried the files included with the client the record prefs came up but there was no OK/Cancel buttons