Tezza4x4 1 Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 (edited) Hi, Just installed Emby on my Synology NAS and running it with HD HomeRun Connect for Live TV. Currently a MediaPortal / Plex user and thinking about migrating.Installation was a breeze, and I got everything up and running fairly quickly, but just got a few issues with Live TV. I'm using an xmltv file from IceTV here in Australia for the TV guide. It seems to be a fairly reliable service, as they do tend to pick up many of the "late programming changes" I see many on the various forums complaining about with Australian guide data. I prefer to use the Guide option for viewing - stuck in my old TV ways, but there are a number of problems with how Emby is presenting the guide. The first problem is that I can't seem to order the channels in the order I would like. I tried using the sort tag, but it's not working properly. I'm tagging the channels in groups, like 1-1, 1-2 etc for ABC channels, 2-1, 2-2 etc for SBS channels and so forth, so they are grouped by FTA provider. This does change the order of the channels, but it's all messed up and not following the sort tag properly, and displays the channels in different orders on different devices. I guess I'm assuming that's what the sort tag was for - to order the channels as you pleased? I'd also like the ability to not display some channels. In Australia, we have a lot of duplicate FTA channels with exactly the same programming on them. I'd like to be able to turn these channels off altogether in the guide, but I can't seem to be able to find a way to do that. Second problem is that I can map the duplicates with the same channels found in the xmltv guide, but it seems that it will only actually display program info for the first channel mapped. the duplicates show no data. Third problem is that I can't "unmap" any channels and leave them blank. When the guide is first imported, it did seem to automatically map some channels. There is something in the IceTV guide that must look like a channel number (which I think is just the id IceTV uses for the channel), and it automatically picks that up and maps it to a channel. Problem is, there are some rubbish infomercial channels that it mapped, and now I can't delete the mapping and leave that channel without any EPG. Final problem is picture quality with Emby Theatre. It's horrible, and not deinterlacing properly at all. Lots of jaggies. Don't seem to have the same problems via the browser / HTML5. How do I turn on deinterlacing in the Emby Theatre client? Edited January 12, 2017 by Tezza4x4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denz 426 Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 (edited) First thing I would do is to hide channels that you don't want. In your web browser type my.hdhomerun.com and click on hdhomerun connect and then click channel lineup and click on the star next to the channel until channel gets a red cross. Then run the guide update. I have hidden all the sd channels that are now broadcast in hd plus all the other shopping channels that are waste of space. I have 17 channels in the guide and I think there are double that available. I have them sorted how I like it in sort tag I just have 1 for 7, 2 for 7Two and so on In video settings are you using MAdvr that one produces the best quality. This is my channel line up ok there are 39 channels Edited January 10, 2017 by denz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linds1234 19 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Hi Tezza, >>Second problem is that I can map the duplicates with the same channels found in the xmltv guide, but it seems that it will only actually display program info for the first channel mapped. the duplicates >>show no data. I've encountered this one too. With Seven's "Summer of Tennis", they decided to change over 7Mate to SD, then have 7HD mirror the schedule of 7 SD instead of 7mate. When I try adding 7HD and 7 SD to the guide (both mapped to the channel ID of 7 SD), the 2nd channel added is blanked out. This is using the XML feed from freepg.tv I do the same channel hiding from the Homerun level that denz does (hello fellow Perthy!) I don't use Emby Theatre so can't comment on that front unfortunately. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36992 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 I am planning on completely redesigning the live tv/gude data setup experience to resolve all of these shortcomings. In the meantime you may need to remove mappings manually from the live tv config file. /programdata/config/livetv.xml Just make sure to shut down the server before doing so. thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maegibbons 1267 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 (edited) >>Second problem is that I can map the duplicates with the same channels found in the xmltv guide, but it seems that it will only actually display program info for the first channel mapped. the duplicates >>show no data. I've Also seen this with Duplicate Channels since I have both HDHomerun and IPTV Tuners. Duplicate channels need to Populate too. Glad to know this is going to be looked at Krs Mark Edited January 11, 2017 by maegibbons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36992 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 The entire setup process will be, definitely. For now you will just have to remove them from the config file. