[mythtv-users] Mythweb Flash Stream has no sound on ATSC

Paul Kendall paul at kcbbs.gen.nz
Sat Jul 12 21:53:04 UTC 2008


On Sunday 13 July 2008 09:43:04 Matt Emmott wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Allen Edwards <
>
> allen.edwards at oldpaloalto.com> wrote:
> > Looks like your last step is the easiest to do so perhaps I will try and
> > get lucky and start there but...  having looked over the entire file,
> > where are you suggesting the change?
> >
> > By adding a line in this?
> >
> >         $ffmpeg_pid = open(DATA,
> >             "$ffmpeg -y -i ".shell_escape($filename)
> >             .' -s '.shell_escape("${width}x$height")
> >             .' -r 24 -f flv -ac 2 -ar 11025'
> >             .' -ab '.shell_escape("${abitrate}k")
> >             .' -b '.shell_escape("${vbitrate}k")
> >             .' /dev/stdout 2>/dev/null |'
> >             );
> >
> >
> > Like this:
> >
> >         $ffmpeg_pid = open(DATA,
> >             "$ffmpeg -y -i ".shell_escape($filename)
> >             .' -s '.shell_escape("${width}x$height")
> >             .' -r 24 -f flv -ac 2 -ar 11025'
> >             .' -acodec mp3
> >             .' -ab '.shell_escape("${abitrate}k")
> >             .' -b '.shell_escape("${vbitrate}k")
> >             .' /dev/stdout 2>/dev/null |'
> >             );
> >
> > ???
> >
> > Please excuse me if I have the wrong place.
>
> That's why I subscribe to this list, for gems like this. I've wanted to get
> audio working in mythweb forever but just never got around to researching
> it. Now that this thread came along it lit a fire under me. I installed the
> Medibuntu repositories and updated ffmpeg and libavcodec1d as Nick had
> mentioned, then I tried modifying the code using Allen's example but when I
> put the new line in place Mythweb won't play videos... I just get a blank
> screen. Taking the line out gets it working again. The command must belong
> somewhere else but I have no idea where - There's nothing in
> mythbackend.log so I'm not sure where the line is supposed to go, but I'm
> eagerly awaiting a response. :-)

I think you'll find theres a missing ' on the end of that -acodec line :-)



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