(2013-09-18, 02:54)ferretlegs Wrote:

(2013-09-18, 01:58)scarecrow420 Wrote: lol no it is the US Brady Bunch, it's just what happens to be on at the moment, honest!!!

Anyway yeah the Epg.GetEntriesbyChannel(ch, start, end) call doesnt seem to return for a show where the start time was prior to the passed in start. I was thinking if the goal is to grab the current in progress show then perhaps passing in Now-8 hours as the start, and Now as the end, then taking the LAST item (as opposed to start=now end=now+8 and taking FIRST) might work better.

So you are saying on your tuner/EPG/country/setup, when you pass in NOW and NOW+8 to Epg.GetEntriesbyChannel() the first item IS the current show? weird.

if we have to we can always check for instant records, that the selected item start and end do fall on either side of NOW and if not, loop through more GetEntries calls until we find the correct one. Shame there isnt a PreviousEntry and NextEntry call. Or is there?

One thing to add to the recording list scarecrow. I found that if you are actually watching a live channel and you switch to the epg timeline to record it (the only current way I can record what is live), then the show starts to record but it crashes the stream you are already watching. If you then switch to recordings you can continue to watch it like any in-progress recording, but it is a bit messy obviously. Even worse, I managed to crash the ehRecvr.exe service doing this (I think when I tried to start the channel again rather than going to the in-progress recording after the stream crash). I didn't notice this in my earlier post as I simply tested starting a current show recording from the epg timeline to ensure it got the correct show, I wasn't actually viewing that channel at the time.

Sorry to pile the issues on, but I'm trying to test all the main use cases I can think of

(2013-09-18, 05:40)Powerhouse Wrote: Another update, regarding the duplicate TV recordings. When I delete 1, they both go away. So it looks like I am just seeing two copies of the single recording.

(2013-09-18, 03:23)papreston Wrote: Been playing around with the Series Recording in Amber. Nice Skin by the way. Anyways, when I select to record a series and mark "New Only" it still records re-runs. This also happens when I schedule in WMC. Is this a known bug?

(2013-09-17, 18:39)hoopsdavis Wrote:

(2013-09-17, 17:09)krustyreturns Wrote:

(2013-09-17, 08:37)ferretlegs Wrote: When I was testing this I started channel 7 recording in WMC (not xbmc) and then verified I could play that in xbmc while it was recording. So I thought it might have worked because maybe wmc was now using another (working) tuner to do this recording if wmcserver had already spun up the dud tuner? Or does "spun up" not mean it is exclusive to wmcserver?

Ah I see. If you have multiple tuners in the same tuning space I don't know of a way to 'pick' the tuner, it just takes whichever tuner is available. One way to force it, is to start a recording on one of them, then live-tv can only use the other one.

(2013-09-17, 08:37)ferretlegs Wrote: Sorry for not being clear Krusty, what scarecrow says above is what is basically happening to me - right clicking the current channel-list channel (which is on the left for me) and pressing start recording schedules the next show, instead of immediately recording the current show. I don't know any other way to record actually (I'm still new to xbmc)

hope this all makes sense

I never start recordings this way, so this morning I tried it a lot and I can't reproduce it, it always seems to work. Even when there is only 5 minutes left in the show that is currently on it records those 5 minutes. Does this happen to you consistently or just sometimes? Try this, using the 'timeline' view of the guide, set it to record a half hour show that is not on now and see if it selects the correct show, or the show that comes after. Do this by right clicking on the show in the time line view. Let me know.

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(2013-09-17, 05:23)hoopsdavis Wrote: Guys, here's the links for the xml files modified to work with the Arctic skin
(Use the steps listed above)


DeleteTimer.xml -- http://ubuntuone.com/7Ou9fHEtA4cM6Gll63IxNQ
RecordPrefs.xml -- http://ubuntuone.com/2IBsH0yJ0g7MzcWvuOyoK9

On the next Arctic update the conditions will be added.

That is so cool Hoops, thanks for making this happen. How do they look? And does navigation to the 'ok' and 'cancel' buttons work using the remote?

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Everything works like a charm, looks great. And yes you can access "ok" and "Cancel" using the remote.

I highly recommend this skin.

(2013-09-18, 01:57)ferretlegs Wrote: With regards to root issue with tuner, I tend to agree with you. Its like there is something specific about seven network, otherwise I would expect it to be more transitory, not totally off or on like it seems to be atm. Maybe by starting a 7 recording in wmc first, we have cleared some DRM hurdle or something that is not addressed if wmcserver is just started by itself.

For example, after I shut down xbmc last night and started my 360 extender, I still could not get channel 7. This was in my event log:

Windows Media Center Extender encountered a DRM failure.
Area: 1
Error: Unknown HResult Error code: 0x8004b822

After I came and switched off wmcserver I could then tune 7 network on the 360 extender successfully. So it seems there is some sort of interaction going on....

(2013-09-18, 05:40)Powerhouse Wrote: Another update, regarding the duplicate TV recordings. When I delete 1, they both go away. So it looks like I am just seeing two copies of the single recording.

(2013-09-18, 02:54)ferretlegs Wrote: One thing to add to the recording list scarecrow. I found that if you are actually watching a live channel and you switch to the epg timeline to record it (the only current way I can record what is live), then the show starts to record but it crashes the stream you are already watching. If you then switch to recordings you can continue to watch it like any in-progress recording, but it is a bit messy obviously. Even worse, I managed to crash the ehRecvr.exe service doing this (I think when I tried to start the channel again rather than going to the in-progress recording after the stream crash). I didn't notice this in my earlier post as I simply tested starting a current show recording from the epg timeline to ensure it got the correct show, I wasn't actually viewing that channel at the time.

Sorry to pile the issues on, but I'm trying to test all the main use cases I can think of

(2013-09-18, 19:07)stven Wrote: Hi Krusty

many thanks for this great PVR.
However I have a problem when watching HD channels the image is jerky.
No problem with SD channels.

Any idea to solve this?

Also all chanels work fine with the backend ArgusTV.

(2013-09-18, 19:45)stven Wrote: I'm using Frodo 12.2 (the latest stable version)

(2013-09-18, 19:55)stven Wrote: OK the server is on a remote client but my LAN is gigabit (i don't think it's the problem).
The server runs Win 8 64bit and use a Hauppauge Nova T 500 (it's not a STB)

(2013-09-18, 19:55)stven Wrote: OK the server is on a remote client but my LAN is gigabit (i don't think it's the problem).
The server runs Win 8 64bit and use a Hauppauge Nova T 500 (it's not a STB)

(2013-09-18, 20:21)stven Wrote: When running WMC on the server, all is smooth.
In my living room the problem occurs on every HD channels.

I will try tomorow to install the xbmc addon on the server.



Thanks for your help