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Evening lads,

Sorry if jumping in on any ongoing issues - looked like thread has been quiet a few days so I thought I'd post my problem.

I'm running Leia 18.1 on Win 10.

My IPTV service is running great - M3U and XML feeds are URL fed and I got them matching time correctly (+1 hr) on EPG.

Followed the IPTV recorder instructions and everything went in smooth, no troubles/errors.  When I go to Channel Groups and pick something to Record Once, I see the .json file show up in my recording destination, but nothing else.

I'm pointing to a huge (capacity) NAS where my Movies and Music feed fine, and I can write/play files without issue from the Kodi Box under Win 10.  So I doubt it's a permission/SMB issue (I'm a network engineer by trade; just new to Kodi).

I downloaded the ffpmepg 4.1.1 stable/static version for Win64 and mapped in the IPTV Recorder settings to where it is sitting (which is the Downloads directory) of the box user account.  (Possible issue?  Need to be in directory with any of the python stuff installed?)

Anyway - hoping this is something simple/stupid I missed in going through the 60+ pages of this thread. 

It really feels like it went in well; just that something silly is missing/wrong.

Hope you guys can help - thanks in advance!

Look for an error message in kodi.log and post it here.

To see what ffmpeg is doing turn on
Settings \ Debug \ debug ffmpeg stdout/stderr
Try to record.
Look in
userdata\addon_data\plugin.video.iptv.recorder\jobs
for the output files and see if there are any error messages from ffmpeg.

Turn off
Settings \ Debug \ debug ffmpeg stdout/stderr
to do a real recording again.     

Hi Primaeval - Thanks for the reply.  Here are the items you requested:

ERRORS I see in the kodi.log file:

Code:

2019-04-07 15:38:30.219 T:8012   ERROR: [plugin.video.iptv.recorder] service started...
2019-04-07 15:39:32.395 T:8012   ERROR: [plugin.video.iptv.recorder] Service waiting for 40827 seconds
2019-04-07 15:39:32.395 T:8012   ERROR: [plugin.video.iptv.recorder] Service waiting for 40827 seconds
2019-04-07 15:42:10.484 T:6480   ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting
2019-04-07 15:42:10.485 T:3968   DEBUG: CDirectoryProvider[]: refreshing..
2019-04-07 15:42:10.485 T:6104   ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting
2019-04-07 15:42:10.485 T:3968   DEBUG: CDirectoryProvider[]: refreshing..
2019-04-07 15:42:10.485 T:6480   ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting
2019-04-07 15:42:10.485 T:3968   DEBUG: CDirectoryProvider[]: refreshing..
2019-04-07 15:42:10.485 T:6104   ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting
2019-04-07 15:42:10.485 T:3968   DEBUG: CDirectoryProvider[]: refreshing..
2019-04-07 15:42:10.485 T:6480   ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting
2019-04-07 15:42:10.485 T:3968   DEBUG: CDirectoryProvider[]: refreshing..
2019-04-07 15:42:10.485 T:6104   ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting
2019-04-07 15:42:10.539 T:3968   ERROR: Previous line repeats 1 times.
2019-04-07 15:43:25.001 T:3968   ERROR: Control 55 in window 10025 has been asked to focus, but it can't


After turning on debug ffmpeg, looked in the plugin.video.iptv.recorder/jobs folder and have 2 PY, 2PID, and 2 stderr.txt files.  The PY/PID files don't much of anything in them; just a nubmer or two.  Of the text files, one is completely empty, the contents of the other are provided below:

Code:


ffmpeg version 4.1.1 Copyright © 2000-2019 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 8.2.1 (GCC) 20190212
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-sdl2 --enable-fontconfig --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libzimg --enable-lzma --enable-zlib --enable-gmp --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libmysofa --enable-libspeex --enable-libxvid --enable-libaom --enable-libmfx --enable-amf --enable-ffnvcodec --enable-cuvid --enable-d3d11va --enable-nvenc --enable-nvdec --enable-dxva2 --enable-avisynth
  libavutil      56. 22.100 / 56. 22.100
  libavcodec     58. 35.100 / 58. 35.100
  libavformat    58. 20.100 / 58. 20.100
  libavdevice    58.  5.100 / 58.  5.100
  libavfilter     7. 40.101 /  7. 40.101
  libswscale      5.  3.100 /  5.  3.100
  libswresample   3.  3.100 /  3.  3.100
  libpostproc    55.  3.100 / 55.  3.100
Input #0, mpegts, from '<MYIPTV PROVIDER AND SOME CREDENTIALS SHOWN HERE>':
  Duration: N/A, start: 3440.946367, bitrate: N/A
  Program 1
    Metadata:
      service_name    : Service01
      service_provider: FFmpeg
    Stream #0:0[0x100]: Video: h264 (High) ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), yuv420p(progressive), 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], Closed Captions, 59.94 fps, 59.94 tbr, 90k tbn, 119.88 tbc
    Stream #0:1[0x101]: Audio: aac (LC) ([15][0][0][0] / 0x000F), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 138 kb/s
smb://<NAS SMB CREDENTIALS HERE>@192.168.0.4/Media/Recordings/Other\Mickey%27s Great Clubhouse Hunt - US%3A DISNEY JR - 2019-04-07 15-10.ts: Protocol not found

Let me know what, if anything, you see that I should change/adjust.

Thanks again! 

Sorry - Here is one other error and some surrounding logging that may be pertient - sorry missed this the first time:

Code:

2019-04-07 15:39:49.335 T:7632   ERROR: {'confidence': 0.99, 'language': '', 'encoding': 'utf-8'}
2019-04-07 15:39:49.340 T:7632 WARNING: [xbmcswift2] No converter provided, unicode should be used, but returning str value
2019-04-07 15:39:52.007 T:7632 WARNING: Previous line repeats 6885 times.
2019-04-07 15:39:52.007 T:7632   DEBUG: CFileCache::Open - opening <2OaD4wH> using cache
2019-04-07 15:39:52.023 T:7632   DEBUG: CurlFile::Open(0x2172e8cbf20)
2019-04-07 15:39:52.115 T:7632   DEBUG: CCurlFile::Open - effective URL: <http://tntcloud.xyz:2052/xmltv.php? >
2019-04-07 15:39:52.117 T:7944   DEBUG: Thread FileCache start, auto delete: false
2019-04-07 15:39:56.088 T:7944    INFO: CFileCache:rocess - Source read didn't return any data! Hit eof(?)
2019-04-07 15:39:57.401 T:7944   DEBUG: Thread FileCache 7944 terminating
2019-04-07 15:40:01.134 T:7632 WARNING: [xbmcswift2] No converter provided, unicode should be used, but returning str value
2019-04-07 15:40:21.227 T:8068 WARNING: Previous line repeats 24996 times.
2019-04-07 15:40:21.227 T:8068   DEBUG: CAESinkDirectSound:einitialize: Cleaning up
2019-04-07 15:40:21.228 T:7632 WARNING: [xbmcswift2] No converter provided, unicode should be used, but returning str value
2019-04-07 15:40:27.815 T:3968 WARNING: Previous line repeats 10251 times.
2019-04-07 15:40:27.816 T:3968    INFO: XCURL:llLibCurlGlobal::CheckIdle - Closing session to http://bit.ly (easy=0x21726989090, multi=0x217267493e0)
2019-04-07 15:40:27.816 T:7632 WARNING: [xbmcswift2] No converter provided, unicode should be used, but returning str value
2019-04-07 15:42:04.661 T:7632 WARNING: Previous line repeats 130778 times.