[mythtv-users] 0.25 problems with UPnP

[John Pilkington]

On 25/04/12 09:19, John Pilkington wrote:
> There's a ticket open about this but it may be that its title, which
> refers to Panasonic hardware, may be too restrictive. The problem also
> applies to XBMC and may be more easily diagnosed from that route. I'm
> not the ticket's reporter but I'm interested in it.
>
> The problem is that network playback works when a file is presented as a
> 'Video' but fails when it is a 'Recording.' An error message from XBMC
> includes:
>
> ERROR: CUPnPDirectory::GetResource - no
> items returned for object
> RecTv/0/item?ChanId=1003&StartTime=2012-04-06T20:59:00
>
> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10583#comment:13
>
> I'm inclined to believe that Myth is broadcasting the identity of this
> 'Recording' in a form that it doesn't recognise when it comes back; for
> example, some instances of the new 'mythutil' tools expect
> YYYYMMDDHHMMSS starttime and fail with other formats, including the one
> read directly from the DB. A 'Video' wouldn't have a 'starttime'.
>
> Ideas for testing welcome. Does XBMC have a commandline mode that could
> explore this?
>
> TIA
>
> John P

I've now taken delivery of a new Panasonic TV and can play with it 
myself.  Network playback works well after I configured the firewall to 
trust the ethernet, but I haven't seen frontend capabilities like 
fast-forward or skip.  I can play most Recordings and Videos, but there 
are strange exceptions:  from the laptop, now running 0.25, no 
recordings made between 16 March and 5 April will play on the TV 
although they are listed there.  One recording lists on the TV although 
it has been deleted.  I traced one recording - which plays - to the 
LiveTV folder, although it had been deleted from both the 'Previously 
Recorded' and 'Watch Recording' screens.  And there are a few recording 
that play on the frontend but don't on the TV for reasons that aren't 
yet apparent. It doesn't seem to be an HD/SD matter. Most of my Videos 
are in fact .iso images of MythArchive DVDs.  They don't play on the TV.

I haven't had much time with it yet, but picture quality is excellent 
from both 0.24.3 and 0.25.  So many thanks to all concerned!

John P