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Kricker,
I never use SageTV to play back files and that probably is the reason why my Sage generatedthumbnails folder is empty. If you look in the SageTV Web Interface and you select Schedule recordings / Favorites manager then it gives an overview of all favorites; there is an xml button to export the list. If you open that list in an editor you can see the link between the favorite id number and what it really is. I thought the advantage of this method was that I could end up with thumbs that would be consistent and not just a random frame from a recording. It is a bit more work to set up as I have over 100 favorites. You have to delete cached thumbs in xbmc if you make new thumbs available or it will not refresh them. For manual recordings there is no favorite id so I just use the SageTV icon although I could have used 'genre' to make it more specific, i.e. movie, cartoon, ... but I didn't bother. jhh |
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So you made a thumbs folder on your Sage server and put thumbnails in there then made it a network share called thumbs?
For a default favorite icon, the Sage logo is fine for now. I could make a generic favorite icon to replace it. |
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Only thing to do is to create the folder under webroot and fill it - no further config necessary. Jhh |
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hi,
I made another small change - but would need to make some more updates to allow an easier configuration although I don't have that planned. Copy the folder in the XBMC root. There is one option in the plugin settings and that should have the webserver URL for thumbnails which are hosted in http://my_sagetv_webserver: port/thumbs You need to enter the URL to the path where the thumbs are and then they will be retrieved if they are saved as 'favourite_id_number.jpg' in that thumbs folder (which should not be password protected). Apart from that the configuration file is identical to the xbmc SageTV script which is here: http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16518 Last edited by jhh; 03-04-2009 at 03:46 PM. Reason: updated URL bit for thumbs |
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Thanks. I'm gonna give this a whirl today.
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It appears that any of my Sage compressed shows (.avi) files will not play thru the plugin.
Where is the thumb setting? I don't see it in the supplied setting.xml file. Last edited by kricker; 03-05-2009 at 10:16 AM. |
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The plugin gets the thumbnails from: icon = 'http://'+ipaddress+':'+port+'/thumbs/'+re.compile('Favorite and so on so its a /thumbs directory in the root of your SageTV webserver. Sorry for the confusion, Jhh |
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No biggie, I saw where it was hardcoded. I'll change it as I need it, and see if I can figure a way to add it to the settings.xml file. I'm going to see if I can make it so it uses the thumbs Sage generates in the Sage folder. That would be mush easier to setup for other users.
Any ideas why it won't play the Sage compressed in place videos? |
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hm - not sure - what is the exact line after 'Files:' in the detailed view in the webserver - that is what it will use (after a path substitution as in the original SageTV script). You could use the info button for the video entry in XBMC as I think in the detailed info it gives the filename it is using or check the log file? |
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Thanks for this updated plugin, it has rejuvenated my efforts to get this all in XBMC. |
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Jhh |
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Sorry, I've been sidetracked again, but this is high on my "to do when I get free time" list.
Last edited by kricker; 03-20-2009 at 08:46 PM. |
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I got time to play with this tonight.
I got my playback issue sorted out. It was user error. My settings file was using UNC patchs with Server name, but Sage is set to use UNC paths with acutal ip address. Once I fixed it the plugin worked fine. Well, it worked fine for a while, then all of a sudden it crashes when loading the list of shows. It always crashes on number 81. Here is the log. |
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If you PM source for 'detailed information page' and 'edit show info' then I can have a look. I was lucky - I had it once or twice but the recoding was not so important so I deleted the recording instead of fixing the script. p.s.: is the thing fast enough when it reads the list of recordings? Jhh |
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I'll look thru and find what show it is. I am sure it is one that has multiple parts, because sage crashed and I had to restart then the error started happening. The edit info page says "MediaFile is segmented: cannot function on segmented media files". XML from detailed info on the way. |
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Bedtime now. jhh |
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I've been using this for a few weeks now, and it works great for the most part. The one problem I have: I cannot seek on MPEG2 recordings from my HDHomeRun. If you try it jumps back to the beginning of the file. Probably 90% of my recordings are from the HDPVR and work fine, so it hasn't been a huge problem for me, but it really hurts the WAF.
Unrelated request: any way of adding the ability to delete recordings in this plugin?
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Deleting can possibly be done, it was in the original script. |
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So if in the context menu for a video in the plugin there is a delete option then that's great. If there is not then there is nothing I can do about that. As a lot of plugins are giving external web hosted video content it made sense there is no delete option - i.e. we're not supposed to delete videos on Youtube. But we can always ask the XBMC people - I guess if there is some demand there's more chance they would be willing to look at it. Jhh |
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There is a delete option in the context menu. I didn't try it last night, but I bet it works just fine.
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