[Stiefelland]

Krusty, Slowfoxtrot, Mackster, This is the least I can do to give back to this great community: I compiled a ATV2 version of the client (based on 1013). I'm not able to test it at this point as my ATV is currently running a down-level XBMC version. But I'm sure there are some volunteers out there . Please, let me know where to upload it to. - Thanks, Stiefelland.

Wow Stiefelland! That is great contribution!

You can place it on my google drive if you want:
https://drive.google.com/?authuser=0#fol...zFhZmNPWUE

I will pm slowfoxtrot and see if he can test.

As soon as someone tests and confirms it works, I will place it on the download page. Will you be willing to do builds of new client revs in the future?

thanks again, this is really great.

--kr

PS Android next?

Krusty, I placed the file on your google drive as suggested. And, yes, I'm definitely willing to build new versions of the client. I must admit I barely have any experience with Android builds so unfortunately I'm not of much help there. - Thanks, Stiefelland.

[Abear]

Ok, I know already made a post about this, but now its happening again.

I am having a stuttering problem with xbmc and playback of 720 channels. Only 720 though, 1080 channels play just fine. I have tried pretty much everything in the stuttering/choppy playback thread, the only thing I have left to try is disabling my realtek drivers. I must have missed that part when I read the thread the first time. I just wanted to post in here again and see if anyone else is coming up with the same issue? I was beggining to think it was a hardware issue, but then I realized all the 1080 channels playback perfect, and so do my 1080 mkv files. I need to try a couple of the 720 mkv's I have on my hard drive and see if those do it also. I thought I had figured it out by enabling Vertical sync, but that makes a mess of 1080 channels. I also tried Dilligafs suggestion and enabled video sync, but that just made everything worse, but I think that has something to do with my TV. At 60hz I get a little screen tear, even just sitting on the desktop, so I think its unrelated...at least to the stutter problem. I meant to post this last night, but my daughter had a soccer game and I forgot. I figure I will post it this morning and see if anyone has any suggestions I can try once I get home this evening. Thank you again.

[krustyreturns]

Ok, I know already made a post about this, but now its happening again.

I am having a stuttering problem with xbmc and playback of 720 channels. Only 720 though, 1080 channels play just fine. I have tried pretty much everything in the stuttering/choppy playback thread, the only thing I have left to try is disabling my realtek drivers. I must have missed that part when I read the thread the first time. I just wanted to post in here again and see if anyone else is coming up with the same issue? I was beggining to think it was a hardware issue, but then I realized all the 1080 channels playback perfect, and so do my 1080 mkv files. I need to try a couple of the 720 mkv's I have on my hard drive and see if those do it also. I thought I had figured it out by enabling Vertical sync, but that makes a mess of 1080 channels. I also tried Dilligafs suggestion and enabled video sync, but that just made everything worse, but I think that has something to do with my TV. At 60hz I get a little screen tear, even just sitting on the desktop, so I think its unrelated...at least to the stutter problem. I meant to post this last night, but my daughter had a soccer game and I forgot. I figure I will post it this morning and see if anyone has any suggestions I can try once I get home this evening. Thank you again.

A good thing to try is to record a show on one of these 720p channels. After it records, play the wtv file in xbmc and see if you get smooth playback.

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Krusty, I placed the file on your google drive as suggested. And, yes, I'm definitely willing to build new versions of the client. I must admit I barely have any experience with Android builds so unfortunately I'm not of much help there. - Thanks, Stiefelland.

I have it, thanks. Is this version for xbmc frodo or gotham?

[hdmkv]

Just a simple thanks for this backend. Couldn't make other backends work, but this one works well.

[spinnaker]

I have never received a straight answer on this either. If there is a way to get a hierarchical view in the recordings list I have not found it in the addon interface. But there are enough variables there that I may not have hit on the right combination (and I am not interested in going through the xbmc code). The question you may have a better chance of getting an answer to is to ask if ANY of the pvr addons support a hierarchical view.

If there is in one, let me know which one...

NextPVR has a hierarchical view but then again, that is how it stores, it's recordings. WMC stores all recordings in one directory. This makes me thing that the WMC addon or the server would have to have a "virtual" directory based off of the file name. The wmc client groups files, it should not be too hard to do it in the wmc pvr addon / server.

