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Users / Re: TV streams added to Video category in orbiter

« on: February 06, 2009, 12:35:26 am »

Colin,
thanks, will look at the code again under this new light and see if I can find anything. Not being fluent in C++ doesn't help unfortunately...

I liked Turkish music when I went to Turkey once. We don't hear that much in the US so I figured let's take advantage of LMCE to get access to what we normally don't get access to. This stream in particular is just randomly chosen on shoutcast for this test, I'm sure there is better quality ones available...

Jean

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Users / Re: TV streams added to Video category in orbiter

« on: February 05, 2009, 11:54:47 pm »

Colin,

you;re right about the pls files (and asf). They're actually text files that you can open and there is some information in there like title, genre, and the address of the stream itself.
The thing is, xine is very happy to parse the file and listen to the stream when you run:
xine http://87.118.126.208:2008/listen.pls
in KDE.

So are you thinking that this "parsing" feature is something in xine (the player), and not xinelib (the backend), and that Xine_Player which is LMCE's equivalent of xine using xinelib (same backend), does not have this feature implemented?

That's possible of course. In that case it may be easier to teach Xine_Player what to do with files without extension (which is what I have if I feed the stream directly without pls file) rather than teaching it to parse the pls and then teaching it to reach the extensionless stream anyway...
It's no problem for a normal user to open the pls file and read the stream location, and I could even take a stab at a php page that does this by itself and inserts the actual stream location in the LMCE DB, but first we need to have LMCE actually play these streams.

Jean

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Users / Re: TV streams added to Video category in orbiter

« on: February 05, 2009, 09:39:47 pm »

Colin,

sorry I wasn't perfectly clear: yes I think it works when adding it as a scenario, but that is not practical to add dozens of stations (or hundreds). So I am trying to get this added as a normal file, so that it can be played from a Playlist for example. The Playlists are accessible via a direct button on any orbiter, and there you could easily create one playlist per station with a nice logo, or even put stations of similar music style in the same playlist.
I don't have a problem playing a stream with a filename that is not pls from a playlist (at least I think so). I do it everyday for example to watch a streaming newscast.  But when there is no filename or the pls filename, it doesn't work anymore.
There are probably several solutions to this problem. One would be if anyone knows why PLS doesn't work and I can fix it. Or why doesn't it play something with no filename at all (for this I can imagine why: it doesn't know what to do with it without a filetype).

Jean

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Users / Re: TV streams added to Video category in orbiter

« on: February 05, 2009, 09:02:18 pm »

Colin,

thanks. The problem was indeed not about the IP addresses.
Do we know why it doesn't like pls files when Xine itself has no problem with them?

If I remove the PLS file, then I'm back to http://87.118.126.208:2008 which doesn't play for a different reason: because there is no filename.

Jean

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Users / Re: TV streams added to Video category in orbiter

« on: February 05, 2009, 05:50:01 pm »

I have been looking at this further to try and find a suitable solution, even possibly to make an admin page to add/delete streams.
First I found that Shoutcast streams have an equivalent that includes a filename.
So http://87.118.126.208:2008 is actually the same as http://87.118.126.208:2008/listen.pls

When I use the second form, there are no more problems with missing / in the DB. But now I have the following problem:
The stream plays fine in KDE desktop like this:
xine http://87.118.126.208:2008/listen.pls

However when I add the above location to the database (going through a media scenario) and then try to play it via the system, I get the following error:

