Problems with 1.2.9

[mmatheny]

1. Will not start in live TV even though I tell it to

2. Double channel #s in pop-up TV guide

3. Unable to play a folder of .mp3s with the music player - Doesn't matter if I highlight the folder and say Play all, or navigate into the folder and select Play all.

4. The Menu button on the Hauppauge remote will not popup the menu in ANY renderer, any skin. It seems to try sometimes, I see it pop up for a second, then nothing.

5. I no longer have a TV window inset when back at the menu.

6. The weather plug-in will not show current weather conditions as a task image, even though it is selected.

[sub]

Problems with 1.2.9

1. Will not start in live TV even though I tell it to

There is no functionality that does this in PVRX2, so should have been exactly the same in 1.0.x and 1.1.x also.

2. Double channel #s in pop-up TV guide

The most likely means you have duplicate channels in your database. zip and attach your gbpvr.db3 and I'll take a look.

3. Unable to play a folder of .mp3s with the music player - Doesn't matter if I highlight the folder and say Play all, or navigate into the folder and select Play all.

Reproduce the problem, then zip and attach the pvrx2.exe.log and I'll take a look.

4. The Menu button on the Hauppauge remote will not popup the menu in ANY renderer, any skin. It seems to try sometimes, I see it pop up for a second, then nothing.

5. I no longer have a TV window inset when back at the menu.

Where abouts are you talking about? A subscreen like Video Library, or while video is player? If the latter, you can only have video in a window if you're using the VMR9 renderer options. You can not do video in a window with Overlay or EVR (not possible because the UI is Direct3D based and these other video renderers cant mix their video with these type of graphics).

6. The weather plug-in will not show current weather conditions as a task image, even though it is selected.

Jeff would have to add support for the new IUIPanel interface to have the weather showing up on the main menu.

[mmatheny]

1. There is no functionality that does this in PVRX2, so should have been exactly the same in 1.0.x and 1.1.x also.

[Mike} = There is a setting called Startup Options in the Settings panel that selects the startup type - what do you mean there is not functiolity - it is even in the config.xml file.
<StartupOptions>
<StartupOption name="Show Main Menu" args="" />
<StartupOption name="Show Live TV" args="-direct &quot;Live TV&quot;" />
<StartupOption name="Show Live TV in window" args="-direct &quot;Live TV&quot; -inset" />
<StartupOption name="Show TV Guide" args="-direct &quot;TV Guide&quot;" />
</StartupOptions>
<DefaultStartupOptions>-direct "Live TV"</DefaultStartupOptions>

2. The most likely means you have duplicate channels in your database. zip and attach your gbpvr.db3 and I'll take a look.

[Mike] - no, I mean there are duplicate channel #s side by side, i.e.
25 25 XXXTV

3. Reproduce the problem, then zip and attach the pvrx2.exe.log and I'll take a look.

[Mike] - maybe I'm working it wrong - how do I play a full subfolder of songs?

4 . Where abouts are you talking about? A subscreen like Video Library, or while video is player? If the latter, you can only have video in a window if you're using the VMR9 renderer options. You can not do video in a window with Overlay or EVR (not possible because the UI is Direct3D based and these other video renderers cant mix their video with these type of graphics).

[Mike] - I mean while watching live TV, I used to be able to press Menu and bring the main menu up with the TV inset still playing live TV - is this no longer available in PVRX2? No matter what renderer I pick? I've tried VMR9 custom and VMR9 Full Screen Exclusive.
There's even entries in the config.xml file, that supposedly allows this behavor:
<!-- video plugins -->
<VideoPlugin0>TV Guide</VideoPlugin0>
<VideoPlugin1>ProcAmp</VideoPlugin1>
<VideoPlugin2>OSD Menu</VideoPlugin2>
<VideoPlugin3>Live Guide</VideoPlugin3>
<VideoPlugin4>Weather</VideoPlugin4>


5. Jeff would have to add support for the new IUIPanel interface to have the weather showing up on the main menu.

[Mike] - so, this plug-in has never worked like it did in GBPVR?

[sub]

1. There is no functionality that does this in PVRX2, so should have been exactly the same in 1.0.x and 1.1.x also.

[Mike} = There is a setting called Startup Options in the Settings panel that selects the startup type - what do you mean there is not functiolity - it is even in the config.xml file.
<StartupOptions>
<StartupOption name="Show Main Menu" args="" />
<StartupOption name="Show Live TV" args="-direct &quot;Live TV&quot;" />
<StartupOption name="Show Live TV in window" args="-direct &quot;Live TV&quot; -inset" />
<StartupOption name="Show TV Guide" args="-direct &quot;TV Guide&quot;" />
</StartupOptions>
<DefaultStartupOptions>-direct "Live TV"</DefaultStartupOptions>

To be honest, the Settings screen was only included in this release by accident. It was something I'm still working on and isnt complete. Most of the settings function, but the startup options is one notable exception that doesnt work. It saves the data into the config.xml file, but the app doesnt do anything with that setting. I do intend to add this for the next 1.3.x release thought.

