MythTv Player News

TV & Recordings are as if they are hardcoded to 4:3

no_email@example.com (Girkers) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:55:35 GMT

When I watch either a recording or LiveTV the picture does not seem to display correctly. I am running two 24" monitors at 1920X1200 and whilst I can't get the video to display on my secondary monitor when it does display on my main screen it has black bars down the left and right side.

Instead of the picture being 16:9 it appears like 4:3, I am currently using version 0.7.0.r243

Apart from that, great release.

Girkers

COMMSKIP

no_email@example.com (mdrons) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:05:22 GMT

I have realtime commskip almost working. My issue is that after the commskip marks are updated, how do I get the UI to read them in. Do I need to modify the ProgramInfo::isCommFlagged() ????

I have been searching through trying to find what I need to modify.

Manually commskip is working as the backend updates the commlist.

Thanks, Mike

Fullscreen issues

no_email@example.com (garfdotca) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:03:33 GMT

I'm using MythTV player, which is great by the way, on my laptop and I use my TV out as I prefer watching TV on an actual TV.

When I go full screen, it goes on my main monitor, no way to set it to my second monitor (my TV). It's a pain as I have to manually maximise the window and see the Windows blue bar at the top of my screen.

Is there any way to fix this? Add this feature to a new release or something ?

Cheers,

Mathieu

external player patch

no_email@example.com (arobro) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:45:04 GMT

Below is a patch that adds an "open with external player" link to the menu. It works by feeding the player of your choice the command to open the video over a windows/samba share.

This is very useful, when the mythtv player doesn't support a codec like aac-HE for nz hd tv or you want to open it in a player that supports mutithreading or video acceration for hd content.

http://www.yourfilehost.com/media.php?cat=other&file=e…

It is more complicated to configure than i would like but first...
1. It must be installed in "C:\Program Files\mythtv player" or "D:\Program Files\mythtv player" as i couldn't figure out how to get app.path to work in c++
2. Set up samba/windows file sharing for your mythtv recordings direcotory in linux

3.open "config.xml" in mythtv player root directory and change //Mythtv/recordings to the appropiate location.

3.open external1.bat & external2.bat in the mythtv player root directory and give the players the appropiate location.

4.try it and hope it works! (open a video and while its playing right click on open with external player)

For developers:

I havent submited this to svn as im currently using revision 206.
I also don't know c++ and ive only spent a few hours learing it, i just know the concept of a program language from other languages ive lean't. So this is why in the code some things have been done in a funny way.

If any ones's interested fell free to check this works with the lastest revision and fix up the code to a more logical way, (like app.path) and commit it to svn.

Announcement for 0.6 stable release

no_email@example.com (flohack) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:42:57 GMT

Dear all,

we currently plan to release v0.6 in about two weeks. Therefore, please test the release candidate (https://sourceforge.net/projects/mythtvplayer/files/) and report any bugs found. To make it easier, please use the SF bugtracker at https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=187028&atid=…. Thank you!

Development Knowledgebase

no_email@example.com (Lomion) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:37:27 GMT

In a very boring telephone conference today I put together some diagram about how the Audio-Video data is handled in Mythtv player (on very high level) because I desperately needed to write this down not to loose the overview myself

Roadmap for MythTv Player 0.8

no_email@example.com (Lomion) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:28:30 GMT

MythTv Player is a great tool and I am using it on daily bases.
Mikkel did an amazing job to build this application but unfortunatly he is not developing any more

I want MythTv player to improve and become an even better tool but I don't want to do this by my own.

In order to get this development community organized and running (and I am sure that there is a community for this tool!) I suggest to proceed like this:
1) Release Version 0.5.1 => Revision 204 is working very stable in my environment (with Mythtv 0.21)
2) Set up a roadmap for Version 0.6.0 => everybody willing to develop should pick a feature and post his/her commitment to develop it here
3) Deploy instable, current builds continuously until we accomplish the feature-set for 0.6.0

What we need:

Developers - please sign up! The code is quite complex to get into so we will need a thread explaining the basic concepts of the code

Tester - guys using the latest, instable version and reliably reporting bugs and helping track down the cause of it

Translators - you don't need any programming skills for that ... I will create a seperate thread for this topic

Roadmap 0.6.0 (draft):

Multilanguage Support => Lomion

Recording export/backup functionality => Lomion, ???

