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[lasa]

I recently bought an Apple TV (gen 2) and installed XBMC on it and happily found that it's internal tuxbox streaming protocol works quite well with the OpenWebIf on my VU+ Uno. The two issues I still have are:

1) From XBMC I can only zap between channels that are on the same transponder as the channel currently being watched on the Uno. Has anyone else had such issues and solved them?

2) After streaming XBMC often does not close the stream properly and the tuner in the Uno is still hogged. Is there a way, other than rebooting the Uno, to kill a stale stream?

Any help is appreciated!

[malakudi]

Putting VU+ Uno in standby before using XBMC, puts the tuner in available state, then you can zap to any channel.
Can't help with streams not closed properly, this should be an issue for the XBMC addon you use.

[lasa]

I just tried putting my VU+ in standby, but zapping still doesn't work (outside of the transponder it was on when I turned it off). I am using the built-in support in XBMC for enigma boxes. In other words, to add my box to XBMC I just enter a URI on the form tuxbox://boxip:port.

I also tried with the webinterface-old package instead of openwebif, but I have the same problems there. On a side note I had to hack some python to even get it running, but I guess it's not supported any longer...

[lasa]

I am aware this may be an XBMC issue, but looking around the Internet I can't really find any others who have problems with zapping.

When zapping to a channel on a different transponder the following is produced in the log:

10:08:55 T:106635264  NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: http://192.168.1.201:8001/1:0:1:C30:5:56:300000:0:0:0:
10:08:55 T:106635264 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
10:08:55 T:156033024  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
10:08:57 T:156033024  NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
10:09:27 T:156033024 WARNING: could not find codec parameters for http://192.168.1.201:8001/1:0:1:C30:5:56:300000:0:0:0:
10:09:27 T:156033024   ERROR: OpenDemuxStream - Error creating demuxer
10:09:27 T:156033024  NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
10:09:27 T:156033024  NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit() deleting input stream
10:09:27 T:106635264   ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [http://192.168.1.201:8001/1:0:1:C30:5:56:300000:0:0:0:]
10:09:28 T:106635264  NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
10:09:28 T:106635264 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
10:09:28 T:106635264  NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
10:09:28 T:106635264  NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting

When zapping to a channel on the same transponder (which works) I get the following:

10:10:21 T:106635264  NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: http://192.168.1.201:8001/1:0:1:744:1E:56:300000:0:0:0:
10:10:21 T:106635264 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
10:10:21 T:156033024  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
10:10:24 T:156033024  NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
10:10:25 T:156033024  NOTICE: Opening video stream: 0 source: 256
10:10:25 T:156033024  NOTICE: Creating video codec with codec id: 2
10:10:25 T:156033024  NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: MPEG-2 video
10:10:25 T:156033024  NOTICE: Creating video thread
10:10:25 T:159379456  NOTICE: running thread: video_thread
10:10:25 T:156033024  NOTICE: Opening audio stream: 1 source: 256
10:10:25 T:156033024  NOTICE: Finding audio codec for: 86016
10:10:25 T:156033024   ERROR: CDVDAudioCodecPassthroughFFmpeg::Open - FFmpeg SPDIF muxer does not support this codec
10:10:25 T:156033024   ERROR: Previous line repeats 1 times.
10:10:25 T:156033024  NOTICE: Creating audio thread
10:10:25 T:162570240  NOTICE: running thread: CDVDPlayerAudio::Process()
10:10:25 T:159379456  NOTICE:  fps: 25.000000, pwidth: 704, pheight: 576, dwidth: 704, dheight: 396
10:10:25 T:162570240   ERROR: CDVDAudioCodecPassthroughFFmpeg::Open - FFmpeg SPDIF muxer does not support this codec
10:10:25 T:162570240  NOTICE: Creating audio device with codec id: 86016, channels: 1, sample rate: 48000, no pass-through
10:10:25 T:159379456 WARNING: CRenderManager::Configure - timeout waiting for previous frame
10:10:25 T:159379456  NOTICE: Display resolution DESKTOP : 1280x720 (12)

Edited by lasa, 8 April 2012 - 09:44.

[lasa]

Apparently this issue was related to airplayer. Once I removed the plugin, putting the receiver in standby will release control to XBMC. Now it works perfectly!