XBMC Media Center : Setup Guide, Knowlege Base & Support - Page 95

I don't think I deleted the library but I guess I'm not sure. I can still see all my movies if I go to the videos tab, it just has a slightly different interface. I tried removing guisesettings.xml as suggested but that didn't seem to have any effect. I switched back to Transparency skin and the movies tab was there, but nothing was in it, so I'm thinking I probably screwed up my library like you say. I will try rebuilding it... if I can figure out how...

Go to Videos -> Files

Make sure all your "Movies" sources are appropriately identified as "Movies" with your preferred scraper, and none of them have been "Excluded from library updates"

Then run a library update / clean

Did anyone notice a HUGE difference in DVXA on Frodo Beta/RC and DVXA2 on the stable release?

I think they incorporated quick sync DVXA2 acceleration (appropriately this time), but I can't find any documentation that indicates as such

In Home Window Options, the Movie radio buttons are grayed out. I checked my Movies source and it was still identified as Movies using IMDB scraper, and was not Excluded from Library Updates. I went ahead and refreshed it anyway, following directions from the xbmc site that said to change the content setting to none, say yes to removing from the library, then reselecting content setting as Movies and it rescanned everything but still no Movies tab even after a reboot.

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Thanks for the help, I appreciate it. I swear it was all fine until I changed skins! I just couldn't leave it alone I have another instance of xbmc running on the pc where all the content is and that one isn't having this problem. Both are running frodo. I might just scrap it and reinstall, if it would help.

Here's my other problem that I mentioned quickly earlier but no one bit on. I am streaming from a quad core pc over gigabit ethernet to my i3 htpc hooked to my avr then to the tv both via hdmi. All my dvd rips play fine. My bluray rips have video issues as documented in this 1 minute video I made. I don't know what to call it, if it's macroblocking or what. It seems that there is a bandwidth issue but I'm not sure how to address it. I'm confused because it seems most people get stuttering when it's a bandwidth issue, which I have seen when I have streamed over wifi, thus I went to gigabit ethernet. I never see stuttering anymore, just this color thing. Also it doesn't happen when I play the video locally thru xbmc installed on the quad core source pc. The sound is always fine, any audio track, whether it is 2 channel stereo or 8 channel dts master hd. What seems even stranger is that this seems to happen whenever the scene cuts in the movie. Take a look at this clip. In the first 30 or so seconds, there are several cuts and the colors appear every time. Then in the next 30 seconds, there are no cuts and the colors don't appear. Then at the end it cuts again and sure enough the colors appear. Any ideas? Thanks again in advance for any tips.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L87EUEyW5nM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

I am basically a first time XBMC user and just got NextPVR backend and then frontend plugin up and running and able to tune my local Clear Qam channels through Comcast and my HdHomeruns. I can see live TV on the channels in both NextPVR's app and in XBMC, but no guide data. I am coming from WMC where, although it doesn't properly find and apply my correct channels automatically, its easy to manually add and then choose the EPG channel data to tie to each channel. How do I do that in XBMC? Or is that something I have to figure out in NextPVR? The names of the channels in the HDhomerun, NextPVR, and XBMC are all things like WSMV HD (which is NBC here in Nashville). How do I make the apps know that is NBC? Like I said, with WMC, I could just go into EDIT channel and apply the EPG channel guide data that I wanted from the list of channels.

Open NPVR

Right Click go to Settings

Choose channels under settings

Edit each channel manually


Also, you can drop png or jpg logos with each channel name (i.e. ESPNHD.png) into /Users/Public/Npvr/media/Channels and it will add them to your guide (and after an EPG update XBMC will pull them in)

XBMC simply pulls guide data from NPVR, so everything that needs editing must be done in NPVR

Ok thanks - So when I go to edit the channels manually, my only real option that I see is to rename them. In WMC I could just choose the EPG guide for the channel I want. So, for instance, do I just call WSMV HD "NBC" or even "NBC HD" and it pulls it in? If that is the case, how would it pull the local one and not a guide feed from somewhere else?

Thanks the video should be public now. When I change those video settings, does it take effect immediately or do I need to stop the video, or restart xbmc or reboot or anything? Sometimes I can't tell if what I changed had any effect or not. Anyway,I see one dropdown box that was on dxva, and then a radio button for Dxva2, should I turn off both or just one, and if it's the dropdown what should I select instead? Thanks

I don't really know how it keeps channels distinct from the tuners, but I would definitely guess that naming two channels the same could screw something up

I don't understand what you mean by "choose the EPG guide for the channel you want"

Each channel only receives guide data according to it's NPVR channel mapping to whatever guide source you set up. Are you pulling guide data from your tuner or from an XMLTV source? Also, the "rename" shouldn't mess anything up, I don't know whether they use the number of something else but NPVR should sort all of it out internally. Their forum is the best source of information related to their app

NextPVR uses an index in the database for channels. The channel names are mainly just for display purposes and can be anything you want them to be. That said, I'm not sure if the XBMC plugin uses the channel index or the names for identification. I'll try to look into it though (been really swamped lately).

