Plugin :: PlayON for v7

[sabre]

Originally Posted by CyRex

Is anyone else having issues with videos freezing during playback, as mentioned in this post? On my system, freezes only occur within the first ~20 seconds. From the activity light on my extender, it seems that Sage just stops streaming the file (as opposed to the video being transcoded in a 'frozen' state).

When this happens, if I stop and restart playback, the video will freeze in the exact same place. As a work-around, I need to start playback of another video, stop it, then go back to the video I want to watch. Sometimes I have to repeat the process 3 or 4 times before it will work.

So, anyone else having issues like this?

-Dan

Yes, I had the same issue last night.

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by GKusnick

Is there a reason the Main Menu items for this plugin don't have unique ThisItem attributes?

The best reason possible: laziness

I've got an update coming out soon (today/tommorow-ish) and i'll make sure they're all unique.

[evilpenguin]

PlayOn Plugin v1.3

Release Notes:

• STVi: Fixed unique names in main menu buttons
• STVi: Fixed linux file sepeators for launching UPnPBrowser.exe
• STVi: Added .property files for people with SageMC
• STVi: Added menu button for generic UPnP Browsing
• UPnPBrowser: Made commerical allowance longer
• UPnPBrowser: Fixed issue where finding parent folder of a folder was broken

[GKusnick]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

STVi: Fixed unique names in main menu buttons

Thanks, but a couple of them are giving syntax errors (missing close quote):

ThisItem [="xItemPlayOn_Netflix_Queue]
ThisItem [="xItemPlayOn_SubPlayOn]

[lotusvball]

Noticed last night after updating the plugin, the length of the video's was one minute off from that actual length. ie. video shows 6 min and it is actually 5 min. long.

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by GKusnick

Thanks, but a couple of them are giving syntax errors (missing close quote):

ThisItem [="xItemPlayOn_Netflix_Queue]
ThisItem [="xItemPlayOn_SubPlayOn]

Tip - Set this property while doing STV work:

preload_expression_cache=true

Then, when you load an STV, it gets preloaded & syntax errors are listed in the log after the "Preloading all Widget data into expression cache...." line.

- Andy

[evilpenguin]

PlayOn Plugin v1.3.1

Release Notes:

• STVi: Fixed unique names in main menu buttons... again

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by lotusvball

Noticed last night after updating the plugin, the length of the video's was one minute off from that actual length. ie. video shows 6 min and it is actually 5 min. long.

That's as intended, I pad every video with a little extra time to account for commercials, buffering, and other unknowns. Let me know if you catch one where the video is longer than the shown time (i.e. Playback cuts off before the video is finished), that's a bug.

[GKusnick]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

STVi: Fixed unique names in main menu buttons... again

Thanks again!

[lotusvball]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

That's as intended, I pad every video with a little extra time to account for commercials, buffering, and other unknowns. Let me know if you catch one where the video is longer than the shown time (i.e. Playback cuts off before the video is finished), that's a bug.

ok. will do

[ripplingj]

I have installed play on in a computer with 1terabyte of space.
My sage computer on the os drive is about 9.7gb

when i use the playon plugin my sage os 9.7gb disk drive runs out of space. Where is this space going and can i change it to one of my multiple drives connected to the computer that sage uses to record tv shows on?

help i thought the disk problem was due to playon being installed on the computer but it seems to be sage doing something funky running out of disk space

[trini0]

PlayOn stores its streamed files on the OS disk. There is documentation on their site on how to modify this.
http://www.playon.tv/faq#cdrive
It is not a SageTV issue...

Originally Posted by ripplingj

I have installed play on in a computer with 1terabyte of space.
My sage computer on the os drive is about 9.7gb

when i use the playon plugin my sage os 9.7gb disk drive runs out of space. Where is this space going and can i change it to one of my multiple drives connected to the computer that sage uses to record tv shows on?

help i thought the disk problem was due to playon being installed on the computer but it seems to be sage doing something funky running out of disk space

[GKusnick]

Originally Posted by trini0

It is not a SageTV issue...

