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Thursday, April 29th 2010, 10:27am

[Partially solved] yaVDR: XBMC "channel can not be played" and other problems (need help)

Hi.

Firstly I'd like to complement the yaVDR team - finding this had a profound "WOW!" effect on me.

Secondly .... Hi, I'm new here. :)

Thirdly, I'm sorry for writing in english, but my "deutsch ist nicht sehr gut". I can somewhat understand it, but my english is much better. I haven't noticed any obligatory language in the forum rules. Please correct me if I'm wrong, I'll try to translate it if necessary.

Finally to the point: Installed the ISO, updated distro and everything...
The first real problem I have is the XBMC VDR connection.
I can see the channel in default VDR-HD. I can even do this:
mplayer http://localhost:3000/6
but XBMC says: "channel can not be played".

XBMC log attached.

PS: I'm not a linux novice, but I'm no expert either. Even pointers in the right direction are appriciated.


Edit:
Hardware info: Zotac MAG mini pc (Atom 330, nvidia ION, 2GB ram, 1Gb LAN)
No extra TV cards or anything, only IPTV needed.

Tried with "XBMC only" setup (my IPTV channel list as .M3U list) and worked perfectly. Even HD is running smooth - which at this moment does not work in VDR-HD for some reason, but will check this later (probably wrongly edited channels.conf).
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Thursday, April 29th 2010, 3:10pm

"Trying to help myself"...

I've reinstalled the ISO, tried without updating, changed the channel.conf (added a few IPTV channels), reloaded myTV.db, checked other configs (port 2004 ...). Everything looks ok. Unfortunately still no picture in XBMC LiveTV.

XBMC Log looks like this:

