2013-01-19, 02:09
(2013-01-19, 00:55)Sranshaft Wrote:(2013-01-18, 21:38)dscraw4d Wrote: I have just installed the latest pre on my XBMC Frodo Rc 3 WITH nOX 4 and setting up the channels works fine nut launching it just produces a black screen, I tried it with confluence to the same results.. black screen.
I have 111 channels
Turn off background updating if you have it enabled and enable "Reset channels on next start". For some reason if background updating is enabled it'll stop working properly. At least it fixed the issue for me.
I also noticed you get a black screen. Can you still hear the audio or does XBMC hang? A black screen might also indicate a problem in the PseudoTV skin. Grab a debug log and have a look for errors associated with PseudoTV or post a link here.
I haven't had problems with background updating... but I did noticed that depending on the speed of your system ptv once launched goes to a black screen before loading media... on my main htpc its only a few seconds... but on my openelec built on a P4 it takes a few mins to load...and just sits at a black screen.
I would try leaving your settings alone, toggle force reset; load ptv and leave alone for a least 10mins... give it a try might work...
btw make sure you are using lastest stable-pre and not master
(2013-01-19, 01:44)spanktastic2120 Wrote: using frodo RC 3 and the latest pseudotv .strm files do not work. You can play any of them from your library directly but PTV will not pick them up. im thinking this is for one of a couple reasons:
1) the setting to "enable icelibrary streams" has somehow been dissociated with the actual function
2) frodo uses something new to play .strm files and doesnt retrieve the duration properly or in a manner that PTV expects to get it
3) there is a list of file types PTV will play and .strm has been removed from that list
i think i have a halfway decent understanding of how this program works, and these are the only reasons i can come up with for why .strm support would be broken now.
i looked through all the python files on github and from what i can tell the icelibrary setting is being correctly applied and used, so i think #1 can be ruled out. however i dont see anything in the code that would handle the .strm files, the parser code seems to just handle these types:
self.AVIExts = ['.avi']
self.MP4Exts = ['.mp4', '.m4v', '.3gp', '.3g2', '.f4v', '.mov']
self.MKVExts = ['.mkv']
self.FLVExts = ['.flv']
so its possible that its #3 except github shows the relevant code hasnt been edited for 6 months and it worked shorter than 6 months ago.
which leaves #2, i have no idea how xbmc handles calls from python scripts or what may have changed with frodo, so i cant really offer any help there. someone with more expertise than me should definitely have a look at the PTV source on github though and double check what i said here is correct.
I also reviewed the code for ptv concerning strms, I didn't see anything wrong that stands out. I need to review the changes made to frodo's handling of strms...