Sage downloads online video (including PlayOn) to the boot disk by default. You can change this in Detailed Setup > Customize > Online Video Options.

[pjpjpjpj]

Is anyone still getting the 100%-pegged CPU from PlayOn?
(as here: http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...6&postcount=90)

My wife rebooted our Sage server Friday morning (same machine where PlayOn resides), and I don't believe we even used PlayOn after that... we left town Friday afternoon, and when we returned last night, the server was pegged at 100% with it being 99% "Mediamallserver". I stopped PlayOn and restarted it, and everything went back to normal.

The thread that is linked from the PlayOn forum (in post above) seems to indicate at the end that the issue was resolved, but obviously something is still fishy on their end...

[medwynd]

Originally Posted by pjpjpjpj

Is anyone still getting the 100%-pegged CPU from PlayOn?
(as here: http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...6&postcount=90)

My wife rebooted our Sage server Friday morning (same machine where PlayOn resides), and I don't believe we even used PlayOn after that... we left town Friday afternoon, and when we returned last night, the server was pegged at 100% with it being 99% "Mediamallserver". I stopped PlayOn and restarted it, and everything went back to normal.

The thread that is linked from the PlayOn forum (in post above) seems to indicate at the end that the issue was resolved, but obviously something is still fishy on their end...

I ran into this the other day but a quick reboot of the server cleared it up. I haven't seen the issue since.

[pjpjpjpj]

Originally Posted by medwynd

I ran into this the other day but a quick reboot of the server cleared it up. I haven't seen the issue since.

I agree, quick reboots fix it - heck, a restart of PlayOn alone fixes it - but that's not really an ideal solution.

I remembered that I tried to update PlayOn the other day with the latest patch and it had an error. I just got the patch installed this morning, so hopefully that will keep it from happening again.

[touchstone]

I think I've found two issues running v.1.3.1 of the PlayOn plugin on SageTV 7.0.11.1 on OpenSuSE 11.2.

First, I've noticed that the cache files appear to show the filename separator bug. When UPNPBrowser successfully completes, the following files are in /opt/sagetv/server/SageOnlineServicesEXEs (the initial two characters are part of the filename, as is the extra dot in .\UPnPBrowser..cache):

.\UPnPBrowser.HDHomeRun 10112174.cache
.\UPnPBrowser.PlayOn (laverna).cache
.\UPnPBrowser..cache

Second, when I plug in my WNHDE111 access point, no cache files are created at all. Looking at an strace, the AP appears to respond to UPNPBrowser's broadcast, but then refuse UPNPBrowser's connection. This causes a broken pipe and the process dies. I'm basing this on strace:

Here's what the connection to the playon server looks like:

recvfrom(7, "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nST: upnp:rootdevice\r\nEXT: \r\nUSN: uuid:5901e386-3edd-4bfb-963d-5b1f8e714c41::upnp:rootdevice\r\nLOCATION: http://1"..., 4096, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(1900), sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.1.13")}, [16]) = 251
time(NULL)                              = 1280286811
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3543, ...}) = 0
write(2, "--------------------- HTTP GET IN: Tue Jul 27 22:13:31 2010\n", 60--------------------- HTTP GET IN: Tue Jul 27 22:13:31 2010
) = 60
time(NULL)                              = 1280286811
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3543, ...}) = 0
open("/etc/protocols", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 8
fstat64(8, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=23232, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xfffffffff7657000
read(8, "# See also: protocols(5), http://www.sethwklein.net/projects/iana-etc/\n#\n# \n# PROTOCOL NUMBERS\n# \n# (last updated 28 March 2006)"..., 4096) = 4096
close(8)                                = 0
munmap(0xf7657000, 4096)                = 0
socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP) = 8
ioctl(8, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xff92da8c) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
_llseek(8, 0, 0xff92dab0, SEEK_CUR)     = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
ioctl(8, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xff92da8c) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
_llseek(8, 0, 0xff92dab0, SEEK_CUR)     = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
fcntl64(8, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
connect(8, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53478), sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.1.13")}, 16) = 0
write(8, "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: 192.168.1.13:53478\r\nContent-Length: 0\r\n\r\n", 64) = 64
ioctl(8, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xff92da4c) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
ioctl(8, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xff92da4c) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
read(8, "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nCONTENT-TYPE: text/xml\r\nContent-Length: 2251\r\n\r\n<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\r\n<root xmlns:dlna=\"urn:s"..., 4096) = 1448
read(8, "Type>\r\n            <serviceId>urn:upnp-org:serviceId:ConnectionManager</serviceId>\r\n            <SCPDURL>_urn:upnp-org:serviceId"..., 4096) = 868
read(8, "", 4096)                       = 0
close(8)                                = 0
time(NULL)                              = 1280286811
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3543, ...}) = 0
write(2, "--------------------- HTTP GET OUT: Tue Jul 27 22:13:31 2010\n", 61--------------------- HTTP GET OUT: Tue Jul 27 22:13:31 2010
) = 61