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10:07:27 T:3079509888 M:1704038400 DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogPVRUpdateProgressBar.xml) ------
10:07:27 T:3079509888 M:1704038400 INFO: Loading skin file: DialogPVRUpdateProgressBar.xml
10:07:28 T:3079509888 M:1704062976 DEBUG: Load DialogPVRUpdateProgressBar.xml: 13.57ms
10:07:28 T:3079509888 M:1704062976 DEBUG: Alloc resources: 13.91ms (13.87 ms skin load)
10:07:28 T:3036040048 M:1704062976 DEBUG: PVR: TV Channel '3Sat', on client '1' contains no EPG data
10:07:28 T:3036040048 M:1704062976 DEBUG: PVR: TV Channel 'N-TV', on client '1' contains no EPG data
10:07:28 T:3036040048 M:1704062976 DEBUG: PVR: TV Channel '3Sat2', on client '1' contains no EPG data
10:07:28 T:3036040048 M:1704062976 DEBUG: PVR: TV Channel 'NASA', on client '1' contains no EPG data
10:07:28 T:3036040048 M:1704062976 DEBUG: PVR: TV Channel 'TEST', on client '1' contains no EPG data
10:07:28 T:3036040048 M:1704062976 DEBUG: PVR: TV Channel 'TESTHD', on client '1' contains no EPG data
10:07:28 T:3036040048 M:1704263680 INFO: PVR: EPG load finished after 0.244 seconds
10:07:28 T:3079509888 M:1702162432 DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (DialogPVRUpdateProgressBar.xml) ------
10:07:31 T:3004570480 M:1697411072 DEBUG: DoWork - took 319 ms to load special://skin/backgrounds/tv.jpg
10:07:32 T:3079509888 M:1696903168 DEBUG: ExecuteXBMCAction : Translating ActivateWindow(TV)
10:07:32 T:3079509888 M:1696903168 DEBUG: ExecuteXBMCAction : To ActivateWindow(TV)
10:07:32 T:3079509888 M:1696903168 DEBUG: Activating window ID: 10600
10:07:32 T:3079509888 M:1696903168 DEBUG: Checking if window ID 10600 is locked.
10:07:32 T:3079509888 M:1696903168 DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (Home.xml) ------
10:07:32 T:3079509888 M:1696903168 DEBUG: ------ Window Init (MyTV.xml) ------
10:07:32 T:3079509888 M:1696903168 INFO: Loading skin file: MyTV.xml
10:07:32 T:3079509888 M:1691951104 DEBUG: Load MyTV.xml: 127.85ms
10:07:32 T:3079509888 M:1692049408 DEBUG: Alloc resources: 183.10ms (131.34 ms skin load)
10:07:32 T:3079509888 M:1692049408 DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory (?)
10:07:32 T:3079509888 M:1692049408 DEBUG: ParentPath = []
10:07:32 T:3079509888 M:1692049408 ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting ?
10:07:32 T:3079509888 M:1692049408 ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(?) failed
10:07:32 T:3079509888 M:1692049408 DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory (pvr://channels/tv/All/)
10:07:32 T:3079509888 M:1692049408 DEBUG: ParentPath = []
10:07:32 T:3004570480 M:1692049408 DEBUG: CPVRDirectory::GetDirectory(pvr://channels/tv/All)
10:07:32 T:3079509888 M:1692049408 WARNING: CRITSEC[0xbfbaa78c]: Trying to initialze initialized section.
10:07:32 T:3079509888 M:1692049408 WARNING: CRITSEC[0xb10d734]: Trying to initialze initialized section.
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1691238400 DEBUG: new file set audiostream:0
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1691238400 DEBUG: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayers(pvr://channels/tv/all/5.pvr)
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1691238400 DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: considering rule: system rules
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1691238400 DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: matches rule: system rules
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1691238400 DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: considering rule: rtv
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1691238400 DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: considering rule: hdhomerun/myth/rtmp/mms/udp
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1691238400 DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: considering rule: lastfm/shout
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1691238400 DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: considering rule: rtsp
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1691238400 DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: considering rule: streams
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1691238400 DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: considering rule: dvd
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1691238400 DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: considering rule: dvdfile
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1691238400 DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: considering rule: dvdimage
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1691238400 DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: considering rule: sdp/asf
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1691238400 DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: considering rule: nsv
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1691238400 DEBUG: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayers: matched 0 rules with players
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1691238400 DEBUG: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayers: adding videodefaultplayer (1)
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1691238400 DEBUG: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayers: for video=1, audio=0
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1691238400 DEBUG: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayers: for video=1, audio=1
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1691238400 DEBUG: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayers: adding player: DVDPlayer (1)
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1691238400 DEBUG: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayers: added 1 players
