Moddable P05-IMS-Demo for BC16

[snappy46]

You are the PBO Obi-Wan Kenobi aasoror.

Knowing that I can restore from a bricked device (plenty of times with DD-WRT and my HTC phone) pushes me to experiment more I guess.

I just configured RDate to my internal time sync server. (not recommended due to DOS stuff).

I can see a bright future for you Obi-Wan young apprentice AKA petec. May the force to unbrick your PBO be with you!!!!

[t0r0nt0]

aasoror, is there any way you can include the feature in the Euro 4318 version that allows you to load different jukeboxes from different folders?

For example, I built a jukebox in my movies folder and another in my documentaries folder. In 4318, I had a choice of loading one or the other (under the Jukebox menu item, I believe). I'd like to build one for my kids in its own folder so they can watch only the videos I chose for them. If you could include this feature it would be much appreciated.

BTW, I 'm running #3 (not the optware one).

[aasoror]

aasoror, is there any way you can include the feature in the Euro 4318 version that allows you to load different jukeboxes from different folders?

You can certainly do so, just edit Movie_Jukebox.rss with the location of any additional jukeboxes like that:

<item>
	<title>My Jukebox</title>
	<link>rss_file://Location of Jukebox folder as seen by PBO/category.rss</link>
</item>

You can find the file under "/usr/local/bin/scripts/Movie_Jukebox" or check "/usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/savedrss/scripts/Movie_Jukebox" if your changes didn't show up on the PBO .

[aasoror]

Here is my setup details , on which you should be able to project easily on your setup, and yes the key issue here is determining POHD Jukebox Path (which is the jukebox location when accessed from inside the PBO GUI over the network).

I have a NAS (assume an IP 192.168.1.101) where each movie has a folder under the "Media" folder, residing in "Volume_1", so the network path for movie_1.avi would be "\\192.168.1.101\Volume_1\Media\movie_1\movie_1.av i"

With this assumptions here is how to setup your jukebox:

I. TViXiE2Playon!HD:
Movie Folder: \\192.168.1.101\volume_1\Media
POHD Jukebox Path : /tmp/netb/mnt/My Shortcuts/192.168.1.101:/Volume_1/Media/ (read next section to know how was that path determined)
POHD Temp Path : /tmp/

II. PBO:
You just need to find how does the PBO sees your Media folder (which will include the Jukebox folder) over the network. In my case I have a machine shortcut created (from the "my shortcuts" menu) for my NAS, once activated (by opening the shortcut and browsing the NAS) volume_1 gets mounted in the following location (which you can find out by using "mount" command in telnet after activating the shortcut) : "/tmp/netb/mnt/My Shortcuts/192.168.1.101:/Volume_1"
Using the above path the jukebox would can be found in /tmp/netb/mnt/My Shortcuts/192.168.1.101:/Volume_1/Media/Jukebox.
One final step would be editing the /usr/local/bin/scripts/Movie_Jukebox/Movie_Jukebox.rss (inside the PBO) to add a link to the new jukebox.

<item>
	<title>Network Jukebox</title>
	<link>rss_file:///tmp/netb/mnt/My Shortcuts/192.168.1.101:/Volume_1/Media/Jukebox/category.rss</link>
</item>

I think this should cover all you need to know for setting up jukebox stored on the network, note that you will always need to go through my shortcuts to activate the mount path before opening the jukebox, an easy fix for that (if you are into linux) is to do this mount on startup (for more details about "share shortcuts" check the link in my signature below).

p.s. if changes in /usr/local/bin/scripts/Movie_Jukebox/Movie_Jukebox.rss didn't show up on your PBO try editing /usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/savedrss/scripts/Movie_Jukebox/Movie_Jukebox.rss

[lordbond]

I tried to set up the rss jukebox using tvixie2playonhd and I am having problems. When I go to load the jukebox I just get a black screen with a grey box on the left side that I can move up and down with the arrow keys but no words ever show up. If I hit enter nothing happens for a while and then the system reboots. Anyone have any ideas on what might be wrong?

[godd]

It is awesome! I recently bought PBO clone - Hornettek Phantom and just flashed it with latest P05-IMS. It works! Great work, people!
Have a couple questions about metafeeds, hope it is not complete off here. I added plenty of Live TV channels in my favs and noticed that most of them stuttering a lot. Same channels are played well on my PC. They still paused a bit but are viewable. I am guessing can it be related to the lack of space for channel buffering (I do not have HDD installed)?
Thanks.

[snappy46]

It is awesome! I recently bought PBO clone - Hornettek Phantom and just flashed it with latest P05-IMS. It works! Great work, people!
Have a couple questions about metafeeds, hope it is not complete off here. I added plenty of Live TV channels in my favs and noticed that most of them stuttering a lot. Same channels are played well on my PC. They still paused a bit but are viewable. I am guessing can it be related to the lack of space for channel buffering (I do not have HDD installed)?
Thanks.

This is probably related to the poor network speed of the PBO /Phamtom. Are using wireless or wired Ethernet connection?

[aasoror]

I added plenty of Live TV channels in my favs and noticed that most of them stuttering a lot. Same channels are played well on my PC. They still paused a bit but are viewable. I am guessing can it be related to the lack of space for channel buffering (I do not have HDD installed)?

Have you tried the latest megaYT4opt version ? I found online TV more stable using this version than mega.YT

This is probably related to the poor network speed of the PBO /Phamtom. Are using wireless or wired Ethernet connection?

+1 as well

[godd]

Yes, I'm on the latest version of IMS firmware. And yes, I use wired connection. TV streams I tried are far from HD quality. At the same time, HD podcasts such as Earth Touch(?) and Marine work extremely well. What is a real network speed of PBO?
Also I do not have any problems with viewing network content. I am still thinking the bottleneck is because of a small buffer and not a network speed. We cannot control buffering at this time, do we?

[scboley]

Patriot_Z or Patriot_Ben is the buffering controlled exclusively through dvdplayer or is there an obscure text file that can be edited to set the buffering limits?