[Dilligaf]

Gotham build of the OS X client is now up: http://ge.tt/6XG7Rdv/v/0?c

Wow that was fast. I put it up. Thank you!

Hi Krustyreturns,

You were right about the timing in the pvr-client. Dillagaf showed me how to set the time on the pi, and as soon as I set it to the right day and time, the epg loaded with no problems and it has been working fine ever since. The pi will mostly be on, but if I have a power failure or shut down for any reason, it is easy enough to ssh the time setting. Thank you and Dillagaf for all your help and patience...

I was just reading about this gotham build. is that something I should be upgrading to, or should I just stay with the pvr-client you wrote.

I noticed that when playing back recorded tv programs, the picture sometimes halts, and restarts, as if the buffer was too small.
I am using a class 4 sd card. Do you think using a class 10 will solve this? or should I try to overclock. I am at cpu 840 Gpu 250 right now. Should I bump this up to 1000/300 ?

Sorry I asked so many questions at once, but I am limited here as to how long I can stay on the internet...

Thanks again,

Tony

Glad you got it working. I would recommend a usb 3 thumb drive install, you still need a sd to boot but its speed is irrelevant. With a good power supply you should be able to overclock to 1Ghz plus when using usb boot

[krustyreturns]

I was just reading about this gotham build. is that something I should be upgrading to, or should I just stay with the pvr-client you wrote.

I noticed that when playing back recorded tv programs, the picture sometimes halts, and restarts, as if the buffer was too small.
I am using a class 4 sd card. Do you think using a class 10 will solve this? or should I try to overclock. I am at cpu 840 Gpu 250 right now. Should I bump this up to 1000/300 ?

Sorry I asked so many questions at once, but I am limited here as to how long I can stay on the internet...

Thanks again,

Tony

I recommend a spicy chicken sandwich.

Gotham is the pre-release version of what will eventually be the lastest and greatest xbmc, using it now is not for the faint of heart. Until its released I am personally sticking with xbmc 12.2 (frodo). Plus only the frodo client is available on your pi, so far as I know.

Besides dilligaf's recommendation, I think you are using wireless connection to your server (which I believe is a laptop). It might be worth looking at that too.

[zbuzanic]

Just wanted to say that ServerWMC works awesome on my htpc, tried many, but this one worked really great. Thank you for that and keep up the great work.

[narber]

I am pulling my hair out trying to get WMC Server to work with Raspbmc. I have Windows 8 with WMC. I can watch TV on my PC using an HDHomerun Prime with no issues. Raspbmc finds the tuners, pulls the EPG data, etc. But then I go to Live TV and select a channel in Raspbmc, the "working" wheel spins but I get no video signal. No error messages pop up. I am running Windows Firewall and have created exceptions for what I think are all the necessary apps/services. I created a rule in my router's settings to open port 9080. I have even tried turning off Windows Firewall completely. Still no video signal.

Here is my latest log: http://pastebin.com/wZFKpK1k

Thanks for any help.

[Dilligaf]

I am pulling my hair out trying to get WMC Server to work with Raspbmc. I have Windows 8 with WMC. I can watch TV on my PC using an HDHomerun Prime with no issues. Raspbmc finds the tuners, pulls the EPG data, etc. But then I go to Live TV and select a channel in Raspbmc, the "working" wheel spins but I get no video signal. No error messages pop up. I am running Windows Firewall and have created exceptions for what I think are all the necessary apps/services. I created a rule in my router's settings to open port 9080. I have even tried turning off Windows Firewall completely. Still no video signal.

Here is my latest log: http://pastebin.com/wZFKpK1k

Thanks for any help.

