2014-03-17, 03:50 PM
Martin, thank you for the time you have put into XNEWA and the time that you spend supporting it. This past weekend I installed a Linux distro on my GBOX Midnight MX2, using Gotham Beta ,and have been using XNEWA exclusively as my frontend to nPVR. I am using the Chameleon version with path substitutions. I have a few questions.
I would like to be able to timeshift live tv (rewind to previous parts of the video as well as fast forward from rewinding or ff to catch up to current time if the video was paused). At the moment, when I press rewind, I see the OSD say that it's rewinding but the video continues to move forward with no sound. If I increase the rew multiplier I am able to get back in time a bit, but when I press play the video is paused but I can hear the audio playing. I have similar problems when fast forwarding, but it usually ends up with a frozen picture and no audio. I usually reboot the machine but perhaps it would timeout if I were patient enough to wait. I am using 'Native' as my streaming option. Should I be using something else? I did try Timeshift but it just says 'Please wait - Loading 5%' and hangs. When I go to the nPVR server I get a message saying it can't find VLC. I do have VLC installed on the server but perhaps at a different path.
When playing a recording that is actively being recorded, I can fast forward/rewind just fine. I did notice that I cannot fast forward beyond the time I started watching. For example, I started watching the news (30 minute program) after it had been recording for 15 minutes. I watched portions and fast forwarded through commercials. I was in a commercial break but was not able to fast forward through it beyond the 15 minute mark despite the program being recorded for an additional 10 minutes. I had hoped that I could fast forward all the way to the live part, but I was not able to do this. Am I doing something wrong?
When selecting a program from the Tv Guide, I sometimes stay on the Tv Guide rather than go full screen video. This doesn't happen often, but I'm not sure how I get to the full screen video. I've escaped out all the way to the XBMC gui and the video plays fine, but when I stop I have to launch XNEWA again. Is there an easy keypress to go from Tv Guide to full screen? I read your Newbies post and saw '- returning while video is playing in the EPG will continue" .. I'm not sure what that means or how this is done.
I'd like to make the default action be 'Watch' rather than 'Close' on all the dialog boxes. I haven't looked at the code for XNEWA, but is this just a matter of me editing a python program to reorder the options or is it not easy for me to change?
Not XNEWA specific question. With SageTv, I was able to run comskip parallel to recordings (both live and scheduled) and have those edls available for use even while they were being appended to. Do you know if this is possible with XBMC/XNEWA or is the edl loaded once at the start of playback?
I would like to be able to timeshift live tv (rewind to previous parts of the video as well as fast forward from rewinding or ff to catch up to current time if the video was paused). At the moment, when I press rewind, I see the OSD say that it's rewinding but the video continues to move forward with no sound. If I increase the rew multiplier I am able to get back in time a bit, but when I press play the video is paused but I can hear the audio playing. I have similar problems when fast forwarding, but it usually ends up with a frozen picture and no audio. I usually reboot the machine but perhaps it would timeout if I were patient enough to wait. I am using 'Native' as my streaming option. Should I be using something else? I did try Timeshift but it just says 'Please wait - Loading 5%' and hangs. When I go to the nPVR server I get a message saying it can't find VLC. I do have VLC installed on the server but perhaps at a different path.
When playing a recording that is actively being recorded, I can fast forward/rewind just fine. I did notice that I cannot fast forward beyond the time I started watching. For example, I started watching the news (30 minute program) after it had been recording for 15 minutes. I watched portions and fast forwarded through commercials. I was in a commercial break but was not able to fast forward through it beyond the 15 minute mark despite the program being recorded for an additional 10 minutes. I had hoped that I could fast forward all the way to the live part, but I was not able to do this. Am I doing something wrong?
When selecting a program from the Tv Guide, I sometimes stay on the Tv Guide rather than go full screen video. This doesn't happen often, but I'm not sure how I get to the full screen video. I've escaped out all the way to the XBMC gui and the video plays fine, but when I stop I have to launch XNEWA again. Is there an easy keypress to go from Tv Guide to full screen? I read your Newbies post and saw '- returning while video is playing in the EPG will continue" .. I'm not sure what that means or how this is done.
I'd like to make the default action be 'Watch' rather than 'Close' on all the dialog boxes. I haven't looked at the code for XNEWA, but is this just a matter of me editing a python program to reorder the options or is it not easy for me to change?
Not XNEWA specific question. With SageTv, I was able to run comskip parallel to recordings (both live and scheduled) and have those edls available for use even while they were being appended to. Do you know if this is possible with XBMC/XNEWA or is the edl loaded once at the start of playback?