MP2 - Spring'16 No player for live tv (Windows 7) (1 Viewer)

[cewillis]

Oh no! Please don't say that.

Sorry -- I wish someone could have solved it too. Interesting that the problem occurs on a completely different machine and OS. I guess that give some indication that it's not the basic setup. I've seen some of the other threads, too -- appears to be random 'screwing around' that 'fixed' it. But I'm sure there's a real answer somewhere, as MP2 TV apparently eventually works.

So I deleted/uninstalled everything (except W7 SP1) and tried the weekly suggested by ge2301.
Similar - maybe not exactly the same thing. Here's what I did - if anyone is still looking. (after configuring channels and trying web epg with TVserver)
In the following, when I say clicked a channel -- I'm actually clicking in the guide area for that channel.
Start MP2. Go to TV>Guide, click 1st channel (KVOA HD), select Watch Now: result - no player, same as before.
Click KTTU HD (the only channel for which web epg found data), select Watch Now. First time, I got the message 'Unable to play xxxx.ts'. Tried twice more: no indication of any kind. Sounds sort of like timeshift started, but no player.
At some point (maybe not in logs), I clicked KTTU HD and selected 'Record'. The current program turned red as if recording -- but after stopping in a couple of minutes, there's nothing in 'Recordings' except the sample video (which still works fine)
BTW -- I really wouldn't care if 'Watch now' didn't work, IF that were a feature. Never watch live in MP anyway.

 

[spachti]

Just a wild guess.
Did you register the windows media player as standard player? If memory serves me right, I had some similar problems some time back after an update for the WMP.
Like I said, just a wild guess, it may not be related at all ;-)

 

[breese]

Prior to Starting MP2 TV, is there any channel being locked on in Setup TV? (Fyi, you can be in Setup TV and MP2 at the same time)


When there is an active Channel it will show it on the tuner.


Seeing Morph looked at one of the problem systems I still have to ask.
What are the access rights to the Timeshifting folder?
When a channel is locked on the tuner you should see this


If nothing is locked (i.e. the active channel pic) then the timeshift folder should be empty

 

[cewillis]

I'll have to check for sure tomorrow morning. The computer is in use running MP1 right now, (on a DIFFERENT disk)
But I didn't use manual control or test channels since the re-install, and TVserver was not running while I was using MP2.
Later on the access rights, too. Isn't that a folder that the MP2 install creates? I certainly didn't change any access rights.

 

[breese]

Interesting things are happening in your new logs

MP2-Server
[2016-11-30 15:04:39,030] [5322 ] [DVB EPG timer] [INFO ] - card: Tune on card 5 to subchannel Unknown 691250-4
[2016-11-30 15:04:39,140] [5432 ] [DVB EPG timer] [INFO ] - dvb: WinTv CI module not detected.
[2016-11-30 15:04:39,180] [5472 ] [DVB EPG timer] [INFO ] - dvb: Render ..->[TsWriter]
[2016-11-30 15:04:39,200] [5492 ] [DVB EPG timer] [INFO ] - dvbubmiting tunerequest Channel:Unknown 691250-4 subChannel:-1

MP2-Client - Not Even Running
[2016-11-30 15:10:34,970] [78 ] [Main ] [INFO ] - ApplicationCore: Launching in AppDomain MP2-Client.exe...

MP2-Server
[2016-11-30 15:11:06,491] [392783 ] [54 ] [INFO ] - Controller: find free card for channel KVOA HD
[2016-11-30 15:11:06,501] [392793 ] [54 ] [INFO ] - Controller: find card for channel KVOA HD
[2016-11-30 15:11:06,511] [392803 ] [54 ] [INFO ] - Controller: got 1 tuning details for KVOA HD
[2016-11-30 15:11:06,511] [392803 ] [54 ] [INFO ] - Controller: channel #1 ATSC:tv:unknown KVOA HD Freq:145250 ONID:0 TSID:0 SID:4 PMT:0x3D FTA:True LCN:19 phys:19 maj:4 min:2 mod:Mod256Qam

MP2-Client
[2016-11-30 15:11:19,811] [44919 ] [Thread9 ] [WARN ] - SlimTvPlayerBuilder: Error playing media item 'Resource '{04affa6c-ea42-4bd3-aa6f-c16dcef1d693}://0|C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\timeshiftbuffer\live5-0.ts.tsbuffer' at system 'b647e3d4-1462-4e2e-b229-2bca79fb96fd'
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at MediaPortal.UI.Players.Video.TsVideoPlayer.AddSourceFilter()
at MediaPortal.UI.Players.Video.BaseDXPlayer.SetMediaItem(IResourceLocator locator, String mediaItemTitle)
at MediaPortal.Plugins.SlimTv.Client.Player.SlimTvPlayerBuilder.GetPlayer(MediaItem mediaItem)

[2016-11-30 15:11:19,821] [44929 ] [AMQ 'UPnPRendererPlugin'] [ERROR] - Player Error
[2016-11-30 15:11:19,961] [45069 ] [AMQ 'PlayerContextManager'] [INFO ] - Releasing filter System.__ComObject, remaining references: 1
[2016-11-30 15:11:19,981] [45089 ] [AMQ 'PlayerContextManager'] [WARN ] - SlimTvPlayerBuilder: Error playing media item 'Resource '{04affa6c-ea42-4bd3-aa6f-c16dcef1d693}://0|C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\timeshiftbuffer\live5-0.ts.tsbuffer' at system 'b647e3d4-1462-4e2e-b229-2bca79fb96fd'
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at MediaPortal.UI.Players.Video.TsVideoPlayer.AddSourceFilter()
at MediaPortal.UI.Players.Video.BaseDXPlayer.SetMediaItem(IResourceLocator locator, String mediaItemTitle)
at MediaPortal.Plugins.SlimTv.Client.Player.SlimTvPlayerBuilder.GetPlayer(MediaItem mediaItem)
[2016-11-30 15:11:19,982] [45090 ] [AMQ 'UPnPRendererPlugin'] [ERROR] - Player Error

The Client does not show any more channel changes but, the server shows 4 or 5 more before you shutdown the client.

The Client does not show any more channel changes but, the server shows 4 or 5 more before you shutdown the client at
[2016-11-30 15:15:15,283] [280391 ] [Main ] [INFO ] - WorkflowManager: Shutdown
[2016-11-30 15:15:15,283] [280391 ] [Main ] [INFO ] - ImporterWorker: Shutdown requested...
[2016-11-30 15:15:15,293] [280401 ] [95 ] [INFO ] - ImporterWorker: Shutdown

 

[cewillis]

Did you register the windows media player as standard player?

I didn't set or change any defaults. But my list for wmp is below. Is it OK? Thanks for the idea.

 

[cewillis]

What are the access rights to the Timeshifting folder?

Is this what you're looking for? (why doesn't Quote work all lthe time???)
i didn't change them,

ts buffer is empty. No channels are locked.

 

[breese]

I moved my timeshift to my raid
f:\timeshift
Users have read/write/execute
Admin as full control

When you start a channel, does the ts file actually get created?

 

[spachti]

I didn't set or change any defaults. But my list for wmp is below. Is it OK? Thanks for the idea.

Well, like I said, it was a guess.

 

[cewillis]

When you start a channel, does the ts file actually get created?

I've tried several times while watching the ts folder, and did not see a file created.
I also noticed a different error - sometimes it's 'no player', but sometimes it's 'error invoking action get channel'