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezza4x4 1 Posted January 12, 2017 Author Share Posted January 12, 2017 (edited) Thanks for the replies guys. Good to know this is up for a makeover. For now, I have "cleaned up" the channel list by removing the "duds" on HDHomeRun as suggested by denz. That's 90% of the issue. I still can't get the sort tag to work properly though. Haven't marked any channels as favourites to avoid them going to the top of the list and numbered them 01 through 30, but the order I get is all messed up. This should have all the channel 7 channels first (7 Brisbane and 7 HD are 01 and 02, and 7 TWO is 03), then 9 then 10, then ABC then SBS. Instead I get: Also, would like to know how to get Emby Theatre to deinterlace the stream. Edited January 12, 2017 by Tezza4x4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36992 Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 This is resolved for the next release. deinterlacing is automatic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezza4x4 1 Posted January 12, 2017 Author Share Posted January 12, 2017 (edited) Ok, well there's a problem with the detection then, because I've got jaggies everywhere.in the Emby Theatre Windows client. Browser is fine. Edited January 12, 2017 by Tezza4x4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maegibbons 1267 Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 >>Second problem is that I can map the duplicates with the same channels found in the xmltv guide, but it seems that it will only actually display program info for the first channel mapped. the duplicates >>show no data. I've Also seen this with Duplicate Channels since I have both HDHomerun and IPTV Tuners. Duplicate channels need to Populate too. Glad to know this is going to be looked at Krs Mark @@Luke I know you are going to rewrite the whole TV Guide and m3u and tuners stuff. In the meantime is there any quick fix you could do to resolve the duplicate channels issue? To restate it - in manual mapping I would like to map two m3u streams to the SAME Schedules Direct channel guide info. The problem is if you do this now only one channel in the the guide is populated, any other channels have a blank line. This is so that you can have an SD and HD stream share the same guide data. Allowing you to either record or watch native SD or HD. Any chance of a quick fix on that ? Pretty please? KR's Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36992 Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 what do you mean blank line? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maegibbons 1267 Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 Blank line - No program details whatsoever for that channel. Example is channel 22 in Tezza4x4's channel guide picture 5 posts up Krs Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maegibbons 1267 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 @@Luke Will there be any chance of a quick fix for this duplicate channels issue? Krs Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maegibbons 1267 Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Any news on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tester 45 Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Yeah, I have the same issue.. One channel out of my entire lineup is blank and will not tune, spinning circle. This must be server related since the channel fails on Android, Theater and Web. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezza4x4 1 Posted January 24, 2017 Author Share Posted January 24, 2017 Any news on the deinterlace issue? Any way to force deinterlace on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifespeed 42 Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Any news on the deinterlace issue? Any way to force deinterlace on? Turn on MadVR as the video renderer in video settings in Emby Theater. Apparently this does require some CPU power. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezza4x4 1 Posted January 24, 2017 Author Share Posted January 24, 2017 Can't get MadVR to work reliably. Crashes all the time. EVR+ seems to be a bit better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifespeed 42 Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Can't get MadVR to work reliably. Crashes all the time. EVR+ seems to be a bit better. That is strange, I run MadVR on 4 different PCs and laptops. No crashes, although sometimes it causes audio sync issues. Do you have an old PC or OS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezza4x4 1 Posted January 31, 2017 Author Share Posted January 31, 2017 No, all pretty modern. Less than 2 years old. Windows 10, AMD FX8350 4ghz CPU. Will give it a try on some different systems and see how it goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tezza4x4 1 Posted January 31, 2017 Author Share Posted January 31, 2017 OK, looks like it's more stable on a different platform. Still windows 10, but a laptop this time. MadVR is deinterlacing well on this machine, but was struggling with the HD channels. Lots of frame drops. Interestingly, CPU was around 20% for both SD and HD channels, so figured it had to be GPU related. Running Intel HD3000 and ATI 6700M adaptors. Switched them both to high performance and problem solved. Silky smooth HD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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