MythVideo file playback => jklost (?)

Version bump 0.22 => linux, mdrons (?)

mythtv player 5.1pre10 ffmpeg version?

no_email@example.com (arobro) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:06:36 GMT

does anyone know what version of ffmpeg, mythtv player 5.1pre10 from here uses? (http://www.sudu.dk/mythtvplayer/files/0.6/MythTvPlayer0.5.…)

i have got the 5.0 branch to compile but still cant get 5.1 branch to work.
if anyones had any success, any help would be appreciated.

edit
i have now got it to compile without any changes to the source, except replacing the ffmpeg files with the ones from lastest svn of ffmpeg-mt. (ffmpeg .dll.a files & include/ffmpeg files).

it runs but when I try to play a video it comes up with this error
"VideoDecoder: Could not create software image converter"
any idears? I would still be interested in knowing what version of ffmpeg the 5.1 pre10 uses.

if anyone is interested here is source of mythtvplayer 5.1 with ffmpeg-mt that compiles but doesn't work as it comes up with "Could not create software image converter"
http://cid-c96ead1f17b37c22.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/my…

Here is a working mythtv player with mythtv trunk

no_email@example.com (mdrons) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:01:32 GMT

I have compiled a mythtv player that works with mythtv trunk (protocol version 45).

You can download the released version here: http://home.comcast.net/~drons/mythtvplayer0.5.0c.rar

Mike

mythtv player with "newer" ffmpeg working

no_email@example.com (arobro) — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:53:17 GMT

I have successfully compiled mythtv player with a "newer" version off ffmpeg
so i though I would share it here
http://cid-c96ead1f17b37c22.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/my…

to compile:
1.download ffmpeg-SVN-r1046 (nov 07) http://ffmpeg.arrozcru.org/builds/source/ffmpeg-SVN-r10461…

2.compile ffmpeg using mingw

(install Mingw using the Automated Installer.(when running the installer click on the "previous realease")
http://www.mingw.org/wiki/HOWTO_Install_the_MinGW_GCC_Comp…
to C:/compile/mingw.) Then install msys as well.

to compile ffmpeg paste this into msys
"./configure --prefix=/usr/local --extra-cflags="-mno-cygwin -mms-bitfields" --extra-ldflags="-Wl,-add-stdcall-alias"
--enable-memalign-hack --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-gpl"

after that is done type "make"

3.download mythtvplayer 0.5.0 source from http://mythtvplayer.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mythtvplaye…

4.extract to C:/compile/mythtv player

5.download and install wxDev-C++ from http://wxdsgn.sourceforge.net/

6.download the libraries http://www.sudu.dk/mythtvplayer/files/verytmp/libs_2007060…
and copy them to the libs folder in in C:/compile/mythtv player

7.search for and copy the libavcodec.dll.a,libavformat.dll.a and libavutil.dll.a from C:\compile\ffmpeg
into C:\compile\mythtvplayer0.5.0b\libs\lib

8.Copy pthreadGC2.dll and SDL.dll files from your installed version of the player to the "release" folder in C:/compile/mythtv player

9.Opened project libspark\Spark.dev . Compile it (Ctrl+F9)

10.Opened project dev-cpp\MythTV Player.dev. Compile it (Ctrl+F9)

11.Hope it all works

If your to lazy to do all of that you can download a compiled build with source code and my updated libs at
http://cid-c96ead1f17b37c22.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/my…

note: this is not a new version, it's just 0.5.0 with a "newer" ffmpeg
i have also changed the default settings to accept mythtv protocol 40
and set the default aspect to widescreen. To signify these changes I have added
a "b" to the end of the version.

Im still trying to get the lastest ffmpeg version to work but i post it when I do.

trying to compile

no_email@example.com (mdrons) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:36:07 GMT

I am trying to compile the source and not having any luck. The current error message is regarding the location of libutil.h (and some other include files). If I edit the project and remove the -DFFMPEG_NEW_STRUCTURE I can get by this error. It apears I need a newer copy of the libs.zip file, yes???

Also I seem to be missing the swscale-0.dll file from the release directory.

The main reason I am trying to compile is so that I can update the source to support protocol version 44.

Thanks for any support, Mike

Weird echo in some recordings

no_email@example.com (Hammered) — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:20:15 GMT

I'm getting a weird echo in some recordings, but not others...