05      02/05/09 8:46:22.072            Xine_Player::CMD_Play_Media() called for id 1010 filename: http://87.118.126.208:2008/listen.pls () <0xb6c51b90>
01      02/05/09 8:46:25.089            FindFirstRelatedDeviceOfCategory 163 dev 205 never registered <0xb6c51b90>
05      02/05/09 8:46:25.089            Xine_Player::CMD_Play_Media() stopping PSS failed - no PSS found or it is stuck <0xb6c51b90>
05      02/05/09 8:46:25.151            Xine_Player::EVENT_Playback_Completed(streamID=1008) <0xb6c51b90>
05      02/05/09 8:46:25.152            XineStreamEventListener called on non-initialized stream - aborting command <0xb22dfb90>
05      02/05/09 8:46:25.472            Destroyed stream with ID=1008 <0xb6c51b90>
05      02/05/09 8:46:25.573            Created new stream with ID=1010 deint 0  100 0 <0xb6c51b90>
05      02/05/09 8:46:25.573            Xine_Player::CMD_Play_Media() set stream 1010 as last rendering to screen. <0xb6c51b90>
05      02/05/09 8:46:25.573            Xine_Player::CMD_Play_Media() called for id 1010 filename: http://87.118.126.208:2008/listen.pls () with corresponding stream 0x8706968. <0xb6c51b90>
05      02/05/09 8:46:25.573            Opening media without chapters/title position: http://87.118.126.208:2008/listen.pls  <0xb6c51b90>
05      02/05/09 8:46:25.574            Playback (Connecting HTTP server...) is at 0 <0xaf58bb90>
05      02/05/09 8:46:26.004            Opening media FAILED <0xb6c51b90>
05      02/05/09 8:46:26.004            Xine_Stream::OpenMedia failed! Aborting! <0xb6c51b90>
05      02/05/09 8:46:26.005            Xine_Player::CMD_Play_Media() Failed to open media <0xb6c51b90>
05      02/05/09 8:46:27.003            Xine_Player::CMD_Play_Media() ended for filename: http://87.118.126.208:2008/listen.pls with stream 0x8706968. <0xb6c51b90>
05      02/05/09 8:46:27.005            Xine_Player::CMD_Stop_Media() with corresponding stream id 1010 0x8706968. <0xb6c51b90>
05      02/05/09 8:46:27.005            Xine_Stream::changePlaybackSpeed no running seekers found <0xb6c51b90>
05      02/05/09 8:46:27.006            Xine_Player::EVENT_Playback_Completed(streamID=1010) <0xb6c51b90>
05      02/05/09 8:46:27.007            XineStreamEventListener called on non-initialized stream - aborting command <0xaf58bb90>
05      02/05/09 8:46:27.256            Closed stream AV with ID=1010 <0xb6c51b90>

Does anyone have any suggestions why Xine_Player doesn't like playing this when Xine can? I tried also with mms:// instead of http:// but no improvements.

Colin, are you saying that the system cannot playback something that looks like an IP and not like a FQDN, or was your comment just for cosmetic reasons?

Jean

EDIT: this is all about audio streams now by the way, not video yet

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Users / Re: TV streams added to Video category in orbiter

« on: February 02, 2009, 05:30:24 pm »

Thom,
my problem here is not that LMCE stores these as media files, that's the way it works and that's just fine with me.My problem is thet the above stream gets added to the File Db like this:
Path mms:
Filename 87.118.126.208:2008

When I then try to play it back, LMCE concatenates these fields as mms:/87.118.126.208:2008 and that of course fails. Because there is technically no path in this case, i think it gets confused when storing it in in the db and is missin one /. If I add an extra / in the Path field (like this mms:/)  in the Db entry it works fine, but only till the next reload. The some portion of the code parses all th entries and normalizes this one back to mms:

I had asked in the past what part of the code is responsible for this, so that I could have a look and possibly fix it for the particular case of mms:// and http:// without path, but I had not received a reply..

Jean

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Installation issues / Re: 3 out of 4 Timed Events are Broken

« on: February 02, 2009, 08:02:43 am »

Thanks for the quick reply. Very weird that nobody else is complaining about this. This seems like one of the main fatures of the system for those who want to do any decent automation.
At this point I'llprobably wait for 0810 and hope that it works there.
Jean

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Users / Re: TV streams added to Video category in orbiter

« on: February 02, 2009, 07:58:05 am »

Here is an example of such a stream that cannot be added properly in LMCE: http://87.118.126.208:2008

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Installation issues / Re: 3 out of 4 Timed Events are Broken

« on: February 02, 2009, 01:58:24 am »

Justnulling,
did you ever figure out how to get this to work? I have the same problem for "day of week". It simply executes every day.
Jean

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Users / Re: Command to jump to Commerical marker in MythTV Player

« on: January 27, 2009, 06:49:43 am »

I figure, if this was easy, someone would have suggested something by now :-)

Thom, Zaerc, could you at least confirm that these commands don't exist yet, that I didn't oversee them?

