Comments on: New Zealand Freeview|HD running on XBMC from Myth TV http://www.teirney.net/blog/2009/06/new-zealand-freeviewhd-running-on-xbmc-from-myth-tv/ Where's your happy place? Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:50:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Bill Clarkson http://www.teirney.net/blog/2009/06/new-zealand-freeviewhd-running-on-xbmc-from-myth-tv/comment-page-3/#comment-9864 Bill Clarkson Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:18:28 +0000 http://www.teirney.net/blog/?p=115#comment-9864 This is why open source is the way to go. XBMC is a fine example of that :) This is why open source is the way to go. XBMC is a fine example of that :)

]]> By: David Teirney http://www.teirney.net/blog/2009/06/new-zealand-freeviewhd-running-on-xbmc-from-myth-tv/comment-page-3/#comment-9856 David Teirney Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:35:17 +0000 http://www.teirney.net/blog/?p=115#comment-9856 Brinn, sounds like it's worth a trac ticket. Make sure to attach a debug log. Brinn, sounds like it’s worth a trac ticket. Make sure to attach a debug log.

]]> By: Brinn Joyce http://www.teirney.net/blog/2009/06/new-zealand-freeviewhd-running-on-xbmc-from-myth-tv/comment-page-3/#comment-9855 Brinn Joyce Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:44:32 +0000 http://www.teirney.net/blog/?p=115#comment-9855 It is recorded shows I'm having issues with seeking in. I haven't tried seeking with livetv (just checked that it worked in xbmc) since we usually watch livetv with the tv's built in freeview. I don't think it's related to that ticket as I haven't had playback stop when I try to seek, though that did used to happen to me. Now seeking seems to pause the video for half a second before resuming from the same place, no skip at all, or sometimes it will return to the start of the recording instead. It is recorded shows I’m having issues with seeking in. I haven’t tried seeking with livetv (just checked that it worked in xbmc) since we usually watch livetv with the tv’s built in freeview.
I don’t think it’s related to that ticket as I haven’t had playback stop when I try to seek, though that did used to happen to me. Now seeking seems to pause the video for half a second before resuming from the same place, no skip at all, or sometimes it will return to the start of the recording instead.

]]> By: David Teirney http://www.teirney.net/blog/2009/06/new-zealand-freeviewhd-running-on-xbmc-from-myth-tv/comment-page-2/#comment-9852 David Teirney Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:35:11 +0000 http://www.teirney.net/blog/?p=115#comment-9852 Brinn, seeking isn't implemented for Live TV. I intend to look and see if it is possible to implement, but might not be possible to change because of the way the Myth Protocol supports Live TV. I personally don't use Live TV - all our TV watching consists of previously recorded shows. I will probably wait until the Unified PVR work is stable, and review use of VDR for watching streamed DVB-T TV rather than MythTV as it's supposed to be much faster (although might not have time-shifting support). If you are having issues seeking with recorded files, is it related to http://xbmc.org/trac/ticket/6614 ? Brinn, seeking isn’t implemented for Live TV. I intend to look and see if it is possible to implement, but might not be possible to change because of the way the Myth Protocol supports Live TV. I personally don’t use Live TV - all our TV watching consists of previously recorded shows. I will probably wait until the Unified PVR work is stable, and review use of VDR for watching streamed DVB-T TV rather than MythTV as it’s supposed to be much faster (although might not have time-shifting support).

If you are having issues seeking with recorded files, is it related to http://xbmc.org/trac/ticket/6614 ?

]]> By: Brinn Joyce http://www.teirney.net/blog/2009/06/new-zealand-freeviewhd-running-on-xbmc-from-myth-tv/comment-page-2/#comment-9851 Brinn Joyce Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:45:50 +0000 http://www.teirney.net/blog/?p=115#comment-9851 Hi, after a bit more testing it's still not perfect (but it is working), and I've had to make a patch to get the current svn building with external libraries: http://www.xbmc.org/trac/ticket/7145 Using r22873 playback of all channels is working perfectly, for recordings and livetv, but seeking still doesn't work. Seeking either does nothing or returns to the start of the recording, at least it doesn't crash now. Is this because testing needs to be done on the seeking changes that were made? The other problem is that XBMC seems to stop playback after a show ends (according to the EPG) when watching livetv, which often means it stops a minute or two before the end of the show and playback of the next show has to be started. I assume this is because mythbackend would start a new file once the show ends, so it wouldn't be a trivial change in XBMC? So this one might have to wait on unified-pvr. Thanks Hi, after a bit more testing it’s still not perfect (but it is working), and I’ve had to make a patch to get the current svn building with external libraries: http://www.xbmc.org/trac/ticket/7145
Using r22873 playback of all channels is working perfectly, for recordings and livetv, but seeking still doesn’t work.
Seeking either does nothing or returns to the start of the recording, at least it doesn’t crash now. Is this because testing needs to be done on the seeking changes that were made?
The other problem is that XBMC seems to stop playback after a show ends (according to the EPG) when watching livetv, which often means it stops a minute or two before the end of the show and playback of the next show has to be started. I assume this is because mythbackend would start a new file once the show ends, so it wouldn’t be a trivial change in XBMC? So this one might have to wait on unified-pvr.
 Thanks

