2012-09-28, 17:21
@janbar
I have been looking for the feature you descibed to delay playback but I cannot find it. If one exists I would be happy to change it and give it a try. I am thinking that you may need to add a setting in the addon to alow a playback delay for anyone that uses an IR blaster and/or has a set top box like mine that takes 2-3s after tuning before there is a picture. I use the HD-PVR capture device with the built in IR blaster to control a Vip-211k DISH Network HD reciever. The channel change script can take 3s or so before sending all of the digits and then the Vip-211k takes just as long to get a signal after tuning. I would need to set the playback delay to the worst case scenario and by then I should have a non 0 size file to play back. Currently it tries to playback before the file exists or has any data.
The capture card is very common as is the set top box so I know others will need such a setting as well. In the mythfrontend it waits until my channel change script is complete as I described above, and then starts playback. It looks like xbmc has no way of telling if the channel change script is complete yet or not (or maybe it can?) so putting a sleep in the script still makes the mythbackend delay before startying capture which is good, but xbmc is full speed ahead and starts capture way early no matter what settings I change. I could compile and test such a feature if implemented and could report back the results.
I tried that setting as well. The highest it allows is 2s and I am not seeing any difference when I use it. I'm not sure if it affects the playback delay or what it does really, but I did indeed try it and I didn't see a difference. I also set the channel change timeout to 40s and still no joy.
I have been looking for the feature you descibed to delay playback but I cannot find it. If one exists I would be happy to change it and give it a try. I am thinking that you may need to add a setting in the addon to alow a playback delay for anyone that uses an IR blaster and/or has a set top box like mine that takes 2-3s after tuning before there is a picture. I use the HD-PVR capture device with the built in IR blaster to control a Vip-211k DISH Network HD reciever. The channel change script can take 3s or so before sending all of the digits and then the Vip-211k takes just as long to get a signal after tuning. I would need to set the playback delay to the worst case scenario and by then I should have a non 0 size file to play back. Currently it tries to playback before the file exists or has any data.
The capture card is very common as is the set top box so I know others will need such a setting as well. In the mythfrontend it waits until my channel change script is complete as I described above, and then starts playback. It looks like xbmc has no way of telling if the channel change script is complete yet or not (or maybe it can?) so putting a sleep in the script still makes the mythbackend delay before startying capture which is good, but xbmc is full speed ahead and starts capture way early no matter what settings I change. I could compile and test such a feature if implemented and could report back the results.
I tried that setting as well. The highest it allows is 2s and I am not seeing any difference when I use it. I'm not sure if it affects the playback delay or what it does really, but I did indeed try it and I didn't see a difference. I also set the channel change timeout to 40s and still no joy.