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lol. thanks. I actually used path substitution in order to try sharing the channels from my server to the 2 Ouyas. All the channels were imported fine and they populate fine, but nothing on the Ouya plays.
Odd thing is that on the PC, everything works just fine, but when I try to open PTV on my Ouya it just loads the channel and then tells me that the item failed to play every time.
Any ideas why this would be? If they are sharing the same settings2.xml and it works on the PC, shouldn't it also work on the Ouya? The paths should be the same since I used path substituting.
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2013-10-08, 01:56
(This post was last modified: 2013-10-08, 01:59 by dkplayaclub.)
I have tried in the past to set up mySQL but have never been able to make it work. It seems like a lot of work when weighed against the benefits.
You are correct. The windows PC acts as my server and the paths on it are all formatted like "D:\Videos\etc..." while the Ouyas are using smb paths for the video files themselves.
Can I use sbm paths on the server, even though it would be pointing to a local path, in order to make them match? If not, and I do not have MySQL working, would just editing the settings2.xml like discussed before be the best option? I couldn't automatically update my channels, but I could edit and copy new ones over manually when I make channel lineup changes.
EDIT - Never mind about editing the settings2.xml, since I used path substitution the path pointing to the playlists should be the same. You are saying the playlists themselves point to videos in the wrong places?
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2013-10-08, 02:28
(This post was last modified: 2013-10-08, 02:40 by dkplayaclub.)
Yes, I did have channel sharing enabled on the Ouya. When I look in the m3u files, it shows that PTV is looking for the files in D:\Videos\etc... rather than a smb address or the like.
Thank you for being so patient. I am not incredibly good at this sort of thing and I really appreciate your assistance.
It seems to work when I disable channel sharing. Will have to play around with it for a while to know how it will actually act.
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Hoping someone can help with an issue. I have been running this add on with no problems for some time now. For the past week or so I find now some programs stutter instead of playing properly. To give an example below
Channel 1: plays fine and skips forward/backwards just fine.
Channel 2: plays fine and skips forward/backwards just fine.
Channel 3: plays fine and skips forward/backwards just fine.
Channel 4: Plays some programs just fine yet other programs play as if they are being show frame by frame with no audio.
Channel 5: plays fine and skips forward/backwards just fine.
All of these stuttering programs play just fine if i play the video file in wmp or any other player, the problem only occurs when using pseudotv in xbmc, they play fine from the xbmc library.
This also seems to be totally random, as the issue seems to happen to one program on a channel but maybe not the next playing program. If I close psuedotv then rebuild the epg in the settings then the issue seems to swap around to a different channel, but so far I have seen nothing to indicate any kind of pattern to either channels or programs.
Also it seems to be random on the video quality too, I have a mix of 100mb cartoons all the way upto 4gb blurays and the issue jumps around between any size of program at random.
Anyone any ideas of the possible causes of this problem or how I could go about tracking down the main cause?