[mythtv-users] mythtv with dlna devices like tv-sets

[Brian Frost]

I have a Samsung 46B640 and it is able to view my myth content (including
HD) with no modifications. The options on the remote + skip list honoring
are lacking but the picture is BEAUTIFUL.



On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Corne Beerse <cbeerse at gmail.com> wrote:

> Corne Beerse schreef:
>
>  Hello,
>>
>> As a long time mythtv user (however a fresh maillist member) I was happy
>> to see my new TV set has a network connection and a dlna label. As I found
>> out, dlna has something to do with upnp what mythtv supplies. Hence I hooked
>> up my TV set and was happy to see the mythtv machine on the network, so far
>> so good. Just out of the box, it even went as far as showing recordings,
>> that is, as a directory listing or such. Even the pictures I had inserted
>> into the foto viewer in mythtv, show on tv.
>>
>> Unfortunatly, there is no watching the recordings, the TV set came with
>> the error 'File Not Supported'. As far as I'm now, I think of reasons for
>> this:
>>
>>    * The recording is published with a bad name and/or extention.
>>    * The recording is effectively in a bad format.
>>
>> My recordings come from a pinacle pvr 500 analogue tv capture card that
>> makes it mpeg2. I have dumped some recordings raw from the mythtv
>> directories to an usb device. This was not accepted byt the tv-set either.
>> However, after changing the extention to 'mpg', the recording sowed.
>>
>> Hence my question: Can I change the extention of the recording to 'mpg'
>> using mythtv in such a way that mythtv also publishes this name on the
>> network?
>>
> I've done some debugging, mainly using an mswindows machine with a share
> that magically also showed up in the TV. There, I found the share that is
> shown on the tv in which I dumped some movies of a known format.
>
> Start: get the file VTS_01_0.VOB from a myth-archive dvd and dump it there.
> This file is known to be mpeg2. This was a no-show.
> Then I changed the extension to: mpg, mpeg, avi. As the extension was not
> shown, I also changed the name to find what name was which extension. It
> appeared 'file.mpg' worked! The movie showed!
>
> Final test: Copy a recording from /var/lib/mythtv/recordings/. In there the
> recordings already have the mpg extention. Copied that to the share 'et
> presto'. These movies, the raw recordings from the haupauge pvr show as they
> should.
>
> Hence, my question on the myth-upnp server, what extension does it use in
> the shared recordings? Can I change that without hacking the source?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Corné
>
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