Those shows that I've transcoded don't work at all, but the virgin shows seem to be OK.
I'm using mpeg4 from broadcast TV, and my machine is a 2 GHz celeron with a GeForce 400MX.
CPU usage is OK...

error receiving program list

no_email@example.com (mdrons) — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:06:05 GMT

When watching a recording, I receive this message: "Error when receiving ProgramList"

I running 5.1 prerelease 10 with mythtv svn.

Are there any newer releases that I can try?

Works as advertised

no_email@example.com (Darius) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:39:25 GMT

Seems to work as advertised, thanks

I did have to tell it to accept a newer protocol (40) and it is a bit slow to start livetv - I wouldn't want to channel surf

Is it possible to add a deinterlacer? I'm currently watching some cartoons and the deinterlacing artifacts are pretty brutal.

Thanks for the hard work!

Can't find audio stream

no_email@example.com (pico) — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:13:32 GMT

Hi all,

I am trying out MythTv Player to view my MythTv recordings (and if I can get it to work live TV). I am running
Windows Vista 32 bit home premium on my laptop and running Mythbuntu 8.04 on a separate box. I can connect to the box alright as I can see the recordings etc but when I try to open a recording it pauses for a period and then an error box comes up saying 'can't find audio stream'. The recordings are in HD and I am trying to stream them over a 802.11g wireless network (56Mbs). I also noticed that some of the recordings don't give this error so I'm not sure if it is a codec issue. Attached is part of the log file which might help. Any suggestions for more info or anything would be great.

Pico

08:05:45 MPControl: Command: Open 08:05:45 MPControl: Stopping decoding 08:05:45 GUI: Current Recorder 0 08:05:45 MPControl: State change: Stopped -> Stopped 08:05:45 MPControl: State change: Stopped -> Opening 08:05:45 MPControl: New state: Opening 08:05:45 MPControl: Opening file 'myth://10.1.1.10:6543/1002_20080914120000.mpg' 08:05:45 MPControl: Recording is an ordinary recording. 08:05:45 MPControl: Recording found at host 'mythserver:6543' 08:05:45 MythLive: Querying commercial marks 08:05:45 MythMarks: Parsing 20 commercial marks 08:05:45 MythMarks: Start mark: 0 = 0s 08:05:45 MythMarks: End mark: 2637 = 105s 08:05:45 MythMarks: Start mark: 54933 = 2197s 08:05:45 MythMarks: End mark: 68868 = 2754s 08:05:45 MythMarks: Start mark: 94800 = 3792s 08:05:45 MythMarks: End mark: 105818 = 4232s 08:05:45 MythMarks: Start mark: 124095 = 4963s 08:05:45 MythMarks: End mark: 135614 = 5424s 08:05:45 MythMarks: Start mark: 175904 = 7036s 08:05:45 MythMarks: End mark: 187918 = 7516s 08:05:45 MythMarks: Start mark: 216711 = 8668s 08:05:45 MythMarks: End mark: 227478 = 9099s 08:05:45 MythMarks: Start mark: 264833 = 10593s 08:05:45 MythMarks: End mark: 276848 = 11073s 08:05:45 MythMarks: Start mark: 307323 = 12292s 08:05:45 MythMarks: End mark: 319342 = 12773s 08:05:45 MythMarks: Start mark: 373094 = 14923s 08:05:45 MythMarks: End mark: 376098 = 15043s 08:05:45 MythMarks: Start mark: 415892 = 16635s 08:05:45 MythMarks: End mark: 426408 = 17056s 08:05:47 MPControl: Opening stream: '//mythserver/recordings/1002_20080914120000.mpg' 08:05:47 ThreadedStreamBuffer: Opening Stream 08:05:47 ThreadedStreamBuffer: Requesting thread to start 08:05:47 MPControl: Waiting for streambuffer to open 08:05:47 ThreadedStreamBuffer: Thread started 08:05:47 ThreadedStreamBuffer: Stream opened 08:05:47 MPControl: Stream openened succecully 08:05:52 Demuxer: Demuxer is 'MPEG2 transport stream format'(mpegts) 08:05:52 Demuxer: Duration: 9117120ms, 2:31:57 08:05:52 Demuxer: Start time: 19627580ms, 5:27:07 08:05:52 Demuxer: Filesize: 7.98 GB 08:05:52 Demuxer: Bitrate: 7.2 Mbit/s 08:05:52 Demuxer: Preparing codecs 08:05:52 Demuxer: Stream [0], Type='Video', Codec='H264'(id=28) 08:05:52 Demuxer: Stream [1], Type='Subtitle', Codec='DVB_SUBTITLE'(id=94209) 08:05:52 Demuxer: Couldn't find audio stream 08:05:52 MPControl: Error accepting in ffmpeg 08:05:52 MPControl: Couldn't find audio stream 08:05:55 GUI: Current Recorder 0 08:05:55 MPControl: State change: Opening -> Stopped 08:05:55 MPControl: New state: Stopped 08:05:55 MPControl: State change: Stopped -> Stopped 08:05:55 MPControl: Command: RequestRecorderList 08:05:55 MPControl: Updating status of recorders 08:05:55 MPControl: Getting MythBackend Status 08:05:55 MythLive: DiskSpace. Total: 186.18 GB, Used: 86.10 GB, Free: 100.08 GB 08:05:55 MythLive: Recorders: 2, Free: 2 08:05:55 MythLive: Load: 0.00,0.05,0.27 08:05:55 MythLive: Uptime: -28287 days, -9 hours, -15 mins, and -33 seconds 08:05:55 MythLive: Memory: 2005 (125 free). Virtual Memory: 3811 (3765 free) 08:05:55 MPControl: Command: RequestRecorderList 08:05:55 MPControl: Updating status of recorders 08:05:55 MPControl: Getting MythBackend Status 08:05:55 MythLive: DiskSpace. Total: 186.18 GB, Used: 86.10 GB, Free: 100.08 GB 08:05:55 MythLive: Recorders: 2, Free: 2 08:05:55 MythLive: Load: 0.00,0.05,0.27 08:05:55 MythLive: Uptime: -28287 days, -9 hours, -15 mins, and -33 seconds 08:05:55 MythLive: Memory: 2005 (125 free). Virtual Memory: 3811 (3765 free) 08:05:58 GUI: Stopped 08:05:58 MPControl: Somebody wanted to quit 08:05:58 MPControl: State change: Stopped -> Stopped 08:05:58 MPControl: Quitting loop 08:05:58 MythSocket: Disconnected 08:05:58 MythBackendEventListener: Stopped 08:05:58 MythSocket: Disconnected 08:05:58 Main: Closing down 08:05:58 VideoRender: Stopping thread 08:05:58 VideoRender: Stopped 08:05:58 SDL_Loop: Stopped

