XBMC Python Script (2 Viewers)

[loetman]

Script Problem

Hy

i have installed the script on My X-Box V.1.0 and it works!

i have only one issue, when i start a TV Channel, the videostream is come for about 5 Secounds ( the time is not every the same)
then stop the video and i see the menu:

.......
stop timeshift
stream1

when i click 'stream1' mostly it works for about 5 Minutes to 1 hour.

when i click 'stream1' in 5 minutes again, start the TV on the first start. I think that is normal (timeshifbuffer)

if the video stops, the Server is timeshifting further until i click 'stop timeshift'

why stops the video irregulary?

thanks for your help!

greetings from Switzerland!

 

[jez]

Hey loetman, that's good news you have it working.

Not sure why it drops out. I always used to get, dropping out after only 5 seconds, this with live TV from MythTV to XBMCMythTV. I reckon it had to do with delays in getting the ring buffer up and running.

Perhaps your dropouts are due to TV reception. I'd have a look at the MediaPlayer logs and see if it shows anything interesting at the time of the dropout.

 

[loetman]

Ringbuffer

Hy jez

thanks for your answer!

i think also its a problem with the Ringbuffer or the Streaming Server Plugin for XBMC,
the Tv signal is ok, with my Mediaportal clients i have no problems, only with xbmc on my xbox.

it would great, when we can combine this phyton script with the idea from thechad:

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...gration-scripts-v0-6d-update-4-mar-07-a-2263/

to make xbmc to a complete client for MP!

 

[jez]

Could be right about the ringbuffer. But it works OK for me.

I agree, having a complete MediaPortal client would be fantastic, and that's my goal. I've already had correspondence with TheChad, and there could be some scope for combining parts of his excellent work and that of EvilDude, into a complete solution.

However, as both of these gurus have pointed out to me, XBMC will soon have a new unified PVR interface. So the GUI will be taken care of, and all we will need to do is the backend stuff. There will be a MythTV reference plug-in for it, and I hope to be a part of the MP PVR plug-in. The project is described at XBMC | GSoC - Unified PVR Frontend. He's a little behind schedule, but we can all forgive him for that, given that he's working on the most awesome new addition to the most awesome media centre on the planet.

So, while I'm doing some work on the MP video plug-in, I can't see myself dedicating lots of time to something that will mostly be redundant soon. I'll probably just get the basic functionality going so it's usable until Alcoheca's code comes to fruition.

 

[loetman]

thanks, i will stand by and hope that the guru's find time to make this.

have a good time!

 

[jez]

By the way, the latest subversion repo has an XBMC video plug-in for "Recorded TV". It's not pretty, but it works (for me at least). It requires a build of the current updated MP TVServerXBMC.dll plug-in, and the source code for that is up-to-date in subversion (but not the DLL at present). Personally, watching recorded TV is more useful than live TV, so this makes me particularly happy. I'd hoped to have had an updated plug-in DLL, but my build system is on the fritz, and the DLL I have seems a bit unreliable as a result.

The Live TV and Recorded TV components are combined on the MP side, but separate modules on the XBMC side. The plan is to bring them into the one plug-in. The only real difference that makes is that you only have to configure your settings once. The Recorded TV plug-in fetches the MP filename of the recorded show, and prefixes smb://mpserver/sharename/ so there's an extra config option. Using SMB to play the file works quite well (as it has done for a while with the XBMCMythTV script). It means we don't have to code against a special MediaPortal API.

I've checked in the latest MP plug-in DLL. If anyone can test it out and report back, that'd be great.

 

[jez]

I've just checked in a new dir "TVServer" that contains a combined "Live TV" and "Recorded TV" plug-in. I've tested in XBMC for Windows, and soon I'll test it on an XBox.

 

[loetman]

When you will, i can test it on my xbox!

 

[jez]

Has anyone else tested this? It works for me on a real Xbox as well as XBMC for Windows. Does anyone have any feedback?

 

[graemef]

Hi Jez,
I will try it out for you in the next couple of days. Can you give me a quick "idiots guide" to where to download it and installation.
Cheers