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1690603520 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: pvr://channels/tv/all/5.pvr
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1690603520 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
10:07:37 T:2948217712 M:1690603520 DEBUG: thread start, auto delete: 0
10:07:37 T:2948217712 M:1690603520 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
10:07:37 T:2948217712 M:1690476544 DEBUG: AddOnLog: PVRDLL/VDRClient for streamdev: CVTPTransceiver::CreateDataConnection - local address 127.0.0.1:45172
10:07:37 T:2948217712 M:1690476544 DEBUG: AddOnLog: PVRDLL/VDRClient for streamdev: CVTPTransceiver::OpenStreamSocket - listening on 0.0.0.0:39900
10:07:37 T:2937727856 M:1690476544 DEBUG: AddOnLog: PVRDLL/VDRClient for streamdev: TS Live buffer thread started (pid=2130, tid=2158)
10:07:37 T:2948217712 M:1690476544 DEBUG: Open - TV Channel has started on filename pvr://channels/tv/all/5.pvr
10:07:37 T:2948217712 M:1690476544 NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
10:07:37 T:2948217712 M:1690476544 DEBUG: SECTION:LoadDLL(special://xbmc/system/players/dvdplayer/avutil-50-i486-linux.so)
10:07:37 T:2948217712 M:1690476544 DEBUG: Loading: /usr/share/xbmc/system/players/dvdplayer/avutil-50-i486-linux.so
10:07:37 T:2948217712 M:1690349568 DEBUG: SECTION:LoadDLL(special://xbmc/system/players/dvdplayer/avcodec-52-i486-linux.so)
10:07:37 T:2948217712 M:1690349568 DEBUG: Loading: /usr/share/xbmc/system/players/dvdplayer/avcodec-52-i486-linux.so
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1690271744 DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogBusy.xml) ------
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1690271744 INFO: Loading skin file: DialogBusy.xml
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1689939968 DEBUG: Load DialogBusy.xml: 20.01ms
10:07:37 T:3079509888 M:1689939968 DEBUG: Alloc resources: 20.34ms (20.34 ms skin load)
10:07:37 T:2948217712 M:1686757376 DEBUG: SECTION:LoadDLL(special://xbmc/system/players/dvdplayer/avformat-52-i486-linux.so)
10:07:37 T:2948217712 M:1686757376 DEBUG: Loading: /usr/share/xbmc/system/players/dvdplayer/avformat-52-i486-linux.so
10:07:37 T:2948217712 M:1686220800 DEBUG: Open - probing detected format [mpegts]
10:07:42 T:2948217712 M:1680199680 ERROR: PVR: No video or audio data available after 5 seconds, playback stopped
10:07:42 T:2948217712 M:1680199680 DEBUG: Open - av_find_stream_info starting
10:07:42 T:2948217712 M:1679945728 ERROR: PVR: No video or audio data available after 5 seconds, playback stopped
10:07:42 T:2948217712 M:1679945728 DEBUG: ffmpeg[AFBA3B70]: [mpegts] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
10:07:42 T:2948217712 M:1679945728 WARNING: could not find codec parameters for pvr://channels/tv/all/5.pvr
10:07:42 T:2948217712 M:1679851520 ERROR: PVR: No video or audio data available after 5 seconds, playback stopped
10:07:42 T:2948217712 M:1679851520 ERROR: Open - error reading from input stream, pvr://channels/tv/all/5.pvr
10:07:42 T:2948217712 M:1679724544 ERROR: PVR: No video or audio data available after 5 seconds, playback stopped
10:07:42 T:2948217712 M:1679724544 ERROR: Open - error reading from input stream, pvr://channels/tv/all/5.pvr
10:07:43 T:2948217712 M:1679597568 ERROR: PVR: No video or audio data available after 5 seconds, playback stopped
10:07:43 T:2948217712 M:1679597568 ERROR: Open - error reading from input stream, pvr://channels/tv/all/5.pvr
10:07:43 T:2948217712 M:1679597568 ERROR: PVR: No video or audio data available after 5 seconds, playback stopped
10:07:43 T:2948217712 M:1679597568 ERROR: Open - error reading from input stream, pvr://channels/tv/all/5.pvr
10:07:43 T:2948217712 M:1679597568 ERROR: PVR: No video or audio data available after 5 seconds, playback stopped
10:07:43 T:2948217712 M:1679597568 ERROR: Open - error reading from input stream, pvr://channels/tv/all/5.pvr
10:07:43 T:2948217712 M:1679597568 ERROR: PVR: No video or audio data available after 5 seconds, playback stopped
10:07:43 T:2948217712 M:1679597568 ERROR: Open - error reading from input stream, pvr://channels/tv/all/5.pvr
10:07:43 T:2948217712 M:1679597568 ERROR: PVR: No video or audio data available after 5 seconds, playback stopped
10:07:43 T:2948217712 M:1679597568 ERROR: Open - error reading from input stream, pvr://channels/tv/all/5.pvr
10:07:44 T:2948217712 M:1679597568 ERROR: PVR: No video or audio data available after 5 seconds, playback stopped
10:07:44 T:2948217712 M:1679597568 ERROR: Open - error reading from input stream, pvr://channels/tv/all/5.pvr
10:07:44 T:2948217712 M:1679597568 ERROR: PVR: No video or audio data available after 5 seconds, playback stopped
10:07:44 T:2948217712 M:1679597568 ERROR: Open - error reading from input stream, pvr://channels/tv/all/5.pvr
10:07:44 T:2948217712 M:1679597568 ERROR: OpenDemuxStream - Error creating demuxer
10:07:44 T:2948217712 M:1679597568 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
10:07:44 T:2948217712 M:1679597568 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit() deleting input stream
10:07:44 T:2937727856 M:1683804160 ERROR: AddOnLog: PVRDLL/VDRClient for streamdev: ERROR (client.cpp,129): Bad file descriptor
10:07:44 T:2937727856 M:1683804160 DEBUG: AddOnLog: PVRDLL/VDRClient for streamdev: TS Live buffer thread ended (pid=2130, tid=2158)
10:07:44 T:2948217712 M:1685336064 DEBUG: AddOnLog: PVRDLL/VDRClient for streamdev: buffer stats: 1382552 (65%) used
10:07:44 T:2948217712 M:1685336064 DEBUG: Thread 2948217712 terminating
10:07:44 T:3079509888 M:1685336064 DEBUG: OnPlayBackStopped - Playback was stopped
10:07:44 T:3079509888 M:1685336064 INFO: Loading skin file: DialogOK.xml
10:07:44 T:3079509888 M:1685336064 DEBUG: Load DialogOK.xml: 4.21ms

