MythTv Player News

Bad post - ignore

no_email@example.com (nitmd) — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:22:16 GMT

Sorry for second post, when I posted it the first time I got a page full of errors and didn't realize that it had posted.

MythTv Player 0.7.0 stops playing

no_email@example.com (nitmd) — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:21:48 GMT

I've been running 0.7.0 for awhile and it has been working fine on my system; today I went back to watch the end of a movie I was watching this morning, and it won't play. The recordings show up, and everything looks like it should be working, but when I click on the play button nothing happens.

Linux Build

no_email@example.com (Pickle) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:23:33 GMT

Im attempting a Linux build. Ive worked the svn to a point where I can build and link.
The gui is coming up and the dialog for the hostname for the backend is coming up.

This is where its stops, the sys/socket.h connect is failing. The errno is set to 111, which is:
#define ECONNREFUSED 111 /* Connection refused */
Any ideas?

Update:
Think i found a fix, at least i appear to get a connection and some data
#else //ip = inet_addr(inet_ntoa(*((struct in_addr *)h->h_addr))); host.sin_addr = *(struct in_addr *) h->h_addr; #endif
with this change im getting channel and tuner info, but it appears to hang loading the renderer

Update 2:
Its starting to work, i can replay a recording, although once it started the GUI is hung. Live TV also works.
My pandora build still has the connect issue above, which is strange.

Update 3:
Ok got my pandora to connect, just crashes on playback, progress I think the spark connect needs to be reworked
Deinterlace works on the pc build, noticed the gui lockup doesnt happen unless i click the sdl window

MythTV 0.22 support?

no_email@example.com (Steltek) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:25:48 GMT

Just wondering if there's any release date estimate for the 0.22 support. Is there anything a non-coder can do to help it along?

Localization

no_email@example.com (flohack) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:09:11 GMT

Guys & Dolls,

we are currently starting off to being multi-language in MythTVplayer. So please, if you can spend 2 hours of time, translate with us, translate for us, translate for yourself.

Currently we have already:

- German
- Greek
- Brazilian/Portugiese
- Spanish
- French
- Dutch

Add to this thread, announce your language and we will contact you with details how to get involved. You should however be able to update the language file now and then, as we are of course planning to add new strings rather often

regards Florian

Black Screen with Mythtv Player 0.4.2

no_email@example.com (primowalker) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:00:34 GMT

I installed Mythtv Player 0.4.2 on Windows XP. When I start Mythtv Player, I get the controls and a black screen. If I right-click on the black screen, I get the options, but if I look at recordings, everything is empty. I know that the Mythtv Backend is configured correctly because I can use the Frontend on my linux system and watch all my videos. Anyone have any idea what is going on?

Status of included ffmpeg and deinterlacing??

no_email@example.com (andersos) — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:50:16 GMT

Hi all

I found Mythtv Player today and don't know very much about it yet. But from what I've seen it's a very interesting application that would be useful for me.

So I wanted to ask some questions :

1. From quickly browsing the site and svn I learn that ffmpeg is used. But it seems not be very recent version.
There is now h.264 multithreading and various other improvements regarding h.264 decoding in ffmpeg. Will it be very long before these features are included in Mythtv Player?

2. Mythtv recently got greedy high motion and yadiff deinterlacers (from dscaler project). Greedy h is very nice for deinterlacing (sd) digital tv. Will it be very long before dscaler deinterlacers are available in Mythtv Player?

I don't mean to put stress on someone by asking those questions, but it would be nice to have some idea of approximate timeframe for availability of those features.

MythTV version 0.21

no_email@example.com (cookm) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:25:58 GMT

The 0.21 version of MythTV was just released. This version increases the MythTV protocol to version 40. By default, MythTv Player 5.0 only supports up to version 36.

You can override this by changing the setting from a 0 to a 1 in the config.xml file found in your MythTV Player install directory.

I've only watched a recorded program so far, but everything is working normally so far. I don't see why anything would break, unless the MythTV developers have obsoleted something.

MC

Scrambled videos

no_email@example.com (decibel83) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:49:39 GMT

I'm using MythTV Player 0.5.0, I can connect to my MythTV Backend, but I don't see the videos well.
This is a screenshot of the video I see, watching LiveTV and Recordings too:

I tried to install some video codecs but I didn't solve the problem.

Could you help me, please?

Thank you very much!
Bye.

any updates?

no_email@example.com (mtrax) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:46:23 GMT

Just wondering if there is a update/final release of v5?