From what I've seen, the only real solution is to subscribe to "schedules direct" for EPG. That's another reason why I am using Win8 MCE instead of NPVR/XBMC for DVR.

scott s.
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What I mean is that in WMC I can choose "edit listings" or something like that and get a screen that basically shows every channel name for my zip code that it has listings for. Then I just choose the one I want to map to any specific channel.

In NetPVR (and by extension XBMC), I don't see anywhere that I can choose exactly what channel guide listing data I want to map to a specific number, like channel 93.6, etc.

While watching a channel in NextPVR (not from the XBMC client), right click the video and choose "Select Channel EPG Source".

I got the shared library thing to work with Frodo and mysql (Windows 7 platform). Now 4 xbmc clients are sharing the same library, which is cool. I found the wiki instructions a little over complicated, but if anyone's interested here they are (2 parts):

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Sync_multiple_libraries/Setting_up_MySQL#tab=Windows

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Sync_multiple_libraries/Setting_up_XBMC

If you ever update your guide, could you possibly go over the options on the video playback in a little more depth, maybe with some usage scenarios? I only just leave the defaults as they are but I don't know if that is the best or not.

scott s.
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Great, can't wait to see the pvr setup and settings as well as external guide data setup for the states...

Thank you. After some testing I got that particular video issue cleared up. But, in true whack a mole form, a couple new issues have popped up: bitstream audio and 24p video, both of which were working, now don't work.

1. If I select audio output HDMI, I get slow motion video with no sound. I have to select analog audio output which as I understand it means LPCM or not bitstreamed. Also, I was using WASAPI HDMI as both my audio output and passthrough devices, but now only DirectSound works, which I think might be related to why I can't bitstream anymore, since I read here http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=AudioEngine/HOW-TO:_Configure_audio that you must use WASAPI if you want to bitstream. I know the bitstreaming was working - the blue light on my avr (Sony STR-DN1020) would come on and the display would read DTS-HD MA. Now I can only get LPCM.

2. If I select Adjust display refresh rate to match video, which would cause my 24p sources to trigger my tv to switch to 24p mode, well it still switches but the playback is very choppy.

I reinstalled both my audio and video drivers just to make sure I was unmuddled there. I also reinstalled xbmc (several times! I'm now on the 2/6 nightly version) I'm basically at a clean installation, there's not much else installed on this thing. I even copied a mkv over to my local drive to take the network out of the equation. I know that these both worked before. I haven't changed anything on my avr or tv. I turned dxva2 back on just to see if it fixed these new problems, but no luck - in that case I get a combo of all problems - crazy colors all over the screen, and in slow motion, and with no audio and no bitstreaming.

Anyone have these issues or know how to fix them? Thanks again for all the help.

Cool thanks. For the most part it now pulls in correct channel data. A few channels seem to not be able to find the correct guide though. Not sure what is wrong there.

The bigger issue now that I am trying to use Live TV through XBMC is the it crashes pretty often. Usually in conjunction with me trying to use the left side menu.

Most of my settings are at default so there must be a conflict somewhere.

Core i7 and AMD HD7950 video card.

Did everyone know that MCM doesn't automatically rename TV shows?

I see the full name and information in XBMC based on it's library scrape

I checked my TV Show folder for some of the seasons that had been properly scraped and given metadata by MCM, but they didn't have new filenames. They were the original filenames I designated them from within MKV during the ripping process.

This is strange because it renames every movie, but will not rename tv shows. You actually have to select the TV series in question and then Click the "Files" tab in the right hand window, then click "Auto Rename All Files"

Which processor do you have? I've been testing all of the new settings on an i5 3570k, and I no longer experience any of the previous problems DXVA presented. I leave DXVA2 turned on with rendering set to Auto

I've had an E8400 w/GeForce 8400 graphics card, intel g645, and an i3-2105 running openelec, and I've always left DXVA toggled off. I only have the i3 remaining, and I'll probably upgrade it once the stable OE 3 is released. When it's on the stable release, I'll also test leaving DXVA2 enabled then. This used to ruin video playback, but now everything seems to be working

Also, I couldn't get WASAPI and Auto-Refresh rate adjusting to work at the same time. When both were enabled I would experience choppiness.