Where are Prereleases?

no_email@example.com (popcorn) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:58:24 GMT

The download page simply links to this forum, and the only download I've seen in the forum is for 0.5.0. However, there is discussion here about 0.5.1-pre10 and pre11. Where are people getting these?

MythTV 0.5.1pre11 stops suddenly while playing

no_email@example.com (geirert) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:59:30 GMT

Since this is my first post I must start off by saying that this is an excellent program that is sorely needed. Keep up the good work!

In general the program performs very well, however I keep getting sporadic stops in playback. Initially I thought the stops were related to the screensaver or the commercial skips, however on closer inspection they seem to be random. After a stop I must reload the recording from the recording list, as pressing play does nothing at all, and then I must manually seek to where it stopped. Is it meant to be possible to start a stopped playback, or is the playbutton only for the case when the playback is paused? I am slightly confused by this, merely having a play/pause button would probably be cleaner in that case.

best regards,
geir

New Pre-release soon?

no_email@example.com (binette) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:58:25 GMT

Hi,

I know when your the coder you don't like this kind of when, when when. But maybe you can put weekly a new build of the application for download here in the forum. With these release you will have more tester and more feedback to find and correct the bugs. It 's not everybody that can make the build from source.

Thanks for your great software
Bob

washed out colours

no_email@example.com (dboyd) — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:33:15 GMT

I'm using windows Vista with version 0.5.0. The program seems to work fine. I streamed livetv, played a few recording, works well. One issue though the playback is all washed out. See attached image. I know the source I not like this. I did tthe following to confirm. The capture is from Live TV. I recorded a few minutes. Played it back on the frontend, and its fine. Streamed it back on the computer from within mythweb and it played fine. when I play it with mythtvplayer its washed out.