MythTv Player

no_email@example.com (Lowebb) — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:32:36 GMT

Hi guys, new user of MythTV player. I'd like to let you know I've installed the player (non live-tv version) and I have to say I'm very impressed. Simple and Effective; that is what required and that is what has been delivered. I think the player needs to be advertised much more effectively. I've been searching for a week for such a player and any forums I've looked at have said either Virtual emulation or WinMyth (which is non-functional as far as I can see) to connect to MythTV backends.

I've a question about the LiveTV version. What is the stability like; I'm no expert programmer and will wait until it becomes stable before I start messing around with it

Linux Port Available

no_email@example.com (agsiegel) — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:10:20 GMT

I have ported mythtvplayer to Linux. I compiled it using gcc 4.1 under Ubuntu Gutsy. Attached is the modified source checked out from the subversion trunk.

Maximum number of MythTV Players Running

no_email@example.com (RichShumaker) — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:37:15 GMT

So I was just testing things from my laptop and I could run 4 MythTV Players at the same time.
I was just wondering if anyone was running more or have tried to run more.

This creates a poor mans PiP. The only issue I had was all the sound was playing at the same time. I did not try to raise and lower the volume or mute them.

It would be cool to see a PC with dual video cards with Dual Screens each - 4 total screens all using MythTV Player with a full screen of video in each.

Anyone using dual screens with 2 instances of MythTV Player running?

A token of appreciation.

no_email@example.com (bhaagensen) — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:18:30 GMT

Hi,

I just discovered mythtvplayer today and it is truly a blessing. After years of non-working solutions it finally seems I can get mythtv working on my gf's windows box. Btw. she is also home on perternity leave, so the pressure was increasing to get something working

I appreciate that you probably are very busy, nonetheless I hope that you have resources to continue development, although the latest version seems quite stable from the little testing I've done.

Thanks,

Bjørn

re-buffering

no_email@example.com (scorpuk) — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:36:44 GMT

I had the same problme in 0.4.1 and thought 0.5.0 might change it, but alas no.

After 15 seconds or so of play it will rebuffer.

Here is my log file with the errors:

01:51:22 MPControl: State change: ReBuffering -> Playing
01:51:22 MPControl: Changing to statePlaying
01:51:22 VideoDecoder: Resume
01:51:22 VideoRender: Resume
01:51:22 VideoRender: de-paused
01:51:22 AudioRender: Resume
01:51:22 AudioRender: Resume
01:51:22 VideoDecoder: Resume
01:51:22 VideoRender: Resume
01:51:22 MPControl: Changing to statePlaying: Done
01:51:22 MPControl: New state: Playing
01:51:25 AudioDecoder: Not enough audio in buffer . Setting beenInTrouble flag.
01:51:25 MPControl: Audiodecoder was in trouble. Rebuffering.
01:51:25 MPControl: State change: Playing -> ReBuffering
01:51:25 MPControl: Changing to stateBuffering
01:51:25 AudioRender: Pause
01:51:25 VideoRender: Pause
01:51:25 MPControl: Changing to stateBuffering: Done
01:51:25 MPControl: New state: ReBuffering
01:51:25 VideoRender: paused
01:51:37 MPControl: State change: ReBuffering -> Playing
01:51:37 MPControl: Changing to statePlaying
01:51:37 VideoDecoder: Resume
01:51:37 VideoRender: Resume
01:51:37 VideoRender: de-paused
01:51:37 AudioRender: Resume
01:51:37 AudioRender: Resume
01:51:37 VideoDecoder: Resume
01:51:37 VideoRender: Resume
01:51:37 MPControl: Changing to statePlaying: Done
01:51:37 MPControl: New state: Playing
01:51:41 AudioDecoder: Not enough audio in buffer . Setting beenInTrouble flag.
01:51:41 MPControl: Audiodecoder was in trouble. Rebuffering.
01:51:41 MPControl: State change: Playing -> ReBuffering
01:51:41 MPControl: Changing to stateBuffering
01:51:41 AudioRender: Pause
01:51:41 VideoRender: Pause
01:51:41 MPControl: Changing to stateBuffering: Done
01:51:41 MPControl: New state: ReBuffering
01:51:41 VideoRender: paused
01:51:45 MPControl: Somebody wanted to quit

I changed my config fil ein line with this post: http://www.sudu.dk/mythtvplayer/forum/thread/89

      192.168.1.68
      6543
      31
      0
      0
      75
      120
      5
      1048576
      65536
      1
      10
      40
      1
      4
      1
      1
      0
      1
      2
      0
      //SERVER/mythtv/recordings
      1
      10
      10
      600
      600
      3

I also tried using samba share, but that had the same problem when it worked.