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Thursday, April 29th 2010, 3:14pm

Please copy the list of installed packages (vdr + plugins + xbmc) from the web frontend and paste it here. I'd like to see which package versions of xbmc and VDR you are using.

There is no recording running in VDR backend when you start XBMC?

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Thursday, April 29th 2010, 3:21pm

Also which frontend is used and XBMC ist started from vdr menu ?
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Thursday, April 29th 2010, 3:26pm

Whoa. You guys are fast.

OK, here's the package list:

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vdr 1.7.10-11yavdr1 Video Disk Recorder for DVB cards
vdr-addon-acpiwakeup 0.0.11-1tvt1 Addon that enables vdr to wakeup itself usin
vdr-addon-noad 0.7.0-3tvt1 VDR-Addon to automatically mark advertisemen
vdr-genindex 0.1.3-1ubuntu1 Tool to generate a VDR index file
vdr-plugin-avolctl 0.3b-19tvt1 ALSA-Volume-Control-Plugin for VDR
vdr-plugin-channellists 0.0.4-1tvt1 A VDR Plugin to manage your Channellists
vdr-plugin-epgsearch 0.9.25.beta15-2tvt1 VDR plugin that provides extensive EPG searc
vdr-plugin-externalplayer 0.1.0-15tvt1 Plugin to VDR that allows usage of external
vdr-plugin-extrecmenu 1.2~test1-3tvt1 Plugin for vdr for an enhanced recordings me
vdr-plugin-femon 1.7.5-3tvt1 DVB frontend status monitor plugin for VDR
vdr-plugin-graphtft 0.3.2~rc2+svn20090728.2153-5tvt1 GraphTFT Plugin for VDR
vdr-plugin-iptv 0.3.1-4tvt1 IPTV plug-in for VDR
vdr-plugin-live 0.2.0.99-5tvt1 Web administration plugin for VDR
vdr-plugin-menuorg 0.4.4-4tvt1 A VDR plug-in to reorganize the OSD main men
vdr-plugin-streamdev-server 0.5.0~pre20090706+cvs20100202.1555-1tyavdr2 VDR Plugin to stream Live-TV to other VDR's
vdr-plugin-suspendoutput 1.0.1-3tvt1 <insert up to 60 chars description>
vdr-plugin-text2skin 1.3-3tvt1 Plugin to vdr that loads and views skins
vdr-plugin-wirbelscan 0.0.5~pre11a-2tvt1 Channelscan plugin for VDR
vdr-plugin-xine 0.9.3-7yavdr1 Plugin for "software only" playback using xi
vdr-plugin-xineliboutput 1.0.4+cvs20091013.1200-7tvt1 VDR plugin for Xine based sofdevice frontend
vdr-skin-pearlhd 0.0.10~git20100110-1tvt2 PearlHD Skin for VDR's text2skin plugin
vdr-skins-speciallogos 0.2gda1 Special channel logos for text2skin skins
vdr-tft-pearlhd 0.3.1-3tvt1 PearlHD theme for the GraphTFT plugin
vdr-tft-standard 0.0.7-3gda1 Standard theme for the GraphTFT plugin
vdr-xpmlogos 0.0.1-3gda1 Channel logos in xpm format
vdrsymbols-ttf 20080905-6tvt1 VDRSymbols font
xbmc pvr-testing-21~hepi-karmic27596 XBMC Media Center (full metapackage)
xbmc-bin pvr-testing-21~hepi-karmic27596 XBMC Media Center (binary data package)
xbmc-data pvr-testing-21~hepi-karmic27596 XBMC Media Center (arch-independent data pac
xbmc-skin-confluence pvr-testing-21~hepi-karmic27596 XBMC Media Center (Confluence skin)
xbmc-skin-pm3-hd pvr-testing-21~hepi-karmic27596 XBMC Media Center (PM3 HD skin)
xbmc-web-pm3 pvr-testing-21~hepi-karmic27596 XBMC Media Center (Project Mahem III web ski
yavdr-essential 0.1.1-1yavdr1 Informational list of build-essential packag
yavdr-startup 0.1.1-1yavdr1 scripts for startup, shutdown and s3
yavdr-utils 0.1.1-1yavdr1 Utilities and WEB front end for yaVDR


