[mythtv-users] Mythtv & Roku (was: Yet More Internet TV Choices)

[Ajay Sharma]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Ajay Sharma <ajayrockrock at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone gotten this to work?  The error is similar to the one that
> someone else posted to the wiki discussion page:
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Talk:ROKU_HD_Frontend
>
> The error being described:
>
> --------------------
>        Okay, I seem to have most everything working except actually
> playing the episode (I'm using the SD output of the Roku HD). The
> telnet debug console shows the following when I try to play:
>
>                    PlayEpisode Enter
>                    http://192.168.XXX.XXX/mythroku/1006_20101023210700.mp4
>                    PlayEpisode Exit
>
>        That is the correct file and I can stream it with another
> computer on my network. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this? Thanks!
> --------------------

I was getting this error because I have SD content and a parameter in
the XML that is returned by the roku.php script sets the quality to
"HD".  If you change that to "SD", then everything plays fine.  Also,
encoding video recorded from a PVR-150 is painfully easy with
HandBrakeCLI:

HandBrakeCLI -i infile -o outfile.mp4 -O -r 29.97

- the ".mp4" extension is important, Handbrake will use that to
determine what kinda file you're generating
- the -O makes it "web optimized"
- the -r is for the frame rate.  Roku boxes like a 29.97 fixed frame rate.

There are still some issues with the Roku app in that it's not
handling the XML 100%, but I'll work though those as well.

--Ajay