Available recordings not showing up

[SteveTyrakowski]

Hi,

I have OpeneElec 3 beta 5? running and I turned on the NextPvr add-on. It seems to be making a connection OK because it gets the EPG, shows me any currently recording shows as well as the next scheduled recording. I can also view live TV by selecting in the Channels display.

What I am not getting are the available recordings. If I am currently recording, then when I go to the recordings under LiveTV it shows those, but none of the already recorded shows. If nothing is recording at the time, then the recordings page only shows the .. entry.

Any clues what might be wrong? It obviously is getting access to the SQL database since it can see current and future recordings, and it can play live TV so it is streaming OK.

Is there possibly some limit to the number of recordings it can put into the XBMC database? I do have about 1325 shows in the nextpvr database. the only other guess is that the 1st folder alphabetically is a movie "$ (Dollars)". Could the special character there possibly be causing the problem? I will test removing this later when I get home, because actually I see that there is no video file in that folder. My program that converts the TS files to mp4 might have had a problem with the filename too which I never noticed.

Just curious if the filenaming routing in NextPvr does any checking for dangerous characters when composing the name and possibly use a safer name. Similar issues have been a real PITA for barcode program I've written at work. When the users decide to put a double quote character into a part number to denote inches it can cause all sorts of fun when sending the ASCII strings to the printer. Passing filenames to external programs and between different operation systems leaves the potential for lots of craziness with special characters.

Thanks,
Steve Tyrakowski

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Reproduce the problem and post the web.log and xbmc.log and I'll see if there is any obvious errors listed in the log.

[SteveTyrakowski]

Reproduce the problem and post the web.log and xbmc.log and I'll see if there is any obvious errors listed in the log.

Attached is the xbmc log file zip. I don't know where to find web.log. I do see some errors in the log file related to NextPvr.

Steve Tyrakowski

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The web.log is a nextpvr log file.

[SteveTyrakowski]

The web.log is a nextpvr log file.

Ok here are the web.log files I found

Steve T

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Attached is the xbmc log file zip. I don't know where to find web.log. I do see some errors in the log file related to NextPvr.

I'm not sure what that log message is about.

Unfortunately your logs don't contain the debug messages. I think you need to turn on the 'enable debug logging' option in the XBMC settings then repost the xbmc.log.

[mvallevand]

SteveTyrakowski wrote he converts files to mp4. I did a quick test and If the source ts file is deleted it doesn't show in the file list either.

Martin

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Ah, right. Could be something like that. Hassles with streaming to clients is the primary reason NextPVR has no built-in transcoding. I prefer people just leave recordings in their original .ts format.

[SteveTyrakowski]

I'm not sure what that log message is about.

Unfortunately your logs don't contain the debug messages. I think you need to turn on the 'enable debug logging' option in the XBMC settings then repost the xbmc.log.

I turned on debug. Not sure it is giving any better info tho.

Steve T

[SteveTyrakowski]

SteveTyrakowski wrote he converts files to mp4. I did a quick test and If the source ts file is deleted it doesn't show in the file list either.

Martin

My conversion program updates the database with the new filename after conversion. And it has not been running for a few weeks so I have over 100 files that were still in .TS format when I started this conversation.

Steve T