Keep in mind that this is the unupdated-clean install yaVDR ISO. Will update the system again and post the results.

Everything is default install. The XBMC was started from OSD ("m", "5" ...); also tried "start-xbmc" script but the result was the same.

Edit: There are no recordings running in the background (have tried with recording (pause) trick that I saw on the forum somewhere, but nothing worked)

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Thursday, April 29th 2010, 3:49pm

Here's the updated package list:
(ran apt-get update & upgrade ...)

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vdr 1.7.10-11yavdr1 Video Disk Recorder for DVB cards
vdr-addon-acpiwakeup 0.0.11-1tvt1 Addon that enables vdr to wakeup itself usin
vdr-addon-noad 0.7.2-1yavdr1 VDR-Addon to automatically mark advertisemen
vdr-genindex 0.1.3-1ubuntu1 Tool to generate a VDR index file
vdr-plugin-avolctl 0.3b-19tvt1 ALSA-Volume-Control-Plugin for VDR
vdr-plugin-channellists 0.0.4-1tvt1 A VDR Plugin to manage your Channellists
vdr-plugin-epgsearch 0.9.25.beta15-2tvt1 VDR plugin that provides extensive EPG searc
vdr-plugin-externalplayer 0.1.0-15tvt1 Plugin to VDR that allows usage of external
vdr-plugin-extrecmenu 1.2~test1-3tvt1 Plugin for vdr for an enhanced recordings me
vdr-plugin-femon 1.7.5-3tvt1 DVB frontend status monitor plugin for VDR
vdr-plugin-graphtft 0.3.2~rc2+svn20090728.2153-5tvt1 GraphTFT Plugin for VDR
vdr-plugin-iptv 0.3.2-1yavdr1 IPTV plug-in for VDR
vdr-plugin-live 0.2.0.99-5tvt1 Web administration plugin for VDR
vdr-plugin-menuorg 0.4.4-4tvt1 A VDR plug-in to reorganize the OSD main men
vdr-plugin-streamdev-server 0.5.0~pre20090706+cvs20100307.2102-2yavdr1 VDR Plugin to stream Live-TV to other VDR's
vdr-plugin-suspendoutput 1.0.1-3tvt1 <insert up to 60 chars description>
vdr-plugin-text2skin 1.3-5yavdr1 Plugin to vdr that loads and views skins
vdr-plugin-wirbelscan 0.0.5~pre11a-2tvt1 Channelscan plugin for VDR
vdr-plugin-xine 0.9.3-7yavdr1 Plugin for "software only" playback using xi
vdr-plugin-xineliboutput 1.0.4+cvs20091013.1200-7tvt1 VDR plugin for Xine based sofdevice frontend
vdr-skin-pearlhd 0.0.10+git20100301-1yavdr1 PearlHD Skin for VDR's text2skin plugin
vdr-skins-speciallogos 0.2gda1 Special channel logos for text2skin skins
vdr-tft-pearlhd 0.3.1-4yavdr1 PearlHD theme for the GraphTFT plugin
vdr-tft-standard 0.0.7-3gda1 Standard theme for the GraphTFT plugin
vdr-xpmlogos 0.0.1-3gda1 Channel logos in xpm format
vdrsymbols-ttf 20080905-6tvt1 VDRSymbols font
xbmc pvr-testing-24~hepi-karmic27740+2 XBMC Media Center (full metapackage)
xbmc-bin pvr-testing-24~hepi-karmic27740+2 XBMC Media Center (binary data package)
xbmc-data pvr-testing-24~hepi-karmic27740+2 XBMC Media Center (arch-independent data pac
xbmc-skin-confluence pvr-testing-24~hepi-karmic27740+2 XBMC Media Center (Confluence skin)
xbmc-skin-pm3-hd pvr-testing-24~hepi-karmic27740+2 XBMC Media Center (PM3 HD skin)
xbmc-web-pm3 pvr-testing-24~hepi-karmic27740+2 XBMC Media Center (Project Mahem III web ski
yavdr-essential 0.1.1-1yavdr1 Informational list of build-essential packag
yavdr-startup 0.1.1+svn20100423-1yavdr1 scripts for startup, shutdown and s3
yavdr-utils 0.1.1+svn20100423-1yavdr1 Utilities and WEB front end for yaVDR

