XBMC com skip supported for Mythtv

[mvallevand]

Your recorded files have to be on a shared drive. If you use drive letter mapping then you'd need to use advanced setting to map the letter to share. Upload your logs (all the nextpvr logs and xbmc.log if you can) and I'll see if I can help.

Martin

[dinki]

Thank you for your offer to look at my logs. My xbmc log can be seen here: http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=149897 I am attaching NPVR.log and web.log . Please let me know if you need any other logs.

[mvallevand]

Ok so it is looking for a file on D drive not with share notation so it falls back to http streaming which as sub and I doesn't support edl files. So the trick is to have xbmc translate that (assume that you have shared it)'

The from element will match your share point which will vary depending if you mount D:\ or D:\media or D:\media\tvrecordings-npvr

Code:

<pathsubstitution>
  <substitute>
    <from>D:\media\tvrecordings-npvr\</from>
    <to>smb://shareip/sharename/</to>
  </substitute>
</pathsubstitution>

Martin

[dinki]

Thank you for your help. I've tried the above and it appears that XBMC is loading my advancedsettings.xml and using the pathsubstitution:

Code:

18:44:40 T:1765333832  NOTICE: Loaded settings file from special://profile/advancedsettings.xml
18:44:40 T:1765333832  NOTICE: Contents of special://profile/advancedsettings.xml are...
                                            <advancedsettings>
                                              <pathsubstitution>
                                                <substitute>
                                                  <from>D:\media\tvrecordings-npvr\</from>
                                                  <to>smb://office/media/tvrecordings-npvr/</to>
                                                </substitute>
                                              </pathsubstitution>
                                            </advancedsettings>
18:44:40 T:1765333832   DEBUG: Configuring path substitutions
18:44:40 T:1765333832   DEBUG:   Registering substition pair:
18:44:40 T:1765333832   DEBUG:     From: [D:\media\tvrecordings-npvr\]
18:44:40 T:1765333832   DEBUG:     To:   [smb://office/media/tvrecordings-npvr/]

But when I try to play a recording I see this:

Code:

18:45:57 T:1773000344  NOTICE: #XBMCPlayer#
18:45:57 T:1773000344  NOTICE: started player
18:45:57 T:1773000344  NOTICE: Amarillo
18:45:57 T:1773000344  NOTICE: False
18:45:57 T:1773000344  NOTICE: {'Studio': 'Amarillo', 'Title': 'Man v. Food'}
18:45:57 T:1773000344  NOTICE: D:/media/tvrecordings-npvr/Man v. Food/Man v. Food.S01E01.Amarillo.ts
18:45:57 T:1773000344  NOTICE: not found
18:45:57 T:1773000344  NOTICE: Playing http://192.168.0.112:8866/live?recording=2639&client=XNEWA0xfb5dcda5199eL
18:45:57 T:1773000344  NOTICE: <xbmcgui.ListItem object at 0x70010f20>
18:45:57 T:1767159680  NOTICE: None
18:45:57 T:1773000344  NOTICE: player started

I noticed above that the slashes are '/' instead of '\' in your example. I am not able to try switching them right now as the kids are watching a movie, but do you think that that is the problem?

The complete log can be found here:
http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=150058

Also, once I get things straight, will the path substitution setting also allow for watching recordings from the native PVR section (Sub's nPVR addon) with comskip capabilities?

Thanks again

[mvallevand]

When you created the share is it a Windows only share by chance? You can test by adding a Video Files source for it. If you can play from there send the xbmc log

The PVR addon only supports http streaming.

Martin

[dinki]

Martin, I know for certain that I have been able to play from that share before within XBMC from the 'File Browser' in 'Settings'. I have not, however, tried doing this since I upgrading to Gotham Beta. I will try after the kids are done. The share is on a Windows 7 box.

[dinki]

I noticed that my share required a username/password the way I had it set up. I changed permissions so that everyone has read/write access but I still had the same problem. You'll see that in the log I've uploaded. I then added the SMB source and was able to play the same problem without issue and comskip worked. I hope you can find what I'm doing wrong as it is pretty exciting to see comskip working

Here's the log http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=150129

[mvallevand]

I asked you to use the ip but you used office I notice that the other method has OFFICE so you could try that. You haven't answered what you are sharing either.

Martin

[dinki]

Thank you for your patience and pardon my inattentiveness in regards to the server ip. I changed it and still the same problem. Here are the logs:

http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=150150

I also tried it with OFFICE instead of IP and still no luck:

http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=150154

The from element will match your share point which will vary depending if you mount D:\ or D:\media or D:\media\tvrecordings-npvr
...
You haven't answered what you are sharing either.

I really don't understand the question. My recordings directory is set to D:\media\tvrecordings-npvr .. On Windows 7 I navigate to D:\media, right click the tvrecordings-npvr directory, click on properties, click sharing. Set the network path to \\OFFICE\media\tvrecordings-npvr click share. Give read/write permission to everyone. Not sure if I am answering what you want to know or if I'm missing it entirely.

[mvallevand]

If you are sharing tvrecordings-npvr and that is the real sharename your "to" is smb://192.168.0.112/tvrecordings-npvr/

Martin