Hey guys. This is probably something very simple that I'm overlooking, but files in my tv buffer directory seem to never get deleted. I just cleared out 500 gigs worth of files. How do I ensure these are deleted after I stop watching a channel?
I've encountered the same issue twice in one month: for some reason the id numbers are changing that are used to map XMLTV guide data. This causes an empty guide and failed recordings.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to capture a before and after of the XMLTV guide data but I have before and after screenshots (see attached images starting with XMLTV channel #28).
Do you have any ideas why this would occur? Is it something the EPG provider controls? (I'm using mc2xml with the microsoft guide).
I've been busy moving, and hauling tons of stuff to the local thrift store donation center. On Saturday afternoon after dropping off a pile of stuff I decided to go into the store and see what all they had. I was mostly looking to see if they had any interesting furniture I could use. Honestly most of it seemed overpriced for the condition it was in, like stuff I might take if it was $20 or so, but not $179 or whatever. In the back corner beyond the furniture they had some TV's, and I noticed a couple of guys looking at a big flat-screen TV that was just showing static on a dead analog channel. The one was saying "look how cheap this is!", but then he looked behind it saw it wasn't a thin LCD panel and he said "oh, nevermind, it's one of those old thick TV's, it's not worth buying.". I very much needed a TV for my new place, so I wandered over and had a look. Sure enough, it was indeed a used projection TV, but not much more than 12" deep, and it looked practically brand new. The remote seemed like it was never used. Labels on the front said things like "HDTV 1080p" and "DLP". Ah hah! I thought, this is no "old thick TV", it's something very good. I played with the menus for a bit, just to see that it all appeared to be working and that the display was in good order, and then I bought it. When I got someone to help me move it out to my car I was quite surprised at how light it was. When I got it home and hooked it up to my NPVR box using an HDMI cable, I was blown away by the picture quality. It even sounds pretty good too, though I'll probably still hook up a surround sound amp, speakers, and sub.
I've recently started using NextPVR and i have an issue with EPG update from DVB:
scheduled EPG update doesnt work. When i start it manually (from settings->channels) it works pretty well.
But the scheduled update leaves a cryptic message in logfile (ndigitalhost-20.log):
I've had this issue for awhile, and it finally got annoying enough that I decided to look into it a bit more. What happens is that if I haven't used XNEWA in awhile (i.e. first thing in the morning), it can take several seconds (sometimes 10 - 12 seconds) for any X-NEWA window to open. While I'm waiting I can do other stuff in XBMC, so for a long time I thought I just hadn't hit the remote button correctly. The problem seems much worse on my Windows machine (where Next PVR is as well) than on my OSX machine (where I do my development work).
After walking the code a bit, the best I can figure is that it has something to do with the suds object cache created in XNEWA_Connect. The thing is, all that accounts for about 10 lines of code, and I can't see anyway to optimize it (or even why it would be causing a problem). So I attacked it from the other end. I decided it the lag is going to be there, at least it would be nice to know XNEWA was starting. So I added a dialog to default.py similar to the one used when the channel icons are cached. In Gotham, it uses the newer background dialog (a little less obtrusive IMHO), but that's somewhat a style choice.
Just below the first import I added:
Code:
from xbmcaddon import Addon
if int( xbmc.getInfoLabel( "System.BuildVersion" ).split('.')[0] ) >= 13:
from xbmcgui import DialogProgressBG as _dialog
else:
from xbmcgui import DialogProgress as _dialog
Then the XNEWA_Connect call looks like this instead:
The message you actually see is "Connecting to NextPVR." I thought I'd share in case there was interest in adding that to the shipping version. If there's interest in migrating more of the progress dialogs to background dialogs, I'd be happy to look at that. I'd probably opt to wait for the next official release so that I'm not working too much on the older codebase I have here.
Just wondering if you might be able to help with the following....
I have XBMC installed on a Jailbroken Apple TV with X-NEWA working...all is great apart from on channels that are HD...so I decided to enable VLC with 720 etc. settings....trouble is VLC seems to just default everything to less than 480 as the quality is very dodgy....I've tried all different settings and the audio and video doesn't change...it all works and I see the VLC (32bit) starts up on the server and all streams....I've checked in the settings.xml in the Userdata folder and the changes I'm making in the settings are reflected in this file but it just seems to be ignored by VLC...
Sporting Event (A) is scheduled to end at 6pm, but is set up to have 89 minutes of post-padding. Recurring Recording (B) is scheduled to start at 6pm. Of course nPVR notes recording B wanting to start, so ignores the post-padding. I, naturally, want to watch the extra innings / overtime / end of event A. I currently have to go into nPVR the morning of event (A), and cancel event (B), so that the post-padding is honored. That's a bit of a pain in the butt to remember every morning, especially with the Tour de France running in the morning.
Does anybody have an alternative to where the post-padding could take precedent, or some other way around this??? I'm in Canada, so other than adding additional HD PVR devices (already have 2), I'm stuck with those 2 devices. OTA helps a bit with Toronto network shows, but with nPVR turning into a full household recorder, instead of being my personal baby, I still run into issues here and there.
Been a while since I posted... Got busy with real life! I've update the NextBlue skin and would like to see if you could add another element in the details-single.xml for videos. I would like to draw my base layer over the entire screen but when I do that it covers up the hidden top menu.
Also, I noticed that I can't get a preview image of a .mp3 music file with an embedded image in the music.xml. However, it does work fine in the playlist xml. One last thing, would it be possible to hide the music metadata for playlists. (.m3u)