As mentioned repeatedly you need to set credentials for the recorded TV share either in XBMC or in ServerWMC folders tab. Use any user/pass that is valid on the Windows machine, simply sharing with "Everyone" isn't good enough for non Windows machines

[TexasTony]

I am pulling my hair out trying to get WMC Server to work with Raspbmc. I have Windows 8 with WMC. I can watch TV on my PC using an HDHomerun Prime with no issues. Raspbmc finds the tuners, pulls the EPG data, etc. But then I go to Live TV and select a channel in Raspbmc, the "working" wheel spins but I get no video signal. No error messages pop up. I am running Windows Firewall and have created exceptions for what I think are all the necessary apps/services. I created a rule in my router's settings to open port 9080. I have even tried turning off Windows Firewall completely. Still no video signal.

Here is my latest log: http://pastebin.com/wZFKpK1k

Thanks for any help.

Have you tried purchasing the video codec you need to display the tv files? No codec means no video, just audio.
You can purchase codec dirt cheap at www.raspberrypi.org for about 5 bucks. I would buy both to be safe.

Way cheaper than joining hairclub for men ...

[TexasTony]

I was just reading about this gotham build. is that something I should be upgrading to, or should I just stay with the pvr-client you wrote.

I noticed that when playing back recorded tv programs, the picture sometimes halts, and restarts, as if the buffer was too small.
I am using a class 4 sd card. Do you think using a class 10 will solve this? or should I try to overclock. I am at cpu 840 Gpu 250 right now. Should I bump this up to 1000/300 ?

Sorry I asked so many questions at once, but I am limited here as to how long I can stay on the internet...

Thanks again,

Tony

I recommend a spicy chicken sandwich.

Gotham is the pre-release version of what will eventually be the lastest and greatest xbmc, using it now is not for the faint of heart. Until its released I am personally sticking with xbmc 12.2 (frodo). Plus only the frodo client is available on your pi, so far as I know.

Besides dilligaf's recommendation, I think you are using wireless connection to your server (which I believe is a laptop). It might be worth looking at that too.

chicken? this is Texas... beef country lol

this laptop is what I use in the city cause it's easy to carry. At the ranch I have a HPDesktop with windows 7. Thinking about what you said, I noticed my router, which is a Linksys 54 wireless G (had it about 15 years) may be the bottleneck, even thou I have it hard wired to the pi with an Ethernet cable. Just wondering if an N router would work faster. Nowadays I only use the router to connect the desktop to the laptop or printer, but has no access to internet. TWC says no way to get cable all the way out here, especially just for me. LiveTv does not stutter. just recorded tv. Played recorded tv on desktop and it does not stutter meaning it did not record the stuttering.

[TheImmortal]

By stopping early, you mean it stopped it before the 10 minute padding was up?

Yes. The first recording should have gone from 7:58 to 9:10, and the second recording I expected to use a different tuner and record from 8:58 to 10:10. But what happened was the first went from 7:58 to 9:00, and the second from 9:00-10:10 and both used the same tuner. It didn't result in anything being cut off (this time), but it wasn't the expected behavior.

Okay, I looked at it again, and the two recordings that I am talking about were on the same channel. The recording that was scheduled on a different channel was from 9:58-11:10. That recording worked correctly, in the sense that it used a second tuner to start the recording on the different channel. So it seems that it just didn't want to do that for the two recordings on the same channel.

I would still prefer the second tuner to kick in despite being on the same channel because I run my shows through MCEBuddy and it has a tendancy to cut the last segement of the show out if the recording ends abruptly.

That makes more sense. To answer your original question, my software doesn't control this, it just makes a request of the wmc rec service. I know the normal behavior of the service is to keep using the same tuner if the channel doesn't change. Since the channel is not changing, it is giving you the padding you requested, albeit split across two recordings.

Interestingly, I am not sure if wmc has a setting for this, but I think I recall a setting in the api for 'required' padding, instead of the normal 'when possible' padding. If so, this should give you the behavior you want. I will check it when I get a chance. If it is there and it works I could make it an option in the server settings.

Any chance the above feature will be getting added soon?

I love the new features in the latest server build. Just keeps getting better and better!

[krustyreturns]

Interestingly, I am not sure if wmc has a setting for this, but I think I recall a setting in the api for 'required' padding, instead of the normal 'when possible' padding. If so, this should give you the behavior you want. I will check it when I get a chance. If it is there and it works I could make it an option in the server settings.

