EPG free2view Wellington NZ
I have been using dkjxml.exe and updating nightly
However the last few days it become unstable & now has no info
Any ideas or is there some bigger problem?
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Open nPVR and taskmanager, try to play for example any MKV file, then stop, play, stop, play, etc... and watch for memory usage.
For me, it will eat all 4GB RAM, them nPVR crash with NET out of memory message.
If i connect to nPVR using Graphstudio, i can see big list of graphs. All of them should be closed, there is no FFDshow icon in use, but it looks like something failed to release from memory.
If i play and stop, play and stop, etc... the same file in grapstudio, no memory usage is increasing.
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Please note that all references below to Comcut should be Comskip.
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I am using GBPVR 1.4.7 on a Win Xp machine with dual Pentium 2.5s and 2.0 GB memory. Lately, some strange things have been happening. I mention them all here in case they might somehow be related:
1. Comcut messing up - I have it set to cut concurrent with the recording. Doesn't clean the commercials, only marks them to skip during playback. The resulting 1 hr recording indicates a length much shorter. For example, I recorded Castle the other night. The recording is 1 hr long, but it only shows as 22 minutes, and commercials are not cut properly. Shows one big cut in the middle. I can watch the show and, except for the one big cut in the middle, it plays all the way to the end. You cannot skip forward or back, however, because the timeline is all off. So, when I reach the big cut in the middle, I cannot skip back to catch what was cut. The really weird thing is that this behavior is apparently in the recording itself. I can rename the recording and move it to another directory, but it still shows as only 22 minutes. If I play it with VLC, it shows a length of only 22 minutes, too. VLC gives the following error, but seems to play it okay:
"VLC can't recognize the input's format:
The format of '\\Htpc\recordings\Castle\Castle_20100927_22012300.txt' cannot be detected. Have a look at the log for details.
VLC can't recognize the input's format:
The format of '\\Htpc\recordings\Castle\Castle_20100927_22012300.logo.txt' cannot be detected. Have a look at the log for details.
I wouldn't think that Comcut would alter the original video file. This has always happened once in a while, but it is now happening most of the time.
2. Truncated recordings - I am now getting many recordings that are truncated to 30-40 minutes on a 1 hr show - not the timeline just messed up, but actually shortened.
3. Something is causing GBPVR playback to freeze at least once during every play. It always fixes itself, though, in a half-minute or so. This may not be in GBPVR, because I believe that it happened, also, in playing back a GBPVR recording with VLC. I mention it for 2 reasons: a) the possibility that it may be related, and b) if anyone has any suggestions as to how to figure out what is causing the freeze, I would appreciate hearing them.
Thanks to sub for a great program and for nearly 2 years of (almost) trouble-free recording.
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I believe that the truncations have occurred in files that were transcoded to avi format, so that introduces another dimension to the problem. All transcodes previously okay, though, so I suspect, but do not actually know, that the problem is in the original. The originals are automatically deleted, however, so I cannot check them. I'm stopping the deletion now so that I can look at the originals should it happen again.
I needed some data to be searchable for guidePlus and vidImport that isn't possible if a recording is no longer in the EPG table, Sub plans to make some the fields available in the future but in the mean time I created an un-official work around - a combination of a new table that is a copy of the fields in the EPG_Event table and a trigger that inserts the data when a recording is scheduled. Once again very unofficial and may eventually break due to official database changes but it will allow you to do queries on the full set of available fields after the epg_event is gone.
Basically when a scheduled_recording is inserted a trigger is used to make exact copy of the epg_event in a new table called recorded_event. It may make sense to have another trigger that deletes it if the scheduled_recording is deleted (or a foreign key)
It is good for reading data but if you want to write changes you will need to write the XML to the "cached" event in the scheduled_recordings. Join with that table via title=name, channel_oid=channel_oid and start_time = start_time.
I will use it to search the unique ID to tell if an event is a TV series and if so augment any incoming EPG event on that series without require a user to tell me what series are important to them.
Once again - unofficial and not meant to step on Sub's toes, for experts only, may cause cancer and do not use if you are pregnant or have a heart condition or if your head does not reach the height of this mark :-)
Code:
CREATE TABLE [RECORDED_EVENT] (
[oid] integer NOT NULL,
[title] varchar(50) NOT NULL,
[subtitle] varchar(50) NOT NULL,
[description] varchar(50) NOT NULL,
[start_time] datetime NOT NULL,
[end_time] datetime NOT NULL,
[channel_oid] int NOT NULL,
[unique_id] varchar(50) NOT NULL,
[rating] varchar(50) NOT NULL,
[original_air_date] datetime,
[season] int NOT NULL,
[episode] int NOT NULL
);
Code:
CREATE TRIGGER [recordingInserted]
AFTER INSERT ON [SCHEDULED_RECORDING]
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
insert into RECORDED_EVENT
(oid, title, subtitle, description, start_time, end_time,
channel_oid, unique_id, rating, original_air_date, season, episode)
select *
from EPG_EVENT where new.name = EPG_EVENT.title and
EPG_EVENT.start_time = new.start_time and
EPG_EVENT.channel_oid = new.channel_oid;
END
I am seeking a web browser plugin for use with GB-PVR (not N-PVR), or a good third-party web browser for use with media PCs. I am playing with the ten-foot browser here http://www.seeita.com/TF/Downloads.shtml but it seems quite awkward to use. Any ideas?
I have a problem sometimes when auto updating my EPG. The provider of my xmltv epg data has a very weird and annoying restriction limiting me to one single refresh in 24 hours, dont ask me why but thats how it is.
That Results in that my received xml EPG is blank if the update happens to occur at the same time every day, or thats my theory at least (I am not 100% sure what happens inside GB-PVR).
The only thing i can say for sure is that my EPG ends up being empty quite often causing me to miss recordings.
My questions is then, is there anything i can do about this? Can i make GBPVR only update it every 2 days (I get 7 days of EPG pr xml file). Or can I perhaps disable the auto epg update, and handle the update scheduling myself?
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