X-Streamity - Xtream Codes IPTV Player (new thread)

I am running OpenVix on a Gigablue UE 4K.

I am trying to setup a "hotkey" to open XStreamity from within the EPG screen. I know you can use the Video button to go to the catchup menu, if available, but I want to go to the main XStreamity screen for searching and downloading a VOD file etc, and the EPG screen seems a sensible place to have that option.

I know which section of the keymap.xml file I need to add it to and have done it before for other keys - I've added Rew to be previous Bouquet and FF to be next Bouquet in the EPG screen as my universal remote doesn't have the extra prev/next buttons.

But what I can't find is the "mapto" string needed to open XStreamity?

Also I planned to use the Play button as the Hotkey but that seems to be blocked in the EPG screen as it comes up with a X on the screen when pressed. Where are the settings that determine if a key is acceptable in a particular screen? Or is it just that play is undefined in the EPG screen?

(EDIT sorted this myself - it's that is just wasn't defined, I tested it with PLAYPAUSE mapped to "info" and that works fine)

Final question (for today anyway!), I only have one playlist entry, so I have set the option in settings to bypass the playlist selection screen, but is there a way to directly go into the screen that shows "Live, VOD, Catchup" etc rather than starting at the "Playlists, Add Playlists" etc screen. I know it is only a single press of OK to get to but firstly, I'm a lazy sod, and secondly I am not sure it is a good idea to have any screen with settings on it available to my primary user!

Thanks

Hi KiddaC,

good evening from Germany.

I use your Top-Plugin with my DM 920 UHD. Newnegma2-Image and Nuke Skin.

There are two Problems, may be, you have the answers. Using the Version 4.01 everything is working fine, until after a few Minutes the Streams stops, and the preview windows gets black screen, and the box freezes. With the Version 4.00 also everything works fin, but the search-Button (Blue-Taste) is not possible, the Search-Keypanel did not appear and the Box freezes. Without using the blue-button everything works fine.

Please excuse my english

Hello, i`m sorry, while too late late, but want to say Thanks again to KiddaC (hope the beer is arrived) and to @seagan for his great work, and tipps to make the plugin usebable.

For @seagan i have two logfiles. One ist a crashlog after a green Screen because using the Key 9 while the plugin was running. The second logfile was starting and using xstreamity. I have a DM 920UHD with a nuke skin.

Before i installed the Version 4,0 i often had a Black Hole, the Box must be restartet manually by switching off an on. Now (Version 4.02) it is working good for me. Thanks to all, for the great work.

If I were KiddaC, I would feel so much more appreciated if you bought me a beer. Platitudes are cheap.

https://paypal.me/kiddac

Excellent plug in ty vm !! Is there anyway to force override the aspect ratio some 4k vod's are stretched ?

hello, how can I remove the information screen I marked?

Quote from KiddaC

Why are people suddenly having issues with the infobar??

I don't know if it is suddenly and I saw from the moment I started to use Xstreamity.

Then if there is no EPG available then it is still being shown. After the timeout it goes away. Pressing the OK button shows both again.

I activate during watching the infobar (lower) to but then in Xstreamity then the top bar is also show.

Maybe the when activating with OK the bar then show only the lowerbar and when you press OK again show also the topbar. And when you press OK again the both are hidden.

Lower bar shown, on OK -> show then show topbar also

Lower bar shown and also the topbar, on OK -> hide both

After zap both bars are shown, on OK -> hide both or wait for timeout

Request for change: when using download in chatch-up and when in Playlist Settings m3u8 as output is set then the item can't be downloaded. This because wget does not know how to handle a m3u8 item and that is two separate downloads.

Request is then to replace the extension m3u8 by ts, so that wget can download the item.

In other places in Xsteamity it not a problem because for Live it is then sent to steam device. In Vod and TV series other formats are being used like mpg, mkv etc.

Update: test now and the change has to be done in channels.py then def downloadVideo(self):

            if exists is False:
                if self.categoryname == "vod":
                    downloads_all.append([_("Movie"), title, stream_url, "Not Started", 0, 0])
                elif self.categoryname == "series":
                    downloads_all.append([_("Series"), title, stream_url, "Not Started", 0, 0])
                elif self.categoryname == "catchup":    
                    playurl = playurl.replace(".m3u8", ".ts")
                    downloads_all.append([_("Catch-up"), title, playurl, "Not Started", 0, 0])

The new line in the code displayed above is:

playurl = playurl.replace(".m3u8", ".ts")

Python wants TAB's and not spaces in front of the line.

It took me rather long to find the correct location. I expected it to tackle it in downloader.py but that is called much later. So it was a search for the source and that was in channels.py