nDroid v1.7.5 available

[bgowland]

Hopefully I've fixed the problems on the Guide details popup that Nistrod mentioned in the v1.7.4 thread.

Repeat of the release details...

I've uploaded v1.7.5 of the nDroid client app to the Android Market and the associated installer for the v 1.7.4 of the nDroid service to the NextPVR wiki page. http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...ity.NDroid

You MUST update both of them for this version to work - please update the nDroidService on your PC before downloading v1.7.5 of the nDroid app.

Also, please see the point below about uninstalling v1.6.8 of the nDroid app before downloading v1.7.5 to your Android device.

IMPORTANT:

1. v1.7.x requires NextPVR v2.3.6 and WILL NOT work with previous versions.
   
2. If you have v1.6.8 or earlier installed on your Android device, you MUST uninstall it before installing v1.7.x
   
3. v1.7.4 of the nDroidService may be installed over previous versions
   

[bgowland]

Changes / updates:

nDroid app:

• Fixed time-zone related issue in the Guide detail popup of the short lived v1.7.4 which prevented record/watch of programmes
  
• Changed the order of buttons on the various popups to put 'Close' on the left hopefully to prevent acidental recordings or cancelling existing recordings.
  
• Added 'Watch' button to various Guide popups to allow watching Live TV (see section below)
  
• Added Recordings view to show existing recordings and allow them to be watched (see below)
  
• Updated the way currently scheduled recordings are managed - should prevent the highlight in Gude views failing after the app is updated
  
• Updated various database tables in the local database to match changes in NextPVR v2.3.6 (mostly not yet used)
  
• Various bug fixes and stuff I've forgotten
  

nDroidService:

• Updated export logic to cater for new database format in NextPVR v2.3.6
  
• Fixed bug that might falsely report a recording request is successful even if there has been an error
  
• Added streaming HTTP server
  
• Improved logging in some areas
  
• Various bug fixes and stuff I've forgotten
  

Viewing Live TV and watching Recordings (Experimental):

In order to watch live tv or view recordings you will need a 3rd-party media player app installed on your Android device. I've personally only tested this with MX Video Player and it works very nicely. I can't guarantee that it will work with other Android media player apps or even if it will work at all.

To watch live tv you will also have to enable the NextPVR web server as it uses the "/live?channel=###" call built-in. Streaming of media from the Recordings view is handled by the nDroidService and, as stated, is experimental.

This was quite a major piece of work and there's probably some things I've missed so I'll update when I can remember.

[bgowland]

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[Sheik Yerbouti]

Great work Brian. One question: on my system it takes about 35 seconds before the file starts playing. Is this the same for you, or should I upload some logs?

Chris

[bgowland]

Great work Brian.

Thanks, I like it. Still more to come when I get time.

One question: on my system it takes about 35 seconds before the file starts playing. Is this the same for you, or should I upload some logs?

I find it varies. Sometimes it takes only a short time (perhaps around 5 seconds) other times it can take 15-20 seconds, I haven't timed it exactly.

It might depend on what sort of media file it is and the size. The nDroidServiceStreamer.log file should contain everything related to the streaming although nDroidServiceListener.log might help too if you want me to look further.

EDIT: If you're trying this with Live TV it can take quite a bit of time because of the way MX Video Player tries to analyse the feed.

[gEd]

Added 'Watch' button to various Guide popups to allow watching Live TV (see section below)
Added Recordings view to show existing recordings and allow them to be watched (see below)

woot!

awesome work Brian. you da' man. works perfectly on my HTC HD2 phone [using mx player]
yep, it seems a little slow to get going, maybe 30secs. Here is my log if you are interested.

thank you for this.

Code:

03/02/2012 23:37:12.578 nDroidHttpServer.WebRequestCallback() entered... 03/02/2012 23:37:12.578 nDroidHttpServer.WebRequestCallback() - calling EndGetContext()... 03/02/2012 23:37:12.578 nDroidHttpServer.WebRequestCallback() - calling BeginGetContext()... 03/02/2012 23:37:12.578 nDroidHttpServer.WebRequestCallback() - calling ProcessRequest()... 03/02/2012 23:37:12.578 ProcessRequest() called... 03/02/2012 23:37:12.578 Filename: /R:/Recordings/Beautiful Equations/Beautiful Equations.ts 03/02/2012 23:37:12.578 File extension: .ts 03/02/2012 23:37:12.578 Content Type: video/vnd.dlna.mpeg-tts 03/02/2012 23:37:12.578 fi.Name: Beautiful Equations.ts fi.Length: 2253918088 03/02/2012 23:37:12.599 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:12.777 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:12.865 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:12.951 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:13.095 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:13.153 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:13.223 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:13.279 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:13.338 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:13.410 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:13.471 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:13.540 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:13.606 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:13.697 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:14.078 nDroidHttpServer.WebRequestCallback() entered... 03/02/2012 23:37:14.078 nDroidHttpServer.WebRequestCallback() - calling EndGetContext()... 03/02/2012 23:37:14.078 nDroidHttpServer.WebRequestCallback() - calling BeginGetContext()... 03/02/2012 23:37:14.078 nDroidHttpServer.WebRequestCallback() - calling ProcessRequest()... 03/02/2012 23:37:14.078 ProcessRequest() called... 03/02/2012 23:37:14.078 Filename: /R:/Recordings/Beautiful Equations/Beautiful Equations.ts 03/02/2012 23:37:14.078 File extension: .ts 03/02/2012 23:37:14.078 Content Type: video/vnd.dlna.mpeg-tts 03/02/2012 23:37:14.078 fi.Name: Beautiful Equations.ts fi.Length: 2253918088 03/02/2012 23:37:14.093 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:14.201 ProcessRequest() - client socket closed, time to leave... 03/02/2012 23:37:14.201 Closing BinaryReader... 03/02/2012 23:37:14.201 nDroidHttpServer.WebRequestCallback() - ProcessRequest() finished. 03/02/2012 23:37:14.579 ProcessRequest() - aborting response connection... 03/02/2012 23:37:14.579 Closing BinaryReader... 03/02/2012 23:37:14.580 nDroidHttpServer.WebRequestCallback() - ProcessRequest() finished. 03/02/2012 23:37:14.582 nDroidHttpServer.WebRequestCallback() entered... 03/02/2012 23:37:14.582 nDroidHttpServer.WebRequestCallback() - calling EndGetContext()... 03/02/2012 23:37:14.582 nDroidHttpServer.WebRequestCallback() - calling BeginGetContext()... 03/02/2012 23:37:14.582 nDroidHttpServer.WebRequestCallback() - calling ProcessRequest()... 03/02/2012 23:37:14.582 ProcessRequest() called... 03/02/2012 23:37:14.582 Filename: /R:/Recordings/Beautiful Equations/Beautiful Equations.ts 03/02/2012 23:37:14.582 File extension: .ts 03/02/2012 23:37:14.582 Content Type: video/vnd.dlna.mpeg-tts 03/02/2012 23:37:14.582 fi.Name: Beautiful Equations.ts fi.Length: 2253918088 03/02/2012 23:37:14.583 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:14.626 nDroidHttpServer.WebRequestCallback() entered... 03/02/2012 23:37:14.626 nDroidHttpServer.WebRequestCallback() - calling EndGetContext()... 03/02/2012 23:37:14.626 nDroidHttpServer.WebRequestCallback() - calling BeginGetContext()... 03/02/2012 23:37:14.626 nDroidHttpServer.WebRequestCallback() - calling ProcessRequest()... 03/02/2012 23:37:14.626 ProcessRequest() called... 03/02/2012 23:37:14.626 Filename: /R:/Recordings/Beautiful Equations/Beautiful Equations.ts 03/02/2012 23:37:14.626 File extension: .ts 03/02/2012 23:37:14.627 Content Type: video/vnd.dlna.mpeg-tts 03/02/2012 23:37:14.627 ProcessRequest() threw exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at uk.co.beetec.csharp.nDroid.nDroidServiceStreamer.ProcessRequest(HttpListenerContext context) in C:\Documents and Settings\gbpvr\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\nDroidService\nDroidService\nDroidServiceStreamer.cs:line 158 03/02/2012 23:37:14.627 nDroidHttpServer.WebRequestCallback() - ProcessRequest() finished. 03/02/2012 23:37:44.830 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:44.970 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:45.138 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:45.285 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:45.369 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:45.450 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:45.520 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:45.631 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:45.706 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:45.782 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:45.852 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:45.914 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:45.981 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:46.046 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:46.126 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:46.228 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:46.321 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:46.409 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:46.507 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:46.849 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:47.258 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:47.628 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:48.003 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:48.328 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:48.761 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:49.168 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:49.780 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:50.097 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:50.497 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:50.800 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:51.060 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:51.566 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:51.917 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:52.457 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:52.937 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:53.507 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:53.967 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:54.488 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:54.775 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:55.047 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:55.459 bytesRead: 250000 03/02/2012 23:37:55.531 ProcessRequest() - HttpListenerException in OutputStream.Write() block threw exception: The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request at System.Net.HttpResponseStream.Write(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size) at uk.co.beetec.csharp.nDroid.nDroidServiceStreamer.ProcessRequest(HttpListenerContext context) in C:\Documents and Settings\gbpvr\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\nDroidService\nDroidService\nDroidServiceStreamer.cs:line 175 03/02/2012 23:37:55.532 ProcessRequest() threw exception: The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request at uk.co.beetec.csharp.nDroid.nDroidServiceStreamer.ProcessRequest(HttpListenerContext context) in C:\Documents and Settings\gbpvr\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\nDroidService\nDroidService\nDroidServiceStreamer.cs:line 188 03/02/2012 23:37:55.532 nDroidHttpServer.WebRequestCallback() - ProcessRequest() finished.

[bgowland]

awesome work Brian. you da' man.

lol, thanks.

works perfectly on my HTC HD2 phone [using mx player]
yep, it seems a little slow to get going, maybe 30secs. Here is my log if you are interested.

Yes, very interested. I don't like the look of those exceptions - the first one probably explains why it takes so long to get going and the last two should be being handled a bit more gracefully rather than logged in that way.

I'll double-check the code and hopefully find the issues. Glad you like it.

Cheers,
Brian

[bgowland]

@gEd - Actually, I might have an angle on the first exception. Which version of the MX player are you using?

[gEd]

1.5a

[bgowland]

1.5a

OK thanks, same as me. I'm wondering if it's to do with the mx player settings (I changed a few of them). I'll look further.