[primaeval]

Thanks for the response.  Mxplayer streams well with minimal buffering where the tv guide default has intermit freezing.  I set my playcorefactory default with mxplayer within the Kodi userdata.  The playercorefactory works, but as I explained it does not play too well with the tv guide and causes kodi to crash when I exit the stream. Also, I am running into some trouble with the epg guide.  I created an xmltv file and the guide loads and stays current for around 3 to 4 days. It then loses the programming information like it expired.  Is there something that I am doing wrong to keep it updated?  I have the source set to load up automatically when the tv guide starts up and I am puzzled why it is losing the guide information.  Any advice?

Thanks
bizzs

 If your streams play ok from the normal Kodi Video folder there are a couple of things you can try in TVGF.

Sometimes on Android you need to turn off the MediaSurface codec in "Kodi\Settings\Player\Video". Make sure you are in Expert mode.

In TVGF you can try "Settings\Playback\Use alternate streaming method" and "Settings\Playback\Enable OSD menu".
The osd has two video windows and lots of overlays which makes the video stutter in some cases.
You can test if that will help by pressing the TAB key when you play a channel. That will toggle to the normal kodi video fullscreen mode without the TVGF osd.

There are several settings that stop the xmltv being updated.
The main one is "File download interval".
"Reset on Start" will reload the xmltv every time. You can use that once to force a refresh.
If the timestamp of the xmltv file doesn't change it won't reload it.
If Kodi crashes you might end up with a journal file for source.db in userdata\addon_data\script.tvguide.fullscreen. Delete it.
If you try to start TVGF twice the second start probably won't show your programs. Be patient for the first start.
If your Android box is on most of the time the best way is to use the "Settings\Startup\Background Update Service" in the middle of the night.

[bizzs]

Thanks for the info. My streams do not play well with the original default Kodi player.  I had changed those settings many times that you referenced prior and the streams got worse. This was my main reason why I had changed the kodi player default to external.  I read on the net about creating a playercorefactory file using mxplayer or vlc.  The change worked pretty good within kodi and has minimal freezing when using with other programs, but the change did not  play well with tv guide. I have to turn the external player off and exit the player to surf the TV guide.  Sometimes it crashes kodi and other times I can exit without problems.  I thought maybe there was something that I could change so that mxplayer would be the primarydefault player withing tv guide itself.  I am a little confused about the xmltv file. I created the file from using a known software that I don't think I can mention on this site. The file loads and works well for 4 days then it loses the data in the epg like it had expired.  Is there a way that I can view and extend the time stamp so the xmltv file will continue to update?  Thanks for all your help, your tv guide program is awesome. I

Thanks
bizzs

[primaeval]

Thanks for the info. My streams do not play well with the original default Kodi player.  I had changed those settings many times that you referenced prior and the streams got worse. This was my main reason why I had changed the kodi player default to external.  I read on the net about creating a playercorefactory file using mxplayer or vlc.  The change worked pretty good within kodi and has minimal freezing when using with other programs, but the change did not  play well with tv guide. I have to turn the external player off and exit the player to surf the TV guide.  Sometimes it crashes kodi and other times I can exit without problems.  I thought maybe there was something that I could change so that mxplayer would be the primarydefault player withing tv guide itself.  I am a little confused about the xmltv file. I created the file from using a known software that I don't think I can mention on this site. The file loads and works well for 4 days then it loses the data in the epg like it had expired.  Is there a way that I can view and extend the time stamp so the xmltv file will continue to update?  Thanks for all your help, your tv guide program is awesome. I

Thanks
bizzs

 I could add some code to always use an external player if you have specified one but that would have to be for every stream.
It won't work for streams that can't be played externally.

Have you tried setting wildcard rules for when to use mxplayer?
Have a look in here for internetstream or filename.
https://kodi.wiki/view/External_players
Look in kodi.log to get the stream urls if they come from an addon.

Are you sure your xmltv app is downloading new data?
Have a look at the program times in the file.
If you have set the "file download interval" to something less than the file gets updated it should pick up the new file on startup.

[bizzs]

That would be awesome if you can add code so I could select the external player. I have a fire tv and mxplayer pro plays my streams pretty decent.  Thanks for the help abd I will check back..

[primaeval]

That would be awesome if you can add code so I could select the external player. I have a fire tv and mxplayer pro plays my streams pretty decent.  Thanks for the help abd I will check back..

 I think you misunderstood.
I don't want to add that to the code.
Check if the "rules" for playercorefactory work first.
Use wildcards for your urls.

[primaeval]

That would be awesome if you can add code so I could select the external player. I have a fire tv and mxplayer pro plays my streams pretty decent.  Thanks for the help abd I will check back..

 Here is an example that works in Windows.
It will play the streams with akamized in them.
That covers some streams from the iplayerwww addon but not others.

xml:
<playercorefactory>

<players>

<player name="ffplay" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">

    <filename>c:\utils\ffplay.exe</filename>

    <args>-fs "{1}"</args>

    <hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>

    <hideconsole>false</hideconsole>

    <hidecursor>false</hidecursor>

</player>

</players>

 <rules action="prepend">

   <rule filename=".*akamaized.*" player="ffplay"/>

 </rules>

</playercorefactory>

[bizzs]

Thanks for the information.  Do I apply this information and overwrite the playerscorefactory file within the tv guide script or do I apply this fix and overwrite the playerscorefactory within kodi itself?

Thanks
bizzs

[primaeval]

Thanks for the information.  Do I apply this information and overwrite the playerscorefactory file within the tv guide script or do I apply this fix and overwrite the playerscorefactory within kodi itself?