[scarecrow420]

although WMC stores all recordings in one folder, i do believe the way we are talking to it's backend services we do specify the full path/filename for the recording, so it might be possible for us to store recordings in different spots. And even if we couldnt record the file to the required folder structure, one assumes it would also be possible for ServerWMC to move the recording file once the recording finishes. I guess because i dont have that many recordings, im wondering what the benefit really is? What is the heirarchy based on? eg Show? Genre? Day/Week? If it is a feature/enhancement request I guess like all others it just has to be evaluated as to how popular it is with the user base and thus where it sits in the priority list

[krustyreturns]

although WMC stores all recordings in one folder, i do believe the way we are talking to it's backend services we do specify the full path/filename for the recording, so it might be possible for us to store recordings in different spots. And even if we couldnt record the file to the required folder structure, one assumes it would also be possible for ServerWMC to move the recording file once the recording finishes. I guess because i dont have that many recordings, im wondering what the benefit really is? What is the heirarchy based on? eg Show? Genre? Day/Week? If it is a feature/enhancement request I guess like all others it just has to be evaluated as to how popular it is with the user base and thus where it sits in the priority list

Wmc bases it on the series name. So like, you click the 'walking dead', and inside you see all the episodes you have of it. If you delete all the episodes, the series 'folder' goes away. At any one time our family has more than 300 wtv files, and the flat view of xbmc is getting very old. After we get this instant rec/service thing done I really want to get this working. Now that I know it can be done in the xbmc interface (thanks spinnaker)

Rather than moving the files I prefer spinnaker's idea of a virtual directory structure. Possibly we could maintain one with symbolic links that points to the 'flat' file structure.

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Just a simple thanks for this backend. Couldn't make other backends work, but this one works well.

Glad you like it. We appreciate that..

[spyder]

In regards to the series listings, has the upnp server been suggested/tried? Not sure if this is possible, but I used this method before using pvr.wmc and it works well for viewing recorded tv episodes(preview pics are missing though).

[mit3gt]

First I'd like to say fantastic work. I have been looking for a solution like this for some time. I am unfortunately having issues. I cannot get Live TV working. I get the "No data on channel' error. Viewing recorded TV works fine. My setup is kind of unique. I am using DVBlink software with virtual tuners with colossus cards as well some qam cards. I am running XMBC Frodo using mysql. Everything works fine in WMC. I see a couple other people (in this thread) are using DVBlink with HDPVR boxes and having success, so I don't know why I cannot get this to work. Also, my guide, when in timeline view locks up XBMC. I don't know if any of this is related. I am running a local client on the same PC as ServerWMC. ServerWMC seems to be working, its making connections where it should (I think), It is pulling data (channels, epg entries, recordings, etc). I have checked the logs and they keep stating:

"error: Stream file 'ts' does not exist (likely no data was found to remux)"

I am getting small files in the savedForDebug folder in Recorded TV. One for every time I have attempted to play live TV. I hope I have provided enough info. Here are my logs from XBMC & ServerWMC:

XBMC Logs
http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=77322

ServerWMC Logs
http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=77327

I really hope I can get this working. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[spinnaker]

although WMC stores all recordings in one folder, i do believe the way we are talking to it's backend services we do specify the full path/filename for the recording, so it might be possible for us to store recordings in different spots. And even if we couldnt record the file to the required folder structure, one assumes it would also be possible for ServerWMC to move the recording file once the recording finishes. I guess because i dont have that many recordings, im wondering what the benefit really is? What is the heirarchy based on? eg Show? Genre? Day/Week? If it is a feature/enhancement request I guess like all others it just has to be evaluated as to how popular it is with the user base and thus where it sits in the priority list

Wmc bases it on the series name. So like, you click the 'walking dead', and inside you see all the episodes you have of it. If you delete all the episodes, the series 'folder' goes away. At any one time our family has more than 300 wtv files, and the flat view of xbmc is getting very old. After we get this instant rec/service thing done I really want to get this working. Now that I know it can be done in the xbmc interface (thanks spinnaker)

Rather than moving the files I prefer spinnaker's idea of a virtual directory structure. Possibly we could maintain one with symbolic links that points to the 'flat' file

Thanks for the further explanation krusty. I added one too but not sure what happened to it. I'll bet I hit preview. Need to get used to this forum.

What I did say in the post is that I do not think recording in a different place will be possible since it is the WMC service that is doing the recording. I do not like the idea of moving files since the WMC client has a lot of nice options for sorting that might not be possible in XBMC like sort by original air date, sort by creation date and sort by title. I use sort by title a lot to remove dupes. It sure would be nice to have this sort features in xbmc then it would not matter as much if the file were moved.

Copying is not a good idea since the wtvs are already so freaking large.

I do have some code that reads the extended properties of the file if it helps but I am guessing that kind of stuff might be cake to you guys.