]]> By: Mark de Reeper http://www.teirney.net/blog/2009/06/new-zealand-freeviewhd-running-on-xbmc-from-myth-tv/comment-page-2/#comment-9842 Mark de Reeper Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:55:49 +0000 http://www.teirney.net/blog/?p=115#comment-9842 Just tested and it does get further but I am not able to watch a recorded show, see xbmc.log at http://pastebin.com/m1cec1b7b which is me going straight into Videos/MythTV and selecting a pre-recorded show. I was able to watch live-tv, see the guide and browse recorded shows so it is close. I have the shows mounted locally under /recordings which was working OK when pointing at a .21 instance of MythTV. Happy to continue this off-line. Just tested and it does get further but I am not able to watch a recorded show, see xbmc.log at http://pastebin.com/m1cec1b7b which is me going straight into Videos/MythTV and selecting a pre-recorded show. I was able to watch live-tv, see the guide and browse recorded shows so it is close.

I have the shows mounted locally under /recordings which was working OK when pointing at a .21 instance of MythTV.

Happy to continue this off-line.

]]> By: David Teirney http://www.teirney.net/blog/2009/06/new-zealand-freeviewhd-running-on-xbmc-from-myth-tv/comment-page-2/#comment-9841 David Teirney Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:56:50 +0000 http://www.teirney.net/blog/?p=115#comment-9841 Mark, I just attached a patch to http://xbmc.org/trac/ticket/7080. If you could apply and test with MythTV 0.22 that would be fantastic. I still need to setup a 0.22 environment separate to my "it aint broke so don't fix it" 0.21 environment. Mark, I just attached a patch to http://xbmc.org/trac/ticket/7080. If you could apply and test with MythTV 0.22 that would be fantastic. I still need to setup a 0.22 environment separate to my “it aint broke so don’t fix it” 0.21 environment.

]]> By: Brinn Joyce http://www.teirney.net/blog/2009/06/new-zealand-freeviewhd-running-on-xbmc-from-myth-tv/comment-page-2/#comment-9840 Brinn Joyce Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:22:27 +0000 http://www.teirney.net/blog/?p=115#comment-9840 Thanks for your recent commits. It's all working well for me now (and compiling in gentoo too). No more switching to mythfrontend every time I want to watch a recording. Thanks for your recent commits. It’s all working well for me now (and compiling in gentoo too). No more switching to mythfrontend every time I want to watch a recording.

]]> By: Mark de Reeper http://www.teirney.net/blog/2009/06/new-zealand-freeviewhd-running-on-xbmc-from-myth-tv/comment-page-2/#comment-9831 Mark de Reeper Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:40:12 +0000 http://www.teirney.net/blog/?p=115#comment-9831 I can confirm that myth:// no longer works for me since I moved to Myth .22 trunk. I was able to test playback my mounting the Myth recordings dir over NFS for playback directly in XBMC. MythBox has also stopped working because of the protocol mismatch. The extra changes I saw go into Myth are here http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/21488 Let me know if I can supply logs/debugging for the myth:// stuff in XBMC. I can confirm that myth:// no longer works for me since I moved to Myth .22 trunk. I was able to test playback my mounting the Myth recordings dir over NFS for playback directly in XBMC. MythBox has also stopped working because of the protocol mismatch.

The extra changes I saw go into Myth are here http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/21488

Let me know if I can supply logs/debugging for the myth:// stuff in XBMC.

]]> By: David Teirney http://www.teirney.net/blog/2009/06/new-zealand-freeviewhd-running-on-xbmc-from-myth-tv/comment-page-2/#comment-9830 David Teirney Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:27:05 +0000 http://www.teirney.net/blog/?p=115#comment-9830 Some people using XBMC have commented that MythTV 0.22 doesn't even work through myth:// in XBMC. If you have something working can you post your experience at http://xbmc.org/trac/ticket/7080 The LATM patch to ffmpeg in XBMC is the same as the recent update in MythTV - I got the latest and greatest off Paul just before committing. We get piss poor reception for some reason for C4 so get all sorts of artifacts and sometimes sound dropping out. Haven't tried through mythfrontend, wonder if there is something going on. Some people using XBMC have commented that MythTV 0.22 doesn’t even work through myth:// in XBMC. If you have something working can you post your experience at http://xbmc.org/trac/ticket/7080

The LATM patch to ffmpeg in XBMC is the same as the recent update in MythTV - I got the latest and greatest off Paul just before committing.

We get piss poor reception for some reason for C4 so get all sorts of artifacts and sometimes sound dropping out. Haven’t tried through mythfrontend, wonder if there is something going on.

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