Thanks
bizzs

 I posted an example of a playercorefactory script for Kodi that works for iplayerWWW only on Windows, with ffplay in my c:\utils folder.
You need to adapt it to your set of streams on Android.
That means you need to put your mxplayer player section instead of my ffplay player section.
Then you need to work out what is special about your streams that you need to play in an external player.
If they are all from one provider you should be able to put that provider in place of akamaized.
If not you need to read about regular expressions and make one that will find all your streams.
Read this link carefully.
https://kodi.wiki/view/External_players
There is an example about using the OR command which is a |

xml:
filename=".*720.*|.*1080.*"

You might need to use that if you have multiple providers.

[EDIT]
The reason I am using akamaized is because it is common and unique to the bbc urls:

Code:

Line 1157: 07:57:57.939 T:1600  NOTICE: CExternalPlayer::OpenFile: http ://vs-hls-uk-live.akamaized.net/pool_902/live/bbc_one_hd/bbc_one_hd.isml/bbc_one_hd-pa4%3d128000-video%3d5070016.m3u8
Line 1250: 07:58:03.971 T:1600  NOTICE: CExternalPlayer::OpenFile: http ://vs-hls-uk-live.akamaized.net/pool_902/live/bbc_two_hd/bbc_two_hd.isml/bbc_two_hd-pa4%3d128000-video%3d5070016.m3u8

[Cangeoboy]

Upgraded to Leia Beta 5.   TV Guide Fullscreen is still working and loads my epg file, but if I go into stream setup from the menu, none of the options are showing.  I've reset the database, but that didn't seem to do anything.  Thoughts?

[primaeval]

Upgraded to Leia Beta 5.   TV Guide Fullscreen is still working and loads my epg file, but if I go into stream setup from the menu, none of the options are showing.  I've reset the database, but that didn't seem to do anything.  Thoughts?

 It still works ok for me in Kodi Leia Beta 5 Windows 64.
Are you sure you have installed 0.17.387 and not 0.0.387?
0.0.387 is for Jarvis.
0.17.387 is for Krypton and Leia.

[Cangeoboy]

Upgraded to Leia Beta 5.   TV Guide Fullscreen is still working and loads my epg file, but if I go into stream setup from the menu, none of the options are showing.  I've reset the database, but that didn't seem to do anything.  Thoughts?

 It still works ok for me in Kodi Leia Beta 5 Windows 64.
Are you sure you have installed 0.17.387 and not 0.0.387?
0.0.387 is for Jarvis.
0.17.387 is for Krypton and Leia. 

Thanks for the info.  I isolated the issue to the custom skin I use.  Under Krypton I had no problems seeing the stream setup page.  When I switched to Leia however, none of the graphics/fonts would show up on that page.  I copied the streamsetup.xml file from the default skin and added it into my custom skins folder and it works now.  If I get time I'll play around and see if I can get the streamsetup.xml to match the colour scheme I have.

Thanks

[primaeval]

Upgraded to Leia Beta 5.   TV Guide Fullscreen is still working and loads my epg file, but if I go into stream setup from the menu, none of the options are showing.  I've reset the database, but that didn't seem to do anything.  Thoughts?

 It still works ok for me in Kodi Leia Beta 5 Windows 64.
Are you sure you have installed 0.17.387 and not 0.0.387?
0.0.387 is for Jarvis.
0.17.387 is for Krypton and Leia.   

Thanks for the info.  I isolated the issue to the custom skin I use.  Under Krypton I had no problems seeing the stream setup page.  When I switched to Leia however, none of the graphics/fonts would show up on that page.  I copied the streamsetup.xml file from the default skin and added it into my custom skins folder and it works now.  If I get time I'll play around and see if I can get the streamsetup.xml to match the colour scheme I have.

Thanks  

 If you got your custom skin from a link in this thread it is probably based on the Jarvis branch of TVGF.
The only thing you should need to do is change all the

Code:

StringCompare

to

Code:

String.IsEqual

like this
https://github.com/primaeval/script.tvgu...17a76098d5

[jcorsaut]

 It still works ok for me in Kodi Leia Beta 5 Windows 64.
Are you sure you have installed 0.17.387 and not 0.0.387?
0.0.387 is for Jarvis.
0.17.387 is for Krypton and Leia.   

Thanks for the info.  I isolated the issue to the custom skin I use.  Under Krypton I had no problems seeing the stream setup page.  When I switched to Leia however, none of the graphics/fonts would show up on that page.  I copied the streamsetup.xml file from the default skin and added it into my custom skins folder and it works now.  If I get time I'll play around and see if I can get the streamsetup.xml to match the colour scheme I have.

Thanks   

 If you got your custom skin from a link in this thread it is probably based on the Jarvis branch of TVGF.
The only thing you should need to do is change all the

Code:

StringCompare

to

Code:

String.IsEqual

like this
https://github.com/primaeval/script.tvgu...17a76098d5 

I did get my custom skin from a link in this thread and then edited it.   Must have been Jarvis.  The changes you gave fixed my issue.  Thanks so much.  Such a great addon you've created here.

[skripo]

I am trying to configure this to work with my IPTV provider.  I am using Kodi Krypton with stalker.  Video and guide (from supplier) is working perfect.  I tried inputting the URL not the source and it does not work.

Any tips?

[primaeval]

I am trying to configure this to work with my IPTV provider.  I am using Kodi Krypton with stalker.  Video and guide (from supplier) is working perfect.  I tried inputting the URL not the source and it does not work.

Any tips?

 The url for the xmltv or the m3u?
If it's the xmltv it might need the "Convert & to &" if you see an error message about xml in kodi.log.

If it's the m3u it should go in "Settings\Source\import m3u".