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Thursday, April 29th 2010, 3:50pm

Well, Did you check if the problem still occurs after the update?

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Thursday, April 29th 2010, 4:04pm

Uh, sorry for not making it obvious - yea tried that too. It's the same result.
I'll try with mplayer once more to see if that still works.

Edit:
It seems it's completely the same. Stream is picked up by mplayer normally:

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MPlayer SVN-r29237-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team

Playing http://localhost:3000/6.
Resolving localhost for AF_INET6...
Connecting to server localhost[0.0.0.0]: 3000...
Resolving localhost for AF_INET...
Connecting to server localhost[127.0.0.1]: 3000...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes

Cache fill: 0.00% (0 bytes)
Cache fill: 12.50% (40960 bytes)
Stream not seekable!
TS file format detected.
VIDEO MPEG2(pid=300) AUDIO MPA(pid=301) NO SUBS (yet)! PROGRAM N. 0
Stream not seekable!
VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 2) 25.000 fps 5000.0 kbps (625.0 kbyte/s)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffmpeg2] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-2)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================



XBMC doesn't show any error. Plugin should be connected and working. I also tried to access the port through netcat "nc localhost 2004" with the response: "220 Welcome to Video Disk Recorder (VTP)", so this part should also be OK.

At this moment I don't have the slightest idea what else I can try. Any pointers maybe? Are there any version issues that you are aware of?

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Thursday, April 29th 2010, 5:42pm

You said, you have some IPTV channels.
There was a discussion on this board some days or weeks ago, that IPTV channels can not be streamed with streamdev-server.

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edit: here: "Standart"-YAVDR-IPTV funzt nicht in XBMC
and here: [url=http://www.vdr-portal.de/board/thread.php?threadid=93817&hilight=iptv+stream]kann ich mittels streamdev einen IPTV kanal über VTP streamen?[/url]

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Thursday, April 29th 2010, 6:00pm

Crap. "Pardon my french"

Any possible solutions? Is there any future releases planned to support IPTV streaming? Or maybe pointers - I want something like XBMC with PVR options running on my Zotac.

