[EZ1976]

Luna, i may be on to something that i think you should know.
to continue my adventure and getting my channels to play i tried all sort of tests:

* NFS & SMB
* tried local database
* tried a new mysql database.
* tried an older PTVL

so i created a new settings2.xml with only 2 TV genre.
the israeli shows i have in XBMC where created manually by me so i created a tvshow.nfo and put
<genre>Hebrew Shows</genre>

then in settings2.xml i put tv genre -=> Hebrew Shows.
but it seems that most of the channels couldnt populate this way.

then i thought maybe its because i use 2 words in the genre so i replaced it to Hebrew_Shows - still nothing.
then i remembered that NFS doesnt really like UTF-8 so i removed all the custom hebrew shows from the DB and rescraped it but this time using SMB only for the hebrew shows.


this time all of my channels populated.
the generic movies and TV shows that use built in xbmc genres or playlists worked.
the custom channels (Hebrew Shows, Hebrew Oldies , Live music Shows) are in SMB.

so it may be a combination of custom genre and NFS.
i dont know if this means anything to you but if it does, it may indicate something that may be resolved in your code.
and really thank you for all your patience. everyone here is more than happy to help. a real community
Luna's ARMY



**EDIT**

i moved the same ptvl (Plugin and addon_data folder) to a gotham openelec and it started to freeze during population
the same settings (same profile) is working under windows xbmc.

another thing i noticed is that under openelec, a folder channel will build with only 5 out of 200 files
and under windows i will get the full 200.


are there soo many different issues between PTVL on windows and openelec?