[krustyreturns]

First I'd like to say fantastic work. I have been looking for a solution like this for some time. I am unfortunately having issues. I cannot get Live TV working. I get the "No data on channel' error. Viewing recorded TV works fine. My setup is kind of unique. I am using DVBlink software with virtual tuners with colossus cards as well some qam cards. I am running XMBC Frodo using mysql. Everything works fine in WMC. I see a couple other people (in this thread) are using DVBlink with HDPVR boxes and having success, so I don't know why I cannot get this to work. Also, my guide, when in timeline view locks up XBMC. I don't know if any of this is related. I am running a local client on the same PC as ServerWMC. ServerWMC seems to be working, its making connections where it should (I think), It is pulling data (channels, epg entries, recordings, etc). I have checked the logs and they keep stating:

I really hope I can get this working. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

It looks like it is crashing because it is finding an audio subtype that we haven't encountered before. Go to your recorded tv folder and look in:
tempxbmc\savedfordebug

hopefully in this folder you will find this file:
LiveTV_mediacenter_DVB-T_4_2013_10_30_20_31_52.wtv

upload this file to:
https://drive.google.com/?authuser=0#fol...zFhZmNPWUE

let me know when its there and I'll let you know what I find. Thanks.

[krustyreturns]

Thanks for the further explanation krusty. I added one too but not sure what happened to it. I'll bet I hit preview. Need to get used to this forum.

What I did say in the post is that I do not think recording in a different place will be possible since it is the WMC service that is doing the recording. I do not like the idea of moving files since the WMC client has a lot of nice options for sorting that might not be possible in XBMC like sort by original air date, sort by creation date and sort by title. I use sort by title a lot to remove dupes. It sure would be nice to have this sort features in xbmc then it would not matter as much if the file were moved.

Copying is not a good idea since the wtvs are already so freaking large.

I do have some code that reads the extended properties of the file if it helps but I am guessing that kind of stuff might be cake to you guys.

I actually think you could move the wtv files into a hierarchical structure and wmc will just ignore it and continue listing as it does now - just based on metadata. I haven't messed with this a lot and I don't know if wmc will still delete files past their expiration if you do this, but I bet it would. You are right that you can't do anything about the file that is being recorded to, but moving it after its done recording I think would work. My inclination though would be to leave the wmc directory alone if possible.

I think it would be nice to have more sort features in xbmc too, but that is an xbmc thing, we can't control that in the addon. Best ask for this feature from the xbmc team.

You mean you have code to access extended wtv metadata? I do have code for this.

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In regards to the series listings, has the upnp server been suggested/tried? Not sure if this is possible, but I used this method before using pvr.wmc and it works well for viewing recorded tv episodes(preview pics are missing though).

I'm not sure how to do this either, interesting idea though.

[mit3gt]

First I'd like to say fantastic work. I have been looking for a solution like this for some time. I am unfortunately having issues. I cannot get Live TV working. I get the "No data on channel' error. Viewing recorded TV works fine. My setup is kind of unique. I am using DVBlink software with virtual tuners with colossus cards as well some qam cards. I am running XMBC Frodo using mysql. Everything works fine in WMC. I see a couple other people (in this thread) are using DVBlink with HDPVR boxes and having success, so I don't know why I cannot get this to work. Also, my guide, when in timeline view locks up XBMC. I don't know if any of this is related. I am running a local client on the same PC as ServerWMC. ServerWMC seems to be working, its making connections where it should (I think), It is pulling data (channels, epg entries, recordings, etc). I have checked the logs and they keep stating:

I really hope I can get this working. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

It looks like it is crashing because it is finding an audio subtype that we haven't encountered before. Go to your recorded tv folder and look in:
tempxbmc\savedfordebug

hopefully in this folder you will find this file:
LiveTV_mediacenter_DVB-T_4_2013_10_30_20_31_52.wtv

upload this file to:
https://drive.google.com/?authuser=0#fol...zFhZmNPWUE

let me know when its there and I'll let you know what I find. Thanks.

Done. I had to create new files because I had "delete temporary files" unchecked in ServerWMC, and it wasn't putting any files into tempxbmc\savedfordebug. Also I noticed that in XBMC, Duplicate channel entries are created. For instance, channel 4 is shown twice in TV channel view. The first one represents the DVB-T tuners and the second one represents the qam tuners. Neither channel works. These channels are merged in WMC. I sent you both the resulting files from tempxbmc\savedfordebug. I should also mention that the duplicate channel issue goes away in timeline view (timeline view causes xbmc to hang though). Thanks.

[Stiefelland]

Krusty, I placed the file on your google drive as suggested. And, yes, I'm definitely willing to build new versions of the client. I must admit I barely have any experience with Android builds so unfortunately I'm not of much help there. - Thanks, Stiefelland.

I have it, thanks. Is this version for xbmc frodo or gotham?

It's for XBMC Frodo 12.2. I'll attempt a Gotham build next.

[Dilligaf]

Asked Dom/Popcornmix about the large wtv files not playing on the PI and here's his response http://forum.stmlabs.com/showthread.php?...8#pid85628