My specs are:

Master Backend:

Gigabyte GA-G33-DS3R
Intel Q6600
4Gb Memory
Ubuntu 7.04 64bit
1Gb network onboard
(full spec here : http://scorpuk.plus.com/phpsysinfo)

Windows computer:
ASUS Striker Extreme m/b
Intel E6850
2Gb Memory
Windows Vista Premium 32bit
EVGA Geforce 8800XT
Creative X-Fi
1Gb network onboard

1Gb Switch
Cat 6 cable

Tried it in VLC and it works far better. Although I did have to pause it for 5 mins so it could buffer up.

I dont think it is streaming for either and actually trying to play the file from its location (I presume that was what vlc was doing as i went for open file rather that stream as i couldnt work out the stream options )

BUT if I pause mythtv player for 5 mins it still rebuffers.

Any help appreciated

Picture Quality on fast movement

no_email@example.com (mjurgens) — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:06:51 GMT

When mythtvplayer plays back videos that have fast movement in them the moving object appears jagged at the edges. This does not happen for the same video when played back using something like WinDVD. Is the fix for this the "deinterlazer" that I am seeing in other posts?

Open Source

no_email@example.com (SpeedyZeroTwo) — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:22:24 GMT

Hi Mikkel.

Thanks for a great piece of software.
I wonder if the code will be open source in the future, just like mythtv?

Will it even require payment ?

regards
SO2

Lots of Rebuffering

no_email@example.com (popcorn) — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:59:04 GMT

Mikkel - Great program!! I've been looking for this for quite some time now.

I am having a strange problem however - I get a "Rebuffering" message every 15 seconds or so, despite the fact that I am on a local 100Mbps network. All cards, switches, cabling support 100Mbps. Streaming using other programs (VLC for one) works flawlessly, even without resampling the stream. Even over a Samba connection using Windows Media Player my files seem to play fine.

Any idea why playback using MythTVPlayer would be having these problems? I appreciate any insight you might have.

Thanks once again for a great program.

Unable to init SDL

no_email@example.com (dfishburn) — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 17:40:49 GMT

I unzipped the 5.0 pre-release which works on 2 other machines in the house.

I also tried the 4.1 release, same problem.

When I launch the app from it's current working directory (after unzipping it), I get a message box:
Unable to init SDL.
Couldn't initialize SDL. Error message is 'No available video device'

I searched both this forum and google with no help.

WinXP SP2

Let me know what ever type of capturing I need to do to help debug this.

TIA,
Dave

Live TV

no_email@example.com (cookm) — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:52:26 GMT

Mikkel,

I compiled your latest LiveTV branch and played around with Live TV. Very cool! Everything played well over my wireless card. (I was near my router, so had excellent signal strength.) Changing channels works fine. I had limited success with skipping forward or backwards inside of the live stream. It worked when I first started the recording, but once the recording time neared a minute or so, I couldn't skip back or forward. It rebuffers, but returns back to where the stream was at.

I also like the combined controller/recordings screen.

Thanks again for your hard work!

Mark

Samba connection Jerky, sometimes.

no_email@example.com (kenapp) — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:54:54 GMT

Hi,

I am running into a vexing issue. I am streaming video form a MythTV backend on Centos4 to a WinXP box over a 100mps wired connection. The network card on both the backend, and my XP box, in addition to the switch that services this segment of the network are locked down at 100FD.

I want to use Samba shares because I have read in several places that it is a better solution when multiple users access the back end.

When I stream video to the MythTVPlayer, not using a Samba share, everything works great. However, when I use the Samba share I defined, I get some weird results. Using version 0.3.5 of the MythTVPlayer works much better than using version 0.4.1.

Using v0.3.5, the video loads, but at the beginning the stream skips (both video and audio). However, if I skip ahead to the middle of a video, it plays smooth. And after doing that, if I move the slider back to the beginning of the video, it plays smooth also. This is a repeatable behavior on all the videos I have recorded thus far.

On version, 0.4.1, the player either locks up upon loading the video, or it is rebuffering, even though I have disabled stream buffering. I disabled buffering on both versions of the player because the stream constantly rebuffers throughout a recording.

