[mythtv-users] Freebox RTSP recorder using wis-streamer with ConvertX TV-402U

[Eric Pheatt]

I'm stumped and hope that others with the ConvertX TV-402U may be able
point me in the right direction.

I have successfully been using the NUV recorder but I had hoped to be
able to use wis-streamer, wisremote and the Freebox RTSP recorder to
get my analog cable recorded in MPEGTS format instead of the current
NUV format.

To get channel changing to work I configured the wisremote python
script as the external change command and added the following to
freeboxchannel.cpp near line 134 from the 20-fixes branch so that the
script is called:

    //Wis-Remote call to Wis-Streamer
    InputMap::const_iterator it = inputs.find(currentInputID);
    if (!(*it)->externalChanger.isEmpty())
        bool wisremote = ChangeExternalChannel(channum);

Using vlc I can successfully use wis-streamer if I use pcm audio with
this configuration with the audio and video in separate streams:

wis-streamer -i 2 -c ntsc-cable:57 -t ntsc -p 8554 -w 720 -h 480
-mpeg2 -r 1500000 -pcm -D "Streaming COMEDYP"

But if i use the Freebox recoder, it errors and nothing records since
it expects single stream.

So if I start wis-streamer with the following to get a single
mpegtransport stream with the following:

wis-streamer -i 2 -c ntsc-cable:57 -t ntsc -p 8554 -w 720 -h 480
-mpeg2 -r 1500000 -mpegtransport 192 -D "Streaming COMEDYP"

Both vlc and the Mythtv Freebox recorder are able to record the
stream. However while the the audio stream is identified as being part
of the stream ... all of the data is missing.

I've asked on the live-devel list regarding support for identifying
how to get wis-streamer working but all we have worked out so far is
that the mpegaudio is not being encoded either in the transport stream
or seperately.

Given that software encoding to MPEG2 in the NuppelVideoRecorder does
not appear to be near on the horizon I am asking if anyone on this
list with a ConvertX would be willing to setup wis-streamer and see if
this is an endian issue with the mpegaudio encoder.

If not .... nevermind the noise....