Last Few Problems

[Spaceboy 2573]

Hi, since the addition of external players to the android app i've been happily and quietly enjoying emby for the last few months, in the same time i replaced my dvblink backend with mediaportal and am finding some great additional functionality in both mediaportal and the emby plugin. great work @@pünktchen . one of the interesting things was that i have the same audio sync issues with HD tv as i did with dvblink so this is obviously a problem with the compatibility of DVBS2 streams in the uk and passing through on android. using an external player allows me to downmix live tv from DD to stereo and avoiding audio sync.

 

why does the emby app only offer the option of downmixing video, not live tv? if it covered both video and live tv i woudlnt need to use an external player

 

then a couple of things with mp itself, probably my lack of understanding.

 

• everything shows up in emby with a repeat flag but all looks fine in mp. recordings are all done through mp for now so no real issue other than the guide looks untidy
• i have no artwork for future tv programs. i get my epg using dg2xml and digiguide. i used to get artwork with dvblink.
• i am able to timeshift recorded tv, but not anything in progress or recently recorded. once i can see the metadata in the android app i know it will be working but otherwise there is no skip forwards. often the video will just stop when watching in progress recordings, works fine on the same recording once completed though.

if i can get these minor bits done i will be a happy camper. and then just to resolve the audio issues fully if possible...

Edited November 5, 2016 by Spaceboy

[Luke 42077]

I would post in the android tv section about the downmix.

 

As far as images go, check that your guide data has images.

[pünktchen 1409]

• everything shows up in emby with a repeat flag but all looks fine in mp. recordings are all done through mp for now so no real issue other than the guide looks untidy

 

It was my personal decision to do it this way: MediaPortal doesn't know anything about premiered or repeated shows. But to be able to create series schedules in Emby, i have to set "IsSeries" or "IsRepeat" for all program entries. IsSeries is used if you set some genre in the plugin configuration. This creates a "NEW" flag in Emby's program guide. All other MediaPortal genre entries that are not mapped to movies, series, news, live or sports create a "Repeat" flag. With some series genre mapped in the plugin configuration, i can seperate at one look in the guide, the shows that interest me from all the others.

You can disable those visual flags in the guide for your user profile by changing it in a web browser: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/28830-odd-channel-sorting-issue/&do=findComment&comment=378492

 

 

• i have no artwork for future tv programs. i get my epg using dg2xml and digiguide. i used to get artwork with dvblink.

 

This is a limitation of MediaPortal's TVServer - unfortunately no artwork possible!

 

 

• i am able to timeshift recorded tv, but not anything in progress or recently recorded. once i can see the metadata in the android app i know it will be working but otherwise there is no skip forwards. often the video will just stop when watching in progress recordings, works fine on the same recording once completed though.

 

The necessary changes are in my code already, but i guess you'll have to wait until the Emby beta branch is merged into a stable release.

[Spaceboy 2573]

It was my personal decision to do it this way: MediaPortal doesn't know anything about premiered or repeated shows. But to be able to create series schedules in Emby, i have to set "IsSeries" or "IsRepeat" for all program entries. IsSeries is used if you set some genre in the plugin configuration. This creates a "NEW" flag in Emby's program guide. All other MediaPortal genre entries that are not mapped to movies, series, news, live or sports create a "Repeat" flag. With some series genre mapped in the plugin configuration, i can seperate at one look in the guide, the shows that interest me from all the others.

You can disable those visual flags in the guide for your user profile by changing it in a web browser: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/28830-odd-channel-sorting-issue/&do=findComment&comment=378492

i don't quite understand the technical explanation but if thats the way it has to be set up then cool. i wonder if i might still have something set up wrongly though. I only see the repeat flag in emby, nothing else. is that normal? also in recorded tv in emby all but two of my recordings show up under the Others group, the other 2 are in groups that match the series name. should i have done some config on genres or program types in MP?

 

 

This is a limitation of MediaPortal's TVServer - unfortunately no artwork possible!

ah ok, i forgot i manually added logos through mpextended i assumed these were also being pulled through from the epg data. as far as i know the references to the artwork are in epg.xml, it always worked fine with dvblink. its funny cos looking at the mediaportal client it almost looks like there is a placeholder for the program artwork in the guide! i guess there's nothing else i can do here then? i saw a schedules direct plugin for MP but presume that will have the same issue. do you just have the coloured tiles for on now and upcoming tv? @@Luke presume there is nothing that can be done in emby here?

 

 

The necessary changes are in my code already, but i guess you'll have to wait until the Emby beta branch is merged into a stable release.

cool, is this in > 3.0.9xxx? 

[pünktchen 1409]

 

 

i don't quite understand the technical explanation but if thats the way it has to be set up then cool. i wonder if i might still have something set up wrongly though. I only see the repeat flag in emby, nothing else. is that normal?

This is okay. Just disable the flags like in the link i've posted

 

also in recorded tv in emby all but two of my recordings show up under the Others group, the other 2 are in groups that match the series name. should i have done some config on genres or program types in MP?

The grouping is more or less done by Emby itself. Only recordings with the same name are grouped.

 

ah ok, i forgot i manually added logos through mpextended i assumed these were also being pulled through from the epg data. as far as i know the references to the artwork are in epg.xml, it always worked fine with dvblink. its funny cos looking at the mediaportal client it almost looks like there is a placeholder for the program artwork in the guide! i guess there's nothing else i can do here then? i saw a schedules direct plugin for MP but presume that will have the same issue. do you just have the coloured tiles for on now and upcoming tv? @@Luke presume there is nothing that can be done in emby here?

Yes, i only have those colored tiles.