And this is the attempted connection to the access point:

select(8, [7], NULL, NULL, {2, 0})      = 1 (in [7], left {1, 538509})
recvfrom(7, "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nEXT:\r\nSERVER: ipOS/7.6 UPnP/1.0 Ubicom/1.0\r\nST: upnp:rootdevice\r\nLOCATION: http://192.168.1.252/root.sxml\r\nCAC"..., 4096, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(1900), sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.1.252")}, [16]) = 240
time(NULL)                              = 1280286811
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3543, ...}) = 0
write(2, "--------------------- HTTP GET IN: Tue Jul 27 22:13:31 2010\n", 60--------------------- HTTP GET IN: Tue Jul 27 22:13:31 2010
) = 60
time(NULL)                              = 1280286811
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3543, ...}) = 0
open("/etc/protocols", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 8
fstat64(8, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=23232, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xfffffffff7657000
read(8, "# See also: protocols(5), http://www.sethwklein.net/projects/iana-etc/\n#\n# \n# PROTOCOL NUMBERS\n# \n# (last updated 28 March 2006)"..., 4096) = 4096
close(8)                                = 0
munmap(0xf7657000, 4096)                = 0
socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP) = 8
ioctl(8, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xff92da8c) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
_llseek(8, 0, 0xff92dab0, SEEK_CUR)     = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
ioctl(8, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xff92da8c) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
_llseek(8, 0, 0xff92dab0, SEEK_CUR)     = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
fcntl64(8, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
connect(8, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(0), sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.1.252")}, 16) = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused)
write(8, "GET /root.sxml HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: 192.168.1.252:\r\nContent-Length: 0\r\n\r\n", 69) = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe)
--- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGPIPE +++

Now I can't figure out for the life of me why the AP is responding, or why it then refuses the connection. I've turned off everything that looks like it may result in multicast packets. Nor can I figure out why it then refuses the connection from upnpbrowser -- "wget http://192.168.1.252/root.sxml" retrieves the file just fine.

If the AP is unplugged/rebooting when I run upnpbrowser, it works. Odd.

[harrijay]

I also had the issue and the workaround that I have is, I modified EP's perl script to no look at root devices but look for media server objects. I notice that there was a difference between the windows script and the linux script so I updated it also to version 1.1 from 1.0. EP, do you want a copy of the script I updated? I can also provide an executable variant for 64Bit if that helps also.

Jayson

[jperquin]

EP, first of all kudoos for this great improvement on the Sage v7 platform!

An issue that I keep having is that when an Playon stream (irrespective of whether it is from Hulu, Netflix or some other source) is not properly shut down after viewing (eg. I fall asleep before the end of the show), the next time I try to browse Playon from within the Online menu, it times out. When I do a quick restart of Sagetv all is good again.

Can you help me solve this?

Rgds, Joost

[jrockow]

Is this plugin supposed to work with v7 and an HD100?

I'm not having any luck.

If it's supposed to work, can you point to some specific info that could help.

Thanx!