[turewib]

Hi all.

I've been messing with this for several days now, and really need some help :-)

Not a dev, so please bear with me...

My problem is that I get no live tv, no EPG lists nor any recordings (I think these are just empty files, but not sure) to PLAY on my XBMC 12 beta frontend.

I have connection to the database and the backend, I get channels listed correctly in XBMC (with icons and everything), but when I try to play ANY channel, XBMC just hangs - It seems to be live (fps counting etc in debug mode, wait-spinner rotating etc) but not responsive (and I have to force-quit it). Sometimes XBMC will outright crash.


Something is not set up right, but I can't figure it out...

My setup is this:

BACKEND
MacMini 1.66 ghz Intel core duo
OSX 10.6.8
MythTV O.25

(I plan to use the mini as a frontend once I get the setup right)


FRONTEND
Air 1.8ghz intelt core duo i7
OSX 10.7.5
XBMC 12 beta (and nightly builds)

Here is an except from the log: http://paste2.org/p/2530942

Hopefully somebody has some pointers for me.

Best,
Ture

[turewib]

Ok, now everything is working - even my ATV2 is showing the livetv, EPG etc. :-)

It turned out I had the file paths in Myth set up wrong...Files were written, but Myth frontend (or XBMC) didn't know where they were.

[janbar]

Great. It is resolved. Good way it to check Myth config with mythfrontend to close the first setup.

[mikey687]

Hi,

I seem to have exactly the same problem, could you let me know how your file paths were wrong so I can get mine fixed?

Some info for my setup:

I've got the 0.25 mythBackend and XBMC working on the same machine so everything is local. The myth PVR 1.6.6 addon is enabled on Frodo R2 and connects nicely to the backend and it's database.

I can see the channel lists, browse the EPG timeline, and setup programs to be recorded.

I've got to say the functionality is awesome - really nice job.

But if I try to view a liveTV feed or view an existing recording, XBMC just freezes and I have to force quit.

When I go back in to XBMC and navigate to Live TV, I also noticed that all the EPG timeline data is now lost, but the now and next views still work.

I've setup the default group directory using mythTV-setup for the backend to a folder on my Mac Minis hard drive. The mythTVBackend seems to be OK for writing to this directory as I can see the mpg files being generated. I've scoured through the XBMC setup options and the mythTV-setup options but can't see anywhere else to define the directories to be used.

The log file shows the PVR attempting to open the stream when I click on a channel:

Code:

23:56:11 T:140735250141568  NOTICE: Previous line repeats 1 times.
23:56:11 T:140735250141568 WARNING: Skin has invalid include: listcolorfocus
23:56:11 T:4369944576 WARNING: Previous line repeats 33 times.
23:56:11 T:4369944576  NOTICE: Thread PVR Channel Window start, auto delete: false
23:56:17 T:140735250141568  NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: pvr://channels/tv/All TV channels/0.pvr
23:56:17 T:140735250141568 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
23:56:17 T:4465364992  NOTICE: Thread CDVDPlayer start, auto delete: false
23:56:17 T:4465364992  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
00:01:35 T:140735250141568  NOTICE: Storing total System Uptime
00:01:35 T:140735250141568  NOTICE: Saving settings
00:01:35 T:140735250141568  NOTICE: stop all

From looking in finder, I can see the mpg file was created for 15 minutes of TV on the right channel, it just never got streamed to XBMC.

[mikey687]

OK, so I got it fixed. I fiddled with a few things before checking so can't be sure if it was definitely one or the other but I noticed the following:

I had set a PIN in MythBackend for frontend access thinking it would be more secure but it was only later that I realised none of the front ends I was trying were asking for it so I set it back to 0000 for open access.

I had entered the default directory for saved content to be /users/mike/Media when first setting up the backend and then changed my mind and made it /users/mike/Documents/media/mythTVArchive. This was working fine for recordings. When I installed the MythFrontend, I noticed the playback directories were still pointing to /users/mike/Media, so I changed these back to my second choice.

Now I have a working mythTV on XBMC Frodo and it is great!