New Plugin: DboxRecorder Plugin

[RattyDAVE]

It would be useless to you as my dbox channel ids would be different to yours.

[ccsnet]

Ahhh - Thanks for responding any way

Terran

[Rayman]

Im just curious to see if anyone else sees the same behaviour i do -
when I cange channel the dreambox (hydra with enigma interface image)
the channel is correctly changed but usually I dont get successful streaming -
it'll take two or three trys before gbpvr is able to start replaying the file, which is zero lenght in the cases where it fails -

Is anyone else seeing this or not -
I know it may take a few seconds before keys are correctly established on my system so this may be timeout related.

Is anyone else seeing this - if so we need to raise this with Alibert,
otherwise I'll look into it myself.

Regards
Rayman

[alibert]

Hi,

Im just curious to see if anyone else sees the same behaviour i do -
when I cange channel the dreambox (hydra with enigma interface image)
the channel is correctly changed but usually I dont get successful streaming -
it'll take two or three trys before gbpvr is able to start replaying the file, which is zero lenght in the cases where it fails -

Is anyone else seeing this or not -
I know it may take a few seconds before keys are correctly established on my system so this may be timeout related.

Is anyone else seeing this - if so we need to raise this with Alibert,
otherwise I'll look into it myself.

Regards
Rayman

Please pot your GBPVRRecordingService.exe.log and I'll have a closer look. Does this only happen during live-tv or also on scheduled recordings? There's a timeout-parameter in the config app, which will maybe help with your issue.

-alibert

[Rayman]

Alibert -
will have a look tonight - didnt get much chance last night -
only got as far as getting the updated source into a project under sharpdev and updating the dlls from gbpvr so its compilable - but ready to go.

Now I can start digging in to see waht its doing -
will do some controlled tests tonight and grab the logs.

Regards
Rayman

[Rayman]

please find attached log file alibert.
note the last two channel changes in the file -
the first is a failled attempt to start a stream from the dreambox,
the second (last) is a reattempt that worked without channel change -
earlier attemts in the log all worked sucessfully.

the error shown is
ERROR [6] DboxRecorder: receiving no stream, recording failed.
but in both cases the ggrab parameters are the same.

Regards
Rayman

[alibert]

Hi Rayman,

I don't believe that it has something to do with the plugin itself. After the ggrab-process or the wingrabengine was started, it calls the following method to find out if the streaming request is successful:

Code:

/// <summary>
/// Waits some time (8 + (Config.Timeouts * 2) seconds) until the given file
/// exists, and the filesize is larger than 1 kByte.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="fileName">The path to the file to check.</param>
/// <returns>true, if the file exists, false otherwise.</returns>
private bool WaitForData(string fileName)
{ ... }

So if there is no stream written to disk, the recording will fail, just like the first try in the logs. But I'm also not able to explain why it does work sometimes and the next time it doesn't. Well, it is still linux running on the box...

-alibert

[Rayman]

alibert -
yeah i agree thats its probably some factor external to the plugin itself -
i know that when I was using XBMC to stream with the dreamTV python
script it was pretty reliable - but i think that has some sort of retry involved -
so I'll have a look in that code to see what it did differently in the channel change / stream starting process -

Sometimes its next to impossible to get it to start sucessfully - othertimes (like last night) you have to try to make it fail !.

Thanks for having a look - I'll look into it and keep you posted.

Regards
Rayman

[n_s_simpson]

I have exactly the same problem with my Dbox stream.

Shall I move my query into this thread?

Currently it's here:

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=19133&page=2
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=19133&page=3

I included logs on page 2.

[n_s_simpson]

On a different note, I spent about 4 hours last night manually mapping all the channels and they are still not finished completely (I'm missing the porn channels as I couldn't face them last night). What a nightmare it was doing this.

I know that parts of the channel info are held in the database and some in an XML file. So I recon there'd be a way of importing the XML data as well as the table within the database into a spreadsheet (or DB table) and then matching up channel names, removing duplicates (user decides for instance whether BBC1 on Dbox matches with BBC1 Wales, BBC1 Scotand, etc) and then exporting the info back into the correct places.

I would have been able to do this easily about 7 years ago (when I was at uni) but it might take me a while to refresh as I haven't done anything like that for years. Do you think this method would work?

Also in the channels tab of the config screen it seems to list every channel within the XMLTV list even though I've removed a lot from my channel mappings (such as Box Office, SKY HD, etc that isn't even available on ntl).

This is a problem because the program guide shows these channels but has no EPG info for it but it just looks really messy. How do I remove these channels so they don't appear in the list? Do I untick favourites (I'd prefer them not to appear in the list at all to make manual mapping easier)? I don't understand why only the channels that have been mapped show up in this list. Have I done something wrong?

I have yet to sort out the channel order for the channels (although the mapping reference numbers I've used exactly match up with the channel numbers on the Dbox). When you scan in all the channels from the Dbox it would be a nice feature if it asked if you want to set up the channel numbers to match that of the Dbox (instead of setting them all the -1) and also add them to the channel list in that order. Then mapping channels up to the XMLTV list afterwards either manually or possibly working out another method.

Not sure how other sources compete for channel numbers. I only have one source set up. I have another Dbox I'll be setting up so I can record one channel and watch another.

Will I see each list of channels seperately (by somehow selecting the required source) or will I need to but say BBC1 from the first Dbox on channel one and the BBC1 from the second Dbox on channel 1001 (or whatever)?

Thanks, Nick.