I also tried running the program in 256bit color compatability mode. The colors were really off, but still washed out. Any sugestions? Need more info?

Daryl

LiveTV - what should you see?

no_email@example.com (Skyhawk172) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:14:45 GMT

Hi All,

I'm playing with the latest dev build (mainly for de-interlacing), but I've started to check out LiveTV.

When I start myth player and enable LiveTV in the preferences, what should I see different? With LiveTV enabled, I click the 'LiveTV' button in the main panel, and all I see is one channel: '0 no guide data available'. If I click the play button, nothing happens.

It shows the current recorder as 'none', with a status of '1 free recorder'. My preferred recorder shows as '1'.

Perhaps I'm missing something fundamental here, but some advice would be appreciated.

Regular recordings work fine and I'm running mythtv 20 on my CentOS 5.1 backend.

Thanks!
Corey.

Still looking for logfiles for this bug?

no_email@example.com (Auva) — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:51:00 GMT

I just downloaded MythTv Player 0.5.1 - Pre Release 10 and was playing around with it, trying to get it to show the video window on my Tv (connected as an extended desktop) and a pop-up informed me that I had triggered an error you were trying to locate (There videobuffer is full but there is no audio packets). Are you still looking for logfiles for this?

Oh, and is there a way to show MythTV on my TV (secondary display as extended desktop)?

Cheers

BTW. When registering on the forum I got the following message:
"This account is not yet validated. - And this actually cannot be. You should inform the administrator about this!"
Is the "administrator" around here?

LiveTV cannot find recorder

no_email@example.com (fmooraby) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:26:04 GMT

Hello All

I think that it's great have LiveTV with MythPlayer. I cannot start LiveTV on version 0.5.0.

I have enabled it in Preferences and the host name is definitely correct since I can see the recordings. There is no display of recording even though there is mention of 1 free recorder. When I click on Start Live TV, I get the following message: Could not start livetv: Could not find recorder 32 in internal list of recorder.

I can view LiveTV on my Mythtv Front End (same machine as the backend). Here is the log file (of MythPlayer):

08:52:10 Main: MythTv Player v. 0.5.0, compiled: Sep 23 2007
08:52:10 Config: Config file parsed in 1ms
08:52:10 Main: Starting GUI thread
08:52:10 Main: Starting SDL loop and waiting for it to init
08:52:10 SDL_Loop: Initing SDL with YUV_HWACCEL=1
08:52:10 SDL_Loop: SDL Inited
08:52:10 Main: Initing decoder
08:52:10 Demuxer: Registering all formats
08:52:10 Main: Starting controller
08:52:10 MPControl: State change: Connecting -> Connecting
08:52:10 MPControl: Connecting to MythBackend
08:52:10 MythSocket: Connected to server with protocol version 31
08:52:10 MythSocket: Connected to server with protocol version 31
08:52:10 MPControl: Sending Initial GUI events
08:52:10 MPControl: State change: Connecting -> Initializing
08:52:10 MPControl: New state: Initializing
08:52:10 MythLive: Detected 1 recorder(s)
08:52:10 MythLive: Querying list of pending recordings
08:52:10 MythLive: Has conflicts: 0
08:52:10 ProgramList: Parsing programInfo - 8 recordings detected.
08:52:10 MythLive: Querying recording schedules
08:52:10 ProgramList: Parsing programInfo - 1 recordings detected.
08:52:10 MythBackendEventListener: Starting listen loop
08:52:10 MPControl: Enabling LiveTv
08:52:10 MythLive: Probing recorder information.
08:52:10 MythLive: Unable to find all your recorders by probing.
08:52:10 MythLive: Building list of channels
08:52:10 MythLive: Querying list of pending recordings
08:52:10 MythLive: Has conflicts: 0
08:52:10 ProgramList: Parsing programInfo - 8 recordings detected.
08:52:10 MPControl: Updating status of recorders
08:52:10 MPControl: Initing videorender
08:52:10 VideoRender: System resolution is 1024x768
08:52:10 VideoRender: Releasing existing overlay
08:52:10 VideoRender: Setting mode: 384x288 in 0 bpp. Position 0,0
08:52:10 VideoRender: Clearing screen
08:52:10 VideoRender: Creating YUV-overlay 704x576
08:52:10 VideoRender: Overlay is in hardware: 1
08:52:10 VideoRender: setMode() done
08:52:10 MPControl: videoRender start
08:52:10 VideoRender: Run
08:52:10 MPControl: State change: Initializing -> Stopped
08:52:10 MPControl: New state: Stopped
08:52:10 MPControl: Starting event loop
08:52:10 MPControl: Command: RequestProgramListUpdate
08:52:10 MPControl: Getting programlist
08:52:10 ProgramList: Parsing programInfo - 50 recordings detected.
08:52:10 MPControl: Getting MythBackend Status
08:52:10 MythLive: DiskSpace. Total: 35.15 GB, Used: 27.82 GB, Free: 7.33 GB
08:52:10 MythLive: Recorders: 1, Free: 1
08:52:10 MythLive: Load: 0.03,0.05,0.04
08:52:10 MythLive: Uptime: -27861 days, -14 hours, -21 mins, and -41 seconds
08:52:10 MythLive: Memory: 755 (11 free). Virtual Memory: 1608 (1574 free)
08:52:10 MythLive: We might need to update guide data for channels. Checking all channels.
08:52:18 MPControl: Command: StartLiveTv
08:52:18 MythLive: No preferred recorder specified. Using the first free one
08:52:18 MythLive: Could not find recorder 32 in internal list of recorder.
08:52:18 MPControl: Could not start LiveTv:
Could not find recorder 32 in internal list of recorder.
08:52:26 MPControl: Command: ChannelUp
08:52:29 GUI: New preferred recorder -1
08:52:33 GUI: Stopped
08:52:33 MPControl: Somebody wanted to quit
08:52:33 MPControl: State change: Stopped -> Stopped
08:52:33 MPControl: Quitting loop
08:52:33 MythSocket: Disconnected
08:52:33 MythBackendEventListener: Stopped
08:52:33 MythSocket: Disconnected
08:52:33 Main: Closing down
08:52:33 VideoRender: Stopping thread
08:52:33 VideoRender: Stopped
08:52:33 SDL_Loop: Stopped