You can enable online lookup for movies in Emby's tv settings if you map movie genres in the plugin config. But because MediaPortal doesn't provide the correct year from guide data (there seems to be a bug in TVServer), i've disabled the release date in the plugin also. So it's a little bit hit and miss...

@@Luke why there's no online lookup for series?

 

cool, is this in > 3.0.9xxx?

Luke has to incorperate my code changes first, so not yet.

[Luke 42077]

Live tv is going to have so many random programs that the internet providers won't have. This is going to lead to lots of incorrect matches. Everybody is naturally going to assume it's Emby's problem. It's just something that would require too much ongoing troubleshooting.

[pünktchen 1409]

Understood. I think the biggest reason for this situation is how you are handling "IsSeries". I think every program, even a movie should give you the ability to create a series schedule. "IsSeries" should only be used for shows that are really a series like GOT, The Blacklist or something like that. This could be achived by genre mapping or a custom user created list with show names.

This would minimize requests and incorrect matches of shows.

Edited November 6, 2016 by pünktchen

[pünktchen 1409]

@@Spaceboy the changes for in progress recordings should be available if you are on Emby beta.

[Luke 42077]

Thanks for confirming that.

[Spaceboy 2573]

Moved to beta with hope I'd see this! I'll give it a go

[Spaceboy 2573]

@@Spaceboy the changes for in progress recordings should be available if you are on Emby beta.

hello, can you let me know under what conditions i should see this? i can see in the web client i can skip up to the point where the audio transcode has got to.

 

but in android tv i can't see any sign of a change. i am using mxplayer for live tv. Actually i think something may have broke recently, whenever i play back an in progress recording mxplayer only sees one audio track and its the unwanted audio described track. once the metadata is available both tracks are seen and actually mxplayer plays the correct DD+ audio track. i was also trying out the internal options recently (but they are still no good for me) so i don't know if i changed something here?

[Spaceboy 2573]

The grouping is more or less done by Emby itself. Only recordings with the same name are grouped.

well this is the problem i have. the only recordings that are grouped in emby are ones where there is only once recording with that name. all episodes that are actually part of series, and for which there are multiple recordings with the same name, are grouped under Others. a picture will probably help!

 

[pünktchen 1409]

hello, can you let me know under what conditions i should see this? i can see in the web client i can skip up to the point where the audio transcode has got to.

 

but in android tv i can't see any sign of a change. i am using mxplayer for live tv. Actually i think something may have broke recently, whenever i play back an in progress recording mxplayer only sees one audio track and its the unwanted audio described track. once the metadata is available both tracks are seen and actually mxplayer plays the correct DD+ audio track. i was also trying out the internal options recently (but they are still no good for me) so i don't know if i changed something here?

Mmh, probably i haven't tested it enough?! I've thought it was working correctly in browsers.

 

@@Luke i just deliver the path to in progress recording files.

If ffmpeg reaches the point (of the still growing file) where one has started playback, ffmpeg just quits. Is there anything i can do here?

[pünktchen 1409]

well this is the problem i have. the only recordings that are grouped in emby are ones where there is only once recording with that name. all episodes that are actually part of series, and for which there are multiple recordings with the same name, are grouped under Others. a picture will probably help!

 

Are your 180 other items real MediaPortal recordings or are they imports from DVBLink?

[Spaceboy 2573]

Are your 180 other items real MediaPortal recordings or are they imports from DVBLink?

They are all real MP recordings, all looks fine in the MP client

[pünktchen 1409]

They are all real MP recordings, all looks fine in the MP client

Do they have episode numbers?

[Spaceboy 2573]

not sure exactly what you mean so, MP

explorer

[pünktchen 1409]

Yup, no episode numbers!

Wait a few minutes and i give you something to try out.

[pünktchen 1409]

The attached version should fix abortion of in progress recordings and hopefully also your audio problems. Unfortunately you still wont be able to seek in recordings in Android TV.

 

@@Luke and @@ebr any ETA for timeshifting in Android apps?

 

This new version also uses the same plugin genre mapping that is used for programs, now also for recordings. That means if you don't define any series genre in the plugin, every recording is marked as a series. Otherwise only the corresponding genres are used. This takes affect for new recordings only. If you want it for existing recordings, you have to de-install the plugin and do a clean library task first.

[Luke 42077]

It's in our crosshairs for the near future.

[Spaceboy 2573]

The attached version should fix abortion of in progress recordings and hopefully also your audio problems. Unfortunately you still wont be able to seek in recordings in Android TV.

 

@@Luke and @@ebr any ETA for timeshifting in Android apps?

 

This new version also uses the same plugin genre mapping that is used for programs, now also for recordings. That means if you don't define any series genre in the plugin, every recording is marked as a series. Otherwise only the corresponding genres are used. This takes affect for new recordings only. If you want it for existing recordings, you have to de-install the plugin and do a clean library task first.

Yeah that works great thanks. I uninstalled, cleaned and dropped in the new .dll. Recorded tv is properly grouped now. I'm away for the weekend but I'll take a look at the other stuff asap

 

Cheers

[Spaceboy 2573]

Actually i think something may have broke recently, whenever i play back an in progress recording mxplayer only sees one audio track and its the unwanted audio described track. once the metadata is available both tracks are seen and actually mxplayer plays the correct DD+ audio track. i was also trying out the internal options recently (but they are still no good for me) so i don't know if i changed something here?

This problem seems to have gone now too!

[Luke 42077]

Well done !

[Spaceboy 2573]

• everything shows up in emby with a repeat flag but all looks fine in mp. recordings are all done through mp for now so no real issue other than the guide looks untidy

and found the genre mapping settings within the plugin, so they are set up and hopefully see some different flags coming through

[pünktchen 1409]

@@Spaceboy do inprogress recordings still work for you with latest Emby beta?