Any chance the above feature will be getting added soon?

I love the new features in the latest server build. Just keeps getting better and better!

I needed the reminder, I'll try to get it into the next release.

[krustyreturns]

this laptop is what I use in the city cause it's easy to carry. At the ranch I have a HPDesktop with windows 7. Thinking about what you said, I noticed my router, which is a Linksys 54 wireless G (had it about 15 years) may be the bottleneck, even thou I have it hard wired to the pi with an Ethernet cable. Just wondering if an N router would work faster. Nowadays I only use the router to connect the desktop to the laptop or printer, but has no access to internet. TWC says no way to get cable all the way out here, especially just for me. LiveTv does not stutter. just recorded tv. Played recorded tv on desktop and it does not stutter meaning it did not record the stuttering.

If your server is also wired to the same router so the connection is all wired, that probably is not the cause. If it is using wireless g, I doubt it will be fast enough (and yes N is faster). Independent of my software I tried to use wireless to connect my server to a remote pc and it was not fast enough to play wtv smoothly over the network. Strange though that live tv is fine for you, but rec tv is is not, as they are not too different bandwidth wise - so maybe the problem is elsewhere.

[krustyreturns]

hi kr, i have managed to get recorded tv to playback on the pi. very inconsistently but i'll look into those problems in due course. i must have deleted that first / when i was editing out my username. it seems the problem is playback on the pi. i need to do some testing to see whether its the same through the pvr plugin as it is through the video section, but i'm away for a few days now.

also update on the ts stutter bug. its been confirmed as a bug in Gotham Alpha and now showing as milestone Future / Pending => 13.0. we're on 12.2 at the moment aren't we? sounds promising!

Hey Spaceboy,

I found a fix for the error that stops streams from starting on some avc/h264 broadcasts in the UK. It works on the files you sent me (it will be in the next release). If the xbmc team can fix the stuttery playback in the ts files, we should be good.

[dhogwood]

Hey

I have been reading through the whole thread and have attempted to find an answer but I'm hoping that I've not missed something.

I am currently running XBMC Gotham v13 with the equivalent serverwmc installed and set up. The EPG populates fine in XBMC however the recording function doesn't appear to work. I get to the 'recording preference' screen however then that particular pop up appears to freeze and I cannot select anything on it or activate the recording.

However if I go directly into WMC and set up a recording and then go back to XBMC the recording will be marked inside the EPG!

I am running Windows 8 with the equivalent WMC and any help would be greatly appreciated!

[krustyreturns]

Hey

I have been reading through the whole thread and have attempted to find an answer but I'm hoping that I've not missed something.

I am currently running XBMC Gotham v13 with the equivalent serverwmc installed and set up. The EPG populates fine in XBMC however the recording function doesn't appear to work. I get to the 'recording preference' screen however then that particular pop up appears to freeze and I cannot select anything on it or activate the recording.

However if I go directly into WMC and set up a recording and then go back to XBMC the recording will be marked inside the EPG!

I am running Windows 8 with the equivalent WMC and any help would be greatly appreciated!

I have seen some skins hang when these custom recording dialogs pop up. If you aren't using confluence, try it first and see if you still have the problem.

[TheImmortal]

The next build for Aeon MQ5 will include the files to add and delete series recordings. For those who don't want to wait, the files necessary to add this feature to the current build can be found here:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=175438

[nimrod77]

Hi Krustyreturns,
Thanks for your great work on this.
I have one issue at the moment. I have one group of channels (SBS TV in Australia) that will not play on XBMC. When I try to watch SBS an error appears saying that the stream did not contain video. Every other channel works within XBMC.
I can watch SBS with no problems within WMC7. I can schedule a recording of SBS from within XBMC with no problem and watch the recording with no problem in XBMC.

Wierd, but annoying.
Here is my log file: http://www.xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=71916

Any help would be great
Cheers!