Thanks for your help.

Faisal...

Still alive

no_email@example.com (Mikkel) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:04:50 GMT

Hi All,

I just wanted to let you know I am still alive . The time I have been able to spare for the player have been NULL in the last few months, but hope it will be a bit better some time in the future. A new job and a family increment have not left much time for programming.

I just uploaded 0.4.2 where I bumped the "official" protocol version to 40 to support mythtv 0.21 .. If anyone are using 0.21 I would like to know if it works!.. so please report back
http://www.sudu.dk/mythtvplayer/forum/thread/127

I have also checked the change into the trunk, and hope to release a 0.5.2pre12 with the change soon.

Cheers,

\Mikkel

USER32.DLL error on startup

no_email@example.com (DaveD) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:38:30 GMT

I'm running Windows 2000, SP4, had DirextX 9.0a installed when I downloaded Version 0.5.0 of the Myth player for Windows. I unzipped it and ran the .exe and it came up with "The Procedure entry point GetRawInputDeviceList could not be located in the dynamic link library USER32.dll".

I found nothing in these forums (which is why I'm posting this) but Google yielded this page" http://forums.clant2k.com/showthread.php?threadid=54868. Turns out I needed to FIRST install the Windows patch KB824141 (for Windows 2000, which MS does not support for free and had to Google "KB824141 2000" to find it), and THEN upgrade my DirectX. Not sure what would have happened if I updated DirectX without the patch.

Hope this helps if anyone else encounters this error.

DaveD.

P.S. Didn't really help me, though, 'cause I'm running Myth 0.21 trunk on my backend, which uses protocol 36 while this version of the player only supports up to 31. Looking forward to the next version. Thanks!

Compiling from Source Issues

no_email@example.com (Peanutious) — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:41:26 GMT

I thought I'd start a new thread to discuss any issues experienced when compiling from source code.

In another thread prezident said

Quote by prezident on 2007-12-18, 19:12:
latest rev191 doesn't build for me at all.
error msg is: objs/ffmpeg_myth_protocol.o:ffmpeg_myth_protocol.c:(.text+0x71): undefined reference to `Spark::IO::Stream::read(unsigned char*, unsigned int)'
edit: sry, my fault, forgot to copy the dlls...