Thanks for the help guys. [goes to the corner and :dead]

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Thursday, April 29th 2010, 6:18pm

One possible solution could be the new VNSI-plugin, which is currently being build by hotzenplotz5 in the yaVDR-repository.

I have the same problem, but I can not yet test.
First, I want to teach my XBMC the RemoteControl (X10, Medion 20014752).
Then I have to look, if XBMC in yaVDR already supports this very new technic.

By the way, my fresh installed yaVDR runs with VDR 1.7.14 from here: https://launchpad.net/~the-vdr-team/+arc…nstable-plugins

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Thursday, April 29th 2010, 6:56pm

Success!

I just forgot my Remote Control.

I installed XBMC 29507 and vdr-plugin-vnsiserver.
What can I say: everything works.

I can see and enjoy my IPTV channels from Alice, especially Das Erste HD, ZDF HD and all others, that I have configured in my yaVDR in this new XBMC.

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Thursday, April 29th 2010, 7:13pm

That was fast. Congrats on success! :respekt

I'm not exactly sure what did you do. How are you watching IPTV? Can you record it also? A small tutorial in steps? Please?

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Thursday, April 29th 2010, 8:09pm

Ok, what I have:

I have an Acer Revo 3600 and a WIN-TV Nova-T stick.
Yesterday I made a fresh install of yaVDR 0.1.1.

Here I added this https://launchpad.net/~the-vdr-team/+arc…nstable-plugins repository .
With sudo apt-get update
and then sudo apt-get upgrade
my VDR switched to version 1.7.14.
(1.7.14 is not necessary, if you wait some hours, the vdr-plugin-vnsiserver will hopefully be available in the normal repository for VDR 1.7.10).

My Revo is connected to my Fritz!Box 7270, which provides IPTV from Alice and the normal Internet-connect over one single link (better said, on all ports; for the german readers: have a look at http://www.ip-phone-forum.de/showthread.php?t=190207; it runs fine for me; channel-switching is very fast, no matter if it is DVB-T or IPTV).

My channels.conf contents a mix of DVB-T and IPTV channels.
All of them can I watch and record fine with VDR.

XBMC was until now not important for me.
Then I saw your posting and remembered, that there were several people with similar problems in the last weeks. It seemed, that streaming of IPTV channels is not possible.
I had to try by myself.
I started XBMC (Menu, 5, XBMC).
I could watch all DVB-T channels, but the IPTV channels gave the same error message as you described.

pingpong invented the new VNSI (Sind Umschaltzeiten unter einer Sekunde OK? VNSI-Server für XBMC ist da!), which has several improvements over the former method of using streamdev-server.

sudo apt-get install vdr-plugin-vnsiserver installs the plugin in the yaVDR (hopefully in some hours also for 1.7.10).

Then I added https://launchpad.net/~henningpingel/+archive/xbmc to sources.list.
Again sudo apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
This installed hepi´s new build of XBMC 29507.

The first test was unsuccesfull, I had to delete /var/lib/vdr/.xbmc/userdata.
Then I started XBMC again and activated the VNSI-Addon.

The result is, that I can watch all my channels, that work in VDR, also in XBMC.

But, be warned: there are everywhere possibilities to crash your install.
It would be good to have a backup of your running system.

Everything I described here, is highly experimental.
The yaVDR maintainers always warned, that this is not for production use.

Greetings
stefha

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Thursday, April 29th 2010, 9:52pm

Whoa! Thanks for all the info. Much appriciated!

... Trying to follow your steps:
updated to VDR version 1.7.14
added henningpingel PPA
apt-get update didn't update xbmc (i think.. where's the version number in this thing?:) )

oh, and dont worry it's for my living room "production use". :) So a crash here and there is no prob.

Edit:
"apt-get install xbmc" upgraded xbmc... i think.

Edit2:
Hmmm. None of my channels work since the update. Not even in VDR-HD ("Channel not available!"). Are there any extra settings to check? Can you post your channels.conf?

