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

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:19 AM, Andre Newman <mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On 28 Jan 2010, at 13:53, Greg Oliver wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Corne Beerse <cbeerse at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> You will have to do two things:
>>
>> Find out what format your TV is expecting to have streamed to it.
>> Usually mpeg2-ts or (unfortunately) divx/xvid, and then transcode the
>> videos to that format before you try to play them.
>
> I've tried a few of these network connected TVs, LG, Panasonic, Samsung and haven't seen one yet that can play mpeg2/4 ts recordings, even though MythTV (or MediaTomb or Windows Media player) is really only serving up exactly what the TV would receive off air, a transport stream with SD or HD mpeg2 or 4.
>
> I have great hopes for these TV's being the very best way to watch MythTV recordings but I've only ever been able to watch low quality re-encodes so far. My local high end TV shop is very helpful in letting me try things but we haven't had a success story yet.
>
> Very very happy to be corrected :-)
>

There is a long thread on this subject here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1185619

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