Since then my receiver went kaput, so everything is 2.0 to the TV for now

Also, my wife like's "motion-blur" so I no longer adjust the display's refresh rate

i3-2100. I checked the performance monitor while playing movies and it's generally around 10 or 15%, maybe a spike to 30%. I've seen it do all the things I mentioned so I know it can, I just managed to hose something else up somewhere.

Which intel graphics driver are you using?

I'll have to check which one I'm using as well

What GreenEyez and almost anyone on the forum has mentioned before is still true. DXVA disabled is perfectly fine since all sandy bridge and newer intels can meet minimum frame rates without HW acceleration

I don't remember, I'll update later when I get a chance. Also I'm going to make sure I have everything set according to this wiki http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Windows_Settings_for_AudioEngine

edit: I believe my graphics driver was called intel hd family or something like that. Anyway, as it turned out, that was fine and I didn't need to change it, it was my audio setup that was wrong. I mentioned earlier that I had reinstalled both my audio and video drivers, well I think in my haste I grabbed the wrong audio one, which was messing me up. It was realtek. I have an ASRock mobo and it is listed as the hd audio driver for that board, but actually I needed the Intel Management Engine. I uninstalled the realtek hd audio driver and installed the Intel Management Engine. Then using the wiki at xbmc.org and following the advice in this thread http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=146911 I was able to get everything properly setup. Bitstreaming all audio formats over HDMI via WASAPI, smooth 24p, and no funky colors, just pure awesomeness! Ahhhh. The only thing I had to do that I didn't see in these links was leave my speaker config in audio setting in xbmc at 2.1. If I change it to anything higher, my audio and video gets screwed up again, video goes either really fast or really slow and audio is gone or messed up. I'm guessing that this is what was screwing me up in the first place, before I started reinstalling stuff, because I kept trying to switch it back to 5.1. Even with it set at 2.1, I get all the audio channels to my AVR anyway. Like others have mentioned here, to make 24p work I had to turn off "use a full screen window instead of true fullscreen" when I turned on "adjust display refresh rate to match video".

Thanks again for all the assistance. These links here were very helpful too, if anyone is having trouble with xbmc on windows make sure you read thru these, as well as the forum link above, it includes a nice step by step guide to make sure you are on the right track.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Settings/System#Audio_output
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=AudioEngine/HOW-TO:_Configure_audio
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Windows_Settings_for_AudioEngine
Edited by sievers - 2/8/13 at 9:17am

Hey guys, since installing Frodo I have had some issues with a certain MKV bluray rips.

The videos stutter pretty badly. It's like the movie is being play at 100x slow motion.

This doesn't happen on all MKV files, just some. And I have no idea if they're are any differents. I ripped the blu-rays the same way with MakeMKV.

Use mediainfo on the files to see the video codec; maybe it's a VC-1 vs. h.264 issue.

http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en

A couple questions.

When playing a movie and I pause it. When I hit play again the audio misses a second or two. So if I would have happened to pause in the middle of important dialogue I would have to rewind because I miss a couple seconds of what is said....

This leads to the second issue... rewinding. When I reverse a video (say 20 seconds for example) and then hit play. Instead of just playing right where I rewound to the video will play super fast until it basically catches up to where I started rewinding or maybe just a few seconds before.

Soooo, If I want to rewind 15 seconds of a show I generally rewind about a full minute and it will shoot up to about where I need to.
Is this a known issue or could there be a setting I need to adjust? Has this been resolved in Frodo?
The majority of my videos are lossless rips by me. MKV files made with MakeMKV.

One more question. Music videos.... Maybe a lesser used thing for most but I have 100's if not nearly 1000.
My main question is how exactly should the folder/naming structure be for this?

Right now I just have
band - song title.mkv

Should each band be in its own folder? If so do I then just name the file with the song title?

Oh yeah, one more thing... I have a lot of 'extras' ripped from movies and tv shows. Is there any way say if I have a movie selected to bring up a popup of the extras? If so where would I store and how would I name these?
Would there be some sort of indicator telling me that the selected movie has extras.

I was watching a vid on youtube of media browser 3 and at about the 1:00 mark it looks like it has this ability
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2LREI4Ursuw
For my tv shows I have for example a separate show created like 'Family Guy Extras' ... each with their own nfo file and artwork etc.
But for movies I have nothing set up yet....
Edited by lordhutt - 2/9/13 at 4:37pm