Edit3:
Tried everything from scratch, tested, changed a few things ... the bottom line is: since the VDR update not even the default IPTV channels (3Sat, N-TV) work

Edit4:
Saw the IPTV version change (0.4.1), changed the channels.conf a bit, now the default channels work! Checked the VNSI in XBMC and is also OK - I can see the channels! Nice.
Now I need to fix my IPTV channels entries also 'cause they are not working ATM. Any pointers at the channels.conf structure?

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Saturday, May 1st 2010, 7:19pm

Made some progress.
Tried different formats for the channel string in channels.conf, now I can see my IPTV channel in VDR-HD and XBMC.

Now to the next two problems.
1. HD IPTV channels don't work ("channel not available"). I'm assuming channels.conf configuration is to blame.

2. While watching channel with VDR-HD, "top" reveals that xine takes about 10% of CPU and VDR 6%.
If I run XBMC, watch LIVE TV (same channel) it's OK at first, but when I try to change channel a vlc process gets stuck and it takes 100% CPU. If I close XBMC the vlc process stays there. While playing with XBMC, more than one vlc process can be stuck. (solution: "killall vlc").

Edit:
Tried playing a HD movie from windows share in XBMC. Started OK but after 10 minutes all CPU cores were on 100% (atom 330) and 8 vlc processes running and stuck. ??

Edit2:
Removed default IPTV channels from the channels.conf and added a few of my own. Tested XBMC LiveTV for an hour without any problems.

At the moment the biggest problem is HD IPTV channels. Still can't get it to work.

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Sunday, May 2nd 2010, 9:48pm

Is there a way to convert a .M3U to channels.conf ?
I have all my channels listed the playlist. HD's still not playing ...

The .M3U looks like this:

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#EXTINF:0,57 - CNN International
udp://@239.1.1.50:5000

#EXTINF:0,58 - Da Vinci Learning
udp://@239.1.1.158:5000

#EXTINF:0,59 - Discovery Channel
udp://@239.1.1.53:5000

#EXTINF:0,60 - Discovery Channel HD
udp://@239.1.1.142:5000

#EXTINF:0,61 - Discovery Science
udp://@239.1.1.55:5000

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Tuesday, May 4th 2010, 3:34pm

Got any ideas? Or a link to a post maybe? (can be in german, no problem)

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Tuesday, May 4th 2010, 8:02pm

Okay. I added one HD program through VDR-HD OSD somehow. It sort of works in VDR (video stutters), but if I try to open it in XBMC/Live TV, XBMC crashes every time... gotta check the logs. (larger buffer for HD?)

Edit: As I suspected - the default buffer sizes are too small. For testing I maxxed them out. Now HD is playing smooth - even in XBMC. Will try to find the best buffer size later.

Now I have to find out why XBMC won't record (record and pause buttons are grayed out).

Edit2: Changed some options in VNSI plugin in XBMC. Now recording button is enabled while watching IPTV. I can start and finish the recording but the recording videos are not seen in XBMC or specified folder.
Another thing is the pause button. It's still disabled. I can however pause in OSD (TV LIVE options - tab button shows some options on the left panel, including pause.) unfortunately this works only for 10 seconds, then XBMC crashes.

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Wednesday, May 5th 2010, 9:03pm

Current status (yaVDR 0.1.1 with updated VDR & XBMC, using VNSI ):

Works:
  • IPTV (VNSI) plugin
  • SD & HD channels (buffers need some fine tuning)


Problems:
  • XBMC crashes from time to time. (surfing the channels usually - pid problems?)
  • Recording & Pause don't work.


... about recording: After 10-20secs XBMC crashes. There are no recordings in specified folder. Pause button is disabled when watching TV (top OSD menu - TV is fullscreen).

Current VNSI plugin settings:
hostname: 127.0.0.1
port: 34890
priority: 70
Charset conver: Enabled
Timeout: 5
VDR messages: Enabled
Read recordings from dir: Enabled
VDR recordings dir: /media/recordings/ (permissions are set to all)


ToDo:
  • EPG
  • Remote control config

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