MP & XBMC intergration scripts v0.6d Update 4-MAR-07

[patpotlood]

great,

got it working now.

must have been something to do with the now fixed channelgroups

[pinny121]

Hi Chad

Thanks for the update

will give it a go when i find the time

great mp plugin

[s53zo]

Hi!

I'm using August 2005 build of XBMC and latest build of plugin. I get the connection and I can see my recorded TV but the appearence is not correct. Please see included image for easier understanding. I apologize for the bad image quality, it was taken with a mobile phone.



Regards,
Simon

[thechad]

s53zo

It appears that the textures are not being applied to the interface elements. From memory the texture paths are absolute at the moment so if the textures are not in the correct location then you will get blank (black) textures. this should not be an issue in the next version as it will be skinable.

Anyway try making sure the textures are in the folder path
%XBMC Root%\scripts\mediaportal\skin\media\

Let me know if this helps, also I believe that if you look at the script output using the white button from the script panel you should see error messages relating to this.

Apologies for the static paths :?

[s53zo]

Originally Posted by thechad

Anyway try making sure the textures are in the folder path
%XBMC Root%\scripts\mediaportal\skin\media\

Let me know if this helps

Yep, this works. Thanks. I had the skins in wrong folder. Emphasise this in the manual please.

Know when I go and select a recorded movie and press a green button nothing happens. I've compressed a file within MP so it is no longer dvr-ms but still nothing happens. Nothing in the MP log file also. Any clues?

Thanks for helping.
Simon

[thechad]

s53zo

regarding the recoring not playing, you will need to check you file share settings on the MP box to make sure your Recordings folder is shared out.

Then check to make sure you can access it in XBMC under my Videos.

Also confirm that in mpsettings you have the correct local and remote path set.

If your having trouble with it still email me your TVDatabase from MP and your mpsettings.py and I will check the settings.

Chad

[pinny121]

Nice Install documention

I have the latest script and server installed and working great

i can't thank you enough for this
it is just what i have been looking for.

Pinny

[Gamester17]

@thechad, can I make a suggestion/request?, use the XBMSP protocol instead of or as an option to SMB/SAMBA :wink:

Why you ask? Well firstly was designed for streaming, (SMB/SAMBA is not), it's faster/smoother, and it supports auto-detect,
(the auto-detect function would fit perfectly in here as it would make network configuration so much simpler / almost none).
If you could implement a XBMSP/ccXStream server (in C# code) as part of your plugin for MediaPortal that be really great 8)

You can find more information (inc. code and docs) about XBMSP (and ccXStream) here:
http://mfxstream.sourceforge.net / http://sourceforge.net/projects/mfxstream
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/x...ar.gz?download
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/x...n.rar?download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pxbmsps

PS! Also checkout the TiVo-version of ccXStream-server (as it streams MPEG-TS) and it's respective python-scripts:
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bi...ST;f=21;t=4005
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bi...T;f=21;t=14227
http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/sh...033#post219033
http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/sh...0&postcount=94

[mvoosten]

If you consider XBMSP, I would strongly suggest doing so as an option. I personaly know noone using it except for SMB. I can see some advantages, but it's too much of a hassle to me.

Just my 2 cents

Originally Posted by Gamester17

@thechad, can I make a suggestion/request?, use the XBMSP protocol instead of or as an option to SMB/SAMBA :wink:

Why you ask? Well firstly was designed for streaming, (SMB/SAMBA is not), it's faster/smoother, and it supports auto-detect,
(the auto-detect function would fit perfectly in here as it would make network configuration so much simpler / almost none).
If you could implement a XBMSP/ccXStream server (in C# code) as part of your plugin for MediaPortal that be really great 8)

You can find more information (inc. code and docs) about XBMSP (and ccXStream) here:
http://mfxstream.sourceforge.net / http://sourceforge.net/projects/mfxstream
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/x...ar.gz?download
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/x...n.rar?download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pxbmsps

PS! Also checkout the TiVo-version of ccXStream-server (as it streams MPEG-TS) and it's respective python-scripts:
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bi...ST;f=21;t=4005
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bi...T;f=21;t=14227
http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/sh...033#post219033
http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/sh...0&postcount=94

[mvoosten]

Hi Chad,

Tested your latest version and seems ok now. Channels work without the groups and no lockups in the EPG. What's on now is nice!
Only found that the second option 'on at?' was taking extreem long when I entered something (btw, what should be entered here? May need some clarification on this option in the screen) when it came back to the channel section nothing seemed to work anymore, that is... buttons work when clicked but underlying function didn't seem to work.

With the channelguide, can't recall if requested earlier, but since you got the what's on now working.. could you filter out all times in the channel guide already passed?

Originally Posted by thechad

Ok i have found some issues that are going to take a little ironing out as I am a bit lost. The problems you guys seem to be having is related to special non-english characters in the XML files that are sent between the Xbox and Mediaportal. Thanks to mvoosten for his database as I can use this for testing.

I have also corrected the issue for users that have no channel groups so that an All Channels group is included like in MP.

Hopefully I can iron out the language issues this weekend and get an update out some time next week.

cheers

Chad