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nssk
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Could someone maybe give me a hand?
I'm very close to getting this to work, just falling at the last hurdle. I've got the pvr-testing2 branch installed all fine: I compiled from source. VDR seems to be installed fine too, and I've scanned the channels into channels.conf. In XBMC I can see all the channels under Live TV, and the EPG data for each channel, so clearly its all working fine. I cannot however actually watch the TV channels. Either:
a) if I use the streamdev plugin,when I select a channel it almost plays, kinda goes into the video player, but then exits it. The occasional channel will crash XBMC.
b) if I use the VNSI plugin, when I select a channel a popup comes up saying "Channel cannot be played" or something. No crashes though.
I'm not at home right now so can't post any logs or anything, what could I post that might help diagnose the problem?
For reference I'm using Ubuntu Maverick 10.10, and a K-World 395U USB TV Tuner.
Thanks guys!
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nssk
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Finally (after a weeks worth of fiddling) managed to get it to work: had to use 'w_scan' to make the channels.conf file rather than 'scan'.
Thanks for all the help guys.
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So what's going on with the pvr-testing branch in relation to VDR?
It seems like a lot of effort is being concentrated on TVHeadend. Whilst TVHeadend is good I much prefer VDR.
Currently using r32871 and starting to feel left behind. Are there other pvr builds that work with VDR?
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nssk
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Out of interest why do you prefer VDR?
I found VDR much harder to set-up, and it insisted on shutting my computer down all the time, despite me turning off all the "Allow VDR to shutdown computer" settings that I could find. Tvheadend was easy to set-up and appears to be a lot better supported here.
In terms of builds, I think you can use the repository maintained by dushmaniac from the tvheadend thread, theres a link to it in his sig. It contains the VDR plugins too.
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opdenkamp
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Heya, I wasn't reading this thread, but decided to have a look when ant_thomas posted in the tvheadend one.
I am currently maintaining the pvr merge and it's not concentrated on tvheadend, but since I run tvheadend myself, I am fixing bugs I encounter and am accepting other people's patches to tvheadend because I can test those properly.
If someone is interested in maintaining the vdr addon, then you can fork of my "master" branch on github.
Someone posted on trac that streamdev wouldn't work anymore with the latest sources, so if you want to try my builds, you'll have to use vnsi.
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I'll give your branch another go with VNSI and see if that makes it work.
If not I might end up going to TVHeadend if my recording issue is resolved (which it could be now).
It is a shame that no one else is looking after the VDR side of things at the moment. Maybe that'll change when Dharma is released.
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Bah, VNSI doesn't want to work for me on the pvr-testing2 build so I'll just stick to streamdev and be happy that things are working well as they are.