I had a similar compiling issue with revs 185-191 - filesize different for Spark::IO::Stream. Finally I remembered to open the other project (libspark/spark.dev) and recompile it and that fixed my issue.

Feel free to post here if you have questions or issues regarding compiling from source.

issue thread

no_email@example.com (prezident) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:12:41 GMT

back again .

as i use the player a lot i sometimes come across the one or other issue.
so that i not have to open a new thread for every single one i'll post them here
if i find any bugs in the prerelease versions.

lets start with some smaller things:
1. When current program changes, description doesn't.
2. Volume gets resetted on channel change, volume changer doens't.
3. Channel sorting is not 100% accurate.
all seen in pre9

latest rev191 doesn't build for me at all.
error msg is: objs/ffmpeg_myth_protocol.o:ffmpeg_myth_protocol.c:(.text+0x71): undefined reference to `Spark::IO::Stream::read(unsigned char*, unsigned int)'
edit: sry, my fault, forgot to copy the dlls...

LiveTV Broken with Samba

no_email@example.com (bram_) — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:03:12 GMT

As soon as I enable samba shares, livetv will hang when startng buffering.

I was kind of surprised I didn't see any report of this on the forum, so now there is

Other than that it seems to work just fine. (except deleting recordings when you didnt set samba URL properly, unregarding enabled or disabled)

Regards,
Bram

Changing Sources

no_email@example.com (bioart) — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:11:48 GMT

Hi,

It is nice to see the live tv feature working. I just upgraded my three backends (was a major undertaking, so it took a while to start using schedules direct finally). In any case, I now can use my hdhomerun, which is set as source 1 for recording HD. The problem is that I don't necessarily want to wathc live tv in HD (usually I'm using a wireless laptop, so bandwidth is an issue). Did I miss something, or is there no way to change sources right now? I'd love to be able to tell the program either what source to use when playing, or at least pick a default in the prefs (I have 3 sources, so I'd love to be able to pick sources 2 or 3 before source 1 (or 4 once I get the second HDHomerun output working).

Other than that, it is a great program. I saw some crashes with HD live playback, so that's why I'd rather stick to SD for now...

art

LiveTV does not start

no_email@example.com (mjurgens) — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:15:27 GMT

The new LiveTV just does not start for me. Playback of recordings work fine, its just LiveTV. I have created 3 screenshots which show what it does do. I am running

mythbackend --version (from ATRPMS on Fedora Core 6)
Library API version    : 0.20.20070821-1
Source code version    : 0.20.2-165.fc6
SVN Branch : branches/release-0-20-fixes
Options compiled in    :
linux release using_xvmcw using_lmsensors using_v4l using_oss using_alsa using_arts using_jack using_ivtv using_firewire using_dbox2 using_hdhr using_ip_rec using_freebox using_live using_lirc using_joystick_menu using_dvb using_x11 using_xv using_xrandr using_xvmc using_xvmc_vld using_opengl_vsync using_opengl using_frontend using_backend using_bindings_perl

Starting mythtvplayer in the LiveTV mode, you can see the channels http://www.edcint.co.nz/mythtvplayer/ss1.jpg.

Double-clicking a channel loads the channel name into the channel text box and on the mythtv backend grabs a tuner (seen from mythweb status and mythtvplayer status) http://www.edcint.co.nz/mythtvplayer/ss2.jpg.

Then after about 8 seconds, mythtvplayer just gives up http://www.edcint.co.nz/mythtvplayer/ss2.jpg.

The log.txt states "Recording never seems to get any frames" is attached to this post.

Comments on LiveTV with DVB

no_email@example.com (irrelev4nt) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:06:28 GMT

I'm running LiveTV mode for watching DVB channels.
I should probably note that I'm running mythbackend at a different protocol version than is supported (I think I'm at 36 and you oly support upto 33. It seem sto work fine though, so I don't think it is related to my issues.

A few comments:
Can you make it possible to sort by channum rather than chanid? channum groups things the same way mythtv does. chanid puts channels that are numerically similar very far away.

I can't change channels successfully. I need to stop and start playback on another channel.

It takes a long time to start playing. I just timed it at 23 seconds between starting playback and getting video

I can't use the scrollbar to go back or skip ahead. Pause works fine though.

Otherwise it works quite well for me, and has made it more convenient to watch TV on other systems in the house.

Thanks!