[mzup]

First, Happy Holidays to all.

My son is back from college and he wants me to set this up on his mac. I don't know macs. How do I find where the settings2.xml file is on a mac?

[Redkiller223]

First, Happy Holidays to all.

My son is back from college and he wants me to set this up on his mac. I don't know macs. How do I find where the settings2.xml file is on a mac?

Should be something similar to this........

Code:

/Users/<your_user_name>/Library/Application Support/XBMC/userdata/addon_data/script.pseudotv.live

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Userdata

[mzup]

Thanks. Found out it was hidden and hide to unhide it. Now my settings are not working. I know it is path related. I have a streams folder that I copied into his documents folder. Now what would be the proper syntax for smb to point to this streams folder? On my windows system I have it going to an ip address of the system, but don't want to use ip address for his unless I have to. I guess I could use the loopback address.

[Redkiller223]

Thanks. Found out it was hidden and hide to unhide it. Now my settings are not working. I know it is path related. I have a streams folder that I copied into his documents folder. Now what would be the proper syntax for smb to point to this streams folder? On my windows system I have it going to an ip address of the system, but don't want to use ip address for his unless I have to. I guess I could use the loopback address.

All that is beyond me.......

Ah, your 2 - 0 got me twice, it's my bad... small fix will be posted soon...

All is well again

[ThorC1138]

I can report that the 12.3 upgrade went just fine with no [new] issues seen!

That being said, is there a fix for the dynamic EPG images coming, perhaps after the holidays?I recall a few pages back that something was in the works...the more recent EPG xmls seems to be defaulting to looking only for a landscape jpg, unless you manually go in an edit it to "fanart" on the include statement(s).

[Lunatixz]

I can report that the 12.3 upgrade went just fine with no [new] issues seen!

That being said, is there a fix for the dynamic EPG images coming, perhaps after the holidays?I recall a few pages back that something was in the works...the more recent EPG xmls seems to be defaulting to looking only for a landscape jpg, unless you manually go in an edit it to "fanart" on the include statement(s).

If no image is found it defaults to a fallback image. Read post 2 for a detailed description of dynamic artwork under skinning...
BTW it's still a WIP... so let me work out the bugs...

Thanks for the 12.3 feedback...

[mzup]

Does anyone that uses a mac know how the path should be written in settings2.xml to point to a local folder for strm files? So lets say I create a folder in the documents folder called Streams. the path would be smb://??/username/documents/streams. What goes before the username?

[Lunatixz]

Does anyone that uses a mac know how the path should be written in settings2.xml to point to a local folder for strm files? So lets say I create a folder in the documents folder called Streams. the path would be smb://??/username/documents/streams. What goes before the username?

well "smb" implies your using a samba network share... In that case the path is relative to your system (ie. IP, shared name, etc)

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=File_sharing

[mzup]

I took the syntax from your second post:
Channel_#_2" value="smb://XXX/Hdhomerun XBMC/NY1.strm" -- Direct strm file (currently only one tuner is supported).

So on a windows system I could have written it like c:\xxxx\xxx.strm? The file is local to the Mac, so isn't on a share. That is the issue, I don't know how to write it for the mac. Perhaps I don't use smb, perhaps something else.

[Lunatixz]

I took the syntax from your second post:
Channel_#_2" value="smb://XXX/Hdhomerun XBMC/NY1.strm" -- Direct strm file (currently only one tuner is supported).

So on a windows system I could have written it like c:\xxxx\xxx.strm? The file is local to the Mac, so isn't on a share. That is the issue, I don't know how to write it for the mac. Perhaps I don't use smb, perhaps something else.

I don't use macs so I have no idea... But it wouldn't be hard to find out!

In XBMC on the mac go to file explorer highlight a file, add it to favorites. Open up favorites.xml and see what path structure is used.

[redhalo]

Any chance of merging the enhanced interleaving rule from here?
https://github.com/geebs61/XBMC-PseudoTV...rleave-exp

[ThorC1138]

I can report that the 12.3 upgrade went just fine with no [new] issues seen!

That being said, is there a fix for the dynamic EPG images coming, perhaps after the holidays?I recall a few pages back that something was in the works...the more recent EPG xmls seems to be defaulting to looking only for a landscape jpg, unless you manually go in an edit it to "fanart" on the include statement(s).