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Users / Re: Some weird X10 results today

« on: January 27, 2009, 06:44:26 am »

Freymann,

just a though: perhaps you could look at your /var/log/pluto/DCERouter.log file and even the log file of the X10 interface, to make sure that it's actually ending out the X10 command. If the commands are never sent out, then you know that your problem is in LMCE. If the commands appear in th X10 interface logfile, then you know it's an X10 problem...

Jesan

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Users / Re: MSI WIND PC, has anybody tried this yet??

« on: January 25, 2009, 08:45:23 pm »

Andrew,

yes the content I'm trying to play is Mpeg2, recorded in Myth TV. H264 I will try after Mpeg2 works decently.

The question is: how do I uprade the intel video driver? As explained above, I was unsuccessfull doing so either using the sources or with a package, as in both cases, it was requiring a more recent xorg version.

Jean

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Users / Command to jump to Commerical marker in MythTV Player

« on: January 23, 2009, 08:36:43 pm »

Hello,

I am currently playing all my recorded TV content from TV scenarios (Myth TV) as opposed to regular Video scenarios as these do not allow to jump through Myth's commercial flags to my knowledge.
My problem is that I always need to have a keyboard next to me to do these jumps (A and Z buttons I believe).

Now I would like to attempt to play with the HA Designer to try and add buttons for this in the MythTV Orbiter screens, so that I could get rid of my keyboard.

Now my question is: are there already commands in LMCE to send to MythTV Player to jump to the next commercial marker? If not, would it be easy for me to create such commands?
What I saw so far are commands to jump to certain positions in the stream, and I may be able to create buttons to jump forward and backward 30 secs and 10 mins (to replicate some commands available to me in MythTV via keyboard), but I didn't see any commands to get to the next MythTV commerical maker.

Thank you for any help or pointers.

Jean

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Users / Re: MSI WIND PC, has anybody tried this yet??

« on: January 23, 2009, 06:30:36 am »

To Andrew:

I am experiencing some stuttering when watching high definition TV content in MythTV on my MSI Wind PC (depending on how much movement there is, some programs are fine, but with lots of movement it stutters every few seconds).

So I wanted to try to upgrade the intel video driver which is version 2.1.1 by default on my MD since you said that results vary by driver version. I haven't had much success though. I could find plenty of packages or sources for newer version, but they all want a newer xorg to be installed, and dozens of other packages depend on xorg etc...
I even tried to upgrade this MD to Ubuntu 8.10 via "apt-get dist-upgrade" which, as expected, trashed the whole box.

So is there an easy way to update this video driver, or am I better off to wait for LMCE 810 which is hopefully around the corner?

Jean

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Users / Re: How to send multiple IR codes for one command

« on: January 20, 2009, 07:13:16 am »

Zaerc,
unfortunately although the described method for sending the IR commands works perfectly, the result as far as the projector is concerned is a failure. The projector is lacking discrete commands, and someone had posted in a forum a succession of keys to suposedly unequivocally turn the projector on and off, but it turns out than an off command will also turn it on if it's already off (however not the other way around) so every time the system is reloaded the projector goes on, which is useless.
I will know fallback on RS232 and as soon as I have that working, I will be happy to create a wiki page.

Which brings 2 questions for you:

1. Did you guys fix the problem with the captcha on the wiki so that pages with external links can be properly edited? (If so I still have a few things to update)
2. Do you have a USB to Serial converter to recommend that will work for sure with LMCE? (On my MSI Media Live which is lacking a Serial port)

Jean