2. The most likely means you have duplicate channels in your database. zip and attach your gbpvr.db3 and I'll take a look.

[Mike] - no, I mean there are duplicate channel #s side by side, i.e.
25 25 XXXTV

This is most likely a hang over from originally using zap2it then later moving to schedules direct. Long story why, but the easiest fix for you is to hit the export recordings button, rename your gbpvr.db3 to backup.db3, then fire up the config app and recreate your capture sources, hit the 'Update EPG' button, then hit the 'import recordings' button to import recordings-dump.xml. After this your channel numbers will be fine going forward.

3. Reproduce the problem, then zip and attach the pvrx2.exe.log and I'll take a look.

[Mike] - maybe I'm working it wrong - how do I play a full subfolder of songs?

With a folder highlighted, press the Play key on your remote, or Ctrl-P on your keyboard.

4 . Where abouts are you talking about? A subscreen like Video Library, or while video is player? If the latter, you can only have video in a window if you're using the VMR9 renderer options. You can not do video in a window with Overlay or EVR (not possible because the UI is Direct3D based and these other video renderers cant mix their video with these type of graphics).

[Mike] - I mean while watching live TV, I used to be able to press Menu and bring the main menu up with the TV inset still playing live TV - is this no longer available in PVRX2? No matter what renderer I pick? I've tried VMR9 custom and VMR9 Full Screen Exclusive.

With the VMR9 custom renderer selected, while viewing live tv press the Home key to reproduce the problem, then zip and attach your pvrx2.exe.log and pvrx2.exe-native.log files and I'll take a look.

There's even entries in the config.xml file, that supposedly allows this behavor:
<!-- video plugins -->
<VideoPlugin0>TV Guide</VideoPlugin0>
<VideoPlugin1>ProcAmp</VideoPlugin1>
<VideoPlugin2>OSD Menu</VideoPlugin2>
<VideoPlugin3>Live Guide</VideoPlugin3>
<VideoPlugin4>Weather</VideoPlugin4>

These specific settings are no longer used in PVRX2.

5. Jeff would have to add support for the new IUIPanel interface to have the weather showing up on the main menu.

[Mike] - so, this plug-in has never worked like it did in GBPVR?

Correct.

[mmatheny]

Thanx for your input!

[mmatheny]

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2. The most likely means you have duplicate channels in your database. zip and attach your gbpvr.db3 and I'll take a look.

[Mike] - no, I mean there are duplicate channel #s side by side, i.e.
25 25 XXXTV

This is most likely a hang over from originally using zap2it then later moving to schedules direct. Long story why, but the easiest fix for you is to hit the export recordings button, rename your gbpvr.db3 to backup.db3, then fire up the config app and recreate your capture sources, hit the 'Update EPG' button, then hit the 'import recordings' button to import recordings-dump.xml. After this your channel numbers will be fine going forward.

I am using the I-XMLTV program to pull from SchedulesDirect - should I use the built-in support? What will I miss if I use the builtin support? Will I still get asterisks for new programs?

[sub]

I'm not sure exactly how I-XMLTV operates (never used it myself), but I'm guessing its including the channel number as part of the channel name, so it looks ugly when you see the channel number "25" shown next to the name "25 XXXTV". Combined together this gives "25 25 XXXTV". Its probably worth looking at the options in I-XMLTV to find away from stopping it putting the channel number in the name, then following my advise about deleting the database and setting up your capture source again.

[mmatheny]

Well, when I exported and reimported, it only exported 1 of about 20 recordings. Is there any setting in config.xml to tell it not to add channel #s if they already exist in the import file?

[sub]

Well, when I exported and reimported, it only exported 1 of about 20 recordings.

Zip and attach the recordings-dump.xml from your original database.

Is there any setting in config.xml to tell it not to add channel #s if they already exist in the import file?

Are you talking about recordings-dump.xml or your xmltv file? For the xmltv file, no - it expects the channel number to be the channel number and the channel name to be the channel name (not the channel name to be the channel number and the channel name).

[mmatheny]

So, is this the issue, the Display Name has the channel # also?
<channel id="I10021.labs.zap2it.com">
<display-name>57 AMC</display-name>
<display-name>57 AMC TX62678:-</display-name>
<display-name>57</display-name>
<display-name>AMC</display-name>
<display-name>AMC</display-name>
<display-name>Satellite</display-name>
</channel>
<channel id="I10035.labs.zap2it.com">
<display-name>23 AETV</display-name>
<display-name>23 AETV TX62678:-</display-name>
<display-name>23</display-name>
<display-name>AETV</display-name>
<display-name>A &amp; E Network</display-name>
<display-name>Satellite</display-name>
</channel>
<channel id="I10051.labs.zap2it.com">
<display-name>46 BET</display-name>
<display-name>46 BET TX62678:-</display-name>
<display-name>46</display-name>
<display-name>BET</display-name>
<display-name>Black Entertainment Television</display-name>
<display-name>Satellite</display-name>
</channel>