If no image is found it defaults to a fallback image. Read post 2 for a detailed description of dynamic artwork under skinning...
BTW it's still a WIP... so let me work out the bugs...

Thanks for the 12.3 feedback...

Sure, no prob. If it helps any, I understand from the instructions in the first posts that fanart should be the default, but in the EPG xml for the PTVL skin, it looks like you are only making calls to "fanart" for the trending item windows, the others are set for landscape, as are all the ones in the default skin EPG. Here's what I believe is a relative excerpt below for reference..

<!--NowPlaying.Window-->>

<!--Movie.landscape Now Playing-->
<control type="image">
<description>landscape</description>
<texture fallback="landscape.png">$INFO[Player.Art(landscape)]</texture>


I've had some success manually editing it so it calls fanart, and editing/removing the fallback file, but I'm missing something as its brings up fanart when you first open the EPG, then if you start scrolling, it will load a landscape image if that exists, or if not, the fanart from the first item loaded is displayed. Probably just something simple I'm missing in trying to fix it myself.

I think I may just use a util to copy fanart.jpg to landscape.jpg in the root movie folders where none exists currently [most older movies and TV shows don't have any available through the usual sources], that would do it for a quick fix until you get a chance to get the kinks out.

Thanks again!

[Lunatixz]

I can report that the 12.3 upgrade went just fine with no [new] issues seen!

That being said, is there a fix for the dynamic EPG images coming, perhaps after the holidays?I recall a few pages back that something was in the works...the more recent EPG xmls seems to be defaulting to looking only for a landscape jpg, unless you manually go in an edit it to "fanart" on the include statement(s).

If no image is found it defaults to a fallback image. Read post 2 for a detailed description of dynamic artwork under skinning...
BTW it's still a WIP... so let me work out the bugs...

Thanks for the 12.3 feedback...

Sure, no prob. If it helps any, I understand from the instructions in the first posts that fanart should be the default, but in the EPG xml for the PTVL skin, it looks like you are only making calls to "fanart" for the trending item windows, the others are set for landscape, as are all the ones in the default skin EPG. Here's what I believe is a relative excerpt below for reference..

<!--NowPlaying.Window-->>

<!--Movie.landscape Now Playing-->
<control type="image">
<description>landscape</description>
<texture fallback="landscape.png">$INFO[Player.Art(landscape)]</texture>


I've had some success manually editing it so it calls fanart, and editing/removing the fallback file, but I'm missing something as its brings up fanart when you first open the EPG, then if you start scrolling, it will load a landscape image if that exists, or if not, the fanart from the first item loaded is displayed. Probably just something simple I'm missing in trying to fix it myself.

I think I may just use a util to copy fanart.jpg to landscape.jpg in the root movie folders where none exists currently [most older movies and TV shows don't have any available through the usual sources], that would do it for a quick fix until you get a chance to get the kinks out.

Thanks again!

Well.. the default skin using fanart is a typo... it uses landscape
As for image fallback's if you use poster in label 507, image 508 will look for posters (either download them for LiveTV or look in media folders for other Chtypes). When nothing is found it will look in the selected skins folder for poster.png and use that image. It works like this for every image type...

The fallback you referenced in your post is for non dynamic artwork.

[ylafont]

Lunatixz, just wanted to give out a shout on the excellent work that you are doing with this plugin. It is is becoming the "Killer" of all plugins !

I also wanted to reports this although I haven identified when it actually occurs. Sometimes when pressing the select button on the remote to bring up the PTVL Guide, the MythTv select menu appear forcing one to exit PTVL since the guide is no longer accessible.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5885...hot002.png

also, is it possible to replace guide data for channels that display a continuous "Three Dots ..."? as an example, the Movie Trailers Channel. Can the guide be made to just say "Currenlty in Theaters" of "coming soon"

While i am wishing, do you have any plans of incorporating Recording/ Recording playback features?

again, great work.

[ARYEZ]

also, is it possible to replace guide data for channels that display a continuous "Three Dots ..."? as an example, the Movie Trailers Channel. Can the guide be made to just say "Currenlty in Theaters" of "coming soon"

Select the option "hide very short videos and set it to 360...that will make The trailers channel display a single continuous bar that says the name of the channel.

I use it for trailers and music videos...much cleaner then all the ...'s IMO.