I would attach the output of the log.txt, but it is truncated by the maximum characters allowed in the forum. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Ken

back again, working great

no_email@example.com (duey) — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:47:13 GMT

Hi Mikkel,

Don't know if you remember me, I was having stuttering problems that you fixed. Anyways, finally back to being able to use your MythTV Player. When I moved to a new place, I had to rearrange where my computer and TV rooms were, couldn't use a wired LAN and was forced to use a crappy wireless connection. Not enough bandwidth for it to use the player, unfortunately.

But, finally I upgraded my wireless network and back to being able to watch my recorded shows on my computer. Heh, just for fun I watched a show and played a game at the same time. The high priority option works great.

So, thanks again for all the work on the player. Hope you keep working on it and can't wait to see what new features you bring to it.

Duey

easier fastforward and fastrewind

no_email@example.com (mtrax) — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:16:37 GMT

As per the mythTV it has Jump and Skip options which are useful to skim thru video.

Also a OSD to tell where I am in a playback would be good I know I can see it in the play control, but I mostly use Fullscreen so its a pain to switch back to find the current pointer.

It would be good to show an OSD using keyboard command eg "o" to bring up current time bar

other than that its pretty good as a windows viewer.

jerky video and audio

no_email@example.com (tytus) — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:46:36 GMT

I installed mythtvplayer on 1.99GHz desktop with 768MB of RAM running WinXP. The video and audio is stops and
starts very often (specially video). So I tried installing it on a 1.8 GHz laptop with 1GB of memory (also WinXP) and everything works correctly! Both machines were connected to the backend at 100Mb. I was testing HDTV video (16:9) format. The regular format performs much better but not perfect.

The desktop has the following video card:
Name RAGE 128 PRO Ultra GL AGP (Microsoft Corporation) PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5446&SUBSYS_04091002&REV_00\4&EC7A465&0&0008 Adapter Type RAGE128 PRO II, (AGP 4X/PCI), ATI Technologies Inc. compatible Adapter Description RAGE 128 PRO Ultra GL AGP (Microsoft Corporation) Adapter RAM 32.00 MB (33,554,432 bytes) Laptop's video card:
ame ATI MOBILITY RADEON X300 PNP Device ID PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_5460&SUBSYS_20021028&REV_00\4&27EA4097&0&0008 Adapter Type ATI MOBILITY RADEON X300 (0x5460), ATI Technologies Inc. compatible Adapter Description ATI MOBILITY RADEON X300 Adapter RAM 64.00 MB (67,108,864 bytes)
Is it possible that the desktop's video card is the problem here? Any other suggestions for improving performance?

Any help appreciated.

ffmpeg includes

no_email@example.com (clas) — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:27:43 GMT

Hi Mikkel

I can't seem to get the ffmpeg includes right.

Your AudioDecoder.h includes the two ffmpeg headers in the following way:

#include
#include

But when i check out ffmpeg, avformat.h is located at ffmpeg\libavformat\avformat.h
and avcodec.h is located at ffmpeg\libavcodec\avcodec.h.

How is the ffmpeg folder structure in your
root:
    /libs:
      /include:
      /ffmpeg
folder?

/Claus

Brilliant!

no_email@example.com (nich010) — Tue, 22 May 2007 13:36:45 GMT

Just a line to say what a nice piece of work mythplayer is - You don't seem to have many plaudits, so here is one. Thanks, and keep up the good work.

VLC

no_email@example.com (Niels Ole Salscheider) — Thu, 03 May 2007 21:04:50 GMT

Hello,

I have recently downloaded MythtvPlayer and I think that it is very good; the only features I am missing are live TV and the possibility to shedule recordings.

But I think that many small improvements could be made in the player - but since VLC is a great media player I wondered wheater it is possible to pass the data from MythtvPlayer to an input plugin for VLC or to use this program as an input plugin.

If you like to implement such a feature I would offer to try to help...

Best regards

Ole

0.3.6 Test version

no_email@example.com (Mikkel) — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:01:36 GMT

For anybody who want to help out or is simply interested, I uploaded a test version of MythTv Player 0.3.6.

The largest change is that I have tried to improve the player on smaller machines. (Hopefully I succeeded) Not that the player need less CPU-power but that the jitter should be less, and that the player should drop less frames on especially smaller machines. My 6MBIT recordings now runs smoothly on my 1Ghz P3 laptop where it dropped 20% of the frames before and the sound could "stutter" quite a lot. This is mainly achieved by changing the rebuffering a bit, and changing to the PThread library such that I can control the priority of the different threads within the player. I also added an option to increase the entire process from "normal" to "high" in the option screen.

