[EZ1976]

Hello everybody !

Lunatixz - I have to say that I admire your work with this plugin.
I was using 2 years ago TV Time, then when PseudoTV came out, all the best options were cut out and neglected,
and now - you did your magic and PTVL is the best thing happened to XBMC. So, Thank you very much for this, and thanks to the community for sharing those great ideas for this plugin.

Got some questions/problems, though:

LiveTV:
- No Hebrew support - hebrew channel names appears like this: \u05e2\u05e8\u05d5\u05e5 (other member called SOME1 mentioned this before)
Program description in EPG is missing and only symbols and numbers appear, BUT (!) - the program titles do appear correctly in Hebrew.

InternetTV:

I was trying different methods to stream live news, and gave up finally - I have to ask your help:

How do you set news channels live streams as channels
I tried to setup Al Jazeera English as InternetTV (chtype 9) and even tried using strm files - but no avail.

Here is my Al Jazeera channel setup attempts - which did not work:

<setting id="Channel_9_type" value="9" />
<setting id="Channel_9_1" value="5400" />
<setting id="Channel_9_2" value="plugin://plugin.video.aljazeera/live" />
<setting id="Channel_9_3" value="News" />
<setting id="Channel_9_4" value="" />
<setting id="Channel_9_rulecount" value="1" />
<setting id="Channel_9_changed" value="True" />
<setting id="Channel_9_time" value="0" />
<setting id="Channel_9_rule_1_id" value="1" />
<setting id="Channel_9_rule_1_opt_1" value="Al Jazeera News" />

also, tried to use the direct rtmp link, like this:

<setting id="Channel_9_type" value="9" />
<setting id="Channel_9_1" value="5400" />
<setting id="Channel_9_2" value="rtmp://livestfslivefs.fplive.net/livestfslive-live/ playpath=aljazeera_ar_veryhigh app=aljazeeraflashlive-live live=true" />
<setting id="Channel_9_3" value="News" />
<setting id="Channel_9_4" value="" />
<setting id="Channel_9_rulecount" value="1" />
<setting id="Channel_9_changed" value="True" />
<setting id="Channel_9_time" value="0" />
<setting id="Channel_9_rule_1_id" value="1" />
<setting id="Channel_9_rule_1_opt_1" value="Al Jazeera News" />

And tried to created a strm file that contains the rtmp link and direct the channel to read the file using smb method, like this:

<setting id="Channel_9_type" value="9" />
<setting id="Channel_9_1" value="5400" />
<setting id="Channel_9_2" value="smb://...(file path)..../aljazeera.strm" />
<setting id="Channel_9_3" value="News" />
<setting id="Channel_9_4" value="" />
<setting id="Channel_9_rulecount" value="1" />
<setting id="Channel_9_changed" value="True" />
<setting id="Channel_9_time" value="0" />
<setting id="Channel_9_rule_1_id" value="1" />
<setting id="Channel_9_rule_1_opt_1" value="Al Jazeera News" />

and non of the above works.
Maybe the video feed is not correct - how to I extract it from the plugin ?

I also tried this using Super Favorites, following your instruction from post 1 or 2 and it didn't work.

Both methods ended up with PTVL trying to populate the channel and gets stuck.
When using strm file, the channel is created but fails to play the channel.


What am I doing wrong ? any ideas ?

Hey
i am scraping my media using sratim.co.il so all the info (genre,title and info) are in hebrew.
i put them all in playlists so i can set them up in PTVL but it seems that some are giving me some issues.
still have no idea why since it did work flawlessly a few versions ago but i updated to get DVB-T broadcasts.
Luna says it may be because we are using a non-english info and titles. hopefully he will resolve this sometime in the future

It's not magic logs = fix

sent you a few times some logs but you said you didnt see anything in them.
i tried with NFS & SMB & Local DB & MY SQL.
every few times i manage to populate a full set of channels and then it will get stuck again.
since most of the channels work just fine with hebrew info & title, i think it has something to do with a few media types that causes the channel to stop populating.
i had something like this with the original PTV and it was resolved (it didnt manage to read a certain type of files)
if i put the checkbox under debugging, will it tell me what media it is populating in the channels?
i am trying to pinpoint which type of media or file is causing this to halt (maybe FLV or certain MP4 files)? maybe a illegal character that i can remove?