What I would like to have tested:
- Has the "performance/jotter" of the player improved or is it just made worse?
- I have had some trouble that the player deadlocked when opening a new file but I think I fixed that. I would like to know if anybody experience this problem with the test version.
- All other feedback.

There are also many small changes and improvements since last version. The full changelog is included below.

From now on I will upload both a zip file as well as an installer (Thanks for Rich West for the installer)
Zip-file: http://sudu.dk/mythtvplayer/files/0.4/MythTvPlayer0.3.6pre…
Installer: http://sudu.dk/mythtvplayer/files/0.4/MythTvPlayer-0.3.6pr…

Mail me or write here in the forum if you find any bugs or have suggestions for improvements.

Cheers.

\Mikkel

Full Changelog
0.3.6
- 'Jitter improvements'
   Player should drop less frames now and jitter should be reduced. Sound is prioritized
   higher and the player should drop frames before making "stuttering" audio.
   This is done by:
   - changing to Pthreads and increase priority of the rendering and decoding threads.
   - The way frames are dropped is improved.
   - Buffer underuns are now properly detected instead of guessed. When the audio can
   not be delivered to the audio-device, a rebuffering is triggered.
- Process priority can now be changed from Normal to High in the preference GUI
- Added possiblity to open local file (right-click and choose open)
- Shortcut system implemented. Shortcuts are now shown in context-menu (right-click)
   Is quite ready for making the shortcuts configurable at a later point.
- Context-menu (right-click) has been added some more items.
- Fixed deadlock that could occour when opening a recording with a bookmark
- Mouse is now shown for in fullscreen when mouse is moved. Is hidden when mouse has
   been inactive for 2 seconds.
- When clicking on column in recordings-GUI to sort the current group is now remembered
- Double-click on a recordings now starts playing it
- Changed way SDL functions are called. Should remove a couple of odd deadlock possibilities.
- Fixed bug that caused the player to remain at "buffering (0%)". It was caused by a bug in
   the timer implementation of the SDL library. It should now work.
- Minor fixes: Framerate shown with 2 decimals, GUI said buffers was 100% full JUST after
   a seek.

Cannot init SDL

no_email@example.com (pwood999) — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:57:41 GMT

I have a strange problem, but i'm posting here becuase I don't think it's a bug.

I've installed version 0.3.5 on two Dell Laptops (mine & wife's) but I cannot get the player to start on my laptop.

DELL Inspiron 1501 - Works fine
DELL Latitude D620 - Player wont start.

This is the log I'm getting :-

Main: MythTv Player v. 0.3.5, compiled: Mar 19 2007
Config: Config file parsed in 1ms
Main: Starting GUI thread
Main: Starting SDL loop and waiting for it to init
SDL_Loop: Initing SDL with YUV_HWACCEL=1
SDL_Loop: Couldn't initialize SDL. Error message is 'No available video device'
SDL_Loop: SDL init failed.
Main: Could not init SDL. Closing down
GUI: Stopped
VideoRender: Stopping thread

Multiple connections to MythTV cause pauses and freezes

no_email@example.com (kenapp) — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:48:36 GMT

Hi,

First off, thanks. I have not been able to stream MythTV to a PC using either VideoLan or Windows Media Player. The MythTV Player is a wonderful solution to stream recordings from a Linux box to a Windows Box. I really like the fact that you can expand the columns in the recording window in the new version so that you can view the whole title of a recording.

I set up a Knoppmyth server in order to stream training programs over a LAN. Everything works great when 1 to 3 people access recordings simultaneously. But once that number goes 4 simultaneous users, the stream being fed to the MythTV Player experiences pauses, and occasionally the stream just freezes. When I test this situation, 5 people are accessing different recordings on the knoppmyth server.

I first used the default settings for the player (version 0.3.4). Then I upgraded to version 0.3.5. I changed the MythTV player settings so that it connects via a samba share rather than the myth protocol, and I disabled stream buffering as recommended in another thread.

I am streaming through the network at 100mps full duplex.

My question is this: Is the player, as well as MythTV made to support multiple simultaneous connections? If so, are there other tweaks to the player's settings that my help create more stable viewing performance when several people are simultaneously accessing video.

Is there any documentation, or could someone help explain how the following settings in the config.xml file affect performance of the player?
      75
      75
      5
      1048576
      32768
      10
      50

Thanks for any assistance you may be able to provide.

- Ken